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French is now in bed with russian? Mont dioaux ;)


In 19th century, almost every Russian either spoke French fluently, was a priest or couldn't read.


Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” is about 2% French (~40 pages), the language of the Russian aristocracy at the time


France and Russia have been frenemies for a couple of centuries now :)




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