This statue by Mercié represents an Alsatian woman seizing the gun of a dying soldier, and symbolizes the defense of Belfort in the FrancoGerman war of 1870,
A COMPLETE
FRENCH COURSE
BY
C. A. CHARDENAL
BACHELIER ÈS LETTRES DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCE
REVISED AND REWRITTEN BY
MARO S. BROOKS
RECENTLY HEAD OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, BROOKLINE, MASSACHUSETTS