It's because "les Français" doesn't only mean the "Frenchmen" but also the "French people". Besides had he written "réunira les Français et les Françaises" it would have sound weird because it would have implied that Françaises and Français had been separated for some reason which isn't what he meant. The divisions he hinted at were not genre-related!
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Date: 2007-04-18 07:07 pm (UTC)