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French dialects developped from the Vulgar Latin which was brought to Northern Gaul with the Roman conquest in the 1st century B.C.
I think that the conflict that the lawyer faces is that during his solitary confinment, he has learnt that material goods are not the most important and that in the end, he does not care about the outcome of the debt.
Alternatively, in the early stages of his confinement he is struggling with loneliness, so he has to fight himself not to succumb to it.
