In French-speaking areas of the former Empire, the word aquis evolved into the modern Aix.

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.

Others leaned more towards their language group, with some in French-speaking areas more pro-Allied, and some in Swiss-German areas more pro-Axis.

Francophone regions of Canada are those areas with large concentrations of French-speaking residents.

The French-speaking areas are in the west of the canton, whereas the Alemannic-speaking areas are in the east.

The party ’ s popularity also reached other predominantly French-speaking areas of the province, including Mauricie, Bas-Saint-Laurent, Centre-du-Québec and even Montérégie in the 2007 provincial election.

Small musical ensembles can be found in the more mountainous areas, particularly in the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

In the Western world it it has become known by way of French-speaking areas, where they are known as " Taraf de Haïdouks ".

In practice, however, it can be empirically observed ( for instance, with Google Street View ) that " arrêt " predominates in French-speaking areas ( i. e., most of the geographic extent of Québec ), while " stop " can be found in majority English-speaking areas such as Montreal's West Island suburbs.

Its official languages are French and German, since the Walloon Region is formed by two language areas of Belgium: the French-speaking and the German-speaking.

There were three language areas as from the July 31, 1921, law: the Dutch-speaking Flemish area, the French-speaking Walloon area, and the bilingual area of Brussels ( capital city ).

The situation around Brussels ( in the rim municipalities, see below ) differs from the situation along the border between Flanders and Wallonia, and between the German and French-speaking areas in Wallonia, where certain municipalities have had linguistic minorities for several centuries.

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

In this time Maastricht still had a very strong connection with French-speaking areas around Liege.

So close to Brussels, and passing through several Flemish towns with French-speaking majorities in some areas, this sports event gains wide television coverage through news reports and serves as a very visual reminder that linguistic and political divisions among neighbouring regions and even neighbours themselves remain alive in the area immediately surrounding Brussels.

Karin is a common feminine given name in various Germanic languages ( geographically including Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Switzerland ), and in some French-speaking areas, as well as Japanese.

) degrees and roughly correspond to Instituts de technologie of French-speaking areas and Technische Universität of Germany in prestige.

During French colonialism, some Vietnamese also migrated to France and some French-speaking areas, such as Québec.

The same arrangement was made for a number of municipalities on new the border between the Dutch-and French-speaking areas, where local linguistic minorities could enjoy identical facilities: e. g. Flobecq and Enghien in the French-speaking area ( where the Dutch-speaking minorities had reached respectively 7. 2 % and 12. 1 % in 1947 ); and Voeren / Fourons in the Dutch-speaking area ( where the French-speaking population had reached 56. 9 % in 1947 ).

Maastricht is situated on both sides of the Meuse river ( Dutch: Maas ) in the south-eastern part of the Netherlands, on the Belgian border ( with both the Dutch-speaking Flemish and French-speaking Walloon region within easy reach from the city centre ) and near the German border.

The river itself received its name in the middle 1830s from an obscure incident in which French-speaking trappers hid gunpowder along its banks, somewhere near present-day Laporte or Bellvue.

Other parts of the mountains of the canton further west are popular as well, such as the more French-speaking resorts near Verbier and the Evolene and Arolla region.

Following the Saane upstream, passing the famous hot-air ballooning centre of Château-d ' Oex, it leaves the French-speaking canton of Vaud near Rougemont and enters the German-speaking canton of Berne.

After much deliberation, the university administration agreed on a building site near the town of Ottignies, in the French-speaking part of the province of Brabant.

As the name suggests, its primary target are the French-speaking inhabitants of Flemish Brabant and particularly those who live in Halle-Vilvoorde and the predominantly French-speaking municipalities with linguistic facilities near the Brussels-Capital Region.

As the name suggests, its primary target are the French-speaking inhabitants of Flemish Brabant and particularly those who live in Halle-Vilvoorde and the predominantly French-speaking municipalities with linguistic facilities near the Brussels-Capital Region.

