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PROSATEURS ET POÈTES FRANÇAIS;

OR

SELECTIONS FROM THE BEST FRENCH AUTHORS; WITH
AN INTRODUCTION OF EASY PIECES.

Arranged in Chronological Order, from the Age of Louis XIV. to the
Present Day. With Biographical Sketches.

Ninth Edition, 12mo. pp. 540, price 6s. 6d. bound.

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTION.

Vingt et un morceaux faciles et amusants extraits de divers auteurs modernes, et arrangés pour les classes inférieures.

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

Bossuet, Condé à la Bataille de Rocroi; Les Romains.-Fénelon, La Ville de Tyr et les Phéniciens; Télémaque visite les Champs Elysées.-Massillon, De l'Existence de Dieu; Destinée de l'Homme; De la Vie humaine.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Voltaire, Bataille de Narva; Défaite de Charles XII. à Pultava; Charles XII. à Bender; Guillaume III. et Louis XIV.-Buffon, Le Chien; Le Cygne.J.J.Rousseau, Le Duel; Bonheur de J. J. dans la Solitude.-Barthélémy, Epaminondas; Combat des Thermopyles.-Marmontel, Bélisaire dans un Château de la Trace.-Thomas, Destinée des grands Hommes.-B. de St. Pierre, La Solitude; Un Naufrage à l'Ile-de-France; Consolations adressées à Paul après la Perte de Virginie; La Vie d'un Paria dans l'Inde.-Florian, Guillaume Tell; Rome guerrière.

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Madame de Staël, Saint Pierre de Rome; La Terre de Naples; Venise; La Gloire de l'Italie.-J. de Maistre, Une Nuit d'Eté à St. Pétersbourg.Volney, Les Ruines de Palmyre.-X. de Maistre, La Mort d'un Ami; Méditation. Michaud, Pierre l'Ermite prêchant la première Croisade; Prise de Jérusalem par les Croisés.-Bonaparte, Proclamation à l'Armée.Chateaubriand, Le Meschacebé; La Tempête; Aspect de Jérusalem au 50 Siècle; Aspect de Rome Ancienne; Les Francs marchant au Combat; La Mer et la Terre; Cimetière de Campagne; Ruines des Monuments Chrétiens.-Norvins, Jeunesse de Napoléon ; Bataille des Pyramides; Passage des Alpes par Bonaparte; Les derniers Jours de Napoléon.-Jouy, La Cour des Messageries à Paris ; Les Catacombes de Paris.-Madame Guizot, La Vie et l'Argent.-Ségur, Moscou avant son Incendie; Incendie de Moscou.-Barante, Démence de Charles VI.-Lamennais, Les Deux Voisins; La Prière; L'Exilé; Le Règne de la Terreur en France.-Nodier, Le Loch Lomond.-Guizót, Fuite de Charles 1er à l'Ile de Wight; Charles 1er au Château de Hurst; Charles ler au Château de Windsor; Procès de Charles ler; Exécution de Charles 1er.Villemain, Le Siècle de Louis XIV; Milton composant le Paradis Perdu.Lamartine, Ruines du Parthénon; Le Liban; Portrait de Louis XVI; Portrait de Marie-Antoinette; Abdication de Louis-Philippe.-Thierry, Débarquement de l'Armée normande en Angleterre; Bataille de Hastings; Meurtre de Thomas Becket; Robin Hood.-Salvandi, Napoléon Bonaparte.-Mignet, Prise de la Bastille; Déchéance de la Royauté en France.-Thiers, Les derniers Jours de Louis XVI; Les Contrebandiers Espagnols.-Soulié, Les Marchands de

NINETEENTH CENTURY (continued).

Nouveautés, Les Quatre Henri.-Victor Hugo, Paris au XVme Siècle.Merrimée, Siége de la Rochelle sous Charles IX.-Vermond, Le Provincial à Paris.-Gérando, Voyage sur la Theiss.-Sue, Une Métairie de la Sologne ; Une Vallée de Désolation.-Marmier, Le Spitzberg. Dumas, Le Pont du Gard; Auberge italienne; Bataille de Montereau; Napoléon et Lucien; Souvenirs d'un Voyage à Messine.-Janin, Florence; Le Mont-Cénis; Versailles. Gozlan, Alger.-Gautier, Une Jonque chinoise à Londres.-Molière, Comédies, L'Avare; Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.

