FRANÇAISE.

A SERIES OF

Fifty Introductory Examination Papers,

CONTAINING:

1. Numerous Extracts in Prose and Poetry, selected from the Works
of the best French and English Authors of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth,
and present Centuries;-2. English and French Idioms and Proverbs ;-
3. English Letters for Translation into French;-4. Conversational
Sentences;-5. Some of the most essential Homonyms and Synonyms
of the French Language;-6. Nearly Two Thousand Questions on the
French Grammar and Syntax, Modern History, Physical and Political
Geography, and on the Ancient and Modern Literature of France,

BY

M. MASSÉ,

PROFESSOR OF THE FRENCH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IN ALLEYN'S COLLEGE OF GOD'S GIFT,
DULWICH, AND IN THE TRADE AND NAVIGATION SCHOOL (BOARD OF TRADE DEPARTMENT OF
SCIENCE AND ART); FRENCH MASTER IN ALDERMAN HICKSON'S GRAMMAR SCHOOL, AND
IN LADY ALICE OWEN'S FREE SCHOOLS; FORMERLY FRENCH MASTER IN THE NORTH
LONDON COLLEGIATE SCHOOL, CAMDEN TOWN; IN THE STOCKWELL GRAMMAR
SCHOOL (IN UNION WITH KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON), ETC., ETC.

La langue française est élégante et nombreuse;
elle joint la précision à la clarté, les grâces à l'é-
nergie; elle se plie à tous les styles, à tous les
tons; elle sait tout exprimer et tout peindre; elle
suffit aux besoins de la raison, du génie et du
sentiment.
SAINTE-PALAYE.

PUPIL'S COPY.

LONDON:

DAVID NUTT, 270, STRAND.

1863.

By the same Author.

In demy 8vo., cloth,

A KEY

TO THE

GRAMMATOLOGIE FRANÇAISE,

OR

TEACHER'S COPY.

CONTAINING:

1. The Translation of all the English and French Extracts;-2. The Idioms and Proverbs;-3. The Letters;-4. The Conversational Sentences translated into French ;5. The Explanation of all the Homonyms and Synonyms;-6. The Answers to all the Grammatical, Historical, Geographical, and Literary Questions, and numerous Biogra phical Sketches of the most renowned Ancient and Modern French Writers. (In course of preparation.)

PREFACE.

THE great attention which, for some time past, has been directed in this country to the acquirement of a sound knowledge of the French language, and the important position which this branch of study occupies in the Examinations for Army, Navy, and Civil Service appointments, have induced the writer of the following pages to publish a series of French Examination Papers, which, from a professional experience acquired during the last twelve years, he has every reason to believe, will prove of great assistance both to Teachers

and Students.

To Schools and Colleges, it will form a most useful and appropriate Class-Book for the more advanced pupils; whilst for those who may be desirous of keeping up the knowledge of French which they may already have acquired, it will be a kind of vade-mecum which will (with the help of a "Teacher's Copy," or key, which is being prepared) greatly facilitate their endeavours to do so.

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