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Francien is a nineteenth-century linguists’ term applied to the particular langue d’oïl that was spoken in the Île-de-France region (with Paris at its centre) before the establishment of the French language as a standard language.According to one theory of the development of French Francien was chosen out of all the competing Oïl languages as an official language (Norman and Picard being the main competitors in the mediaeval period).