
721 The French; Hidden Gardens in Paris
Travel with Rick Steves
The Fall of Rome, the Conquest of England, and the Rise of Paris
If you delve deep into French, you'd find more Germanic connections than you would an Italian or Spanish. The fall of Rome was a big deal for all romance languages in the Western Europe. What it did was explode Latin into a number of vernaculars that are still practiced nowadays. There's still about 24 regional languages in France, like Auxetan.
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