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A Gentleman of France

A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman is available here as the complete public-domain text, split into 1480 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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A Gentleman of France: Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne Sieur de Marsac by Stanley John Weyman. Complete public-domain text from Project Gutenberg eBook #1939.

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This edition of A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman carries the complete text of Project Gutenberg eBook #1939, divided into 36 chapters and 1480 reading sections of 5 sentences each. Every sentence of the source is kept, and each chapter records which sentences cover which part of the story. Any word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry, and each section carries a contextual illustration generated from the passage itself.

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