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Has Molière lost his tongue?
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As the world's sixth language with 280 million speakers, French is still on the move: it is no longer Paris, but Kinshasa that is the world's leading French-speaking city. A language invigorated by its peripheries, it is also shaken by globalized English, by the impoverishment of its vocabulary, by spelling reforms and by the feminization of words. Will the French language end up being lost?