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No one gives a country or a people the "right" to speak a specific language! (After all, nobody gave the English, Americans or Australians the "right" to speak English).

The area now known as France corresponds roughly to the Roman province of Gaul. The Romans introduced Latin as the language of government and commerce. After the Empire collapsed in the 5th century AD local dialects of Latin evolved into the so-called Romance languages we know today - French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and other less-widely spoken minor languages.

In effect, the French speak their language for the same reason you speak English - it came from the language of the people who colonized the area and established its culture.

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