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We continue a series of articles about cities in North America late last century. Most recently, we told you about New Orleans. Today, we will move to the second largest French-speaking city in the world.

Yes, that after Paris, Montreal, Canada ranks second in the number of people speaking French. And by the way, in the official Montreal is only the French language, although in Canada there are two, instead of English. By the end of the nineteenth century the city was more than 200 years, so the infrastructure was developed at a high level. To date, Montreal regularly ranked in the top of the most comfortable cities in the world. It seems that in the nineteenth century, there also lived well. And now you see it. The combination of the two cultures was only benefit the city. By the way, for five years in the mid-19th century, Montreal was the capital.