The loss of French nationality may be established by judgement when the person concerned, French by descent, does not have possession of French nationality and has never had his or her habitual residence in France, if the ascendants, from whom he or she derived French nationality, do not themselves have possession of French nationality or have not been resident in France for half a century.
The judgement determines the date on which French nationality was lost. It may decide that this nationality had been lost by the authors of the person concerned and that the latter had never been French.