\begingroup\catcode`{=1\catcode`}=2%
\gdef\beginlanguage{french}% the language that should be the first in 
                           % my usual documents. Just for error handling.
\message{** ==> After format creation DON'T FORGET to typeset frlicense.dat!}
\endgroup%
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
\else
  \ifx\pdfoutput\relax
  \else
    \input pdftexconfig
    \pdfoutput=0
  \fi
\fi
\input latex.ltx
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