French is essentially a mispronounced version of Latin after a whole bunch of people got really drunk and decided to throw in "x"s, "z"s, apostrophes, accent marks, and silent letters in everywhere.

(That said, English is what happened when Latin and German got married, then had a vicious divorce and proceeded to shuffle the spawn between each other every week while telling the spawn that the other parent was filthy pretentiousness/coarseness and that only their words conveyed any emotional feeling/intelligence at all. And then the troubled adolescent language slept around with every language that would give it the time of day, and the rest is history.)