Because France had many colonies in the 18th and 19th century, and the first thing is when you colonize a country, is to teach your language to the people and children that are living in those countries. So that is why today many countries speak french.
In the later part of the 19th century, Vietnam was a French colony. France, like all colonial powers, forced its language on the Vietnamese people, and ties to France remain to this day. This is the same reason people in Argentina speak Spanish, or people in the US speak English--in these countries, the native languages just never managed to keep any sort of foothold. Former French colonies have a tendency for the people to speak French as a secondary rather than primary languages, since they mostly kept French in only governmental capacities.
From the 17th century to 19th century, French was the language of all distinguished and cultivated persons as the emperors and kings, the noble persons, the artists, the writers, the poets, the philosophers...George II spoke french at his first language like the majority of monarchs in Europe (Austria, Russia, Prussia, Holland, Spain...) and being from Hanover he spoke also German. He learnt to speak a little bit English unlike George the first who has never wanted to speak about a single word of English.
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Early 19th Century to Early 20th Century
In the 19th century, only 5% of the manitoban's population spoke english. Nowadays, 96% of the population speak english.
Victor Hugo is considered one of the top French writers of the 19th century.
People in Togo speak French because it was a French colony during the 19th century, and France, like most colonial powers, impressed its language over the existing languages of Togo.
It was because of French and British 19th century colonisation. They made any African countries they controlled learn French or some English.
No it is English. The exact origin of the word is unknown but it was maintained throughout the 19th century by those that felt Latin was the 'right' or 'proper' way to speak.
Auguste Rodin
France did this.
Charles Hermite was the 19th century French mathematician who developed the method to prove that pi is a transcendental number.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a 19th century French artist. His name begins with the letter R.
Because France had many colonies in the 18th and 19th century, and the first thing is when you colonize a country, is to teach your language to the people and children that are living in those countries. So that is why today many countries speak french.
The French arrived in Mali at the end of the 19th century and conquered it in 1904.
charles hermite