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To anyone who doesn't know; Blum-Violette Proposal was a proposal by Popular Front government under Leon Blum to grant citizenship to 20,000- 25,000 Algerian elites, deemed educated and acculturated enough to hold a citizenship, while *biggg caveat* allowing them to apply Quranic law in certain civil spheres. (i.e. Marriage, Inheritance)

Not surprisingly, the proposal didn't even made to the debate in the parliament. Settler and colonial interest in the chamber perceived the proposal as a creeping reform that would eventually dislodge white minority rule in Algiers. Some scholars, such as inestimable Charles-Robert Ageron, viewed it as a great "missed opportunity". Let's say the Blum-Violette proposal passes; after all, Chamber of Deputies of the Third Republic did have a député from Senegal since 1848, and with Originaires - Mostly Muslim Senegalese living in the Quatre Communes (Dakar, St. Louis, Rufisque, Goree)- having their citizenship status guaranteed in the Diagne Law of 1916.

What would have happened? What kind of butterfly would come out of this? French holding on to Algeria? Sucess of French Union as a political structure? Completely different conversation on modern discourse on immigration, assimilation, and laïcité on French politics? or are Algerian War more or less inevitable, with this handful of elites joining the status of Harkis?
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