symbole
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thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school
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- France
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- school discipline
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thumb|"Speak French, Be Clean" written on the wall of the Ayguatébia-Talau school
The symbole, also called '''''ar vuoc'h''' ("the cow"), was an object used by Francophone headmasters in public and private schools in Brittany, French Flanders, Occitania, Basque Country and North Catalonia as a means of punishment for students caught speaking Breton, Flemish, Occitan, Basque, or Catalan during the 19th and 20th centuries.
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