And speaking of the English language,
Macron was speaking in English to others in the EU - Latvia, Karelia and Go-go-land spring to mind
which must have made him feel better
French was the language of diplomacy for 200y, and was delisted, relegated around 1980. Heath if you remember was selected to negotiate entry to the common market in 1962 ( fluent in Fransh) . That was the time de Gaulle a dit 'Non'
for French reasons, not EU reasons