"To no longer teach Latin and Greek is to cut us off from our cultural roots"

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LE FIGARO.

- Only 535 candidates (out of more than 380,000) presented the specialty "literature, languages ​​and cultures of Antiquity - Latin" at the 2022 baccalaureate, and 237 in "literature, languages ​​and cultures of Antiquity - Ancient Greek".

And only 3% of high school students followed the Latin option in 2021-2022.

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Andrea Marcolongo.

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I am shocked by these numbers and genuinely concerned.

We are now talking about a very small minority who study Greek and Latin in France.

I say this first as a Hellenist, but also as an Italian, a country where the figures are all the same different.

For me, it is very serious.

If we let things unfold like this, in a few years, there will be no more French pupils or students who will take courses in ancient languages.

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