How France Tries to Keep English Out of Public Life By Feargus O'Sullivan SOURCE: Bloomberg

 "It’s not that English is somehow a corrupting influence, it’s more that adopting its terms wholesale has a homogenizing, flattening effect. It’s only a pity that France’s institutional affection for its national language doesn’t seem to extend to its many indigenous minority languages (such as Breton and Occitan), mention of which the Académie Française has actively petitioned to keep out of the constitution."

Qu'est-ce que c'est? Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo was chided in 2017 for projecting this English phrase on the Eiffel Tower during the city’s Olympic bid.Francois Mori/AP