Report – As every year, the English Carpet Academy rewards two members of the elite who, according to the jury, have distinguished themselves. “Incessantly to promote the dominance of English in France”. Rarely, they appointed the president.
“Look at what our President and his ministers are doing in the government!”. This Thursday, December 15, around the table of the French brasserie Lipp, located in the Parisian district of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, members English Carpet Academy Listen to one of them smoking. The prize’s jurors, created in 1999, aim to select a member of the French elite. “Incessant promotion of Anglo-American dominance in France and European institutions to the detriment of the French language”.
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Among the members of the jury are a dozen literary personalities and lovers of the French language: Philippe de Saint Robert, the president of the company, Marc Favre d’Salance, his secretary, but also a journalist from Picaro. Eugenie Basti, writer Benoit Duttre, former ambassador Albert Salon, former vice president Paul-Marie Costeaux, Marie-José de Saint Robert and Guillemette Mouron. Among these members, some are also involved in associations for the protection and promotion of the French language: the Avenir de la Longue Française, the Association for the Development of the French Language (Acelaf), the Defense of the French Language (DLF) and the Right to Understand (DDC).
Competitors for 2022 are INRAE (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment), SNCF (whose CEO Guillaume Pepy already won in 2013) for the name of its new “SNCF Connect” application. “Why put it in English when it’s a service offered to the French?”, asks Eugenie Bastié. The city of Nice is referred to as its “I love Nice” and finally to President Emmanuel Macron.
“This provision of not appointing the President is elegant. Julien Koeberich starts from the literary circle of French railway workers. This non-aggression pact must be broken. Because we have never seen a President attacking our language to this extent. Until then, the academy had made it a rule not to appoint an ex-officio president. Theories that the jury decides to raise are exceptions.
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The dominance of English within the European Union
“The president accepted the supremacy of English in European institutions, but promised not to.”, comments by Philippe de Saint-Robert. Two other reasons have been mentioned against Emmanuel Macron: the fact that he handed over the management of the OIF Louise Mushikiwabo, “Former minister who set aside French as the language of instruction in his home country”But for appointing the deity of the next Francophonie summit to be held in France in 2024 – An artist, Yseult, “Who mainly sings in English”.
Through this referendum, the President wishes to remind the President of Article II of the Constitution that “French is the language of the Republic”. “Official language of most international organizations”. It does not accept the dominance of English within European institutions, even though it is not the national language of any member state (since Brexit). Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was awarded the Special Foreign Jury Prize Mary Simon As the Governor General of Canada, he did not speak the country’s second official language, French.
last year, of Home Secretary Gerald Dorman Highlighted for introducing a new national identity card with English subtitles. In 2017, the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, was elected to prioritize the use of English as the communication language of the city of Paris for tourists and foreign students. He was pictured at the Eiffel Tower in February 2017 slogan “Made to Share” Paris’ bid for the 2024 Olympic Games.
As for the foreign prize, it was awarded in 2021 to Ursula van der Leyen, president of the European Commission, for her decision to promote English as the company’s sole working language, to the detriment of other European languages. And, in particular, despite Brexit, the French language.
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