No borders are safe!

Looks like we have some imperial-minded, or at least very nostalgiac, map-makers.

Catalunya's northern border hasn't looked like this since 1659!

Apparently fewer than 4% of people in south-west France understand Catalan today- a very heavy-handed French language policy basically killed all regional dialects (not just Catalan).
From an article in yesterday's El Pais, this map showing where Catalan is spoken:

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