monsieur connaît, 'this gentleman knows

6, comme tu es coiffée ! ' what a state your hair is in !' 14. il fait asseoir. The infinitives of certain verbs — such as s'asseoir, se souvenir, se taire — regularly omit se when preceded hy faire.

36. 1. le récit de Théramène. The description of the death of

Hippolj'te by Théramène, a fine passage of about sixty lines, in Act V, Scène 6, of Phèdre, one of Racine's tragédies. It is one of the famous pièces of French poetry.