Revival of the French Language

Today on altogether sides are heard distressing voices: cut is losing its position in the world, the French retreat! In May this year, representatives of the largest associations for the protection and progression of the French language summed up the woeful: the Anglo-American language prevails everyplace - in the economy and advertising, in public institutions and in the army, in education and in supra acresal organizations. Until relatively recently, French remained the semiofficial language of diplomacy and planetary community. Signed in 1905, the Russian-Japanese field pansy treaty was drawn up in French, because we believe that it differs with much(prenominal) clarity and precision, which is not feature by any opposite language. Alas, it is representative of the French nation that they first broke this internationalistic tradition, and not just anybody, and death chair Georges Clemenceau. In recognition of British and American allies Clemenceau suggested that the textual matter of the Treaty of Versailles was drawn up in two languages - French and slope. This was the first step towards a bilingual presentation of international documents. The first step to the menstruum state of affairs. Today, in galore(postnominal) French firms in the administrative councils which are exclusively speechless for the French, workshops are held, oddly enough, in the side of meat language. Detailed supporting of French companies also in some manner are in English. Held in France on congresses and symposia involving mostly French, English speech sounds amaze nevertheless foreigners. French is unrivaled of the operative languages of the United Nations, sole(prenominal) when 90% of the documents are drawn up in English. The European institutions see to have agreed on the priority of French and English, but in fact the English so often best-loved that the French can only put up with it. impart the French language one day be in the position of Indian l anguages, roughly which Chateaubriand noted that they only call the old parrots from Orenoka?\nOddly enough...