Essayez La fameuse Dictée de Mérimée ! La Plus Difficile de La Langue Française !

🧑‍🎓The dictation... it takes us back to school, and we found it complicated, but if we go back even further in time, in the 19th century, an even more difficult dictation was developed, that of Mérimée. 00:04 Presentation of the dictation 01:04 Listen to the text 02:40 The dictation 13:21 The answer key 🧑‍🎓 Here is the answer key according to the new spelling (1990): "To speak without ambiguity, this dinner at Sainte-Adresse, near Le Havre, despite the fragrant aromas of the sea, despite the very good wines, the veal legs, and the venison legs lavished by the host, was a real mess. However small the deposits the dowager and churchwarden were supposed to have given might have seemed, compared to the amount owed, it was infamous to hold it against these twin, poorly built riflemen and to inflict a beating on them, when all they were thinking about was enjoying refreshments with their coreligionists. Be that as it may, the dowager was quite wrong to have allowed herself, through an exorbitant misinterpretation, to be led to take up a rake and to feel obliged to strike the demanding churchwarden on his aged shoulder blade. Two sockets were broken; dysentery set in, followed by consumption, and the unfortunate man's imbecility increased. — By Saint Martin, what a hemorrhage! cried the scoundrel. At this point, grabbing his holy water sprinkler, a ridiculous piece of excess baggage, he chased her throughout the church." 🧑‍🎓 Video by @leheraut