Excerpt from A First French Reading Book: Containing Fables, Anecdotes, Inventions, Discoveries, Natural History, French History; With Grammatical Questions and Notes, and a Copious Etymological Dictionary In the first place, each Extract is followed by Gram metical Questions, testing the knowledge of the pupil in the Accidence and the more important Syntactical Rules. This will be found especially useful to pupils preparing for public examinations, such as the Matriculation Examina tion in the University of London. In the second place, the Vocabulary explains fully the etymology of every word. It is believed that this is the first time that such an Etymological Vocabulary has been appended to any French Reading Book. It contains very nearly words, and is complete enough to be used as a Dictionary for all French books commonly read in schools. In drawing it up, the works Of Grimm, Bopp, Diez, Littre, Scheler, and Brachet have been throughout consulted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

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