- Faltering Counsel by Paul Verlaine
- Written After Visiting a Prison Hulk by Victor Hugo
- The Child and the Schoolmaster by Jean De La Fontaine
School
Poems and fables about school: the classroom, the teacher and pupils daydreaming by the window. Prévert contributes “The Dunce” and “Exercise Book”, two poems French children very often learn by heart. Verlaine, Victor Hugo and La Fontaine, with “The Child and the Schoolmaster”, complete the theme.
