Throughout the 19th century, Franco-American relations would continue to develop into a long-lasting friendship, with occasional rivalries, but strong mutual respect. Later, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would support the French Revolution as envoys to France, and Alexis de Toqueville would draft one of the most widely-cited works of political theory: Democracy in America (1835).
Of course, France and America share a long history of diplomatic and economic ties dating back to the the American Revolutionary War, when French leaders like the Marquis de Lafayette famously served in the Continental Army.
Dubois), artists (Marcel Duchamp, Louise Bourgeois, Jean-Michel Basquiat) and athletes (Joakim Noah, Charlie Manuel, Brett Favre), Americans of French-speaking descent have made important cultural contributions to sports, literature and the arts. As famous writers (Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, W.E.B. Americans with French and French Canadian ancestry make up more than 10 percent of the population in many New England states, while California and Louisiana each include more than one million Franco-Americans according to the 2010 U.S. What do Warren Buffet, Emeril Lagasse, Eva Larue, Madonna, Tony Parker, and Paul Revere all have in common? They all have French roots.
30 Top French Field Trip Ideas in the Delaware Valley on Pinterest. Yannick Nézet Séguin, chef d’orchestre at the Philadelphia Orchestra. Museum without Walls: Philadelphia’s French Connection. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey French Resource Center. Useful links about French in the Delaware Valley: Visit the FACC web site to see some of their members. Their membership also features many small and medium-sized businesses, including fine restaurants, art galleries, gourmet food importers and a local winery. Business leaders from almost every industry are represented: banking, insurance, pharmaceutical, technology, strategic consulting, accounting, law, manufacturing, media, advertising, design, travel, real estate and education. There is an FACC membership category to suit companies of every size. They also rank as the largest of 14 bi-national chambers of commerce in the region. In fact, the French-American Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia has grown since 1989 to become the second largest chapter in the 23-city network. The French-American Chamber of Commerce of Philadelphia reports significant French business investment in the Delaware Valley, and underscores the continuing globalization of American companies. Useful links about reasons to learn French: In the state of New Jersey, there are approximately 40,000 people who speak French at home, and more than 21,000 who speak French Creole. Of the 20 non-English languages most frequently spoken at home, the second largest proportional increase was for French Creole speakers (the language group that includes Haitian Creoles), whose numbers more than doubled from 188,000 to 453,000. also reported that they spoke English “very well.” After English and Spanish, Chinese was the language most commonly spoken at home (2.0 million speakers), followed by French (1.6 million speakers) and German (1.4 million speakers). The report, Language Use and English-Speaking Ability: 2000, affirmed that 55 percent of the people who spoke a language other than English at home in the U.S. residents age 5 and older, spoke a language other than English at home at the turn of the 21st century. Census Bureau, nearly 1-in-5 people, or 47 million U.S. Over 275 million people around the world speak French. 
If you’re still not convinced, read more… This link pretty much sums it up nicely with seven top reasons.
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