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in French, [on] often means "we"
--- is this linked to One_(pronoun)#Royal_one ?
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Even anti-monarchists must admit that a stop-motion-animated Queen Elizabeth as the spokesruler for BBC America on DirecTV is simply smashing. In two :30s, she royally defends the various complaints about her country.
"They say one's cows are mad. A diabolical slur," she informs us, as animated cows dance madly in the background. The next scene shows her in a dentist's office.
"They say one's dentistry is diabolical." She glances back to the bloody mess of a man's mouth in the chair.
"Looks fine to me. But the one thing they say that is bang-on is one's television is brilliant."
After a VO describes the service, she finishes with, "One wants one's BBC." One also wants more of this campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_(pronoun)#Royal_one
Monarchs, people of higher classes, and today particularly Queen Elizabeth II, are often depicted as using one as a first-person pronoun. This is frequently done as a form of caricature.[3]
For example, the headline "One is not amused"[4] is attributed humorously to her, implicitly making reference to Queen Victoria's supposed statement "We are not amused", containing instead the royal we.
Another example, near the end of 1992, which was a difficult year for the British royal family, as the Queen famously quipped "Annus horribilis", the tabloid newspaper The Sun published a headline, "One's Bum Year!"
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