The French language had been used to keep the population as a whole at a distance.
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Anything touching on the French language is always sure to raise temperatures in France.
In architecture and in the use of the French language, German courts paid it the compliment of imitation.
It is not the first time Mr Chirac has made a point of defending the French language in the international arena.
The second is the decline of the French language, which has lost the importance it had at the height of great French literature.
He is a cultivated man who lives within the French language.
It is almost certainly because of this strong display of nationalism that Mr Chirac decided to have a showdown with his prime minister over the French language.
His fluency in the French language may stand him in good stead in the corridors of Brussels although his command of English is said to be less sure.
The government's attempts to protect the French language have failed miserably, as have the vast sums it has spent on the arts, which Fumaroli explained in an earlier book, L'Etat culturel.
Salim Tamani, writing in the French-language Liberte , sees a distinct possibility of Algeria being dragged into a new cycle of violence.
Jack Layton, the NDP's leader, promised to make French the language of work in federal institutions in the province and to require justices of Canada's Supreme Court to be bilingual.
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In 1066, the Norman invasion established French as the language of government, but it did not dislodge English.
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When he himself was interior minister, Mr de Villepin began the policy of expelling foreign imams suspected of preaching violence, and launched plans to train the rest in French language and history.
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In a letter to the CIRA Board (I was a member of the board at the time), it delivered an official request for multilingual domains to allow for the use of French language characters.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
He speaks the official national language, French, poorly and the unofficial one, Lingala, not at all.
Fast-forward to the Revolution of 1789 and francien-derived French was imposed as the language of liberty and nationhood, its spread then aided by the emergence of a French press in the 19th century and, from 1882, by compulsory schooling.
Two centuries of Norman rule in England after 1066 significantly changed the Germanic grammar and dumped a large amount of French vocabulary into the language.
The shirts were tieless, the iPads abundant and the language a blend of French and West Coast.
But the dealings are so dense (and so complicated by the cultural tussles across the language frontier, between French and Flemish speakers), that we start to wonder if Roskam is determined to lose us in the murk.
Instead, the assimilation of elements of French into English produced Middle English and, with it, the basic profile of the language we still speak: a large vocabulary of Germanic and French-derived words organized with a simplified Germanic grammar.
Subsequent legislation has ensured that French is the language of business and of education in the province.
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He is the youngest member of the French Academy, the official guardian of the language of Voltaire and Flaubert.
Some linguists, though, instead classify them as separate languages within a language family, analogous to the French, Spanish and Italian languages within the Romance language family.
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She fell in love with the city and its people and recorded a paean of praise, first in French and then in German, the language of the former oppressor.
The reaction in France was more muted, perhaps because the agreement carefully avoids any of the visionary language about European architectures that excites French imaginations, but which many British Conservatives, such as the defence secretary, Liam Fox, viscerally loathe.
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