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French History, Culture, and Politics Only in Quebec

You Will Insta in French, Little Cafe

In today’s follow-up to yesterday’s post about requiring French labels for specialty manufactured items, a little Quebec cafe near the border with Ontario has received a letter from the province’s French language authority saying the cafe’s Instagram posts must be in French–even though all their signage, menus, and Facebook posts are solely in French.

Petites Gamines owner Gabrielle Sexton says she will fight an order from The Office québécois de la langue française to make the café’s Instagram posts in English. (Courtesy Petites Gamines Instagram)

Remember that Quebec doesn’t have a First Amendment (or a Second Amendment, which does seem to make a quality-of-life difference) but citizens do have rights to “freedom of expression.”

As long as you express yourself in French.

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