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This promise was made in the fourth paragraph of the preamble to the 1946 Constitution, which set down fundamental rights that shaped France’s post-war Republican political culture: ‘all who have been persecuted for their actions for the cause of liberty have a right of asylum on the territory of the Republic’.
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Burgess, G. (2019). Introduction: The Promise of Asylum. In: Refugees and the Promise of Asylum in Postwar France, 1945–1995. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-44027-3_1
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