Infamous Decree

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The Infamous Decree was an order issued by Napoleon in 1808. He had grown frustrated that the Alsacean Jews of France (mainly Ashkenazim in origin) had not yet fully integrated into French society after the Jewish Emancipation in 1790-1791. The decree suspended debts owed to Alsacean Jews for ten years and diminished their residence rights to restricted areas only.

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