Originally Posted by
orbitmic
All the people I know in the UK who have needed a second passport (and that is quite a few) have received it. Yes there are rules, but it seems to work at the end. By contrast, I am still to meet any fellow Frenchman who has managed to get the same. It could be chance but I suspect that for whatever reason, the French authorities are just making this difficult.
It's clearly possible in France and probably "not-so-hard", as I know several (French) people who had or have 2 passports because they are traveling a lot to countries requiring visas and it can be very challenging/impossible to manage with only 1 passport. But I have no idea what kind of paperwork they needed for this.