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

With Illustrations

ALLYN AND BACON

Boston

New York

Chicago