Choix de Poesies: A Collection of French Poetry for Memorizing

Produced by Al Haines
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF FRENCH IN McGILL UNIVERSITY
1908
Entered, according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and seven, by M.-L. Milhau, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.
This little collection is intended for colleges and secondary schools, and should serve as a graded course for several years. The pieces being printed in chronological order, the teacher will have to select the most appropriate to the knowledge of his classes.
The editor's aim in selecting these poems for memorizing, was to acquaint students with standard pieces of French literature, known by any educated Frenchman. At the same time, he has been careful to choose such poems as will be of greatest help in connection with prose writing and conversational French, supplying the memory with useful vocabulary, idioms and model sentences.
MONTREAL, July, 1907.
PIERRE DE RONSARD Sonnet pour Hélène
FRANÇOIS DE MALHERBE Consolation à M. Du Perrier
PIERRE CORNEILLE Récit de Rodrigue
JEAN RACINE Réponse d'Iphigénie à Agamemnon
NICOLAS BOILEAU Satire VI