Download or read book An Elementary French Reader (Classic Reprint) written by Gaston Douay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Elementary French Reader With regard to beginners, 13ve may say that the only stu dents who really need 3 Reader are those who begin td study F rench two or three years before entering college, or those who have to take F rench at college; younger pupils are likely to require different books. The high-school or college student, for whom the present book is chiefly intended, needs texts varied in tone. Be sides the usual anecdotes from modern authors, he should read, ih the early period of his instruction, few pages from great thinkers and historians. Extracts from writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries have been introduced here for that purpose. The F rench of that period does not differ materially from the French of to-day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.