Speaking French

... Headquarters in Paris All of this is happening not only due to the specific features of the language but also because of the focused efforts of the government, which has long since made the diffusion and promotion of French one of the main components of French “soft power”, i.e. improving the country’s image and increasing its authority in the international arena by non-military means (economic, political and cultural). However, let us not oversimplify the situation. Many immortal pieces of world ...