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by 317070 2434 days ago
Those numbers have to be off: According to wikipedia [0]:

English 379.0 million native speakers, 1.132 billion total

French 76.8 million native speakers, 279.8 million total

It seems you might have mixed the French native speakers with a (high estimate of) the English total speakers.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_num...