High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! On June 3, 1784, Antoine de Rivarol was awarded the Berlin Academy Prize for his essay The Universality of the French Language. He began his discourse by tracing a brief history of the origins of French language. Indeed, he reminded that the Roman conquest and the invasion of the Franks in Gaul contributed to the emergence of a linguistic hierarchy, at the top of which stood Latin. However the contact between Latin and the idioms spoken by the "barbarian” population generated the vulgarisation of classical Latin, namely a multitude of patois dialects. The writer equally highlighted the two major dialects which divided French territories: the Picard language spoken in the north and the Provencal, the dialect of the south. Although the pre-eminence was given to the northern dialect (la langue d’oil), Rivarol regarded the northern pronunciation as "a little bit thud” and regretted the eclipse of the southern dialect (la langue d’oc), which he...

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