This book is an intensive lexical builder for French vocabulary focused on verbs (and their prepositions), but also taking into account general vocabulary. Notably, the lexical items are embedded in sentences, thereby appealing to both short-term and long term memory and ensuring rapid and stable memorization.

This lexical builder is addressed mainly to intermediate learners; however, advanced learners could also profit from it, since the sentences are lexically rich and care has been taken to highlight numerous idiomatic expressions.

In the beginning, there are two short stories by Guy de Maupassant - ‘The Legion of Honour’/’ Décoré’ and 'Deux amis/ Two friends' – published in 1883 and translated in English in 1903 by Albert M.C. McMaster.

The stories are presented in a bilingual, juxta-paragraph translation – French sentences or phrases are immediately followed by translation. The stories are attended by a general lexical builder, focused on their vocabulary, and by a more specific builder, focused on verbs.

Both of Maupassant’s stories and their English translations are now public domain. (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Short_Stories_of_Guy_de_Maupassant)