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National Convention ________________________________________ Report & Proposed Decree Presented ON BEHALF OF THE COMITÉ DU SALUT PUBLIC ,

On foreign idioms, & the teaching of the French language,

By B. Barère,

During the session of 8th Pluviose of the second year of the Republic.

Printed by order of the National Convention

Translated by Pedro Antonino, Juliana Minasian, & Emily Stolz

Citizens,

The coalition of tyrants said : Ignorance has always been our most powerful aide; let us maintain ignorance, it breeds extremists & multiplies counter-revolutionaries. Let us drag the French back to barbarism; let us make use of the uneducated people, or those who speak in different tongues than that of public education. The committee has heard this plot of ignorance and despotism.