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Antoine Idier, a sociologist and historian, called the initiative "salutary" but added that focusing on two laws of the period made it too restrictive.

These included laws that were not specifically aimed at same-sex relations but at "moral failings" or "inciting minors to commit depravity."

Regis Schlagdenhauffen, a social science professor at the EHESS school in Paris, said at least 10,000 people had been convicted for being gay in France between 1942 and 1982, mostly men from working-class backgrounds.

In June, activists, unionists and civil servants called for a recognition and rehabilitation of victims of anti-gay repression in an op-ed piece in LGBTQ magazine Tetu.

"One of the reasons why homophobia persists in today's society is that state laws, rules and practices legitimised such discrimination in the past," said Joel Deumier, co-president of SOS Homophobie, a non-profit organization defending lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex rights.

Under a recent "disregard and pardons scheme," people in Britain can get a historic conviction for gay sex offences removed from police and court records.

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