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Fascinating Facts
1. It's a romance language derived from Latin.
2. It's spoken by over 270 million people worldwide!
3. French fries are not actually French: they were invented in Belgium!
4. André Gide, French writer and Nobel Prize winner, famously said 'French people are Italian people in a bad mood'.
5. Metropolitan France has several regional dialects, including Alsatian and Lorraine German, Occitan and Breton.
6. The French 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen' of 1789 is the world's first universal declaration of human rights, applying not only to French citizens or "free men" (as opposed to slaves), but to all people in the world.
Top 10 UK Universities for French*
1. Oxford
2. St. Andrews
3. Cambridge
4. Warwick
5. Durham
6. UCL
7. Edinburgh
8. Southampton
9. Bath
10. Exeter
*According to the Complete University Guide 2010
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