A Brief Introduction of Dodd's The Last Lesson
Alphonse Dude's short story The Last Lesson tells that France was defeated after the Franco-Prussian War and ceded Alsace and Lorraine. After the Prussian occupation, French was banned and German was taught. Patriotic French teachers and students took the last French class, which showed the patriotic feelings of the French people. 19 12 was translated and first introduced to China. Since then, it has been selected as a middle school Chinese textbook in China for a long time, surpassing the barriers of different periods and ideologies and becoming one of the most famous and popular French literary works in China. Even as a synonym for dude, as a symbol of "patriotism", it can be integrated into modern China people. Through the last lesson, generations of China readers have learned the meaning of the sentence "French {mother tongue} is the most beautiful, clear and rigorous language in the world" and that "when a nation becomes a slave, as long as it keeps its own language well, it is like mastering the key to opening a prison."