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Article 21-20 of the French Civil Code

A person belonging to the French cultural and linguistic entity may be naturalised without having to satisfy a qualifying period, if they are a national of a territory or State whose official language or one of whose official languages is French, or if French is their mother tongue, or if they can prove that they have attended a school teaching in French for at least five years.

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Article 21-20

Peut être naturalisée sans condition de stage la personne qui appartient à l’entité culturelle et linguistique française, lorsqu’elle est ressortissante des territoires ou Etats dont la langue officielle ou l’une des langues officielles est le français, soit lorsque le français est sa langue maternelle, soit lorsqu’elle justifie d’une scolarisation minimale de cinq années dans un établissement enseignant en langue française.

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