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cultural protections.
See also
Canadian culture; French culture; Quebec, efforts to protect the culture of

international law and

Curie, Madame Marie Sklodowska

Curie, Pierre

 

DaCosta, Horace

d’Alembert, Jean le Rond

Dali, Salvador

Dan, Barak

Dante Alighieri

Dard, Jean

Dart, Frédéric

da Vinci, Leonardo

de Baïf, Antoine

de Beauvoir, Simone

de Bruyssels, Ferdinand-Charles

de Choisy, François Timoléon

de Gaulle, Charles

honorary president of Alliance Françaises

invests in North Africa

nationalizes Agence France-Presse

rousing words for Quebec by

his vocabulary

de la Pailleterie, Antoine Davy

De Lambert, Madame

de Monts, Pierre Du Gua

de Soto, Hernando

De Tencin, Madame

De Vaucanson, Jacques

de Villepin, Dominique

Debbouze, Djamel

Deffand, Madame de

Defoe, Daniel

d’Églantine, Fabre

Dehaybe, Roger

Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (DGLFLF)

d’Encausse, Hélène Carrère

Depardieu, Gérard

Derrida, Jacques

Desbiens, Jean-Paul

Descartes, René

Desmarais, Paul

Desportes, Philippe

DGLFLF.
See
Délégation générale à la langue française et aux langues de France (DGLFLF)

dictation, as education and sport

dictionaries (French).
See
French (language), dictionaries of the

Diderot, Denis

Dion, Céline

Diop, Boubacar Boris

Diori, Hamani

Diouf, Abdou

divine right (of kings), questioning of

d’oc,
languages.
See oc
languages
d’oïl,
languages.
See oïl
languages Domengeaux, James

Dos Passos, John

Doumer, Paul

Druon, Maurice

du Bellay, Joachim

du Mans, Jacques Peletier

du Mas, Cézette

Dufour, General

Dumas, Alexandre

Dumas, Guy

Dumas, Thomas-Alexandre

Dunant, Henri

Duras, Marguerite

Dutch (language)

its importations from French

 

écoles d’entreprises
(company schools)

Edict of Nantes

Edison, Thomas

education. See also
puriste,
education as a force for; schools

through expansion of colonial universities

as a force for maintaining colonization

missionaries and

Edufrance (program for foreign students)

Edward the Confessor

Eiffel, Gustave, technologist supreme

El Fasi, Mohammed.
See
Fasi, Mohammed El

Elle
(magazine)

Elmaleh, Gad

Eloy, Jean Michel

Empain, Édouard

encyclopedias

England.
See
the United Kingdom

English (language).
See also
anglophones; assimilation (linguistic); French (language), its influence on English

assimilation to by immigrants

business hegemony and

classlessness of

“cool” & status associated with

European versus Quebec reactions to French anglicisms

the future of

its influence on French

its inheritance from French

in Lebanon

in Morocco

numbers who speak the

its path to world power

its perceived potential harm to French

prejudices about

roots of

scientific hegemony and

vocabulary size of

widespread usage of

Erasmus

Escoffier, Auguste

esprit
(lively verbal playfulness), importance of in France

Étiemble, René

etiquette, salon culture and

explorers, French

Expo 67 (Montreal)

 

FACSEA.
See
French American Cultural Services and Education Aid (FACSEA)

Faidherbe, General Louis de

Fallon, Bishop Michael

Fangong, Frantz

Farman, Eugène & Henri

Fasi, Mohammed El

Fauchard, Pierre

fautes
(mistakes)

fears of unforgiveness for

modern increases imagined in

the moral concept of

Fenelon, Henri

Ferry, Jules

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flaubert, Gustave

Flemish (language)

FLQ.
See
Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)

Foster, Jodie

Foucault, Michel

France

anglomania in

centrality of

demographic decline in

emigration from during the Revolution

foreign opinions of

early history of

post-war difficulties of

post-war resurgence of

tourism to

Francien (dialect)

Francique (language)

François I, (King of France)

his artistic & cultural taste

personality of

statecraft of

Francophone Association for Friendship

and Liaison.
See
Association

francophone d’amité et de liaison

Francophonie (organization)

defined

its efforts & accomplishments

its nature & founding

its residual problems

present rules for membership

the francophonie (people)

attitudes about in France

defined

misunderstandings possible among

oppression felt from anglophones by

organizations of

prejudice of against supposed French

Canadian “patois,”

pride among

sense of cultural exceptionality among

Franco-Provençal (language)

Françoys (evolving Frankish)

Frankish (language)

Franks people, their early history in France

Frederick II, (king)

French (language).
See also
the Académie Française; Alliance françaises; assimilation (linguistic);
bon usage; fautes;
France; Francophonie; the francophonie; language; the
norme; patois; puriste;
schools

acceptance of the

agents for the spread of

in Algeria

in America

anglicisms in debated

argot
and

articles (grammatical) of the

its association with human rights

attitudes about in France

in Belgium.
See
Belgium, French language development in; French (language), in Quebec versus Belgiumin

