Where Mr Baverez is clinical in his analysis and unsentimental in style, Jean-Marie Rouart, on the other hand, transports the reader into an altogether different world of nostalgia for a France long-gone.
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The country's history and identity are inextricably bound up with its language, as Jean-Marie Rouart pointed out in an emotional attack on the charter in Le Figaro, France's leading daily newspaper of the right.
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