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"Starting in 1790 and ending in 1794, Grégoire had been studying the linguistic situation of revolutionary France. Through a survey, he had determined that France was divided into 30 or so languages and that the national language was only well known and used by 3 million or so of the nation’s 25 million inhabitants. These findings, as well as suggestions on policy to deal with it, were laid out in the Report on the necessity and means to annihilate the patois and to universalise the use of the French language. The findings were an utter shock to many in the revolutionary government and many governments to follow. This document would outline the justification for not just France’s policy towards language but towards the idea of multiculturalism as a whole. But what were the ideas Grégoire presents?" (daqui)




















