Canada: Meeting the people determined to keep the French language alive
At its height in about 1750, New France, a vast French colony in North America, stretched from the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada to Cajun country in present-day Louisiana in the south of the United States. But after France lost control of the territory to Great Britain in the Seven Years' War, the language of Molière came under immense pressure from Indigenous languages and American variations of English. Our correspondent went to meet those determined to keep the French language alive in Canada today.
