On Tue, July 5, 2011 11:21 am, Todd Carnes wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:03:44 -0400 (EDT) > Walth wrote: > >> I do not know the "rules" concerning moving from one town to another, >> however, I believe permission was needed to leave the country. > > How could they stop you? > -- > Todd Carnes Well, they could: arrest you, ship you off the the Foreign Legion, or otherwise ship you to some war zone, shoot you, ... Of course they had to actually catch you leaving the country. The USA supposedly had a treaty with the German states to ship back illegal emigrants. I suspect it may have had a similar treaty with France. Not sure how many actually got shipped back. The ones that got in trouble, very likely. Brian