France and the United States: Two sets for a single scene

Two reference versions of the Group’s Principles of Action, one French and one American, were written concurrently by the same authors.1 They are strictly matched, sentence for sentence. They affirm the same values and, given the proximity of the two languages, often employ the same words (e.g. satisfaction, satisfaction; environment, environnement; etc.). A cursory reading might well give the impression that the resulting text transcends the diversity of cultures.