French: La Forêt Vierge (2/2)
Hello, the second part of the poem. At the end, it’s rather dark as often with this poet. Actually, for the forest, it ends well, eventually… Edit: corrections made.
French: La forêt vierge (1/2)
Hello, a poem in two parts. It’s from Leconte de Lisle, a 19th century poet who has quite an evocative style. A lot of difficult words… “Hallier” is a “groupe de buissons serrés” says my newly bought dictionary.
French: Madame se meurt (suite et fin)
Hello, here is the following paragraph of the Bossuet eulogy about Henriette-Anne, the king’s brother’s spouse. It’s shorter and, I think, there’s no difficulty. Next time, a lighter text… Edit: corrections done. Edit: At the behest of Mr Salkilld, here are the first three lines of the text and the transcription in French: I don’t have…
French: Madame se meurt
Hello, granted, this is not a “jolly text” but it’s from Bossuet and it is from his most famous oration. The speaker is there at the peak of his art. Lastly I can add there’s a weak relationship between this text and the previous one in French: poor Henriette-Anne’s state would have been the combination…
French: “La croissance exponentielle“
Hello, here is an except from a French translation of “The Limits to Growth, the 30-Year Update”. (The author of this little tale would be the mathematician Robert Lattès.)
French: “Supertick…”
”Supertick” Hello, a short excerpt from a book about survival in nature. The author, David Manise, talks about his encounter with a tick and is praising its survival skills. Warning: tickbullying… Edit: corrections done.
French: Ce qu’un geste amical peut faire
Hello, as Carlos seems to be still interested, I propose this text made of simple words. Sounds like a true story… Alas, a bit lengthy…
Le python a le cœur gros (French)
Hello, I found on this webpage a little text in Prévost-Delaunay shorthand: https://lepetitstenographe.pagesperso-orange.fr/Doss_textes_base/python_steno.html So I asked the author if I could borrow the text. Here is the text in French Gregg (Sénécal):
Voyage au centre de la Terre – chap. 2 - part. 2
Hello, second part of the chapter 2 of Jules Verne’s novel. The professor Lindenbrock was showing the old book he has just bought to his nephew when suddenly… Second partie du chapitre 2 du roman de Jules Verne. Le professor Lindenbrock était en train de montrer sa nouvelle acquisition à son neveu quand soudain… Again,…
Voyage au centre de la Terre – Chap. 2 – Part. 1
Hello, here’s the first part of the second chapter of “Voyage au centre de la Terre” by Jules Verne. Voici la première partie du second chapitre de « Voyage au centre de la Terre » de Jules Verne. Again, please, feel free to comment if any form feels wrong or difficult to understand. Thanks. N’hésitez pas, s’il…