He will approach the village

Vocabulaire

Écrivez le contraire de:

Jeune, bruit, après, toujours, perdre, bien, malheureuse, riche, partir.

NOTES

The heavier figures refer to pages of the text; the other figures to the line in which the Word or phrase appears.

1. Title. Légionnaire: a soldier of the Foreign Légion, troops created in 1835 in Algeria (Africa) and composed only of foreigners in the service of France.

Subtitle. Qui raconte: The antécédent of qui is chapitre (chapter) understood.

La Bataille de la Marne: On August 3, 1914, Germany declared war on France and at once invaded Belgium to force her way to Paris. After being unexpectedly delayed a few weeks by the dogged résistance of the small Belgian army, the Germans swept the British and French troops before them and reached the banks of the river Marne (northeastern France) in the first days of September. There the French commander- in- chief, General Joffre, ordered the retreating armies “ to get killed on the spot rather than fall back.” The battle lasted from September 5 to September 12, with the resuit that the defeated German troops had to beat a general retreat as far north as the river Aisne, and Paris was saved. (See map, page 10.)

2, 5. Lille: the largest industrial city of northern France, lt has over 200,000 inhabitants and is situated about 156 miles north of Paris.

9. que = comme. The conjunction que is used here to avoid repeating comme.