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grimaces of the ridiculous sycophant & the rattles of a perverted court. The very pride derived from an accent more or less pure or sonorous no longer exists ever since the citizens assembled from all parts of the Republic have expressed in the national assemblies their wishes for freedom, & their ideas for a common legislation. Formerly they were slaves emblazoned with their nuances; they fought one another over the superiority of trends & languages. Freemen are all alike, & the passionate emphasis on liberty & equality is the same, whether it comes from the mouth of someone from the Alps, the Vosges, the Pyrénées or the Cantal, or Mont-Blanc or Mont-Terrible; whether it becomes the expression of men in central regions, in coastal regions, or on the borders. Four points of the territory of the Republic alone deserve the attention of a revolutionary legislature, in regard to the idioms that seem most contrary to the propagation of the public mind, & present obstacles to the knowledge of the laws of the Republic & to their execution. Among the ancient idioms-- Welsh, Gascon, Celtic, Visigothic, Phocaean, or Oriental-- that bring some nuances to the communications of various citizens & of regions forming the territory of the Republic, we have observed (& the reports of representatives agree on this point along with those of the various agents sent out to the departments) that the language known as Bas-Breton , the Basque language, the German & Italian languages perpetuated the reign of fanaticism & superstition, assured the dominance of priests, nobles & doctors, prevented the Revolution from spreading into nine major departments, & may help the enemies of France.