During the intervening 108 years, Chinese had been born there and buried there for four or five generations but were still considered "foreigners."
他第一次回家已是四年後。居留稅惹來牢獄之災雖然自一八六五年就有華人在大溪地落腳，但直到一九七三年龐畢度任法國總統時，才沒有條件限制的允許華人入法國籍。在這一百零八年間，華人已繁衍四、五代，雖是土生土長，卻屬「外國人」。