France has not given regional languages the support that would be required by the charter. The policies of the Paris government have had the deliberate effect of greatly weakening the prevalence of native languages in France that are not "French. As a result, the Alsatian dialect of German has gone from being the prevalent language of the region to one in decline. For hundreds of years the region was entirely german speaking but the destructive efforts of the french goverment to have ruined not only alsatian but also flemish in french flandres and in other regions france conquered since the renaissance.