Arguing that a French-speaking person could only understand Walloon with difficulty, especially in its eastern forms, Jules Feller ( 1859 – 1940 ) insisted that Walloon had an original " superior unity " which made it a language.

Tournai and Liège still mark the western and eastern limits of French-speaking Belgium.

TFO is distributed by cable throughout Ontario as well as over the air in eastern and northern Ontario, where the province ’ s largest French-speaking communities are located.

But it was also settled extensively by Russians, so that what we know as western Canada is a Russian-speaking province called " Estoty ", and eastern Canada a French-speaking province called " Canady.

Tsuga canadensis, also known as eastern hemlock or Canadian hemlock, and in the French-speaking regions of Canada as Pruche du Canada, is a coniferous tree native to eastern North America.

The dahu is a staple of 20th century French popular culture, known in Lorraine, in the mountainous regions of eastern France ( Alpes and Jura ), and in French-speaking Switzerland as a theme of jokes among natives and a spoof for fooling young children.

However, the entire French-speaking population of Wallonia cannot be culturally considered Walloon, since a significant portion in the west ( around Tournai and Mons ) and smaller portions in the extreme south ( around Arlon ) possess other languages as mother tongues ( namely, Picard, Champenois, Luxembourgish, and Lorrain ).

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.

The French-speaking bourgeoisie showed very little respect for the Flemish portion of the population.

A portion of the thoroughfare located in the largely anglophone city of Westmount, between Clarke and Atwater, retains the name " Boulevard Dorchester ", as does a portion in the mainly French-speaking Montréal-Est, where it is known as " Dorchester Street ".

The French cinema market, and more generally the French-speaking market, is smaller than the English-speaking market ; one reason being that some major markets, including prominently the United States, are reluctant to generally accept foreign films, especially foreign-language and subtitled productions.

Mainly or partially francophone or francosphere countries include France, Belgium ( Wallonia is almost entirely francophone, and there is a large French-speaking community in the Brussels-Capital Region and a few bordering municipalities ), Canada ( the province of Quebec is francophone, and there are large French-speaking communities in Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and other Canadian provinces ), United States ( South / Central Louisiana and parts of Maine ), Switzerland, Haiti, the French West Indies and several countries in Africa, including Congo, Burundi, Madagascar and Rwanda, that are former French or Belgian colonies.

Game shows have had an inconsistent place in Canadian television, with most homegrown game shows there being made for the French-speaking Quebecois market and the majority of English-language game shows in the country being rebroadcast from, or made with the express intent of export to, the United States ; there have been exceptions to this ( see, for instance, the long-running Definition ).

While not formally part of the French Résistance, French-speaking Cajun soldiers in the United States military posed as local civilians in France in order to channel American assistance to the Résistance.

St. Martin has the highest percentage of French-speaking residents of any county or parish in the United States.

In 1803, as a result of the Louisiana Purchase, the United States acquired French-speaking populations in Louisiana.

The Acadian majority professed ambivalence about joining either the United States or New Brunswick, but identified more with French-speaking Quebec and its territorial claims in Madawaska.

For historical and linguistic reasons, Francophone Quebec also has cultural links with other North American French-speaking communities, particularly with the Acadians of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Franco-Ontarian communities in Eastern Ontario, and to a lesser extent with the French-Canadian communities of Northern Ontario and Western Canada and the Cajun French revival movements in Louisiana, United States.

* English ( United States and Canada without French-speaking Quebec )

Many of the white and free people of color who left Saint-Domingue for the United States settled in Southern Louisiana, adding many new members to its French-speaking, mixed-raced, and African populations.

Maple taffy ( sometimes maple toffee in English-speaking Canada, tire d ' érable in French-speaking Canada ; also sugar on snow in the United States ) is a confection made by boiling maple sap past the point where it would form maple syrup but not so long that it becomes maple butter or maple sugar.