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| | Anti-Semitism: France’s National Shame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | The hatred of Jews experienced a drastic rise in that country in the 19th century, particularly during the reign of Napoleon III in the 1850-1870 period, which was known as the "Second French Empire." |
 | | Thus, Jews achieved "official" equality in French society, and they were able, by the mid-1840s, to utilize French liberty to gain prominence and entry into French economic and political life. |
 | | The French Jew, therefore, was always in a no-win situation: he was hated if he successfully assimilated, and he was hated if he did not. |
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