>mfw William of Orange's last words were in French
The absolute state of the Dutch people
England has an excuse for this kind of shit as the French conquered and colonized them, but the Netherlands and Russia have no excuse for William and Catherine speaking French more often than Dutch and Russian
>>3336278
"Frederick" the """"""Great""""" also basically used French as his first language. An absolute disgrace.
Why was Europe's entire nobility completely FRENCH'D ?
>>3336278
He said his last words to someone whose native language was French
>>3336320
Louis XIV initiated the most successful cultural imperialist projects of all times by making his court the center of everything fashionable.
>>3336278
Not even trying
>Be so autistically heretically that you fight for 80 years against your rightful rulers
>Your greatest Stadtholder of all time goes out of this world, into hell, speaking French, like a common Walloon
>English conquered and colonized by France
Surely you aren't referring to the norman conquests? Normans werent exactly french
>>3337897
Normans were pretty much French (both culturally and genetically) by 1066
And anyway, their rule was short
Soon after them, the pure non-norse Frenchmen from Anjou (Plantagenets) followed
>>3337912
>speak english, be born in england, be considered english by practically every non autistic englishmen
>nuh uh, you's german because you're great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather came from a german place
Smart.
>>3337920
Genetics and ancestry don't lie m8.