According to a law that dates back to the French Revolution, and reconfirmed in 1978, French government officials are forbidden to collect information about a citizen’s ethnic or racial origins, whether real or alleged, when conducting a census or other efforts to gathering statistical information on the population.
根据一部追溯到法国大革命、并在1978年得到再次确认的法律，法国政府官员被禁止在进行人口普查或者其他收集人口统计信息的时候收集有关公民的种族或族裔血缘的信息，无论确实从事或者被指控从事这一活动。