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Racine, Athalie (tragédie).-La Fontaine, Le Chêne et le Roseau; Le Corbeau et le Renard; La Cigale et la Fourmi; Le Renard et la Cigogne; Le Chat et le vieux Rat.-Boileau, Passage du Rhin par Louis XIV.; Les Embarras de Paris.-Mme. Deshoulières, Allégorie à ses Enfants.

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Louis Racine, Dieu dans la Nature.-Voltaire, Mort de Coligny.Delille, La Ferme; Les Catacombes de Rome.

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

Chènedollé, Isaïe.-Andrieux, Le Meunier de Sans-Souci.-Esménard, La Prière du Soir.-Millevoye, L'Anniversaire.-Guiraud, Le Petit Savoyard.-Béranger, La sainte Alliance des Peuples.-Delavigne, Mort de Jeanne d'Arc; Christophe Colomb.-Soumet, La Pauvre Fille.-Lamartine, Le Combat; Hymne de l'Enfant à son Réveil; Une Larme, ou Consolation.Reboul, L'Ange et l'Enfant.-Victor Hugo, Pour les Pauvres; Lui.Mme. E. de Girardin, Cléopâtre.-Ponsard, Lucrèce.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Le recue Addiscombe, vient d'offrir au public, sous le titre de Prosateurs

M. Léon Contanseau, professeur de littérature française au Col

lége Militaire et Poètes français, est, nous n'hésitons pas à le dire, ce qui a été publié de mieux. Le choix des morceaux, dont le plus grand nombre appartient à nos auteurs modernes, est des plus heureux, et nous ne pouvons que recommander cet excellent volume à la jeunesse des écoles d'Angleterre."

COURRIER De l'Europe.

"Mr. Contanseau's Prosateurs et Poètes français is, in our opinion, the best and most attractive compilation that has ever made its appearance in this country." MORNING ADVERTISER.

"Professor Contanseau's works are eminently practical, and adapted to their purpose..... The admirable and well-known Practical Dictionary," the Abrégé d'Histoire de France,' the Précis de la Littérature française, the French Grammar,' the Prosateurs et Poètes français, and other works published by M. Contanseau, strikingly demonstrate judgement, combined with knowledge, and the art of smoothing down difficulties in the acquisition of language, without impairing the solidity of the information thus acquired." CIVIL SERVice Gazette.

"M. Contanseau is already well known as having written several French school-books of considerable excellence; the present volume is quite worthy of its predecessors." CRITIC.

A GUIDE TO FRENCH TRANSLATION:

BEING A SELECTION OF

INSTRUCTIVE AND ENTERTAINING PIECES.

With Notes to assist in the Translation, and to exhibit a Comparison of French and English Idioms.

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Great Britain.-France.-Tours and its Castle.-Pau.-Geneva and its Lake.Russia.-Austria.-Napoleon I.-Prussia.-Dover Castle.-Mozart.-Christiania. -Jerusalem.-Reding's Speech to his Soldiers.-Ruins of Palmyra.-Battle of Lodi.-The Convent of the Great St. Bernard.-Gustavus the Great.-Constantinople.-Alfred the Great.-Ruins of Troy.-Last Moments of Charles I.-Napoleon crossing the Great St. Bernard.-Voltaire.-Athens.-Jeanne d'Arc.-Description of the Horse.-The Hunting of the Chamois.-Battle of the Pyramids.-On Glory and Ambition.-The Rhine.-Elizabeth, Queen of England.—Cologne.Charlemagne.-Nelson.

PART II.

Charles XII.-Military Education among the Romans.-Nelson at the Battle of Copenhagen.-Ferdinand and Isabella.-Portrait of a true Christian.-Admiral Lord Exmouth.-Bombardment of Algiers.- Peter the Great.-Napoleon at Austerlitz.-Frederic II.-Turenne.-Henry IV.-Greatness.-Ruins of Carthage.Constantine, captured. Algiers. - History of Fort l'Empereur. Capture of Ghuznee.-The Fountain of Vaucluse.-Remarks on the utility of Languages.Benjamin Franklin. Letter of Lord Chesterfield. - St. Petersburg. -Dialogue between the King of Prussia and Gellert.

