ABSTRACT
The revolution of 1848 declared Algeria an integral part of France and placed the administration of the country under the direct supervision of the central government in Paris. The Senatus-Consulte of 1865 had declared all Algerian natives French subjects but had admitted only those of them to French citizenship who were ready to submit to the civil and public laws of France. The record of French colonization in North Africa, and especially in Algeria, is indeed impressive. The native Jews of Algeria achieved French citizenship en bloc in 1870 through the initiative of Adolphe Cremieux, who was himself a Jew, and their number, by between 100,000 and 200,000, has thereby been added to the French population. In many regions, the mating of Arab men with Berber women has produced a hybrid stock which is thoroughly Arabized in its culture and linguistic aspects, even if it is racially quite different from the Arabians of the Arab peninsula.
