Seventy-eight percent of the world’s websites are in English – only 1.2 percent are in French. “More than any other medium of recent years, the Internet is challenging France’s attempts to control and protect its culture. Its pride in its culture is fierce. No other country—save Spain—has a body quite like the Académie Française, dedicating itself for the past 365 years to the defense of the national language.” – The Economist