France's President Nicolas Sarkozy delivers a speech at the Elysee Palace in Paris March 20, 2010, as part of Francophonie International Day, organized by the International Francophonie (French-Speaking countries) Organization. According to the Observatoire de la langue francaise (French language observatory), some 200 million people are French-speaking around the world.
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