AN INTRODUCTION
INTRODU

TO THE

FRENCH LANGUAGE:

CONTAINING

FABLES, SELECT TALES, REMARKABLE FACTS,
AMUSING ANECDOTES, &c.

WITH

A DICTIONARY

OF ALL THE WORDS, TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

BY M. DE FIVAS,

MEMBER OF SEVERAL LITERARY SOCIETIES.

Une morale nue apporte de l'ennui :

Le conte fait passer le précepte avec lui.-La Fontaine.

He that requires the attention and application of youth should endeavor to make what he
proposes as grateful and agreeable as possible.-Locke

FROM THE FIFTH ENGLISH EDITION.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY,

M DCCC LIV.

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Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1846,

BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.