Francophication

Francophication was a term used to describe the Westernisation of Pantocratoria in the 18th and 19th Centuries. The term was initially intended as a derogatory one, and finds its origins in the Greek-language broadsheets of opponents of the movement. The origins of the movement itself can be traced back to the Fourth Pantocratorian Crusade, which brought Pantocratoria into regular trading contact with Western Europe after centuries of inwards-looking isolationist policy. Its first champion was the Emperor Manuel V Comnenus, who made French the national language and set about adopting many Western European institutions and customs in an attempt to modernise Pantocratoria. The policy agitated many Pantocratorians, who resented having the French language forced upon them, and who disliked foreign institutions and the foreign experts imported to administer them, and was one of the contributing factors to the Rebellion of the Fifth Pantocratorian Crusade.