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<p>The <a href="page.php?w=French_language">French language</a> became an international language, the second <a href="page.php?w=Lingua_franca">international language</a> alongside <a href="page.php?w=Latin">Latin</a>, in the <a href="page.php?w=Middle_Ages">Middle Ages</a>, "from the fourteenth century onwards". It was not by virtue of the power of the <a href="page.php?w=Kingdom_of_France">Kingdom of France</a>: '"... until the end of the fifteenth century, the French of the chancellery spread as a political and literary language because the French</p><p>
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