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216 12. The exercise of the rights of citizenship is lost:

By naturalization in a foreign country;

By affiliation with any foreign corporation which may imply distinctions of birth or which may demand religious vows;

By the acceptance of positions or pensions offered by a foreign government;

By condemnation to afflictive or infamous penalties until rehabilitation.

13. The exercise of the rights of citizenship is suspended:

By judicial inhibition because of delirium, insanity, or imbecility; By the condition of bankruptcy or by the direct inheritance by gratuitous title of the whole or of part of the succession of a bankrupt;

By the condition of domestic service for wages either for a person or a household;

By the condition of accusation;

By a judgment of contempt of court, as long as the judgment is not annulled.

14. The exercise of the rights of citizenship is neither lost nor suspended except in the cases enumerated in the two preceding articles.

15. Every citizen who shall have resided for seven consecutive years outside of the territory of the Republic, without commission or authorisation given in the name of the Republic, is reputed a foreigner; he becomes a French citizen again only after having conformed to the conditions prescribed in article 10.

16. Young men cannot be enrolled upon the civic register unless they prove that they know how to read and write and to follow a mechanical calling.

The manual operations of agriculture belong to the mechanical callings.

This article shall have effect only dating from the Year XII of the Republic.

Title III. Primary Assemblies.

17. The primary assemblies are composed of the citizens residing in the same canton.

The domicile requisite for voting in these assemblies is