Maurice Tetne’s research project is a comparative study of both francophone Louisiana and francophone Africa through the lens of regional French and the aesthetics of their transcription into literature and cinema. Examining literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present, he aims to show how the multiethnic nature of these French-speaking regions informs the stylistic approach authors and filmmakers adopt in their use of the French language. Literature and cinema become the meeting place for several linguistic components, carried by a regionalized French, distancing itself from the grammatical and semantic norms of Parisian French. His research stands at the intersection of literature, linguistics, and sociology, focusing on stylistic devices offered by literary texts and cinema to understand how they impose themselves in the field, in an effort to understand probable trends for the language of 2050.