In 17th and 18th century, king Louis XIV of France captured more French-speaking areas in southern Flanders around Lille, referred to as Lilloise Flanders or la Flandre Lilloise, but also Maritime Flanders, where originally Dutch was spoken, and to this day, a Flemish dialect persists in some rural areas near Dunkirk.

Afrique Numero Un also has relay stations in mostly French-speaking African countries.

It has been suggested that the " p " in " pH " stands for " power ", others refer to the German Potenz ( meaning " power "), others refer to French puissance ( also meaning " power ", based on the fact that the Carlsberg Laboratory was French-speaking ); others refer to " potential ".

Walloon also designates the inhabitants of Wallonia — a monolingual French-speaking territory — as opposed to Flemish.

The constitutional revision of 1970 also laid the foundations for the establishment of three Regions, which was a response to the demand of the Walloons and the French-speaking inhabitants of Brussels for economic autonomy.

While the region is predominantly French-speaking, it also has two significant minority language communities: the western Flemings, whose presence is evident in the many Dutch placenames in the area and who speak West Flemish, a dialect of Dutch ( perhaps 20, 000 inhabitants of Nord-Pas-de-Calais use Flemish daily and an estimated 40, 000 use it occasionally, both, primarily in and around the arrondissement of Dunkirk ); and the Picards, who speak the Picard language, or Ch ' ti ( speakers, " chitimi ", have been working to revive the nearly-extinct regional speech since the 1980s ).

The loss of case endings was part of a general trend from inflections to fixed word order that also occurred in other Germanic languages, and therefore cannot be attributed simply to the influence of French-speaking sections of the population: English did, after all, remain the language of the vast majority.

With unrest growing in the colonies to the south, which would one day grow into the American Revolution, the British were worried that the French-speaking Canadians might also support the growing rebellion.

There was also a need to compromise between the conflicting demands of the French-speaking Canadians subjects and those of newly arrived British subjects.

They also found many French-speaking Calvinist churches there.

Section 23 also provides, in theory, a nearly universal right to French-language schooling for the children of all francophones living outside Quebec, including immigrants from French-speaking countries who settle outside Quebec, and who are Canadian citizens.

In French-speaking countries, Brel was also a successful actor, appearing in ten films.

The term francophonie ( with a lower case ' f ') also refers to the global community of French-speaking peoples, comprising a network of private and public organizations promoting special ties among all Francophones.

It also favours the cooperation and strengthens the solidarity within the French-speaking communities, mainly towards the parliaments of the South.

The official language is Dutch, although, Belgium being trilingual, Zaventem is also inhabited by French-speaking Belgians.

That the expression is in French probably comes from the fact that the fin de siècle is particularly associated with certain late 19th-century French-speaking circles in Paris and Brussels, exemplified by artists like Stéphane Mallarmé and Claude Debussy, movements like Symbolism, and in works like Oscar Wilde's Salomé ( originally written in French and premiered in Paris )— which connects the idea of the fin de siècle also to the Aesthetic movement.

It is also a municipality that is part of the French-speaking Community of Belgium.

Indeed, thanks to this annexation, the Germans took control of the fortifications of Metz, which was at the time a French-speaking town, and also of most of the iron resources available in the region.

In 1991, Di Rupo was chosen as a senator, but shortly afterwards ( 1992 ), he took in the French-speaking community his first ministerial function in Education and later also Media.

The tradition of gyil music ( known as a Balafon in neighbouring French-speaking countries ) is also shared throughout the northern and upper regions of Ghana bordering Burkina Faso.

De facto, appointments tend to respect the almost obsessional balances between the Flemish and French-speaking communities as well as between the ' ministeriable ' political families: mainly Christian-democrats, Socialists, Liberals, also ( moderate ) Nationalists, occasionally an Ecologist ).

However, the southern part of the Jura region, which is also predominantly French-speaking but has a Protestant majority, opted not to join the newly-formed canton, and instead remained part of the Canton of Bern.

Bandy also suggests that there is some evidence of the word originating among the " down-easters " of Maine who had picked up " Quelle Canule " from their French-speaking neighbours and applied it when facing the navigational difficulties caused by the peculiar " flushing " effect of the famed tides of the Bay of Fundy.

As a theologian Vinet gave a fresh impulse to Protestant theology, especially in French-speaking lands, but also in England and elsewhere.

The French-speaking minority in the Canadian legislature also unsuccessfully tried to have him removed from his post.

He was also the founder of the Anarchist encyclopedia, as well as the namesake of the Sébastien Faure Century, the French-speaking contingent of the Durruti Column.

Many French-speaking Acadians migrated to Stockholm to work in the 3 wood mills Stockholm once had.

At that time however, due to the rising political controversy between the Dutch-and French-speaking communities in Belgium, a parliamentary committee ( the so called centrum Harmel, named after Pierre Harmel ) was established to fix, amongst other things, the language boundary once and for all.

The term " dépanneur " was once restricted to French-speaking environments ; however, over the years it spread to the English-speaking communities and became part of Quebec English and the English culture of Quebec.

