A group of French intellectual worthies once proposed, rather self-flatteringly, that French be the sole legal language of the EU, because of its supposedly unmatchable rigor and precision.

一群法国知识分子曾经相当自鸣得意地提议，法语是欧盟的唯一法律语言，因为它被认为是无与伦比的严谨和精确。