The Crémieux Decree (Décret Crémieux) of October 24, 1870, conferred French citizenship on all Jews born in the French colony of Algeria. They had had the status of French subjects since the conquest of Algeria in 1830. As a consequence of the decree of emancipation, the Algerian Jews assimilated to French society; at the same time, however, they were divided from their Muslim neighbors, who remained French subjects. In 1940, the Vichy government revoked the Decree.