HISTORY OF FRENCH LANGUAGE

In medieval times and until the 19th century, it was often the language used in diplomacy, culture,administration, royal courts across Europe and also in trade, thus appropriately becoming the lingua franca of its time.

French-speaking people have made incursions upon the British Isles many times in the past, most noticeably in the Norman Invasion of 1066. For this reason, although English is a Germanic language,at least a third of the English lexicon is derived from French.