diff --git a/lib/languages b/lib/languages
index 1a9bb6c563..5fcdbd1172 100644
--- a/lib/languages
+++ b/lib/languages
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ estonian    estonian	"Estonian"	false  iso8859-15 et_EE	 ""
 # the definitions are only used due to bugs in the arabi-package - remove them if they become unnecessary!
 farsi       farsi	"Farsi"		true   utf8       fa_IR	 "\DeclareTextSymbol{\guillemotright}{LFE}{62}\DeclareTextSymbol{\guillemotleft}{LFE}{60}"
 finnish     finnish	"Finnish"	false  iso8859-15 fi_FI	 ""
-# We redefine \og and \fg (guillemets) for older french language definitions. We also use standard item label (bullet) handling.
-french      french 	"French"	false  iso8859-15 fr_FR	 "\addto\extrasfrench{\providecommand{\og}{\leavevmode\flqq~}\providecommand{\fg}{\ifdim\lastskip>\z@\unskip\fi~\frqq}}\frenchbsetup{StandardItemLabels=true}"
+# We redefine \og and \fg (guillemets) for older french language definitions
+french      french 	"French"	false  iso8859-15 fr_FR	 "\addto\extrasfrench{\providecommand{\og}{\leavevmode\flqq~}\providecommand{\fg}{\ifdim\lastskip>\z@\unskip\fi~\frqq}}"
 galician    galician	"Galician"	false  iso8859-15 gl_ES	 ""
 german      german	"German (old spelling)"	false  iso8859-15 de-alt	 ""
 ngerman     ngerman	"German"	false  iso8859-15 de_DE	 ""