Défense de la langue française

Défense de la langue française is a French association whose objective is the defense and promotion of the French language at the national and international level. DLF has received approval from associations for the defense of the French language. Its head office is in Paris.

History

Founded in 1958[1] by Paul Camus[2] Maurice Rat and others, it is the continuation and extension of the "Richelieu Press Circle"[3] created in 1953[4][5] by the same Paul Camus with a view to stopping the degradation of language in the press. Among its first supporters were members of the Académie Française (Louis de Broglie, Jean Cocteau, Georges Duhamel, Maurice Genevoix, Édouard Herriot, Alphonse Juin, André Maurois, Jules Romains, André Siegfried) and the grammarians René Georgin and Émile Moussat.[5]

In 1995, in application of the Toubon Law, it received approval from the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Culture as an association for the defense of the French language, which has been renewed every three years since then.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

Presidents

Since its foundation, the association has been chaired by an academic. Its leaders have been Léon Bérard (1958-?), Maurice Genevoix (?), Jean Mistler (?), Jean Dutourd (1989-2009), Angelo Rinaldi (2009-2011), Philippe Beaussant (2011-2016) and Xavier Darcos (from 2016).[16]

Controversies

In March 2011, the association awards the Prix Richelieu to Éric Zemmour, despite his conviction the previous month for incitement to racial hatred by the 17th chamber of the Tribunal de Paris. In protest, the president of the association, Angelo Rinaldi, resigns.[17][18][19][20] He is replaced by Philippe Beaussant.

References

  1. ^ "Déclarations d'associations". Journal officiel de la République française (in French) (152). 29 June 1958.
  2. ^ Paul Camus (1897-1984), Ingénieur des Arts et Manufactures, journaliste à l'ORTF, secrétaire général fondateur de DLF (1958-1982). Grand-Prix du Rayonnement de la Langue française de l'Académie Française (1966), French
  3. ^ Zsuzsanna Fagyal; Douglas Kibbee; Frederic Jenkins (2006). French: A Linguistic Introduction. Cambridge University Press. p. 177. ISBN 1139459562. Retrieved 2025-09-28. In the early 1950s the Association française de normalisation (AFNOR) was founded, as well as the Cercle de Presse Richelieu, which would become Défense de la langue française
  4. ^ "Déclarations d'associations". Journal officiel de la République française (242). 12 October 1953. Retrieved 2025-09-28..
  5. ^ a b Sverker Bengtsson (1968). La Défense organisée de la langue française: Étude sur l'activité de quelques organismes qui depuis 1937 ont pris pour tâche de veiller à la correction et à la pureté de la langue française. Studia Romanica Upsaliensia. Uppsala. p. 35.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ Order of 3 May 1995, JORF, No. 111, 12 May 1995, NOR MCCA9500253A.
  7. ^ Order of 27 May 1998, JORF, No. 128, 5 June 1998, NOR MCCB9800367A.
  8. ^ Order of 25 June 2001, JORF, No. 153, 4 July 2001, NOR MCCG0100377A.
  9. ^ Order of 24 May 2004, JORF, No. 137, 15 June 2004, text No. 29, NOR MCCG0400507A.
  10. ^ Order of 26 March 2007, JORF, No. 106, 6 May 2007, text No. 14, NOR MCCD0700300A.
  11. ^ Order of 14 May 2010, JORF, No. 116, 21 May 2010, text No. 43, NOR MCCB1010769A.
  12. ^ Order of 13 May 2013, JORF, No. 121, 28 May 2013, text No. 20, NOR MCCB1310780A.
  13. ^ Order of 8 September 2016, JORF, No. 234, 7 October 2016, text No. 36, NOR MCCB1617031A.
  14. ^ Order of 14 October 2019, JORF, No. 258, 6 November 2019, text No. 42, NOR MICB1928578A.
  15. ^ Order of 19 April 2022, JORF, No. 97, 26 April 2022, text No. 33, NOR MICB2212192A.
  16. ^ Dominique Hoppe (1 April 2016). "Natacha Polony lauréate 2016 du Prix Richelieu". Huffington Post (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  17. ^ Léonard Billot (7 March 2011). "Angelo Rinaldi proteste contre la remise d'un prix à Eric Zemmour". Libération (in French). Retrieved 29 September 2025.
  18. ^ Gisèle Sapiro (2015). "Notables, esthètes et polémistes: Manières d'être un écrivain "réactionnaire" des années 1930 à nos jours". Le discours « néo-réactionnaire »: Transgressions conservatrices (in French). Paris: CNRS Éditions. ISBN 978-2271088994.
  19. ^ Gisèle Sapiro (25 September 2023). Stratégies internationales de polémistes français d'extrême droite: Perspective socio-historique (in French). pp. 17–34. doi:10.4000/rsh.3249. ISBN 978-2757438657. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  20. ^ Judith Cohen-Solal; Jonathan Hayoun (2022). Zemmour et nous. Paris: Éditions Bouquins. p. 29. ISBN 978-2382922408.
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