Senior French officials are mounting a rearguard action to defend the use of French at the United Nations and other international institutions as an international language of diplomacy in the face of the inexorable rise of English.
Paris's renewal of its efforts to secure the future of French in international circles, is partly prompted by the appointment of Britain's Lady Ashton to head the European Union's foreign policy in November.
Her faltering French, once unthinkable in a top EU official, has been seized upon by the French media, reflecting concerns in Paris that the diplomatic machinery she is building will be Anglophone.
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