One would have to assume that they'd wait for the war to be over before implementing such a far-reaching administrative project, so they never got the chance to do it in France.
But yes, it does seem a wee bit fanciful -- unless they had the extreme Whorfian / Orwellian belief that an imposed language would have the power to tame the thought patterns of the conquered.
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Date: 2009-01-20 12:52 pm (UTC)But yes, it does seem a wee bit fanciful -- unless they had the extreme Whorfian / Orwellian belief that an imposed language would have the power to tame the thought patterns of the conquered.