French Stories/Contes Francais

A Dual-Language Book:Ten short stories by Voltaire, Balzac, Gilde, Camus and others in the original French and a new English translation

Wallace Fowlie

• Éditeur: Dover Publications
• Année: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780486120270
• Sujet: Lingue e linguistica
• Sous-sujet: Lingua francese

"The selections are good and the translations are excellent." ? Germaine Brée, New York University
Drawn from two centuries of French literature, these superb selections by ten great writers span a wide variety of styles, philosophies, and literary creeds. The stories reflect not only the beliefs of various literary schools, but the preoccupations of French civilization, atthe various times of their composition, with the metaphysical and psychological problems of man.
Contents include Micromégas (Voltaire), La Messe de l'Athée (Honoré de Balzac), La Légende de Saint Julien l'Hospitalier (Gustave Flaubert), Le Spleen de Paris (Charles Baudelaire), Menuet (Guy de Maupassant), Mort de Judas (Paul Claudel), Le Retour de l'Enfant Prodigue (André Gide), Grand-Lebrun (François Mauriac), Le Passe-Muraille (Marcel Aymé), and L'Hôte (Albert Camus).
Students of French, or those who wish to refresh their knowledge of the language, will welcome this treasury of masterly fiction. The selections are arranged chronologically, allowing the reader to witness the development of French literary art — from Voltaire to Camus. Excellent English translations appear on pages facing the OriginalFrench. Also included are a French-English vocabulary list, textural notes, and exercises.

VOCABULARY

This is not a complete vocabulary, but a listing of the more unusual or more difficult words which would probably not be known after one year of French.

Note: Under H, an apostrophe indicates an aspirated H.

abattre to knock down

abeille f. bee

abîme m. abyss, chasm

aboyer to bark

abri m. shelter

accaparer to corner, hoard

accouchée f. new mother

accouchement m. delivery (birth)

accoutrer to rig out

accroupir to squat

accueillir to welcome

achalandé frequented, doing thriving business

achat m. purchase

actuellement now

addition f. check (in a restaurant)

adresse f. address, skill

adroitement skilfully

aéro-sanguin blood circulation

affaisser (s’) to collapse, to yield, to subside

affaiter to tame (a bird of prey)

affranchir to liberate

affubler to bedeck

affût m. hiding place

agenouiller to kneel

agir to act; s’agir de to be a question of

aguets, m.pl. aux aguets on the look-out

aigle m. eagle

aiguille f. needle

ail m. garlic

aile f. wing

ailleurs elsewhere; d’ailleurs besides

alentours m.pl. surroundings, environs

aliéner to alienate

allée f. path, lane

allemand German

allure f. gait; à toute allure fast

amarre f. mooring rope, painter

amasser to pile up, to hoard

ampoule f. bulb

andouiller m. tine or point (of an antler)

âne m. donkey

anéantissement m. annihilation

animalcule m. little animal

anneau m. ring

antérieur former

apaiser to appease

apanage m. attribute

apeuré frightened

apitoiement m. pity

appareil m. apparatus

appartenir to belong

appentis m. shed

apprendre to learn, to teach

apprêter to prepare, to cook

appuyer to lean

âpre bitter, harsh

arbalète f. crossbow

archevêque m. archbishop

arçon m. saddle-bow

argent m. silver; money

argile f. clay

armoire f. wardrobe

assidu assiduous

assister to be present at

assommer to kill

assoupir to make drowsy

assoupis...

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Voltaire
• Honoré de Balzac
• Gustave Flaubert
• Charles Baudelaire
• Guy de Maupassant
• Paul Claudel
• André Gide
• François Mauriac
• Marcel Aymé
• Albert Camus
• Notes
• Questionnaire
• Vocabulary