Culture and Franglais

In his second volume Research, “In the Shadow of Flowering Maidens”, Marcel Proust accurately describes Francois’s generalizations among the uneducated in City Bourgeoisie and Misguided Aristocracy, Odette de Crecy being the best example. Almost a century later, if this phenomenon has grown significantly, it still affects significantly, today’s companies are the best example of this, the same person profile.

We often forget the historical origins of the use of French or English on English soil: English was the language used by the Anglo-Saxon tribes when William the Conqueror landed. Let us remember that the invading army, then the colony of England, was composed at the battle of Hastings, in the center of the Normans, on the left of the Bretons, and on the right of the various French provinces, Artois, Anjou, Picardy. and Ile-de-France. Like all dialects and patois, such as Berrichon, Burgundy, Auvergnat, English is for the use of the peasantry and has only a useful vocabulary of a limited number of words. By contrast, languages ​​such as French, Italian, or Provençal already had a political, literary, scientific, or philosophical function, a vocabulary suited to the work of thought.

After the landing and organization of England by Norman and French nobles and knights, the country was linguistically and politically cut horizontally in two: above the French-speaking Franco-Norman aristocracy and below the Anglo-Norman peasantry. Saxon speaks English. All the English complain of being exiled or killed and reduced to slavery “Under the Foreign Race of the French”, They are also called Romans. Danish travelers of the twelfth century were accustomed only to hear “In their ears, in the homes of the great and the rich, the language of love…

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