French · Beginner
Read Les Petites Filles modèles in Frenchwith every sentence explained
English title: The Model Little Girls
Comtesse de Ségur · 1858
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About the book
Les Petites Filles modèles by Comtesse de Ségur was first published in 1858. In Passage you read the full text in the original French, marked beginner and filed under children. It runs to about 49,200 words.
Two perfect little sisters. One very naughty friend. A summer full of surprises.
At the château of Fleurville, in the French countryside, Madame de Fleurville raises her two daughters, lively eight-year-old Camille and gentle seven-year-old Madeleine. They never quarrel, always share and try hard to be good. One day, a carriage accident on the road near the house brings them a new friend: little Marguerite de Rosbourg and her mother, who soon become part of the family.
Life at Fleurville is full of small adventures: picnics, hedgehogs, stolen pears, a soaked doll and a mad dog. Then the girls meet Sophie, a neighbour's child who is treated harshly at home and gets into trouble wherever she goes.
The Model Little Girls is a much-loved classic by the Comtesse de Ségur, and a sequel to Sophie's Misfortunes. Its simple, lively French makes it a gentle first novel for learners.
- Author
- Comtesse de Ségur
- First published
- 1858
- Language
- French
- Level
- Beginner
- Genre
- Children
- Length
- About 49,200 words
How it opens
Mme de Fleurville était la mère de deux petites filles, bonnes, gentilles, aimables, et qui avaient l'une pour l'autre le plus tendre attachement. On voit souvent des frères et des soeurs se quereller, se contredire et venir se plaindre à leurs parents après s'être disputés de manière qu'il soit impossible de démêler de quel côté vient le premier tort. Jamais on n'entendait une discussion entre Camille et Madeleine. Tantôt l'une, tantôt l'autre cédait au désir exprimé par sa soeur.
Reading Les Petites Filles modèles in Passage
Passage sets the book as a quiet, paginated reader in French. Read at your own pace, and when a sentence stops you, tap it. You get:
- a natural translation of that exact sentence,
- a short note on the grammar, in plain words,
- the key words, which you can save with the sentence they came from,
- all of it in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Turkish or Portuguese, whichever you read best.
It's marked beginner, so it's a good first whole book if you know the basics of French and want something you can finish. The words you save come back later in short review games, so the book keeps teaching after you close it.