Brazil

in Cambodia

the Canadian eclipse of outside Quebec

changes in & evolution of the

chic & status associated with

as a colonial heritage

in the Congo

cultural aspects & values embedded in

cultural diplomacy used to spread the

decline in the use of

decline in users’ “quality” of

development of the

development of its rules. See also
puriste,

different dialects of spoken

dictionaries of the

distinguished from French people or government

in Egypt

its endurance in decolonized countries

English seen as a threat to.
See
English (language), its perceived potential harm to French

evolved from Françoys into Français

expansion of during the Revolution

feminized titles in the

foreign imports adapted to the

future of the

globalized networking using the

grammars of the

grammatical changes in the

in Guadeloupe

in Haiti

hopes for the survival of

its importance during the Revolution

importations to from other languages

in Indochina

its influence on English.
See also
English (language), its influence on French

institutionalization of the

in Israel

in Ivory Coast

as the language of business

as the language of diplomacy

as the language of revolution

as the language of science

in Laos

in Lebanon

its legal status in Canada

linked to the French State

in Louisiana

increasing malleability of

in Martinique

in Mauritius

in Morocco

as a mother tongue

motivations for learning the

numbers who speak the

official status of at the U.N.

organizations primarily working in the

perceived close association to France of

politicization surrounding

more popular than the French State

problems faced by the

pronunciation changes in the

in Quebec.
See also
Quebec

in Quebec versus Belgium

regional languages and the

re-Latinization of

resilience & endurance of

reverence for

the rigidity of its rules. See also
puriste

schools to teach the.
See also
schools, in French

as a second language

in Senegal

as a sign of Revolutionary loyalty

skills providing a means for social advancement

in Switzerland

in Tunisia

its usage in 1793 France

vocabulary changes in the

the French Academy.
See
the Académie Française

French American Cultural Services and Education Aid (FACSEA)

French Canadians.
See also
francophonie; Quebec

birth rate among

Canadian rule of

early British rule of

their isolation from France

as North American frontiersmen

French culture.
See also
French (language), cultural aspects & values embedded in

efforts at protection of

French editing & publications

lack of clarity from

policy changes in

French Guiana

the French Revolution

exporting of

history of

Frère, Albert

Front de libération du Québec (FLQ)

Frontenac, General Louis de Buade de

Fumaroli, Marc

Furetière, Antoine de

fur trade

 

Gadet, Françoise

Gaelic (language)

Gallo, Robert

Gallo-Roman (language)

Garou (Quebec musician)

GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)

Gaugin, Paul

Gaulish (language)

Galle, Charles de.
See
de Gaulle, Charles

Gay-Lussac, Louis Joseph

Gendreau-Massaloux, Michèle

genealogy, francophone interest in

Geneva

as an international & humanitarian centre

Protestant & Huguenot origins of

the Geneva Convention

geocultural spheres

George, David Lloyd

German (language)

its influence on Swiss-French

nationalistic pride in the

in Switzerland

Germanic languages, comparisons among

Germany

French linguistic interests in

as a Huguenot refuge

rejection of Versailles treaty by

Gervais, Gaëtan

Gide, André

Gilder, Alfred

Godillot, Louis

Godwinson, Duke Harold

Goethe Institutes

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

Gorée Island

Gosn, Carlos

Goths

Goudaillier, Jean-Pierre

Graddol, David

grammar, general

grammars (French).
See
French (language), grammars of the

the grand tour

Greek culture, Roman imitation of

Greek language

Greek literature, classical

Greek people, francophilia among the

Greek settlements

Grégoire, Abbé Henri

Grévisse, Maurice

Groseilliers, Médard Chouart des

Groulx, Lionel

Guadeloupe island

slave revolts on

Guernsey, Isle of

Guerrsel, Mohammed

Guillotin, Joseph-Ignace

Guizot, François

Gustav III, (king)

 

Hagège, Claude

Haiti (Saint-Domingue)

economic situation in

émigrés from

French language development in

slave revolts in

Hallyday, Johnny

Haussmann, Georges Eugène

Havas, Émile

Hébert, Louis

Hebrew (language)

resuscitation of

Hebrew Language Academy (Jerusalem)

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Hemingway, Ernest

Henri IV, (king)

his court

Henry IV, (king)

Henry V, (king)

Henry VIII, (king)

High Council of the French Language.
See
Conseil supérior de la langue française (High Council of the French Language)

Hindi (language)

Hobbes, Thomas

Ho Chi Minh

Houellebecq, Michel

Houphouët-Boigny, Félix

Hudson’s Bay Company

Hugo, Victor

Huguenots (French Protestants)

Hume, David

Hundred Years War (first)

Hundred Years War (second)

Huron Indians

Huston, Nancy

 

index, puzzling self-reference to

Indo-European languages

inflections of a language

Innocent III (pope)

Institute of Current World Affairs (Paris)

Institutos Cervantes

intermarriage, its perceived dangers for francophones

International Bureau of Weights & Measurements

International Civil Aviation Organization

International Federation of Teachers of French

International Monetary Fund

International Organization of the Francophonie.
See
Francophonie (organization)

the Iraq crisis

Iroquois Indians

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