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Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant By: Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) |
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Siepmann's Advanced French Series General Editors { OTTO SIEPMANN
{ EUGÈNE PELLIASSIED
LE PETIT CHOSE (HISTOIRE D'UN ENFANT) PAR ALPHONSE DAUDET PART I LE PETIT CHOSE EN PROVINCE ADAPTED AND EDITED BY
S. TINDALL, M.A.
ASSISTANT MASTER OF BRADFORD GRAMMAR SCHOOL MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1921
COPYRIGHT First Edition April 1911 PREFATORY NOTE 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 which they refer have been read through. If this is done the
viva voce 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 better
than the usual subjects set for "Free Composition," and have the supreme
advantage of being connected with the work in hand. Sufficient guidance
is given to enable every pupil to deal with the topic in a sensible
manner; but at the same time there remains ample scope for the exercise
of ingenuity and imagination, and the effort of composition cannot fail
to test and 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. CONTENTS PAGE 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 FOR TRANSLATION INTO FRENCH... 169 V. SUJETS DE RÉDACTION... 177 INTRODUCTION 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 prospered so much that he
died leaving a small fortune; Vincent Daudet, his fourth son, and a
young man of great ambition, was determined to rise out of the class in
which he was born and acquire for himself and family a high social status.
In 1830 he married, greatly against the wishes of her parents, Adeline
Reynaud, whose father owned the largest silk manufactory in the town. His affairs were fairly flourishing when he was suddenly ruined by
the Revolution of 1848. Unable to meet his liabilities, he sold his
business and removed to Lyons with his wife and children. He was,
however, anxious that his sons, of whom Alphonse was the third, should
have the best education his scanty means would allow, and Alphonse and
his elder brother Ernest the "mère Jacques" of Le Petit Chose and his
lifelong companion were first sent to the monastic school of St. Pierre,
and then to the Lyons Lycée. Young Alphonse, who from his birth had been rather delicate, was not a
model boy. He loved to play truant, and it was only through his brother
Ernest, who, to get him out of many a scrape, wrote notes to his teacher
signed in his father's name, that he escaped punishment. But he showed
signs of great promise. He learned his lessons in half the time that his
school fellows did, was always at the top of his class, and was gifted
with a marvellous power of observation. He composed several poems
amongst others La Vierge à la Crèche and Les Petits Enfants ,
also a novel, all of which were declared by his master to have been
amazing productions for a boy of his age. But Fortune did not smile on the Daudet family at Lyons any more than at
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