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aug 15, 1539 - King Francis I of France issues the Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêt, that places the whole of France under the jurisdiction of the royal law courts, and makes French the language of those courts, and the official language of legal discourse

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aug 15, 1539
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~ 487 years ago