“It is not inappropriate to observe that the conversation of both ladies was interlarded with a great many foreign words and sometimes entire long sentences in French. But however filled the author is with veneration of the salutary benefits conferred on Russia by the French language, however filled with veneration towards our higher society’s praiseworthy custom of expressing itself in French at every hour of the day, out of a deep feeling of love for our fatherland, of course, still, all that notwithstanding, he cannot bring himself to introduce a sentence from any foreign language, whatever it may be, into this Russian poem of his. And so, we shall continue in Russian.”
Nikolay Gogol, “Dead Souls”, 1842.
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