The 1932 law was implemented only once, as the invasion of Belgium by Nazi Germany in 1940 prevented the organization of the decennial census, which was organized in 1947 and applied only on July 2, 1954, when an ad hoc law modifying the law of June 28, 1932 on the use of languages for administrative matters transferred three previously unilingual Flemish municipalities with language facilities to the French-speaking minority ( Evere, Ganshoren and Berchem-Sainte-Agathe / Sint-Agatha-Berchem ) to the bilingual region of Brussels, thus and introduced language facilities for the French-speaking minority in four previously unilingual Flemish municipalities ( Drogenbos, Kraainem, Wemmel and Linkebeek ).

As in the First World War, young French-Canadians joined the few traditional French-speaking regiments of the Canadian army, such as the Regular-Army Royal 22 < sup > e </ sup > Régiment, and several Militia regiments that were mobilized.

In the 1840s, French-speaking families from Quebec ( mainly from the area immediately east of Montreal ), attracted by promises of cheap and fertile land, joined the French-speaking Drummond Island settlers already in the area.

In 1985, Andy Nulman joined the festival's staff and introduced Anglophone events as well ; under Nulman's stewardship, the festival increased to a full month, with French-speaking performers during the first half, and English speakers in the second half.

He had got to know the watch business in French-speaking Switzerland and France ; in 1883 he joined IWC and stayed with the company for 52 years.

Algeria has not joined the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie, an international organization of French-speaking countries.

Other specialized schools joined the École de l ' Air, including the École du commissariat de l ' Air, which trains administrative, legal, and financial officers, in 1953, and the Cours Spécial de l ' École de l ' Air ( CSEA ), which trains exchange cadets from French-speaking African countries, in 1973.

French-speaking Acadians returned from New Brunswick, and were joined by Irish and Scottish immigrants.

Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his work.

Altogether up to 15, 000 Huguenots alone made new homes in the Brandenburg region, some 6, 000 of these in its capital, Berlin ( indeed, by 1700 and for a while afterwards as much as 20 % of Berlin ’ s population was French-speaking ).

In 1755, when French-speaking settlers of Acadia in Canada's Maritime were driven into exile by British forces, many took up residence in rural Louisiana.

Villeneuve was born in Richelieu, a small town in the largely French-speaking province of Quebec in Canada and grew up in Berthierville.

The basswood's white underbark was extensively used by Native Americans and French-speaking fur traders for cordage, including the sewing up of canoes and the manufacture of webbing for snowshoes.

The French-speaking population makes up slightly more than two-thirds of the total population.

His hometown at the time of his birth comprised a French-speaking enclave in a predominantly German-speaking portion of Lorraine, and Ney grew up bilingual.

For instance, a French-speaking couple might have a daughter who learned French first, then English ; but if she were to grow up in an English-speaking country, she would likely be proficient in English.

Because the administration was centered in Brussels, more and more French-speaking officials took up residency there.

Though the Indians soon became, and remain, a majority on the island, their own linguistic fragmentation and alienation from the English-and French-speaking white elite led them to take up Mauritian Creole as their main lingua franca.

From the beginning, the public broadcaster experienced fierce competition from the " peripheral stations ": French-speaking stations aimed at the French public but transmitting on longwave from neighbouring countries, such as Radio Monte Carlo ( RMC ) from Monaco, Radio Luxembourg ( later RTL ) from Luxembourg, and Europe 1 from Germany ( exceptionally, in 1974, RMC was allowed to set up a transmitter on French territory ).

The occupation was accomplished without firing a shot because most of the French-speaking and American Indian inhabitants were unwilling to take up arms on behalf of the British Empire.

Cahokia, Vincennes, and several other villages and forts in British territory were subsequently captured without firing a shot, because most of the French-speaking and American Indian inhabitants were unwilling to take up arms on behalf of the British.

Growing up, Boyle attended French-speaking École élémentaire Ste-Anne and École Secondaire Publique De La Salle in Ottawa.

Dorchester is an English-speaking community but it is adjacent to French-speaking Acadian areas farther up the Memramcook River valley.

This is also the only museum set up to handle both English-and French-speaking patrons.

While other French-speaking units were also created, they were all broken up upon arrival in France to provide reinforcements for the 22nd, which suffered close to 4000 wounded and killed in the course of the war.

Belgians are made up of two main linguistic and ethnic groups ; the Dutch-speaking Flemish and the French-speaking Walloons, as well as a third tiny but constitutionally recognized group from two small German-speaking areas.

There are also fairly large French-speaking communities in Manitoba and Ontario, where francophones make up about five percent of the population, as well as significantly smaller communities in Alberta, Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan.

The basswood's white underbark was extensively used by Native Americans and French-speaking fur traders for cordage, including the sewing up of canoes and the manufacture of webbing for snowshoes.

The organization was made up of various national federations of workers ' societies, mainly the Italian, Spanish, Belgian, American, French and French-speaking Swiss federations, together with other individual branches who all opposed Karl Marx's control of the General Council and favoured the autonomy of national sections from centralized control.

The original Swiss Confederation, from its foundation in 1291 up to 1798, gained only a few French-speaking districts in what is now the Canton of Fribourg, and so the German language dominated.

Frank Vandenbroucke was born in Mouscron and grew up in Ploegsteert, a village in the French-speaking region of Belgium ( with facilities for Dutch speakers ).