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between the Germanic peoples to the north and the Latins to the south. At the same time they fought their hereditary enemies, the English, disputing the control of large regions that now form part of what is now modern France. The very form of France at the end of the 20th century included German speaking Alsatians, Celtic speaking Bretons, the Flemings in the north east, the Basques in the south west, Italian speakers in Nice and Catalans in the eastern Pyrenees. As a consequence the population has been mixed and re-mixed, however, the new arrivals were always European that were assimilated without difficulty by the first generation of every wave of foreign workers and refugees.

  When did it change? It appeared to many French at the end of the 20th century that almost one thousand three hundred years after the Battle of Poitiers, the descendents of those Arabs defeated by Charles Martel were once again invading France. The difference was that they arrived imperceptibly one by one.

  It was as if the threat of Houari Boummedian had come true, ‘we will conquer you by the bellies of our women’. Since the middle of the century, economic and demographic pressures in the Maghrib pushed a growing number of North Africans to immigrate to France in search of work, the vast majority from France’s former imperial possessions in North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, with the greatest numbers from Algerian.

  Amongst the French population of sixty million were eleven million of North African origin, new arrivals, Neos, their children and their children’s children; included were several hundreds of thousands of North African Jews. As the years passed settlement continued and combined with continued higher birth rates among the Muslims in France, the French Muslim population continued to until it exceeded an estimated seventeen million at the time of the revolt. The Gallos, with their lower birth rate had difficulty in even maintaining their numbers and seized the occasion seek separation to avoid the Islamisation of the French nation.

  The French were proud of their culture, a culture that had once dominated Europe. In the past the French had always embraced those who accepted their culture. But with the Settlers they were faced with an insurmountable problem, the Settlers brought with them their own culture and one very different from that the French, the culture of Islam, a strong and resistant culture, that would not be assimilated. The threat was that the Muslims would retain their religion and culture transforming that of its host country into a Muslim society intolerant of Christianity as it is in almost every other part of the world. Europe saw the threat of a Muslim in the fold.

  The very basis of French political philosophy was based of the famous concept of liberty, equality and fraternity and the distinction between French citizens by race, religion or origin was historically alien, as a consequence there were few available statistics published relating to the settler population or religion.

  Settlers and foreigners resident in France were defined as those born abroad not holding French citizenship and were therefore classified foreigners. Those who then acquired French nationality became whole French citizens, Neos, and were no longer foreigners but were of settler origin. Officially the non-Gallo population consisted mostly of foreign nationals, and technically it excluded French citizens who had acquired French citizenship. Therefore, a foreigner was not necessarily a settler, but most Settlers and a great many Neos were in fact foreigners by birth and culture.

  The number of newly arrived Settlers resident in France at any year appeared relatively small, one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousands arrivals. Successive government constantly pointed to this figure to prove that the number of Settlers was stable. The reality was that the same number had acquired French citizenship each year thus becoming Neos.

  In spite of those definitions Neos continued to be called Settlers in a double talk by the authorities and the media.

  The General Population Census indicated that towards the end of the last century the settler and Neo population was estimated at over four million, of which less than one and a half million had taken up French citizenship, about seven and a half percent of the total population.

  The number of Neos, or, children born in France of settler parents, was estimated at about three million. Although the children of Settlers did not consider themselves to be Settlers, they were seen to be by the population at large.

  In fact all of those figures were biased, what was a Neo to the average Frenchman? To him those who were called Mohammed or Jamil, in his mind were not really French, even though they were the grandsons of Settlers, no longer classifiable as Settlers in statistics.

  Infiltrators and therefore non-declared Settlers were estimated by some at almost one million a large number of who were Africans. With the political and economic disasters in North and sub-Saharan Africa the legal and clandestine arrivals was transformed into a flood a, tidal wave from Africa, tens of thousands each year, the authorities were incapable of controlling the flow, not only because of incompetence but also because of the political constraints imposed by politicians of all political colours, red, blue and green. Every politician was naive, cynical or incompetent. The new population brought aids and other diseases such as tuberculosis and sickness of the poor, producing large numbers of children in the most extreme misery.

  The reality was no doubt quite different, in the year 2000, the total population of settler origin, who had arrived in France over the previous half century, including recent Settlers, nationalised French citizens and foreigners, resident legally or illegally in France, including the children and grandchildren of all categories probably amounted to eleven million people, or almost twenty percent of the French population in the early part of the century.

  Eyewitness accounts would have refuted any claim to the contrary; the difficulty was that it was not politically correct to pretend otherwise, it was even racist to mention it.

  Boublil’s Decree

  The displacements or expulsions of populations and ethnic groups from their homes is as old as history. The expulsions of so-called non-Gallos in recent years, confronted Europe with a profound crisis. Not out of sympathy with the refugees but the desire to treat their own problems in a similar fashion.

  The problem of refugees in France and in occupied Provence, or Algharb as it calls itself, is a result of the political changes in North Africa, Arabia and the Greater Levant. New England had experienced a flood of refugees from the Indian sub-continent following the Hindu-Muslim wars whilst Germany and the eastern countries of the Federation had received a huge influx of refugees following the disaster in Russia.

  The movements of populations far exceeded those who had arrived in Europe in the later half of the last century. The displacements and expulsions shook the foundations of international law and of those human rights. The result was an explosion of nationalism that often hid concepts of a religious or racial character.

  The Nation de France introduced laws that were nothing more than the justification of an ethnic cleansing not seen in Europe since World War II. The ethnic laws introduced by Henri Boublil are known as the Boublil Decree.

  THE BOUBLIL DECREE

  Law of May 8th

  The National Assembly of the Nation de France passed the following law:

  Article 1

  Any act committed during the period of rebellion in Provence, the object of which was to restore Republican law and order, or which represented just reprisals for actions of the rebel forces and their accomplices, is not illegal, even when such actions may otherwise be punishable by law.

  Article 2

  This law will come into force on the day of its official announcement; those commissioned with the execution of the law are the Minister of Justice and the Minister for National Defence.

  Appendix I

  Edict of the President of the Nation of France, involving property rights from the time of the Rebellion and resulting partition and concerning property assets of rebels, traitors and collaborators  and of certain organizations and associations, upon proposition of the government I, the P
resident of the Nation of France, decree:

  Article 1

  All transfers and transactions by non-citizens, as defined by the Ethnicity and Citizenship Laws, involving property rights regardless of whether they involve movable or immovable, public or private property are invalid after the Declaration of the State of Emergency in response to the Rebellion in Provence inspired by foreign agents and traitors.

  Article 2

  1. The property of foreigners from unfriendly nations and traitors, being within the territory of the Nation de France, will be placed under national administration  in accordance with the further provisions of this edict.

  2. Property transferred by such persons  shall also  be  deemed  to be property of traitors and enemies unless the person acquiring such property had no knowledge of the fact that property of such nature was involved.

  Article 3

  All enterprises and all property assets shall be taken under national administration wherever this is required in the interest of continuous production and economic life.  This  applies especially to production plants and other enterprises, which have been deserted, and to property assets relinquished or to such facilities or such property assets, which are in the possession of, or administrated by, or leased to