More than half a century after decolonisation, which brought an end to the European Empires and effaced the former distinction between ‘indigenous subjects’ and ‘citizens’, the French Republic continues to administer several former ‘colonies’, a term now institutionally invalid in French law. In some cases, it is still dealing with the distinction between ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’ people even though everyone, ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’ alike, is a citizen of the same French state.