Frenchify

Confronted with the ethnic and linguistic and religious diversity of l'Hexagone, a series of French rulers attempted to Frenchify and nationalize the Bretons and Normans in the north and the more Latin peoples of Languedoc, but they also had to suppress first the Albigenses and then the Huguenots.

"There was no deliberate attempt to Frenchify the show.

Around Brussels, these classes even became an instrument to "Frenchify'" Dutch speakers.

Here was a woman of modest attainments, who put up with a frightful amount from her philandering husband and supplied a veneer of culture over his presidency, but whose personal motto, finally, might have been--what the hell, let's Frenchify it--Je vais pour l'argent: I go for the money.

The French government was soon forced to restructure or "Frenchify" the entire plan, however, when the South Korean interest did not sit well with French economic nationalism.

The Governor-General Denouville remarked, in 1685, that some had long thought that it was necessary to bring the Indians near them in order to Frenchify (franciser) them, but that they had every reason to think themselves in an error; for those who had come near them and were even collected in villages in the midst of the colony had not become French, but the French who had haunted them had become savages.