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French-speaking and areas
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 ".
French-speaking areas near the eastern portion of the Canada-United States border generally receive their television broadcasts from French Canadian channels, which are widely available over the air and on cable in those areas.
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 ).

French-speaking and former
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.
The name of the parish is derived from the former French colony of Acadia in Canada ( which consisted of the modern provinces of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and much of Maine ) many of whose French-speaking inhabitants were deported to France and then migrated to Louisiana in the Great Upheaval ( see Cajuns ).
The portions of the former New France that remained under British rule were administered as Upper Canada and Lower Canada, from 1791 – 1841, and then as the Province of Canada from 1841 – 1867, when the passage of the British North America Act of 1867 instituted home rule for most of British North America and established French-speaking Quebec ( the former Lower Canada ) as one of the original provinces of the Dominion of Canada.
The latter is a new town developed from 1968 in order to provide a home for the Université Catholique de Louvain, the French-speaking part of the former Université de Louvain on its separation from the Dutch-speaking part, which remained in the ancient city of Leuven.
Although the terms septante ( 70 ), octante ( 80 ) and nonante ( 90 ) are officially recognised by the Académie française, they remain rarely used by most French speakers, except in Belgium ( and its former African colonies ), Switzerland, parts of French-speaking Canada ( Acadian French ), Jèrriais, and some parts of France.
On January 14, 1941, Victor de Laveleye, former Belgian Minister of Justice and director of the Belgian French-speaking broadcasts on the BBC ( 1940 – 1944 ), suggested in a broadcast that Belgians use a V for victoire ( French: “ victory ”) and vrijheid ( Dutch: " freedom ") as a rallying emblem during World War II.
: Because the former arrondissements still exist in Brabant ( see the previous section ( s ) for more information ) there is a special arrangement for the provinces of Flemish and Walloon Brabant: for the allocation of seats between the party lists on the level of the former province of Brabant, lists can be combined between Leuven and Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde ( Dutch-speaking parties do this ) or between Nivelles and Brussels-Halle-Vilvoorde ( French-speaking parties do this ).
Voters can choose between candidates from both Flemish and Walloon parties ( in all other electoral areas it is either Flemish or Walloon parties ), although the area is partly monolingual Halle-Vilvoorde ( belonging to the Flemish Community ) and bilingual Brussels ( belonging to both communities ), and consequently French-speakers living in monolingual Dutch-speaking Halle-Vilvoorde can vote for French-language parties, whereas Dutch-speakers living in monolingual French-speaking Walloon Brabant ( equal to the former electoral arrondissement of Nivelles ) cannot vote for Dutch-language parties.
In French-speaking areas of the former Empire the word ‘’ aquas ’’ was turned into ‘’ aix ’’, hence Aix-en-Provence is an old Roman spa in Provence.

French-speaking and Empire
The state was formed by secession from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1830, whose neutrality and integrity was protected by the Treaty of London 1839 ; thus it served as a buffer state between the European powers France, Prussia ( after 1871 the German Empire ), the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of the Netherlands until World War I. Belgium is divided between the Flemings in the north and the French-speaking or the German-speaking population in the south.
The city has approximately 32, 600 inhabitants ( 80, 000 in the metropolitan area ), by and large French-speaking, although the city is sometimes referred to historically by the German name, which has the same meaning, since it originally belonged to the Holy Roman Empire and later Prussia ruled the area until 1848.
When it was created, the French-speaking inhabitants of Canada constituted the only large group wishing to see Canada become an independent country from the British Empire.
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.

French-speaking and word
However, in French-speaking countries the word centime is the preferred term.
Often, the word is used as a noun to describe a natively French-speaking person.
The word naturism was used for the first time in 1778 by a French-speaking Belgian, Jean Baptiste Luc Planchon ( 1734 – 1781 ), and was advocated as a means of improving the ' l ’ hygiène de vie ' ( natural style of life ) and health.
: ) is a word used primarily to refer to a French-speaking native or inhabitant of the Canadian province of Quebec.
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.
The combination of a largely French-speaking aristocracy and a largely English-speaking peasantry gave rise to many pairs of words with a Latinate word in the higher register and a Germanic word in the lower register.
Moreover, in other French-speaking European regions, such as Wallonia ( Belgium ), the word Château is used with the same definition.
Saint-Ogan was one of the first French-speaking artists to fully utilize techniques popularized and formulaized in USA, such as word balloons.
The counterparts of English " mayor " are thus in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia as follows: German Bürgermeister, Dutch burgemeester ; French-speaking parts of Belgium bourgmestre ; Luxemburgish buergermeeschter ; Estonian bürgermeister ( a German loan word, pronounced pürjermeister ); Swedish borgmästare ; Norwegian borgermester ; Danish borgmester ; Icelandic borgarstjóri ( in a city, i. e. Reykjavík ) and bæjarstjóri ( of a town ); and Faroese borgarstjóri.
The name " Belvoir ", is in fact, a Norman import by the French-speaking conquerors, though the native Anglo-Saxon population was unable to pronounce such a foreign word, preferring to call it " Beaver Castle ".
It would therefore have meant " one with a tail " — perhaps from the habit of animals displaying their tails in flight (" turning tail "), or from a dog's habit of putting its tail between its legs when it is afraid .. Like many other English words of French origin, this word was introduced in the English language by the French-speaking Normans, after the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
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.
During 1869, in the course of these writings, Kertbeny coined the word " homosexual " as part of his system for the classification of sexual types, as a replacement for the pejorative terms " sodomite " and " pederast " that were used in the German-and French-speaking world of his time.
In some English-and French-speaking countries, panini is sometimes used as a singular word ( like salami, also an Italian plural noun ) and sometimes pluralized as paninis.
The word " romand / romande " indicates the Latin or Roman origin of the French language and the general orientation of the region to the French-speaking cultural sphere and to Roman Law.
The very title of the novel announces this theme as French-speaking Nabokov chose a word ( despair ) which in French means ' some pairs ', or simply ' pairs ' ( des paires ).

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