Lesson summary
The key points to remember, for revision.
- 1Context: in 1871 Alsace and part of Lorraine became German; Daudet imagines the last French lesson.
- 2Future in the past = conditional: il avait dit qu’il nous interrogerait.
- 3Ne… plus que = nothing but … anymore.
- 4A C1 opinion: position, example, nuance (certes… néanmoins), conclusion.
Key vocabulary
| gronder | to scold |
| le maître | the schoolmaster |
| vaincu | defeated |
| le dialecte | dialect |
| néanmoins | nevertheless |