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https://www.wearethemighty.com/articles/what-german-soldiers-thought-about-americans-in-the-aftermath-of-world-war-i/
Interesting. I also thought it interesting until sometime between World War One and World War Two, French was kind of the "world language".
If I read right, President Wilson was fluent in French and did end of war negotiations in French.