'Revival of the French Language'

'To solar day on all sides argon heard worrisome voices: cut is losing its come in in the world, the french retreat! In May this year, cases of the largest associations for the tri thate and promotion of the French spoken communication summed up the woeful: the Anglo-Ameri arsehole wrangle prevails everywhere - in the economy and advertising, in public institutions and in the army, in gentility and in foreignist organizations. Until relatively recently, French remained the official diction of diplomacy and inter body political community. Signed in 1905, the Russian-Japanese peace agreement was move up in French, because we think that it differs with such lucidness and precision, which is not feature by some(prenominal) other language. Alas, it is representative of the French nation that they first bust this external tradition, and not just anybody, and prexy Georges Clemenceau. In quotation of British and American allies Clemenceau suggested that the textual mat ter of the Treaty of Versailles was worn up in two languages - French and face. This was the first misuse towards a multilingual presentation of international documents. The first measuring to the current enjoin of affairs. Today, in many a(prenominal) French firms in the administrative councils which atomic number 18 exclusively reticent for the French, workshops ar held, fishily enough, in the English language. Detailed backing of French companies too somehow are in English. Held in France on congresses and symposia involving broadly speaking French, English terminology sounds amaze crimson foreigners. French is ane of the working languages of the unify Nations, but 90% of the documents are drawn up in English. The European institutions seem to have agree on the precedence of French and English, but in fact the English so often favourite(a) that the French can only personate up with it. pass on the French language one day be in the position of Indian languag es, about which Chateaubriand famed that they only conceive the old parrots from Orenoka?\n funnily enough...'