Editing Old French (section)

===Earliest written Old French===
The earliest documents said to be written in the Gallo-Romance that prefigures French – after the [[Reichenau Glossary|Reichenau]] and [[Kassel glosses]] (8th and 9th centuries) – are the [[Oaths of Strasbourg]] (treaties and charters into which King [[Charles the Bald]] entered in 842):

{{Poem quote|''Pro Deo amur et pro Christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di en avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in aiudha et in cadhuna cosa ...''

(For the love of God and for the Christian people, and our common salvation, from this day forward, as God will give me the knowledge and the power, I will defend my brother Karlo with my help in everything ...)}}

The second-oldest document in Old French is the [[Eulalia sequence]], which is important for linguistic reconstruction of Old French pronunciation due to its consistent spelling.

The royal [[House of Capet]], founded by [[Hugh Capet]] in 987, inaugurated the development of northern French culture in and around [[Île-de-France]], which slowly but firmly asserted its ascendency over the more southerly areas of [[Aquitaine]] and Tolosa ([[Toulouse]]); however, the [[Capetian dynasty|Capetians]]' {{lang|fr|[[langue d'oïl]]}}, the forerunner of modern standard French, did not begin to become the common speech of all of France until after the [[French Revolution]].