Trianon was supposed to provide the minorities living on the territory of Hungary with self determination Interestingly neither France nor Britain did anything to give self determination to its own minorities Prior to the French revolution only a minority of France s population spoke French the majority spoke Occitan Catalan Corsican Alsatian West Flemish Lorraine Franconian Gallo Picard or Ch timi and Arpitan Practically none of these exist today Britain s story with Gaelic the Irish and Wales is similar Furthermore both of these two countries held one third of the world as their colonies