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You only have to travel around the world, especially in Africa for example or in the Maghreb, to see how much of an appetite there is for French.

— Leïla Slimani

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My first mission will be to de-age the very notion of Francophonie, to restore its luster, its youth, its dynamism.

I speak French, English and an Arabic dialect. This is something that is very natural for me and that I don’t think about.

It is a fascinating and very rewarding job on a human level. French is a global language, which lives and flourishes on all the continents, with accents, turns of phrase and metaphors which belong to each landscape. It is quite extraordinary to see the flexibility of this language and to understand its constant creolisation and transformation.

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