Talk:.NzE.MjY1MzU

We have revolutionized the government, laws, habits, mores, commerce, & thought itself; therefore, let us also revolutionize that which is their daily instrument: language. You have ordered the delivery of laws to all the municipalities of the Republic; but this good deed is lost for those departments that I have just indicated. At such high cost this knowledge is brought to the extremities of France yet it is extinguished upon arrival, for laws there are not understood. Federalism & superstition speak Bas-Breton; emigration & hatred towards the Republic speak German; counterrevolution speaks Italian, & fanaticism speaks Basque. Let us destroy these harmful & erroneous instruments. The Comité believed it should propose, as an urgent & revolutionary measure, to provide each designated rural municipality of said departments, a French-speaking instructor. He would be charged with educating young people of both sexes, as well as every ten days, reading the laws, decrees, & instructions sent by the Convention, to all the other citizens of the municipality. It shall be the duty of these instructors to translate these laws aloud, so that they be understood more easily at first. Rome educated their youth by teaching them to read the Twelve Tables . France will teach the French language to a group of citizens via the Declaration of Rights. It is not that there do not exist other idioms more or less refined in other departments; but they are not exclusive, these idioms have not impeded the learning of the national language. If French is not equally well spoken everywhere, it is at least easily understood. Associations & patriotic organizations establish