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jeffy!
they're two daughter languages of latin like any others; you could look for explanations for their differences in cultural contacts, but that some such thing would be true for any two romance languages (languedoc and languedoil, e.g.) i'd emphasize tho' that there is a continuum of romance languages stretching from portugal to trieste, with romanian isolated for historical reasons (wiki has a simplified chart here and a simplified map here) and that accidents of power lead us to think in terms of 'spanish' (actually the language of castille) or 'french' (actually the language of paris) or 'italian' (actually the language of florence) to the exclusion of the many other dialects, some of which differ from each other for no bigger reason than that they were spoken in different valleys and just diverged over time (still true of romansch languages).
pork and beef would be two. The words for the animal aren't french but the word for the meat is which is significant.
There is some debate with a lot of words as to whether they came from Latin or Old French but I don't think you can possibly say that no common words come from French.
NY I said I might be misremembering. What is the difference between Spanish and portuguese? Ostrogoths? I could wikipedia it but I trust you more