Little Fañch may not know it, but he made the law change! Born in Quimper in 2017, little Breton had seen his civil status refuse him his tilde. His parents then went to court, unknowingly triggering a great legal and political debate. Before winning after two years of waiting. According to the President of the National Assembly, the series should soon end. Finistère deputy Richard Ferrand announced that a decree concerning the use of diacritical marks in civil status was "being finalized".
“The Minister of Justice (Nicole Belloubet) confirms by mail that a decree is being finalized and will soon be sent to the Council of State. The integration of these characters will be effective as soon as the modalities within the services of the State will be defined ”, declared the elected official of La République en Marche in a press release entitled“ A decree for Fañch ”.
A decree will seal the use of the # ñ for names and surnames in civil status documents! A great victory for the Breton language and more generally our regional languages # Fañch
- Ronan Loas (@RonanLoas) February 4, 2020The question of the tilde on the first name Fañch has been causing a stir for months in Brittany. At the end of November, the Brest public prosecutor's office ordered the civil register not to write the first name Fañch with the tilde, despite the judicial victory of another Fañch in cassation the previous month. The parents of little Fañch Bernard, born in May 2017, had indeed won after a legal battle of more than two years.
Diacritical marks exist in other regional languages spoken in France, in particular in Catalan, such as the use of "í" or "ó".
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Brest: A second little Fañch deprived of tilde by the parquet
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The Court of Cassation has decided, little Fañch will be able to keep his tilde!
- Richard Ferrand
- Quimper
- Civil status
- Rennes
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