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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