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Physics.—Optics, electricity. 
Chemistry.—Of the carbon compounds. 
German.—Selections from the dramatic poetry of Schiller, Goethe, 
Kleist and Grillparzer. Extracts from the prose works of Wieland, 
Goethe, Schiller, Auerbach, Freytag, Scheffel, etc. 
English.—Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and Macbeth, extracts from 
Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, Dickens, 
Macaulay, Ehot, Tennyson and Thackeray. 
Algebra.—Equations and trinomials of the second degree. Calcu- 
lation of the derivatives of simple functions; study of their variation 
and graphic representation; study of rectilinear motion by means of 
the theory of derivatives; velocity and acceleration; uniformly changing 
motion. 
Geometry.—Solid. 
Descriptive Geometry.—Elements. 
Trigonometry.—Plane, including the use of four or five place 
logarithim tables, the solution of triangles and trignometric equations. 
In passing it may be worth noting that the Latin course for Premiére 
A, B, C, includes the study of selections from Cicero’s letters and ora- 
tions, from Livy, Seneca, Tacitus, Lucretius, Virgil and from Horace’s 
Satires and Epodes. The Greek course for Premiére A, considers ex- 
tracts from Xenophon’s Memorabilia, from Plato, Demosthenes, Homer, 
Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, etc. 
The Baccalauréat. 
Having finished the Premiére, the éléve presents himself for exam- 
ination under conditions which once more emphasise the unity of the 
French educational system. ‘This is the examination for the first part 
of the state degree known as the Baccalauréat. 
A peculiar feature of this examination is that it is not held in the 
lycées but at the university of the académie to which the particular 
lycée belongs.! As various civil and practically all government posi- 
tions, except those in post and telegraph offices are only open to bachel- 
vers, the state introduces into the body of examiners some who are wholly 
independent of the lycées. These examiners are the professors in the 
universities. 
Since our future mathematicians are to come from Premiére C and 
D we shall give a few particulars concerning their examination. All 
examinations for the baccalauréat are held in July and October— 
at the ending of one school year and the beginning of the next. The 
? As there is no university at Chambéry, the candidate presents himself before 
a faculty of either Lyons or Grenoble. 
