[Transcriber's note: Chapter Nos. have been added for both this shortenedand the full editions of "Le Petit Chose" to 'Notes' as an aid to findinglines of text. Andrew Hodson ajhodson@ktdinternet.com]
Siepmann’s Advanced ƒrench Series
| General Editors | { | OTTO SIEPMANN EUGÈNEPELLIASSIED |
In this volume appear two new appendices, which will also be added to all others of our Series: (1) Questionnaires, which are not meant to usurp the teacher’s freedom in viva voce practice of the language,but to select for attention certain questions, so that their answers may be carefully prepared by the pupils after the portions of the text to whichthey refer have been read through. If this is done the vivavoce practice will gain in definiteness and precision without in the least preventing spontaneous questions being asked ad libitum (2)Sujets de Rédaction, which are intended to offer something betterthan the usual subjects set for “Free Composition,” and have the supreme advantage of being connected with the work in hand. Sufficientguidance is given to enable every pupil to deal with the topic in a sensiblemanner; but at the same time there remains ample scope for the exercise ofingenuity and imagination, and the effort of composition cannot fail to testand to cultivate a faculty for giving expression to whatever knowledge the pupil has gathered in his reading. Whether these subjects are to be handled viva voce or in writing must be left to the decision of the teacher.
INTRODUCTION . . . . . ix
TEXT . . . . . . 1
NOTES . . . . . . 105
APPENDICES BY THE GENERAL EDITORS—
I. WORDS AND PHRASES FOR VIVA VOCE DRILL . . . . . 133
II. QUESTIONNAIRE . . . . 142
III. SENTENCES ON SYNTAX AND IDIOMS FOR VIVA VOCE PRACTICE . . . 156
IV. PASSAGES FORTRANSLATION INTO FRENCH 169
V. SUJETS DERÉDACTION . . . 177
Alphonse Daudet was born at Nîmes on May 13, 1840. The Daudets were of lowly origin. Alphonse’s grandfather, a simple peasant, had in 1789 settled at Nîmes as a weaver. His business pros