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Most European countries have a similar language board, English is more an exception than anything else.

And there's not much Gaulish influence in French, here is the full (and small) list of words originating from Gaulish: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cat%C3%A9gorie:Mots_en_fran%C...




I don't think any of those have so much pomp and circumstance about their functioning and composition, though.


Stop hating on our classy habit vert. French people like having a history, as complex, bloody and sometime shameful it is. We are an old country and we have traditions. The english people have their royal family, the US have their rusty nuclear warheads and we have the institutions de la république.


They all have rusty nukes shhhh.


Good points, monsieur.


Ah, yes, the good old whataboutism.




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