Why did French become the French it is today? In 1539, King Francis I decreed that, replacing Latin, all future decrees and official documents would be in Parisian French. The Provenccal speaking south complained, but with little long term effect.
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Why isn't Catalan speaking Spain part of France? Catalan is, or at least was in the 1300s, closer to any French language than to Castilian or Gallego, a result principally of the particular Germanic tribes which settled in each area after the destruction of the western Roman Empire
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. The Pyrenees are the answer, separating people by mountains, dictating their political futures.
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