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  2. History of French - Wikipedia

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    French is a Romance language (meaning that it is descended primarily from Vulgar Latin) that specifically is classified under the Gallo-Romance languages.. The discussion of the history of a language is typically divided into "external history", describing the ethnic, political, social, technological, and other changes that affected the languages, and "internal history", describing the ...

  3. Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    The Romance languages, also known as the Latin [2] or Neo-Latin [3] languages, are the languages that are directly descended from Vulgar Latin. [4] They are the only extant subgroup of the Italic branch of the Indo-European language family. The five most widely spoken Romance languages by number of native speakers are:

  4. Romanticism in France - Wikipedia

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    Later romantic painting retained the romantic content, but was generally more precise and realistic in style, adapting to the demands of the French Academy. Important figures in later French romantic painting included the Swiss-born Charles Gleyre (1806–1874), who specialized in mythological and orientalist scenes.

  5. Phonological history of French - Wikipedia

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    Most other Romance languages are significantly more conservative phonetically, with Spanish, Italian, and especially Sardinian showing the most conservatism, and Portuguese, Romanian, Catalan, and Occitan showing moderate conservatism. [1] French also shows enormous phonetic changes between the Old French period and the modern language ...

  6. Classification of Romance languages - Wikipedia

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    Languages in this group are said to be more conservative, i.e. they retained more features of the original Latin. The West group split into a Gallo-Romance group, which became the Oïl languages (including French), Gallo-Italian, Occitan, Franco-Provençal and Romansh, and an Iberian Romance group which became Spanish and Portuguese.

  7. What is aromanticism? Why these aromantics say romance ... - AOL

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    Societal pressures to find romantic partnership have created unique challenges for aromantics, a feeling Vesta understands all too well. “Romance genuinely confuses me,” Vesta explains. “In ...

  8. Romantic literature - Wikipedia

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    Stendhal is today probably the most highly regarded French novelist of the period, but he stands in a complex relation with Romanticism, and is notable for his penetrating psychological insight into his characters and his realism, qualities rarely prominent in Romantic fiction. As a survivor of the French retreat from Moscow in 1812, fantasies ...

  9. Why French President Emmanuel Macron and the Mayor of ... - AOL

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    "Rome to me is like the other great romantic city in Europe, and it's a bit of a yin and yang to Paris," said Star. "And also the story took us here. "And also the story took us here.