Go to your place quickly you little Franz we were beginning without you
My children, this is the last lesson that I shall give you. The order bas come from berlin to teach only german in schools of Alsace and lorraine. The new master comes tomorrow. This is your last french lesson. I want you to be attentive
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“I won’t scold you, littleFranz; you must feel bad enough. See how it is! Every daywe have said to ourselves, ‘Bah! I’ve plenty of time. I’lllearn it tomorrow.’ And now you see where we’ve come out.Ah, that’s the great trouble with Alsace; she puts offlearning till tomorrow. Now those fellows out there willhave the right to say to you, ‘How is it; you pretend to beFrenchmen, and yet you can neither speak nor write yourown language?’ But you are not the worst, poor little Franz.We’ve all a great deal to reproach ourselves with.”“Your parents were not anxious enough to have youlearn. They preferred to put you to work on a farm or atthe mills, so as to have a little more money. And I? I’vebeen to blame also. Have I not oftensent you to water my flowersinstead of learning yourlessons? And when Iwanted to go fishing,did I not just giveyou a holiday?”
Come franz you should know the rules of participals
French language,saying that it wasthe most beautiful that we must guard it among us andnever forget it, because when apeople are enslaved, as long asthey hold fast to their languageit is as if they had the key to theirprison.