Academicians unhappy with English mentions on identity card

The new identity card does not please the French Academy at all.

The institution is even ready to go to administrative justice to remove mentions in English on the model of this card launched on August 2, indicated its perpetual secretary Hélène Carrère d'Encausse on Wednesday at

.

“For a long time, the Academy reacted with statements and press releases that were listened to.

Today, all words are equal.

Another form of intervention was needed ”, justified the one who presides over the institution responsible for the language in France.

Castex is not responding

The Academy considers that by adding for example "Surname" next to "Name" or "Given names" next to "First names", the model designed by the government contravenes the Constitution, which provides that "the language of the République is French ”.

"We are undermining an essential principle," says Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.

“Who decided to put French and English on an equal footing in this document?

She asks herself.

In addition, if a European regulation obliges to translate "Identity card" into at least one other official language of the European Union, this text does not provide for other imposed translations.

According to

, the Academy "therefore appointed a law firm" which wrote to Prime Minister Jean Castex "to ask him to repeal the provision creating the new national identity card", without obtaining an answer. until there.

These lawyers are therefore preparing to seize the Council of State.

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