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Article: The Relationship of Religious Practice to Linguistic Culture: Language, Religion, and Education in Alsace and the Roussillon, 1860-1890.
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- Church History
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- September 1, 1999
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I. LANGUAGE AND RELIGION
The revolutionary and legislator Bertrand Barrere in his Sur les idiomes etrangers et l' enseignement de la langue francaise had said, "Federalism and superstition speak Breton; emigration and hatred of the Republic speak German; the counter-revolution speaks Italian, and fanaticism speaks Basque."(1) For Barrere, regional languages were intertwined with religion ("superstition," "fanaticism") and the other antigovernment forces.(2) And he was right, at least in part. Surveys made in the last century indicate that of those regions where a language other than French(3) was spoken (German in Alsace-Lorraine, Flemish in the department of the ...
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