French is used across the world _today_, so it's not that much of a stretch to imagine that it was also used across the world in the 1970s. By the Wikipedia nu

French is used across the world _today_, so it's not that much of a stretch to imagine that it was also used across the world in the 1970s. By the Wikipedia numbers [1], French is the fifth most spoken language in the world by total number of speakers, yet only fifteenth by native speakers. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...