BEING

AN ADVANCED FRENCH READER;

CONTAINING

SELECTIONS FROM THE PRINCIPAL CLASSICAL FRENCH POETS AND PROSE
WRITERS DURING THE PAST TWO HUNDRED YEARS; OR FROM

THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV. TO THE PRESENT DAY, WITH
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES OF THE AUTHORS; THE
WHOLE CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED;

EDWARD HA MAGILL, A. M.,

PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LANGUAGES IN SWARTHMORE COLLEGE, PA.
AUTHOR OF “A FRENCH GRAMMAR,” “AN INTRODUCTORY
FRENCH READER," ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK:

WOOLWORTH, AINSWORTH, AND COMPANY,
51, 53, & 55 JOHN STREET.

1870.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by

EDWARD H. MAGILL,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 19 Spring Lane.