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When Franz is called on in class to recite the rule for participles he was supposed to have learned, he is unable to. M. Hamel, however, doesn’t scold him. Instead, he uses Franz’s failure to illustrate the larger failure of all the French natives of Alsace-Lorraine. These French citizens, according to M. Hamel, have not taken their education seriously enough. As a result, they lack a sound grasp of their own language. By neglecting their education, and thereby their own language, they allow the Prussian invaders to justify their occupation of the region. If the French citizens of Alsace-Lorraine do…