PART III.

Mount Albula, in the Alps.--William Tell and Gesler.-Motion of our Globe.Abd-el-Kader.-Tunis.-The last Days of the Grand Army.-Pascal.-The Taking of Constantinople by the Turks.-Ancient Customs of the Gauls.-Louis XIV. and his Age.-Newton.-Washington.- Battle of Sobraon.--Letter of Lord Chesterfield.-On Education.-William Pitt.-Influence of the French Language.-A Family in Distress.-The Spell of Wealth.-A Military Sight before Sebastopol. -Scenes from the "School for Scandal."-Scenes from a Trip to Scarborough."

POETRY.

The Country Curate.-The Lady of the Lake.-On Life, Death, and Immortality. -Ode on Solitude.-Cardinal Wolsey's Speech to Cromwell.-Satan's Address to the Sun.-The Storm.-The Destruction of Sennacherib.-St. Agnes.

KEY TO THE GUIDE TO FRENCH TRANSLATION. Second Edition, 12mo. price 3s. 6d. bound.

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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS ON THE GUIDE AND KEY.

"These are two exceedingly valuable manuals on the art of French translation, which cannot fail to have an extensive and permanent circulation...... The various exercises are judiciously divided into chapters, each chapter containing a complete subject in history, biography, or travel, which is a great advantage, as it does not weary the beginner by a long-sustained narrative, nor tax his powers of endurance for too long a period." SCOTTISH PRESS.

"Professor Contanseau's Guide to French Translation is one of the most useful little books we know of for learners, consisting of a judicious selection from the most eloquent Authors, with the necessary notes and instructions for translation. For those who study with a master, and for those who study without a master, CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE.

these books are most excellent."

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"This is one of the very best books of the class to which it belongs that we have ever met with." BELL'S WEEKLY MESSENGER.

PRÉCIS DE LA LITTÉRATURE FRANÇAISE.

DEPUIS SON ORIGINE JUSQU'A NOS JOURS.

Compiled expressly for the use of Schools, as a Reading Book, and of Students graduating for Examinations.

Second Edition, 12mo. price 5s. bound.

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"The utility of this work cannot fail to strike any one who looks carefully into it. The matter is copious, and selected with great judgement, and the method employed in arranging it is excellent. We have here in a compact volume a real history of French authors and their works, from the earliest period to the present time, the biographical notices and general remarks on style, choice of subjects, and influence on society, being well calculated to give the reader a fair impression of the merits of each author, and of the place he holds in the republic of letters." CIVIL SERVICE GAZETTE.

"This Précis will at once command many admirers.... The specimens of literature presented have been selected with the finest taste and the soundest judgement.... For those who are fond of snatches at French literature, M. Contanseau's last work will be much prized-gems are presented without the trouble of selecting them." MORNING ADVERTISER. "The plan of the work is admirable; and seldom has more ample and useful information been compressed within so small a space." MORNING POST.

ABRÉGÉ D'HISTOIRE DE FRANCE.

From the Earliest Times to the Year 1860. Compiled from the works of Guizot, Sismondi, De Barante, Thiers, Michelet, &c. expressly for the use of Schools, as a Reading Book, and of Students graduating for Examinations.

One Vol. 12mo. price 5s. 6d. bound.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

"Mr. Contanseau's volume is adapted particularly to schools and students graduating for the competitive examinations. The Author's great experience as a popular instructor and examiner for military and civil appointments has availed him well in the compilation of this work, which, taking up French history from the earliest times to the present year, constitutes a perfect analysis of the subject, written with the most conscientious desire of truth, in the best taste and with striking impartiality, while the style in which the book is penned is as pure in language as its accuracy of statement and attention to chronology are commendable." JOHN BULL.

"Mr. Contanseau has well and honourably fulfilled the rather difficult task to which he had applied himself.... On the whole we can speak highly of this volume, and conscientiously recommend it to those for whom it is chiefly intended, students in schools, and young men preparing for competitive examinations." LITERARY Gazette.

"An admirable class-book of French history, deducing the course of events from the Gauls down to the present period, and useful alike in our English schools both for French and historical exercises." CRITIC.

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