Obsolète? French is one of the most spoken languages in the world, accounting for nearly 300M daily speakers, and a few hundred million more secondary speakers (120M learning, and 70-100m partial speakers).¹
French is also the official language in 29 countries, which puts it in second place behind English, and is the official procedural language for EU courts and one of the core main languages for the UN.
Not only this, but several reports are saying that by 2050 nearly 700M will be speaking French²