TY - JOUR T1 - A unique event for the francophone respiratory community JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.01479-2017 VL - 50 IS - 4 SP - 1701479 AU - Louis-Philippe Boulet AU - Elyse Bissonnette AU - Marc Humbert AU - Bernard Maître AU - Bernard Pigearias Y1 - 2017/10/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/50/4/1701479.abstract N2 - In the 17–19th centuries, French was the language of international communication, as English has since become. It is still one of the official languages of many international organisations, is spoken by >250 million individuals worldwide, and is one of the official languages of 41 countries and dependent entities [1, 2] (figure 1). French-speaking countries, present on four continents, represent a large variety of cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, including not only highly developed but also rapidly developing countries.An event that should reinforce the links between French-speaking respiratory medicine communities worldwide http://ow.ly/iMvk30eQzQi ER -