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Yes and doing you a favour.
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They tried, but the cultural pushback from the locals was too great, even to this very day

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The locals didn't speak French either. :-p
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French was quickly adopted in polite society, of course, but the riffraff resisted and eventually took over the country.

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"Then America happened..." Yes
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Yes, the French allied with the Scots against everyone else.
Scots also borrowed some French.
Garde à l'eau became gardaloo, and then loo
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It is useful to know that an English version of "bon appetit" is never used, for very good reasons.