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Excerpt from The History of French Literature: From the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler The French language is not a mixture of Gallic and Latin but the popular Latin (sermo plebeius) introduced into Gaul by the Roman soldiers, just as, in the same manner, the Roman language was brought into the various other provinces of Rome, suppressing the indigenous dialects and, with vari ous inuences brought to bear upon it, evolving the Romance or neo-latin languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.