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Submitted by Martine Paquette on May 28, 2020, at 9:27

I would like to point out that the language in England was never French. French was only the language of the aristocracy in the English royal court after the Norman conquest of 1066. The majority of the people spoke English; this is why I do not agree with the statement made that the French language was the mother tongue in England. To this day, the monarch's motto on the royal coat of arms is still “Dieu et mon Droit” meaning “God and my Right.”
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