This textbook is an attempt to present a more or less detailed history of the French language. The authors do not set themselves the goal of giving a history of the development of folk Latin in the territory of Northern Gaul and transforming it into the Romance language, i.e. French. This issue is only briefly addressed in the introduction, the purpose of which is to remind students of the course "Introduction to Romance Linguistics," which explains the genetic relationships of Romance languages, and therefore French, with Latin as the basis language.