not as Frenchmen, since they cannot be citizens.... Whatever you do, they will always remain foreigners in our midst."
Monseigneur de la Fare, Bishop of Nancy, adopted the same line of argument:
They must be accorded protection, safety, liberty; but should we admit into the family a tribe that is foreign to it, that turns its eyes unceasingly towards a common country, that aspires to abandon the land that bears it?... My *cahier* orders me to protest against the motion that has been made to you. The interest of the Jews themselves necessitates this protest. The people have a horror of them; they are often in Alsace the victims of popular risings.<sup></sup>
In all this, as will be seen, there is no question of persecution, but of precautions against a race that wilfully isolates itself from the rest of the community in order to