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in this country, as you well know
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the whole campus was sort of moved by this huge explosion
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when this chemical factory blew up.
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But there, there's been a revival in the teaching of Occitan,
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the sort of Languedoc languages that were soon to disappear,
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et cetera, et cetera. Now, so, be a little cautious
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in assuming that well everybody in 1914 felt themselves French,
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or thinking that these sort of agencies of modernization
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are what created this,
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what we'd have to admit is a strong French identity.
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But also one of the things I'm able to see
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I'll probably be in tears by the end of the lecture