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them. Workers without either means of subsistence or a sponsor were to be registered as vagabonds (gens sans aveu); those who failed to indicate a previous domicile as “suspicious persons” (gens suspects); and, finally, those shown to have made false declarations were to be identified as “ill-intentioned persons” (gens malintentionnés). The committee then recommended as an “indispensable condition” that every passport include an extract of the person’s municipal declaration. If the traveler is honest, his passport will be an advantageous document for him, and it will flatter him; if he is not ...more
The Invention of the Passport: Surveillance, Citizenship and the State (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society)
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