ELEMENTARY

FRENCH COURSE

FOR BEGINNERS.

WITH EASY IDIOMATIC AND COLLOQUIAL SENTENCES DAILY USED
IN CONVERSATION, AND ALSO

READING EXERCISES

FOR PRONUNCIATION.

NEW

EDITION,

THOROUGHLY REVISED BY

PAUL

BARBIER,

Modern Language Master at the Manchester Grammar School, Examiner
in the French Language and Literature to the Intermediate
Education Board for Ireland, etc.

JOHN HEYWOOD,

DEANSGATE AND RIDGEFIELD, MANCHESTER ;
AND 11, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS,
LONDON.
1883.

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PREFATORY NOTE.

THIS New Edition has been thoroughly revised, the inaccuracies in the sentences have been corrected, words inadvertently omitted in the former edition have been inserted, and rules have been added where they were necessary.

I believe the book is as complete an "Elementary French Course" as it is possible to have for enabling students who will work it in earnest to translate French very fairly.

In prefacing this edition, I should be wanting in sincerity if I did not acknowledge with grateful feelings the kind reception my French Educational Works have received at the hands of the local press, and the favour they met with my confrères.

The Key to this Course will be supplied only to Teachers who shall make a written application for it.

Kersal, Manchester, November, 1882.

PAUL BARBIER.

[A SECOND COURSE IS BEING PREPARED.]

with a consonant.

before feminine words singular beginning with a consonant.

before plural-both genders.

before words beginning with a vowel or h mute.

READING LESSON.

La lave, la table, la cravate, le sable, le rat, le tabac, l'ami, l'amie, les tableaux, les chevaux.