LE VERBE "FAIRE

A complète Glossary of >the Idioms in which this yerb oocnni

With Sxeroiaes.

Bt L. p. BLOUET, B.A.,

Frmch Moèter, âL PauTi Sckool, Loiukm»

1 ToL« amall 8wo, clotli. Prioe 28.

There is no verb in French whioh onters into the oonstraotion of mors ralliciams than the verbe Faikb. It is the Frenoh verb par exeelUnee, The French, in fact, nse it in bo many ways that foreig^ners must find great diffioulty in understanding ail ita différent meaniiigs.

I bave undertaken to coUect as many gallicisms as possible in which tiie verbe Faius is employed, and with, this object I hâve admitted noi only those which occur in car classical authors, but also suoh as are nsed fai popolar and oonversational lanfçuage.

As the course of reading folio wed by stndents of French is naturally not oonfined to the works of Corneille and Hacine, I think it is désirable to make them aoquainted with those familiar expressions which they will constantly find in French books and newspaper^ and will oontinually hear npon the stage.

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