French–English parallel text
Le Fermier et la Cigogne
The Farmer and the Stork
Aesop
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Une cigogne très simple et confiante avait été invitée par un groupe joyeux de grues à visiter un champ qui venait d’être semé. Mais la fête s’est mal terminée, avec tous les oiseaux emmêlés dans le filet du fermier.
A stork who was very simple and trusting had been invited by a cheerful group of cranes to visit a field that had just been planted. But the party ended badly, with all the birds tangled in the farmer’s net.
La cigogne a supplié le fermier de la laisser partir.
The stork begged the farmer to let him go.
« S’il vous plaît, laissez-moi partir, a-t-elle supplié. J’appartiens à la famille des cigognes, et vous savez que les cigognes sont des oiseaux honnêtes qui ont un bon caractère. De plus, je ne savais pas que les grues allaient voler. »
“Please let me go,” he pleaded. “I belong to the stork family, and you know storks are honest birds with a good character. Besides, I didn’t know the cranes were going to steal.”
« Vous êtes peut-être un très bon oiseau, a répondu le fermier, mais je vous ai attrapée avec les grues voleuses, et vous devrez partager leur punition. »
“You may be a very good bird,” the farmer answered, “but I caught you with the thieving cranes, and you’ll have to share their punishment.”
On vous juge d’après les personnes que vous fréquentez.
People judge you by the company you keep.
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