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The latest French revolution. (spelling changes in French language)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19910105
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The French feel passionately about native tongue. In the absence of a monarchy, it has come to symbolise their national identity. Clemenceau described it as "the genius of our race ... the perfect vehicle for thought." Anatole France, more effusive, likened it to a woman who "is so beautiful, so proud, so modest, so tough, so touching, so voluptuous, so chaste, so noble, so familiar, so crazy, and so good that one loves her with all one's soul, and one is never tempted to be unfaithful to her." Yet it looks as if that most precious of ladies may be about to be raped-and ...

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