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Against inclusive writing, the fight is growing

2021-02-23T18:40:50.929Z


STORY - Although prohibited, it is spreading. About sixty deputies want to ban it.


Article two of the Constitution recalls this, the ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts imposed it as early as 1539:

"The language of the Republic is French"

, and documents relating to public life must be written in French

"and not otherwise ”

.

So, when he saw that

In Périgueux was

becoming

Le Magazine des Périgourdins.es

and that the new PS mayor, Delphine Labails, had decided to

“update municipal documents”

in inclusive writing, Patrice Reboul jumped: at the end of January, this former lawyer addressed a request for excess of power before the administrative court of Bordeaux

"asking for the cancellation of the internal regulations of the City of Périgueux written in so-called inclusive writing"

.

Like him, more than sixty deputies, from the majority and the LR opposition and led by the elected LREM of Indre, François Jolivet, call, in a bill tabled Tuesday in the Assembly, to

"prohibit inclusive writing in administrative documents ”

.

In the coming weeks,

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Source: lefigaro

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