Le français à Maplewood!!
Welcome to Maplewood French!
Fleuris où que tu te plantes!
(This is one of our class mottos.)
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- We are just two hours from the Canadian border and just eight from French-speaking Québec. Much of our heritage in this area of Crawford County and Pennsylvania is French. Our area of Frenchtown was the largest enclave of French people in America outside Québec and Louisiana!
- Politically, French remains the second most important language in the world behind English. It is one of the seven official languages of the United Nations and one of the two official languages of the Olympic Games. It is spoken on five of the seven continents.
- Our culture has been and continues to be influenced by French-speaking people. Think artists like Monet, Matisse, Renoir, musicians like Chopin and Céline Dion, writers like Victor Hugo and Jules Verne, scientists and inventors like Jacques Cousteau, Louis Pasteur (The Institut Pasteur is the world’s leader in AIDS research.), Louis Braille(system of reading for the blind), and the Lumière brothers(motion pictures)to name just a few. You may even remember Babar, Madeleine, and the Little Prince from your younger days.
- People who can speak French are an asset in the world of work. Knowing French can expand your career options in areas such as law, international trade, government service, the performing arts, culinary arts, tourism, fashion, technology, logging, manufacturing, music, art, and more.
- Our graduates have translated for local lumberyards that work with Québec, translated for fellow students studying economics in Monaco, become career military, lived in Switzerland, combined their majors in International Studies with their French, helped hallmates at college who were from French-speaking countries who needed tutoring in English, have traveled extensively, and have even become French language teachers!
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