Muichiro.T Active member May 28, 2024 #1 The French revolution was a period of paramount importance which saw most people in France speaking anything near French.
The French revolution was a period of paramount importance which saw most people in France speaking anything near French.
Bulsky Active member May 29, 2024 #2 Hold up, most people in France spoke something besides French before the revolution? TIL!
Muichiro.T Active member May 29, 2024 #3 Bulsky said: Hold up, most people in France spoke something besides French before the revolution? TIL! Click to expand... Yeah, before the French Revolution, a lot of folks in France spoke regional languages like Breton, Occitan, and Basque rather than standard French—it was like a linguistic patchwork quilt, not everyone was chatting in the same tongue. Wild, right?
Bulsky said: Hold up, most people in France spoke something besides French before the revolution? TIL! Click to expand... Yeah, before the French Revolution, a lot of folks in France spoke regional languages like Breton, Occitan, and Basque rather than standard French—it was like a linguistic patchwork quilt, not everyone was chatting in the same tongue. Wild, right?