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French Lick was originally a French trading post built near a spring and salt lick.A fortified ranger post was established near the springs in 1811. On Johnson's 1837 map of Indiana, the community was known as Salt Spring.
French is an official language in 27 independent nations. French is also the second most geographically widespread language in the world after English, with about 50 countries and territories having it as a de jure or de facto official, administrative, or cultural language. [1]
The French language became an international language, the second international language alongside Latin, in the Middle Ages, "from the fourteenth century onwards".It was not by virtue of the power of the Kingdom of France: '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French court was the model of chivalric ...
France, [IX] officially the French Republic, [X] is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world.
France began colonizing America in the 16th century and continued into the following centuries as it established a colonial empire in the Western Hemisphere.France established colonies in much of eastern North America, on several Caribbean islands, and in South America.
French of France (French: français de France [fʁɑ̃sɛ də fʁɑ̃s]) is the predominant variety of the French language in France, Andorra and Monaco, in its formal and informal registers.
Philippe Clicquot was a successful textile merchant, a banker, and an owner of vineyards in the Champagne country. [14] [15] In 1772, he established a wine business.[16] [17] [15] He quickly decided to bring his champagne wines to foreign palates [16] and soon expanded his clientele. [16]
Gallic rooster on top of a war memorial in La Rochelle. The Gallic rooster (French: coq gaulois, pronounced [kɔk ɡolwa] ⓘ) is a national symbol of France as a nation, as opposed to Marianne representing France as a state and its values: the Republic.