The Jacobean concept of état-nation is an important element of the republican model of the
French state. Constitutional guarantee of the integrity of the Republic (with a simultaneous occurrence
of a significant number of minorities) is confronted with the idea of regionalism and
a need to recognize regional identities. Corsica comprises a unique example. The region enjoys
a special status, which, however, does not limit the aspirations of the Corsican terrorist separatist
movements trying to win further concessions from the Center for the peripheral region. It seems
that further concessions have weakened the situation in the country in the eyes of other regions
which demand respect for their rights as well; nonetheless, they strive for that in completely different
ways than the nationalist movements in Corsica
