Is it possible for Occitan to remain to be Spoken on Poitou and Bourges just like before the retreat of Occitan what would be the consequences of that.
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The base of Standard French is the Anjou dialect.There's probably a big overlap between this and the ongoing thread about a surviving English "Empire" in France. If England managed to hold significant portions of the Angevin realms in France well into the late middle ages (especially if they did so by breaking those realms off from the Kingdom of France entirely), an dialect of Occitan would be a good candidate to become the language of administration in the Aquitaine, and perhaps in Anjou as well. Breaking the political ties to Paris would remove much of the reason behind the propagation of Parisian French to those areas, and emphasizing linguistic differences would be a good tactical move for the English, to reduce cultural ties between their continental possessions and France proper.