Catherine Pétillon commented on Fabiola Montjoli's blog post Le carnet des ameriques, un nouveau carnet d'adresses pour les francophones
"Dear Robert,
I'll try to be more specific. In the announcement it's written "le répertoire couvre 54 Etats dans les Amériques". It's not written "le répertoire couvre les 54 Etats des Etats-Unis d'Amérique" or "le répertoire couvre les 54 Etats des…"
Aug 21, 2019
Catherine Pétillon commented on Fabiola Montjoli's blog post Le carnet des ameriques, un nouveau carnet d'adresses pour les francophones
"Dear Robert, We are talking about "les Amériques", not only "les Etats-Unis d'Amérique". So in "les Amériques", we have North America, Central America and South America where you can find almost 33 million people speaking French.
For more…"
Aug 21, 2019
Catherine Pétillon commented on New York in French's blog post 5 Reasons to Take French
"There are more than 5 reasons: visit www.theworldspeaksfrench.org

Reason 2 : here are some very recent updated official statistics
Communicate with 220 million people (750 million by 2050). French is the official language of 55 countries, as well…"
Aug 21, 2019