Will you get a 10/10 on this dictation, reputed to be the most difficult in the world?
2024-04-17T05:56:55.286Z
Highlights: In line with the Grande Dictée des Jeux, organized on Friday April 12, Le Figaro invites you to measure yourself against Mérimée's famous dictation. The whole court took part in the game, with often disappointing results... The empress made sixty-two mistakes, Alexandre Dumas fils made twenty-four, and Emperor Napoleon III had to correct his copy seventy-five times. To make matters worse, it was the Austrian ambassador, Metternich Jr., who brilliantly won the event with only three mistakes. A good player, Dumas would have said to him: "When will you, prince, present yourself at the Academy to teach us spelling?"” '’. '. '. '. '. ', '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’, '’,
QUIZ - In line with the Grande Dictée des Jeux, organized on Friday April 12, Le Figaro invites you to measure yourself against Mérimée's famous dictation.
On Friday April 12, on a beautiful sunny afternoon, 3,000 school nostalgics and other spelling lovers took part in the Grande Dictée des Jeux, organized by the Paris Book Festival. For the more daring among you, eager to continue this school reminiscence or anxious to settle an old dispute with the rules of agreement, here is a challenge of choice: Mérimée's dictation.
Written in 1857 by the French novelist Prosper Mérimée, this text was commissioned by Empress Eugénie de Montijo. The whole court took part in the game, with often disappointing results... The empress made sixty-two mistakes, Alexandre Dumas fils, twenty-four. As for Emperor Napoleon III, he had to correct his copy seventy-five times. To make matters worse, it was the Austrian ambassador, Metternich Jr., who brilliantly won the event with only three mistakes. A good player, Dumas would have said to him:
“When will you, prince, present yourself at the Academy to teach us spelling?”
Although the text has since been somewhat reworked, due to changes in spelling, it has retained all of its subtleties of vocabulary which have challenged generations of schoolchildren. Can you do better than Dumas and Napoleon III? Le Figaro invites you to take up the challenge in a short test.
