Rambling Reflexions

I learn something everyday in my Pub; today I learned that there was a Welsh racing car called the Keift, built at Bridgend, I already knew that there was a production car called the Gilbern, built at Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd. Have you ever heard of a French car called the 'Georges Irat'? I also learned that there were Japanese sub-mariners at Chateauneuf-du-Faou during the war.
Saying that the inhabitants of Spain speak Spanish and that the inhabitants of France speak French is the same as saying that the inhabitants of Gt. Britain speak British. The dominant language of Spain and of South America (apart from Brazil) is Castillan; the dominant language of Gt. Britain is English and the dominant language of France is Langue d'Oil. Langue d'Oil is the language of France north of the line 'Poitiers-Grenoble' adopted by the State and then imposed upon the rest of the Country, comprising Wallon; Picard; Champenois; Lorrain; Franc-Contois; Bourgignon; Angevin; Normand and the dialect of the greater Parisian region. Langue d'Oc, the language of the south, comprises Limousin; Auvergnat; Gascon; Provençal etc. One also has in France the languages of Brittany, the Basque Country, Catalonia, Corsica and Flanders, plus the German dialects of the East.Under the French Constitution every citizen is equally French, Langue d'Oil is the language and minorities are not supported. Bi-lingualism is not a French concept. We say 'Lingua Franca,' the French still hold to this and English is an Anglo-Saxon conspiracy to displace the French from their rightful position in the world and equality to the minorities risks breaking up the Frankish hegemony.