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Hello,
I'm after some experts in France/French (the nation and Language). I know enough to get me into trouble, but not enough to get me out of trouble .
Any help appreciated, and (if ever published) credited.
Can you go to remote places in modern France and have a reasonable chance of seeing horse drawn carriages. In other words (short of going to a medieval fair) if you went to sleep one night in a remote part of modern France and you woke up the next day in medieval France seeing a horse drawn carriage going past would it be TOTALLY alien, or would it be something like 'well, I'll be... never expected to see THAT'.
If you didn't speak French at all and had someone speaking to you in an ancient dialect of French (Medieval or similar) would it 'sound like they were speaking French, but maybe a dialect you hadn't heard, or would it be so different that you wouldn't know WHAT they were speaking?
I'm sure there will be MANY more questions, but that's the first - thank you in advance.