In 1992, after some questioned the unconstitutional segregation of minority languages in France, Art. II of the 1958 French Constitution was revised so that "the language of the Republic is French" (la langue de la République est le français). This was achieved only months before the Council of Europe passed the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages,[26] which Jacques Chirac ignored[27] despite Lionel Jospin's plea for the Constitutional Council to amend Art.