Understood. I agree with the cultural genocide part, however I'm not sure if they did it for nationalistic reasons ('my country' s great and better') , or fo

Understood. I agree with the cultural genocide part, however I'm not sure if they did it for nationalistic reasons ('my country' s great and better') , or for practical reasons ('it would be much better if we spoke the same language and our soldiers could actually communicate' ,etc) unfortunately driven by the hypercentralism which has permeated throughout French history, and still plagues the country to this day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_%28politics%29?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobin_%28politics%29?wprov=s... Interesting discussion, I'll read a bit more about French history and language politics!