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This article revisits the history of a fiction, that of miscegenation, through the joint lenses of religion, gender and Imperium Studies. Preliminary results show that between 1600 and 1680, “Others” could easily integrate into French society through the extremely gendered rituals of baptism and of marriage. Confronting these means of assimilation with the failure of the chimerical project of “making one sole people of Natives and French”, reveals the mechanisms used by the absolutist French kings and by the Church of Rome, seeking universalism, in order to extend their respective sovereignty overseas from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
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