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.