In the past, France had been proud and arrogant, so even though its population growth ranked at the bottom in Europe, it was still not easy for immigrants from other countries to become French; however, after being badly battered by the Great War, France's acceptance of immigrants—especially Italian immigrants—rose sharply.
After all, compared with importing "Black people" from the colonies, the French public found it psychologically much easier to accept Italians, not to mention that one of France's greatest figures, Napoleon, was, to a certain extent, also an Italian.
In short, in recent years relations between Italy and France have been quite good, the two are highly complementary; this is different from the previous life, where although France was also demographically devastated by the Great War...
