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  1. 5 days ago · French is a Romance language spoken throughout the world by more than 260 million people, making it the 5th most- spoken language, and the 3rd most-spoken of the Romance languages, behind Portuguese and Spanish. It has at times been considered the “language of the world”, though in recent years English has in some ways superseded this role.

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  2. 3 days ago · François Rabelais. Writer, critic, and scholar. Translator of Rabelais, Cervantes, and others. Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford. Fielden Professor of French Language and Literature, University College, University of London, 1971–84.

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  4. 3 days ago · The Moroccan sociologist, semiotician, critic, and litterateur Abdelkébir Khatibi once declared that “la langue française n’est pas la langue française: elle est plus ou moins toutes les langues internes et externes qui la font et la défont” [the french language is not the french language: it is more or less all the internal and ...

  5. 4 days ago · Fiancé/Fiancée: These words for an engaged man or woman are borrowed from French, retaining their original meanings. Cuisine: In English, this term refers to a style or method of cooking, borrowed from the French “cuisine”. Entrepreneur: This word, meaning a person who starts a business, comes from the French “entrepreneur”.

  6. French is spoken throughout the world and was introduced at different times. They developed separately from French spoken in France, influenced by original or surrounding languages, with completely different accents. Are these easily understood by French speakers from France?

  7. 9 hours ago · Number of native speakers of each Romance language, as fractions of the total 690 million (2007) The Romance language most widely spoken natively today is Spanish, followed by Portuguese, French, Italian and Romanian, which together cover a vast territory in Europe and beyond, and work as official and national languages in dozens of countries.

  8. 3 days ago · The past thirty years have seen a shift in French-language novels as authors move from the self-reflexive formal experimentation of the nouveau roman and its successors toward a literature that is again concerned with plot, character, and above all, the problems of the contemporary world. This “retour au récit” is accompanied by a resurgence of interest in writing the self (through ...

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