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The French dialect appeared around the ninth century and was a mix of Latin structure and vocabulary with Germanic and Celtic words. French as we now know it began to take shape in the seventeenth century, at the same time as the founding of the French Academy by Cardinal Richelieu in 1635. His aim was to retain the basic structure and the purity of the language and to resist all outside influences, particularly English!

Nowadays French is the official language of approximately thirty countries (among which are France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Canada). It is spoken by over 500 million people worldwide, both as first and second language and it hovers around the 10th position in the top of the most widely spoken languages in the world.