Renoncants : Indian residents of the French settlements in India, they could be full French citizens only after “renouncing their personal status under the Indian Law”.
... volunteers. France has compulsory military training and Frenchmen on attaining the age of eighteen have to join the armed forces and undergo military training for a full period of one or two years. The Renoncants of Pondicherry, that is, those Indians who had secured their full citizenship rights by renouncing their personal status under the Indian law, were also subject to this obligation of compulsory ...
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