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Since the French Revolution, French has been the unique, shared language of the French Republic as well as an essential element of the French national identity. The French language was one of the weapons of the state in building modern French identity and in imposing cohesion upon a divided society. As a result of centuries of determined effort by public policy-makers, the uniformity of the French language is unparalleled in Western Europe and elsewhere.
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Amit, A. (2014). Introduction. In: Regional Language Policies in France during World War II. Palgrave Studies in Languages at War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300164_1
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