Funny Stories (Histoires pour rire) - in French

The collection "Funny Stories" presents readers with various aspects of the French humorous tradition, from everyday and historical anecdotes to ironic works by famous philosophers and fragments of classical literature (Voltaire, Rabelais, Molière, A. Daudet, etc.). The texts are built... on elementary grammatical material, making the book suitable for both high school students and adults who are beginning to learn French. The dictionary contains most of the words found in the texts, except for loanwords that are understandable to the Russian reader without translation (centime, litre, critique, etc.).
Only meanings found in the book are given for polysemous words.
The page-by-page notes provide translations of idioms and the most complex grammatical constructions.
The book is intended for independent reading but can also be used in French language classes.