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The Importance of French
French throughout the ages has influenced
manylanguages like Vietnamese, Romanian, Turkish, Farsi, Arabic, German, Russian (Incidentally, the Russian royal family would spend their summer in the south of France "annually".), and English in particular after the Norman (French) conquest of England with the battle of Hastings in 1066. (This later led to the invasion of France by the English and St. Joan of Arc's (Sainte Jeanne d'Arc) valiant attempt to fend off the English off in the Hundred Years' War - circa 1430. britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Hastings See: British History French was the mother tongue of every English king from William the Conqueror (1066–1087) until Henry IV (1399–1413). "Anglo-Norman/English nobles continued to speak French as their first language until the 17th Century. To this day, the Queen opens Parliament in Norman." "... (King) Henry IV (1367 - 1413) was (probably) the first to speak English as his first language ..." Source: quora.com/first-English-speaking-king "Some accounts indicate that French continued to be the main lingua franca of English nobility until well into the 17th Century and is still a required language of future monarchs, at least in written form." Source: quora.com/French-cease-to-be "French was the official language of England ... for about 600 years ..., simply because the rulers of the country spoke it." Source: google.com man/Latin in origin, and the grammar and syntax of Modern English and Modern French both also descend from Norman/Old French." Source: quora.com/English-aristocracy-ceased Still, today, French is considered "the" language of diplomacy. Source: legallanguage.com/language-of-diplomacy Treaties were written in French. French, today, is one of the prominent languages of the United Nations and is still learned by the intelligencia around the world.  two (2) languages of the Olympic Committee. Incidentally, the founder of the modern Olympic Games is the Frenchman, Pierre de Coubertin.
La Francophonie [L'Organisation internatio- nale de la Francophonie (OIF)] brings together about 20 nations and 10 regions where French is spoken. s'appelle la francophonie. Japanese emperors for some time. ders spent several years in France like Zhou Enlai from China, a key member of the Chinese Communist Party, who was in Paris from 1921 till 1924, as well as Deng Xioaping who worked and studied in France in the 1920s arriving there as a teenager. He later became China's leader after the death of Mao Zedong from 1977 till 1989 intoducing the four (4) modernizations: economy, agriculture, science, and defence.
All these things contibute to French being A HIGH STATUS LANGUAGE well worth learning. The É(eh)PC is committed to promoting French in Canada and throughout la Francophonie. "Il fait du bien vivre en français." (It feels good to live in French.) [É(eh)PC President/Party Leader] BONNES ÉTUDES ! lâche pas ! |
