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For questions regarding The Canterbury Tales, a collection of 24 stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer. Use with the [geoffrey-chaucer] tag. If asking about a section written in verse, use with [poetry].

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How much French does Madame Eglentyne know?

The point is that she speaks a bastardized French resulting from the French-speaking Normans having been in England since the Conquest (1066). At this point, the French spoken by English nobles had un …
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