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The Academie Francaise, or the French Academy, is widely considered to have been responsible for the French language having changed extremely little over the past four centuries, and has been extremely successful in regards to keeping French "pure". Yet, interestingly enough, the revolutionary government abolished the Academie in 1793, though Napoleon later reinstituted it in 1801. What if this repeal had stuck, and the Academie was permanently destroyed?
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