[Scruffydog777]

Originally Posted by Bamagirl

The French language is beautiful, and some of literature's most lovely poetry (and prose) is written in French. If you read the classic poetry of poets like Pierre de Ronsard, Charles Beaudelaire and Jean de la Fontaine, for example, you will realize that it is not due to any deficiency in the language that currently produced French songs are not as widely known and popular as those written in English. It is a function of the music industry machine of today. Simply put, most of the mass production of popular songs/music is found in English speaking countries. The reasons for that could be economic, geographic, or due to population size. Or perhaps it is a combination of those things, or due to some other factor entirely. But I believe anyone who has studied literature would agree that the French language is richly descriptive and emotive, and fully capable of expressions in verse as deep, varied and substantive as anything that can be found in the English language.

I always thought French was the most beautiful language and there fore would lend itself easily to poetry and song.