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Since you still have a few days, be aware that Romantic does not mean Roman. Not anymore. The history of the word goes back to the Gauls, in what is today France, and stories of knights and chivalry written in the Middle Ages. The Gauls, themselves a kind of remnant of the fallen Roman Empire, spoke a derivative of Latin which in time became what we now call Old French. There was a word in Latin to describe the common languages derived from Latin - romanice. That eventually became "romanz" to mean "what is spoken in the vernacular" which distinguished it from the formal Latin that was still in use. This romanz was the Old French being used by the people to tell their stories of chivalrous love. Eventually the term became synonymous with the feelings evoked by those stories. Not a very direct route, but there is a trace of the Romans in Romance.