France is historically much more uniform than countries like Italy, Spain or the United Kingdom. To give you an example of the Italian language diversity, I don

France is historically much more uniform than countries like Italy, Spain or the United Kingdom. To give you an example of the Italian language diversity, I don’t understand my mother’s dialect and she was born 30 kilometres from where I was. France having to defend French because it is a melting pot is a fantasy. The Parisian intellectual elite, in lack of a better expression, has a weird fixation on language tradition and a strong contempt for the English language.