diff --git a/src/cc/mallet/pipe/TokenSequenceRemoveStopwords.java b/src/cc/mallet/pipe/TokenSequenceRemoveStopwords.java
index adb6b7a23..02463bf43 100644
--- a/src/cc/mallet/pipe/TokenSequenceRemoveStopwords.java
+++ b/src/cc/mallet/pipe/TokenSequenceRemoveStopwords.java
@@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ private void readObject (ObjectInputStream in) throws IOException, ClassNotFound
 		//"approach"
 	};	
 		//stopwords for french, added by Limin Yao
-	static final String[] stopwordsFrench = {
+	public static final String[] stopwordsFrench = {
 		"fut",
 		"S",
 		"ces",