National Anthem - La Marseillaise'La Marseillaise' is the national anthem of France. The song was written in 1792 by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle after the declaration of war by France against Austria, and was originally titled 'War Song for the Rhine Army'. The French National Convention adopted it as the Republic's anthem in 1795. It acquired a nickname after being sung in Paris. here is the National Anthem,
The French LanguageFrench is descended from Vulgar Latin, the vernacular Latin (as distinguished from literary Latin) of the Roman Empire. When ancient Gaul (now modern France) was conquered by the Romans in the 2nd and 1st cent. B.C., its inhabitants spoke Gaulish, a Celtic language, which was rapidly supplanted by Latin. In the 5th cent. A.D. the Franks, a group of Germanic tribes, began their invasion of Gaul, but they too were Romanised. Although modern French thus inherited several hundred words of Celtic origin and several hundred more from Germanic, it owes its structure and the greater part of its vocabulary to Latin.