| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - It is illegal for the French state to collect data on ethnicity and race, a law with its origins in the 1789 revolution and reaffirmed in the constitution of 1958.[79] Nonetheless, France is an ethnically diverse nation with about six million North Africans and an estimated 2.5 million blacks.[80][81] It is currently estimated that 40% of the French population descends at least partially from the
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