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Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.)

Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.) by Jules Noriac is available here as the complete text, split into 502 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.

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Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.) by Jules Noriac. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #50179.

39 chaptersComplete chronicle
Five linesIn each reading
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Academic course · 39 chapters

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Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.)

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  1. Chapter I 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  2. Chapter II 33 readings five lines each Open chapter
  3. Chapter III 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  4. Chapter IV 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  5. Chapter V 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  6. Chapter VI 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  7. Chapter VII 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  8. Chapter VIII 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  9. Chapter IX 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  10. Chapter X 5 readings five lines each Open chapter
  11. Chapter XI 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  12. Chapter XII 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  13. Chapter XIII 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  14. Chapter XIV 1 readings five lines each Open chapter
  15. Chapter XV 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  16. Chapter XVI 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  17. Chapter XVII 9 readings five lines each Open chapter
  18. Chapter XVIII 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  19. Chapter XIX 27 readings five lines each Open chapter
  20. Chapter XX 17 readings five lines each Open chapter
  21. Chapter XXI 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  22. Chapter XXII 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  23. Chapter XXIII 6 readings five lines each Open chapter
  24. Chapter XXIV 21 readings five lines each Open chapter
  25. Chapter XXV 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  26. Chapter XXVI 19 readings five lines each Open chapter
  27. Chapter XXVII 13 readings five lines each Open chapter
  28. Chapter XXVIII 22 readings five lines each Open chapter
  29. Chapter XXIX 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  30. Chapter XXX 10 readings five lines each Open chapter
  31. Chapter XXXI 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  32. Chapter XXXII 11 readings five lines each Open chapter
  33. Chapter XXXIII 40 readings five lines each Open chapter
  34. Chapter XXXIV 7 readings five lines each Open chapter
  35. Chapter XXXV 1 readings five lines each Open chapter
  36. Chapter XXXVI 3 readings five lines each Open chapter
  37. Chapter XXXVII 4 readings five lines each Open chapter
  38. Chapter XXXVIII 12 readings five lines each Open chapter
  39. Chapter XXXIX 14 readings five lines each Open chapter

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Project Gutenberg eBook #50179, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.

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About 209 minutes of reading across 502 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.

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Vocabulary met early in Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.)

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Eusebe
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Martin
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Attained
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Twenty-first
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