Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The notion that French is spoken only in France is
factually wrong.
Consequently the claim that French literature targets the French public is
arguably wrong as well. Either French is a world language or it is only
spoken by the French public, you cannot have it both ways.
Not only in my opinion is French a world language.
[...]
Yann's (English) quote of Gallimard's claim doesn't say any-
where that French literature targets the French public /ex-
clusively/.
Tim