Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Gesine Argent, Vladislav Rjéoutski and Derek Offord 1 European Francophonie and a Framework for Its Study -- Peter Burke 2 Diglossia in Early Modern Europe -- Marianne Ailes and Ad Putter 3 The French of Medieval England -- Alda Rossebastiano 4 Knowledge of French in Piedmont -- Nadia Minerva 5 The Two Latin Sisters: Representations of the French and the French Language in Italy -- Madeleine Van Strien-Chardonneau 6 The Use of French among the Dutch Elites in Eighteenth-Century Holland -- Manuela Böhm 7 The Domains of Francophonie and Language Ideology in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Prussia -- Ivo Cerman 8 Aristocratic Francophone Literature in Bohemia -- Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Begoña Regueiro-Salgado, Luis Pablo-Núñez and Silviano Carrasco 9 Francophonies in Spain -- Margareta Östman 10 French in Sweden in the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries -- Maciej Serwański and Katarzyna Napierała 11 The Presence of Francophonie in Poland from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth -- Ileana Mihaila 12 The Beginnings and the Golden Age of Francophonie among the Romanians -- Derek Offord 13 Francophonie in Imperial Russia -- Laurent Mignon 14 French in Ottoman Turkey: 'The Language of the Afflicted Peoples'? -- Gesine Argent, Derek Offord and Vladislav Rjéoutski 15 Conclusion -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.