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He was Minister of Culture from 1993 to 1995 in the Edouard Balladur government, while François Mitterrand was president (second cohabitation of the Fifth Republic), and Minister of Justice from 1995 to 1997 under Prime Minister Alain Juppé (first term of Jacques Chirac's presidency).

Best known for the "Toubon Law"; the law of August 4, 1994 relating to the French language usage. The law specifies that French must be at least as prominent as any other language and prohibits the use of foreign terms in some areas all together.

Two groups, the Association for the Defense of the French Language and the Future of the French Language, use the Toubon Law to demand that information on web sites which come from France must be in French. They filed a complaint against Georgia Tech Lorraine for publishing a website in English without a translation to French.

Georgia Tech Lorraine is the French branch of the Atlanta-based Georgia Institute of TechnologyThe Georgia Institute of Technology or Georgia Tech for short, is a public university in Atlanta, Georgia with over 16,000 students. Founded on October 13, 1885 as the Georgia School of Technology it is primarily an engineering school, though it also has with a campus in MetzMetz is a city in the North-East of France, capital of the Lorraine region and of the departement of Moselle (57). It is located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille. History In ancient times Metz, then known as Divodurum, was the capital of th, in eastern France, with a current enrollment of 60 students. Classes are conducted in English, and the faculty rotates in from Atlanta. All course descriptions on its internet site were in English, which was supposed to violate the French law.

If the court ruled against Georgia Tech Lorraine, the school would be forced to pay a fine of 1,000 French francs for every day after such a ruling that the site was not translated into French and 10,000 francs to each of the two plaintiffs.

The case ended in failure. Since then, Georgia Tech Lorraine has made its Web site available in French and German as well.

1 See also

• Politics of France
• Académie françaiseThe Academie francaise (French Academy) is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Academie, limited to forty members, has the task of acting as an official authority on the language, even though it has no enf

2 External links

• Why is Europe so unwired? http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.09/negroponte.html
• English ban neutered. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,11990,00.html
• http://www.georgiatech-metz.fr

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