douee d'un grand appetit?--Comment
mangeait-elle?--Qu'est-ce que les spectateurs se demandaient
enfin?--Gargantua aurait-il approche du gourmand du bal?--Qui
avait ete prepose a la garde du chateau?--Quelle plaisanterie
avait-on imaginee pour participer aux joies de la fete?--La reine
a-t-elle ri de la mascarade?--A-t-on continue de veiller au
renouvellement des provisions du buffet?

Cherchez des antonymes a dix mots de cette histoire.

GRAMMAR REVIEW.--LESSON I

Use of definite and indefinite articles.--Simple
interrogation.--Contraction of _de_ and _a_ with definite
article.--Possessive case of nouns.--_Chez_.

EXAMPLES

La France est un beau pays. France is a beautiful country.
Les chevaux sont utiles. Horses are useful.
Je donne ces fruits au professeur, I give this fruit to the
a la femme, a l'homme, aux teacher, to the woman, to
garcons, aux petites filles, etc. the man, etc.
Les livres de la femme, du jeune The woman's books, the young
homme, de l'eleve, des enfants, man's, the pupil's, etc.
des petites filles.
Ou est le pere de Jean? Est-il Where is John's father? Is he
chez le professeur? at the teacher's?
A-t-il un livre? Has he a book?

A. 1. Moliere is going to give a sou to the beggar. 2. Honesty
is a good thing.[1] 3. He rewarded the beggar's honesty. 4.
Voltaire's name is well known. 5. He was Piron's friend. 6. He
spent some time at Piron's house.[2] 7. They[3] gave[4] a fete
on the occasion of the dauphin's birth. 8. The soldier's appetite
was prodigious. 9. The king's officers were at Moliere's house.
10. The man with the insatiable stomach approaches[5] the buffet.
11. The beggar notices[6] Moliere's mistake. 12. Will you be
at the dauphin's castle? 13. I shall be at the queen's castle.
14. Does he give the beggar a sou?

[Footnotes: 1: chose (f.). 2: _omit_. 3: on. 4: _past
indefinite_. 5: s'approcher de. 6: s'apercevoir _de_ (_become
aware of_).]

B. 1. The king's officers did not laugh at[1] the joke. 2. The
surprise of the old courtiers was[2] great. 3. Voltaire was a
famous author. 4. The servant's master will not be at the castle.
5. He wouldn't have[3] gone to[4] see the servant. 6. The man
with[5] the yellow mask had gone to the chateau. 7. The beggar
does not notice[6] the mistake at once. 8. I wondered[7] who
was the man with[5] the insatiable stomach. 9. The king winked
at[8] the prank.