A Glossary Of Colloquial And Popular French: For The Use Of English Readers And Travellers

vi ; FOREWORD quotation from a French author. Although a large proportion of the voluminous matter gathered together in the preparation of this volume has had to be jettisoned in the process of selection, the labour entailed was necessary as a check to arbitrariness, and will be amply repaid if we have succeeded, as we hope, in providing the traveller and reader with a truly representative collection of the words and phrases he is most likely to encounter in his reading, or to‘hear or be called