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Posted by T Down on March 16, 2004 at 03:30:09:


I am studying Ivan Turgenev's novel Fathers and Sons and would like to know why the gentry spoke French at home (in the 19th Century) but not to the serfs. Is it just because of the gentry's/nobility's education? Even so why did they use French in their homes?

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