mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Jean-Marc Desperrier<jmdesp@alussinan.org>  wrote:
>> >  mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net  wrote:
>>> >  >  Some nations do
>>> >  >  not recognize renunciation (France and S Korea used to be that way, but
>>> >  >  there are undoubtedly more)
>> >  Where did you get the idea France did not recognize nationality
>> >  renunciation ?
>  From a French guy who lived across the hall from me.

He certainly got it confused with, as used to be, automatic acquisition 
of french nationality with no possibility of refusing it.

But this automatic acquisition concerns people who are born and living 
in France from non-french parents. That was first changed to not be 
automatic (after some nationalist uproar about peoples who were french 
without even knowing it), and then changed again to be automatic, but 
with a 6 month delay after majority to renunce it.

But even at that time, if you wanted to renounce french nationality, all 
what was required was living permanently in another country, owning 
another nationality and making an official demand. Thus the problem only 
concerned people who wanted to both live in France and *not* be french.

And you probably guessed it by now that law had originally been created 
to make sure there would never be a zainichi problem in France.