Quebecois French has long been mocked for its rough-and-tumble sound, but this version of French is more likely what 17th-Century French aristocracy spoke – including the king. It was a perfect ...

Both Bouchard and Poirier noted that 16th- and 17th-Century French settlers who immigrated to Quebec, then known as New France, tended to be natives of northern and western France. Aside from ...