Not a Legal Error
By the close of 2021, the Francophonie Avenir association had unsuccessfully requested Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris (from the Socialist Party), to remove two plaques displayed in a hallway of the City Hall, at the entrance to the paris Council chamber.
Following a petition from Francophonie Avenir, both the Paris Administrative Court and the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal steadfast that no existing law prohibits the use of inclusive writing within the french language. Subsequently, in late December, the Council of State affirmed that the court had not made an error of law
.It clarified that inclusive writing dose not constitute the use of a language other than French, but rather a specific form of French orthography, distinct from Spanish, Italian, or any other language.
Established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII, the Académie Française is tasked with giving certain rules to our language and making it pure, eloquent and capable of treating the arts and sciences
.The Academy compiles a dictionary and issues rulings on orthographic standards.