For Sylvain Tesson, France is first and foremost a language, threatened today by the “cyber-mercantile volapük”, globish, and the inclusiveness of the new Trissotins.
They are also landscapes whose extraordinary variety is unique in the world.
To stem the ugliness of the country, the writer pleads for a "cultural ecology", which would put beauty at its center and would care as much about the defense of nature as that of the arts.
Against the museumification of France and its openness to all winds, the traveling writer pleads for France as a novel that should be continued.
LE FIGARO France is, of course, a language.
Do you worry about the degradation of language, under the blows of Fr English, managerial language or inclusiveness, and who is responsible?
Sylvain TESSON.-
Some of our political leaders support the affront to language.
Sometimes they try to imitate the supposed language of those whose votes they are running for:
"The President,
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