The national gathering candidate has presented, from the municipality of Villers-Cottets, on Tuesday, its proposals on the French language, which it considers threatened.
Le Monde with AFP
The National Rally (NR) candidate in the presidential election, Marine Le Pen, is committed, Tuesday, February 15, to “a great emergency plan” to “save” the French language and “protect it” external influences “if it is elected.
His project “will aim to systematically restore the exclusive and irreplaceable use of French in all the uses that melt and form our civilization,” she said after an external visit of the site of the international city of the French language. In Villers-Cottets, in the Aisne, with the Mayor Rn of the city, Franck Briffaut.
As early as March 2017, then candidate, Emmanuel Macron had said, during a visit of the castle – abandoned for several years at the time – that this one is renovated to become “one of the symbolic pillars of our Francophonie “.
Built by François I ER from 1532, the building is the place of signature of the so-called Villers-Cotterêts Ordinance, signed in 1539: among the 192 provisions then taken by the King , Two order that legal acts be “written in maternal language and not otherwise”. The decision is first of all a rejection of the Latin, still very used, more than a promotion of the French language – the target “maternal language” was still the local or regional patois for many French – but remains a strong official gesture in favor of the French language.
Exclusive use of French in communication and advertising
It has been since this symbolic commune that Marine Le Pen lamented, Tuesday, the fact that France “faces a double cultural and linguistic submersion, the Anglo-Saxon hegemony (…) and the submersion of imported crops en bloc on the territory “. “In some neighborhoods it’s not just another France that settles, with its own laws, its own customs, its own manners, it is also another language,” says the far-right candidate.
To remedy this, “the use of foreign languages in advertising and communication in France will simply be prohibited except very rare exceptions”, proposes M me Le Pen, recalling that it also prohibit “definitively inclusive writing at school, university, in the administrations”.
The senior officials “will receive as strict instructions to use and defend the use of French”. The candidate RN also promised that she “would conduct a diplomacy of the Francophonie at the height of the historical issues we have before us” and support “the creation of a French-speaking union in the continuity of the current international organization of La Francophonie “.