“
Inclusive writing excludes
”, declared Valérie Pécresse, Monday January 17 on Europe 1. The candidate LR in the presidential election strongly opposed this new graphics, wanted to be more inclusive.
It consists of adding midpoints between the masculine and the feminine so as not to exclude anyone.
For example, we would no longer write “
the candidates for the Élysée
”, the masculine prevailing over the feminine, but “
the candidates
” for the Élysée.
After criticizing her predecessor, Jean-Paul Huchon, who “
had generalized inclusive writing in administrative documents
”, Valérie Pécresse announced that she wanted to delete it, criticizing its difficult reading.
"
I want to make French a great cause
," she added.
A few weeks earlier in Le Grand Jury, she had criticized a deep diversion of the French language, "
which is already a difficult language".
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The president of Ile de France was also delighted to have "
removed inclusive writing in administrative texts
". A rule enshrined in law since the circular of November 21, 2017, "
in regulatory texts, the masculine is a neutral form that should be used for terms likely to apply to both women and men
" . In other words, no administrative text can be written in inclusive writing. Reason raised: "
in addition to respecting the formalism specific to acts of a legal nature, the administrations coming under the State must comply with grammatical and syntactical rules, in particular for reasons of intelligibility and clarity of the standard
".
In the same line, in May 2021, Jean-Michel Blanquer sent a letter to the rectors of academies in order to "
proscribe the use of so-called ''inclusive'' writing
" in the school setting.