"Langue d'oil" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that became the speech of the Spanish court. During the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella it gradually gained the ascendancy over the numerous dialects of the country, and became the national speech, just as in France the Langue d'Oil finally crowded out all other dialects. By the conquests and colonizations of the sixteenth century this Castilian speech was destined to become only less widely spread than ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers
... historical vicissitudes, the language of Northern France, the "langue d'oil," gradually took its place, and when Mistral was born, in 1830, Provencal had long been regarded as little more than ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne |
