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Figure 6.3
Simulation of the new notarial contractual scene, staged and projected on a screen
at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the profession. On the lower left-hand corner of the
screen, parties and their notaries can witness their mutual consent through a video
link. The new rules for electronic authentic acts mandate the continuing inclusion
of handwritten signatures as well as the application of the cryptographic signatures
of the notaries. Photograph courtesy of the Conseil supérieur du notariat.
electronic authentic act (see figure 6.4). After the president of the Conseil
supérieur followed suit with his cryptographic signature, the deed was
finally done. There was no doubt, however, that the scene of theses signa-
tures differed in fundamental respects from the one initially envisioned by
cryptographers in figure 4.2.
Records of Civil Status
Scattered on my desk, a selection of administrative dispatches from various
corners of the French bureaucratic empire: the records of civil status of
French nationals born in France's former colonial empire, including Algeria,
the protectorates of Tunisia and Morocco, Indochina, and other former
African, Asian, and Indian Ocean colonies (see figure 6.5). I collected them
during a visit at the Service central d'état civil , an administrative unit of the
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