Letter to a correspondent (Alexander Cohen [?], 1864–1961) of Le Figaro. The correspondent had asked Kuyper for a clarification after another correspondent (from The Hague) had reported that Kuyper would oppose the use of the French language in the Netherlands after his appointment as a minister. From his holiday address, Kuyper replies that the report is confusing different issues and is misrepresenting a discussion that took place in De Standaard with Prof. A.G. van Hamel (1842–1907). According to the foreign press, Van Hamel had said in Gent (Belgium) that le français est la langue maternelle et une des deux langues nationales and in so doing had involved himself in Belgium’s linguistic conflict. Kuyper had protested the statement and had defended the Flemish movement in De Standaard, no. 8893, March 18, 1901; no. 8901, March 27, 1901; and no. 8912, April 10, 1901.