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harmony & the expressions of a weak & corrupted poetry. Let us leave the German language, scarcely made for free people, until the feudal & militarized government, to which German is the worthiest organ, is annihilated. Let us leave the Spanish language for its inquisition & its universities, until it expresses the expulsion of the House of Bourbon, dethroner all of the peoples of Spain.
As for the English language, made great & free the day it became enriched from these words: the majesty of people, it is no more than the idiom of a tyrannical & detestable government of banks & promissory notes
Our enemies had made the French language the language of the courts: they had degraded it. It is up to us to make of it the language of the people, & it shall be honored. It is up to one language, one that has lent its accents to liberty; a language that has a legislative forum & two thousand popular forums with large walls to incite large assemblies, & theaters to celebrate patriotism; it is up to one language, one that after four years, has been read by all the people on Earth; describes the worth of fourteen armies to all of Europe; serves as the instrument of glory for the recovery of Toulon, of Landau, of Fort-Vauban, & to the annihilation of the royal armies, it is up to it alone to become the universal language. But this ambition is that of the genius of the liberty: it will fulfill it. For us, we owe it to our fellow citizens, we owe it to the strengthening of the Republic, to make spoken throughout its territory the language in which the Declaration of Rights of Man is written. Here is the draft of the decree.