Question

What factors contributed to the decline of French usage in England in the thirteenth
century?
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Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation:

The French never really had an empire, it lost it's most influential part with the death of General Montcalm in Quebec and the formation of Canada.

After that it was always a second rate power. Before you could say Waterloo Napoleon bankrupted the French economy and sold it's remaining swamp and desert in North America to some tax dodging fraudsters, just to spite the British.

The French Empire at it's height was the Sahara Desert and IndoChina. The French tried tried to hang on to its Empire a lot more repressively than the British creating a lot more anger in the local populations who rejected all things French.

In IndoChina it was thrown out bloodily at Dien Bien Phu

France was never a naval power after Trafalgar.

With the rise of Germany as an industrial power, France wasn't even one of the major players in Europe itself.

The French Empire never developed of the G20 none are former French Empire, two are Spanish (Mexico and Argentina), Australia, Canada,the US, South Africa and India are all former Empire.

So French went into decline from a low base. New technologies spoke English, so it is the language of radio, aircraft , computing and rock n roll.

Mostly it was never a mercantile or commercial nation. The world can only be conquered by a country with a Navy, but more importantly it can only be run by a nation of shopkeepers.

Answer 2

Answer:

The influence of French on the English language pertains mainly to its lexicon, but also to its syntax, grammar, orthography and pronunciation. The majority of the French vocabulary in English entered the language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, when Old French, and specifically the Old Norman dialect, became the language of the new Anglo-Norman court, the government, and of the elites for several centuries. This period lasted until the aftermath of the Hundred Years' War (1337–1453). Even since then, English has continuously been influenced by the French language.