Stories shift their shape, change character, take on different colors depending on the words you use, the language in which you choose to tell them. Sometimes more serious, sometimes more playful, more melodic, say. Here, in this part of what they now call France, the langue d’Oc was spoken by the people whose land this was. The langue d’oïl, the forerunner of modern-day French, was the language of the invaders. Such choices divided people.”
