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[ST:TNG] Why is Picard French?

Not an in-universe question, but something which has always bugged me.

Why, having decided to make the captain French, did they hire an English actor? Having decided to hire Patrick Stewart, why didn't they change the character's background to English? And why, if he is French, does he drink Earl Grey rather than café and read Shakespeare rather than Balzac?

There was that one episode (*Family*), where he visits his brother (who also has an English accent) and they drink wine and sing French songs, but the rest of the time he is English as fuck.
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sometime after WW III, French culture as we know it was destroyed and replaced by the invading Britons. The surviving population was re- educated. They were taught to speak English and drink tea. Several generations later, the descendants while regaining their place in society, retain little to no trace of their french ancestry.