Hello everyone!

So I'm sorry to ask you this but I need the skills of some of you to help me. I have some difficulties to translate a text, as english is not my native language. I have to use a legal english and a formal language (it's for the back cover of a thesis), but I'm afraid there are many sentences which don't make any sense, and sometimes I don't know which word to choose.

Here's the whole text, already awfully translated. Every time I hesitate between two words, I've put them in italic. If you could just tell me if there are errors or if some sentences are not correct, that would be great! And for the most patient of you, a detailed analysis would be awesome!

Edit: Thank you all for being so awesome and helpful ♥


The control of the liberal professions in France was considered as a necessity which had been continually rising since the French Revolution and the sudden disappearance of the corporations. The increase of judiciary scandals involving health professionals during the IIIth Republic revived the question of the watch and the control of liberal activities and caused a real debate inside the french society / an important public debate.

Facing the incapacity of the public authorities to defend their moral and material interests, some members of the medical profession took the initiative to join together to form associations and, later on, unions, before asking / claiming the creation / establishment of mandatory groups which would be charged to remedy the problems of the commercialization of the medicine, the medical failures and the medical overpopulation / the workload of the profession.

These aspirations would finally be realized and even exceeded with the rise / the advent of the Vichy regime and the implementation of a corporatist / corporate policy with the creation of eight professional associations with five of them dedicated to the medical field.

As regulatory bodies and unique representatives of the profession, these corporations / associations of doctors, pharmacists, dental surgeons, midwives and veterinarians were entitled to discipline the medical community and to support their members.

However, due to their forced implication in the discriminatory and anti-Semitic policies of the Vichy Government, those organizations were quickly dissolved at the Liberation before being restored on Republican basis / grounds as the same time as the unions.

A singular continuity which begs the question of the aspirations and the accomplishments of the medical community in terms of professional management during a period marked by two World Wars and rapid changes of political regimes.


Here's the original text in french.

L’encadrement des professions libérales en France est une nécessité qui n’a cessé de s’affirmer depuis les évènements de la Révolution ayant entraîné la soudaine disparition des corporations. La recrudescence des scandales judiciaires mettant en cause des professionnels de santé sous la IIIe République ravive la question de la surveillance et du contrôle de l’activité libérale et provoque un véritable débat de société. Confrontés à l’impuissance des pouvoirs publics à défendre leurs intérêts moraux et matériels, plusieurs membres du corps médical prendront dès lors l’initiative de se grouper en associations puis en syndicats, avant de réclamer l’instauration de groupements obligatoires chargés de remédier à la commercialisation de la médecine, aux défaillances médicales et à l’encombrement de la profession. Il faut toutefois attendre l’avènement du régime de Vichy et la mise en place d’une politique corporative pour que ces revendications soient finalement concrétisées, et largement dépassées, par l’instauration de huit ordres professionnels, dont cinq concernent uniquement le domaine de la santé. En tant qu’organismes régulateurs et seuls représentants de la profession, les ordres des médecins, pharmaciens, chirurgiens-dentistes, sages-femmes et vétérinaires sont amenés à discipliner le milieu médical et à subvenir aux besoins de leurs membres. Néanmoins, en raison de leur insertion de force dans la politique discriminatoire et antisémite de l’État français, ces organismes sont rapidement dissous à la Libération avant d’être restaurés, aux côtés des syndicats, sur de nouveaux fondements républicains. Une singulière continuité qui conduit à s’interroger sur les aspirations et les accomplissements du corps médical en matière d’encadrement professionnel, à travers une période pourtant marquée par deux guerres mondiales et des changements rapides de régimes politiques.


And as a thank you for your help,

here's a little choo-choo :D

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Unfortunately I can't help you, but thanks for the train and have a bump!

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Can't help, bump!

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oh my so much text.

thank you :D

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I don't know French, but I think people already helped you :) Good luck with your thesis and thank you for the train

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Bump. No special reason to it. Yes. Have a good one.

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Bumping . Good luck with your thesis !

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Le bump.

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French? Uhh, I'll just be over here not understanding.

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Bump

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