Comedie francais. (France's attempts to keep its language pure)

The Economist (US) | July 9, 1994 | Copyright

THE French have always felt passionately about their language. Anatole France likened it to a woman "so beautiful, proud, modest, strong, touching, voluptuous, chaste, noble, intimate, crazy and good that one loves her with all one's being." In the absence of a monarchy, the language has come to symbolise the French national identity. Nowadays it also serves as a nostalgic reminder of past cultural and imperial glory. As President Pompidou once put it: "It is through our language that we exist in the world other than just as another country."

Ever since a royal decree ...

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