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.

Rappers from the French-speaking part ( where the traditional dialects died out in most parts ) and from the Italian-speaking part ( where most people mix dialects and Standard Italian freely ) rap in the standard languages.

In many parts of the Southern Caribbean, the term " Creolean " is used to refer to a French-speaking person of primarily European ethnicity born in the Caribbean islands.

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.

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.

Cheese curds, drained of the whey and served without further processing or aging, are popular in some French-speaking regions of Canada, such as Quebec parts of Ontario, and Atlantic Canada.

( This is a point contested in other parts of Canada – particularly in places like Manitoba which has a significant French-speaking population, and where in the 1990s that population tried to assert francophone language rights in schools.

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.

While most French-speaking Canadians live in the province of Quebec ( the area originally settled by French colonists in the 17th century ), there are also major communities of French-speaking Canadians in the provinces of Manitoba, Ontario, New Brunswick, and smaller communities in other parts of Canada.

For instance, the Flamenpolitik of the Germans, involving the administrative separation of the Dutch and the French-speaking parts of Belgium, was influenced by the Flemish Movement, which they wanted to use as an ally.

It was thus the first of the French-speaking parts of Switzerland to become subject to Bern.

Performed for the first time in the city of Liège, the song quickly spread to other parts of French-speaking Belgium and established itself like a " national " anthem for Wallonia.

Riesling X Sylvaner is a common white wine produced in German-speaking parts of the country, while Chasselas is the most common white wine in the French-speaking parts of the country.

Outside of France, the name has been used in French-speaking parts of Canada.

The Röstigraben, (), literally ‘ Rösti ditch ’, also transcribed Röschtigraben in order to reflect the Swiss German pronunciation, is a humorous term describing the language border between the German-speaking ( German Switzerland ) and the French-speaking Romande parts of Switzerland with their respective cultural differences.

This call for iconoclasm was something characteristic of some French-speaking Swiss reformers as well, such as Pierre Viret and Guillaume Farel.

* in French ( as commonly used in French-speaking countries, such as France, Luxembourg, Switzerland, and Monaco ; and in partially Francophone countries like Belgium, Lebanon, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Mauritania, and various other African countries )

Their friend Jason Larsen was called Slow One by his French-speaking boss, which with the French accent sounded more like Sloan.

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.

The French-speaking Vaudois had never felt like part of the German-speaking Canton of Bern.

When World War I and also when World War II erupted young French-speaking Québécois flocked in great numbers to volunteer for service to the Crown within Les Fusiliers Mont-Royal ( and a few other " bilingual " regiments like it ), because they expected that in this unit they would not be mocked or otherwise hindered because of their language or their religion.

Others like Salvatore Adamo, Pierre Rapsat, Arno, Maurane, Axelle Red and Lara Fabian have also enjoyed some success in other French-speaking countries.

Despite its modern associations with rustic mountain life, it was a town-dweller's dish from the lowlands of western, French-speaking, Switzerland: rich cheese like Gruyère was a valuable export item which peasants could not afford to eat.

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 Charter of the French Language has been a complete success according to Hervé Lavenir de Buffon ( general secretary of the « Comité international pour le français, langue européenne »), who said in 2006: " Before the Bill 101, Montreal looked like an American city, now Montreal looks like a French-speaking city, that proves how well the Bill 101 worked!

For example, the stop signs are written ARRÊT ( which means STOP in English ), even if other French-speaking countries, like France, use STOP.

William was a Norman French-speaking fifth-generation descendant of the Viking war-leader Rollo, the first Scandinavian ruler of Normandy ; but Norman historians since Dudo of St. Quentin still celebrated the old Norse heritage of the ducal dynasty.

He later obtained a job cleaning and repairing movie prints, and by about 1915 found himself working for William A. Brady at the World Film Company at Fort Lee, New Jersey, mentored by Emile Chautard and other French-speaking directors and cinematographers at World.

Much of the population of the south were Roman Catholic, French-speaking, or liberals who regarded King William I's rule as despotic.

Some nationwide celebrities might command some attention outside their own nation ; for example, the singer Lara Fabian is widely known in the French-speaking world, but only had a couple of Billboard hits in the U. S., whereas the francophone Canadian singer Celine Dion is well known in both the French-speaking world and in the U. S.

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 ).

Even during his polemical exchange with Westphal, he advised a group of French-speaking refugees, who had settled in Wesel, Germany, to integrate with the local Lutheran churches.

Though Artois had already been largely French-speaking, it was considered part of the Netherlands until the French annexation.

Nova Scotia, which had been captured from France in 1713, still had a significant French-speaking population.

14-27, 1586, to which he had been invited by the Lutheran Count Frederick of Württemberg at the wish of the French-speaking and Reformed residents as well as by French noblemen who had fled to Mömpelgard.

The three-party ( i. e. six plus some purely Flemish and Walloon parties ) political systems got disturbed by the Green parties ( the Dutch-speaking Agalev, now Groen !, and the French-speaking Ecolo ) in the 1980s which took a lot of influence after the Marc Dutroux Scandal and the " dioxin affair ", a food scandal ( chickens containing dioxin levels far above the maximum allowed ) which would not have had any major repercussions, had it not erupted just days before the elections.

By the 17th century, Canterbury's population was 5, 000 ; of whom 2, 000 were French-speaking Protestant Huguenots, who had begun fleeing persecution and war in the Spanish Netherlands in the mid-16th century.

In 2006 French-speaking television channel RTBF interrupted programming with a spoof report claiming that the country had split in two and the royal family had fled.

In 1970, in response to a growing civil conflict between the Dutch-speaking and French-speaking communities in Brussels, the Government declared that " the unitary state, its structure and functioning as laid down by law, had become obsolete ".

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

The Austrian imperial refugees eventually settled in Quebec, which had the advantage of being French-speaking ( the younger children were not yet fluent in English ).

The area had previously been settled by French-speaking Catholic Acadians, many of whom had been deported to British Colonies.

In 1666, the Cathedral Chapter offered the Lady Chapel for the use of French-speaking Huguenots who had fled to Ireland, and after some repair and preparation works, it became known as L ' Eglise Française de St. Patrick.

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.

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.

It especially divided Conservatives in Quebec and Ontario ; French Catholic Quebecers were offended that French was being eliminated in Manitoba as an official language, just as the French-speaking Métis population had been forced off their lands, while Ontario saw opposition to Catholic support by the strong Orange Order.

However, the brigade could well have used English-speaking staff at the Brigade HQ ; it would have been no different from the situation whereby these French-speaking units had to deal with English higher HQs in their various dispersed divisions.