diff --git a/script/BuildLangModel.py b/script/BuildLangModel.py
index 8382b3e..5fb3a9e 100755
--- a/script/BuildLangModel.py
+++ b/script/BuildLangModel.py
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ cmdline = optparse.OptionParser(usage, description = description)
 cmdline.add_option('--max-page',
                    help = 'Maximum number of Wikipedia pages to parse (useful for debugging).',
                    action = 'store', type = 'int', dest = 'max_page', default = None)
+cmdline.add_option('--max-depth',
+                   help = 'Maximum depth when following links from start page (default: 2).',
+                   action = 'store', type = 'int',
+                   dest = 'max_depth', default = 2)
 (options, langs) = cmdline.parse_args()
 if len(langs) < 1:
     print("Please select at least one language code.\n")
@@ -96,8 +100,6 @@ if not hasattr(lang, 'start_page') or lang.start_page is None:
     lang.start_page = 'Main_Page'
 if not hasattr(lang, 'wikipedia_code') or lang.wikipedia_code is None:
     lang.wikipedia_code = lang.code
-if not hasattr(lang, 'max_depth') or lang.max_depth is None:
-    lang.max_depth = 2
 if not hasattr(lang, 'clean_wikipedia_content') or lang.clean_wikipedia_content is None:
     lang.clean_wikipedia_content = None
 
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ characters = {}
 sequences = {}
 prev_char = None
 
-def visit_page(title, depth, max_depth, clean_text, logfd):
+def visit_page(title, depth, clean_text, logfd):
     global charsets
     global visited_pages
     global characters
@@ -178,22 +180,25 @@ def visit_page(title, depth, max_depth, clean_text, logfd):
         else:
             prev_char = None
 
-    if depth == max_depth:
+    if depth == options.max_depth:
         return
 
     for link in page.links:
         if link in visited_pages:
             continue
-        visit_page (link, depth + 1, max_depth, clean_text, logfd)
+        visit_page (link, depth + 1, clean_text, logfd)
 
 logfd = open('LangFrenchModel.log', 'w')
 logfd.write('= Logs of language model for {} ({}) =\n'.format(lang.name, lang.code))
 logfd.write('\n- Generated by {}'.format(os.path.basename(__file__)))
 logfd.write('\n- Started: {}'.format(str(datetime.datetime.now())))
+logfd.write('\n- Maximum depth: {}'.format(options.max_depth))
+if options.max_page is not None:
+    logfd.write('\n- Max number of pages: {}'.format(options.max_page))
 logfd.write('\n\n== Parsed pages ==\n')
 try:
     visit_page(lang.start_page, 0,
-               lang.max_depth, lang.clean_wikipedia_content,
+               lang.clean_wikipedia_content,
                logfd)
 except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError:
     print('Error: connection to Wikipedia failed. Aborting\n')
diff --git a/script/langs/fr.py b/script/langs/fr.py
index 64dd1a4..f2951a2 100644
--- a/script/langs/fr.py
+++ b/script/langs/fr.py
@@ -58,9 +58,6 @@ charsets = ['ISO-8859-15', 'ISO-8859-1']
 start_page = 'Wikipédia:Accueil_principal'
 # give possibility to select another code for the Wikipedia URL.
 wikipedia_code = code
-# Let's go 2 pages deep from the main_page.
-# Since a page has a lot of links, this is actually quite a lot of contents.
-max_depth = 2
 
 # A function to clean content returned by the `wikipedia` python lib,
 # in case some unwanted data has been overlooked.