Exclusions

by Julie Fette

In the 1930s, the French Third Republic banned naturalized citizens from careers in law and medicine for up to ten years after they had obtained French nationality. In 1940, the Vichy regime permanently expelled all lawyers and doctors born of foreign fathers and imposed a 2 percent quota on Jews in both professions. On the basis of extensive archival research, Julie Fette shows in Exclusions that doctors and lawyers themselves, despite...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801450217
• ISBN13: 9780801450211
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher