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Title: Poésies choisies de André Chénier
Author: André Chénier
Editor: Jules Derocquigny
Release Date: March 2, 2006 [EBook #17899]
Language: French
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OXFORD HIGHER FRENCH SERIES
EDITED BY LEON DELBOS, M.A.
POÉSIES CHOISIES
D E
ANDRÉ CHÉNIER
EDITED BY
JULES DEROCQUIGNY
PROFESSEUR ADJOINT A LA FACULTÉ DES
LETTRES DE LILLE

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS

1907
HENRY FROWDE, M.A.
PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
LONDON, EDINBURGH
NEW YORK, AND TORONTO

H.F. XVII
GENERAL PREFACE
Encouraged by the favourable reception accorded to the 'Oxford
Modern French Series,' the Delegates of the Clarendon Press
determined, some time since, to issue a 'Higher Series' of French works
intended for Upper Forms of Public Schools and for University and
Private Students, and have entrusted me with the task of selecting and
editing the various volumes that will be issued in due course.
The titles of the works selected will at once make it clear that this series
is a new departure, and that an attempt is made to provide annotated
editions of books which have hitherto been obtainable only in the
original French texts. That Madame de Staël, Madame de Girardin,
Daniel Stern, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Flaubert, Gautier are among the
authors whose works have been selected will leave no doubt as to the
literary excellence of the texts included in this series.
Works of such quality, intended only for advanced scholars, could not
be annotated in the way hitherto usual, since those for whom they have
been prepared are familiar with many things and many events of which
younger students have no knowledge. Geographical and mythological
notes have therefore been generally omitted, as also historical events
either too well known to require elucidation or easily found in the
ordinary books of reference.
By such omissions a considerable amount of space has been saved
which has allowed of the extension of the texts, and of their equipment
with notes less