While we are likely to think of film, food, fashion, and perhaps fiction when we think of French, we’d do well to add both fun and family. On the one hand, we may enjoy Paris Fashion Week and the new French restaurant in town, but on the other hand, French is enjoying a real resurgence in the US, in classrooms and beyond, with immersion and traditional French classes popping up all around us. French is, of course, the language of France, Canada, and a whole host of countries in Africa and beyond, and of the United States. People have been speaking French in North America, including a large part of what is now the US, since the earliest years of the European presence, and about 33 million Americans are still speaking French. Many Americans are unaware of the Huguenot history of northern New Jersey and the New York area—New Rochelle and Rochelle Park are just two of many examples. Did you know that Los Angeles has had not one but two French-Canadian mayors?…