French–English parallel text
Le Vieil Homme et son petit-fils
The Old Man and His Grandson
Brothers Grimm
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Il était une fois un homme très âgé. Ses yeux étaient devenus faibles, il entendait à peine et ses genoux tremblaient. Quand il était assis à table, il pouvait à peine tenir sa cuillère, et il renversait de la soupe sur la nappe ou la laissait couler de sa bouche.
There was once a very old man. His eyes had grown dim, he could hardly hear, and his knees shook. When he sat at the table, he could hardly hold his spoon, and he spilled soup on the tablecloth or let it run out of his mouth.
Son fils et la femme de son fils étaient dégoûtés par cela. À la fin, le vieux grand-père a dû s’asseoir dans le coin derrière le poêle, et ils lui ont donné sa nourriture dans un bol en terre cuite, et même pas en quantité suffisante.
His son and his son’s wife were disgusted by this. In the end, the old grandfather had to sit in the corner behind the stove, and they gave him his food in a clay bowl, and not even enough of it.
Il regardait vers la table avec les yeux pleins de larmes. Une fois, ses mains tremblantes n’ont pas pu tenir le bol, et il est tombé par terre et s’est cassé. La jeune femme l’a grondé, mais il n’a rien dit et a seulement soupiré.
He would look toward the table with his eyes full of tears. Once his shaking hands couldn’t hold the bowl, and it fell to the floor and broke. The young wife scolded him, but he said nothing and only sighed.
Alors ils lui ont acheté un bol en bois pour quelques sous, et il a dû manger là-dedans.
Then they bought him a wooden bowl for a few pennies, and he had to eat out of that.
Un jour, ils étaient assis là quand leur petit-fils, qui avait quatre ans, a commencé à ramasser des morceaux de bois par terre. « Qu’est-ce que tu fais là ? » a demandé le père.
They were sitting there one day when their little grandson, who was four years old, began to gather bits of wood on the floor. “What are you doing there?” asked the father.
« Je fabrique une petite auge, a répondu l’enfant, pour que Maman et toi vous mangiez dedans quand je serai grand. »
“I’m making a little trough,” the child answered, “for you and Mother to eat out of when I’m big.”
L’homme et sa femme se sont regardés pendant un moment, puis ils ont commencé à pleurer. Ils ont amené le vieux grand-père à la table, et à partir de ce moment-là ils l’ont toujours laissé manger avec eux, et ils ne disaient rien s’il en renversait un peu.
The man and his wife looked at each other for a while, and then they began to cry. They took the old grandfather to the table, and from then on they always let him eat with them, and they said nothing if he spilled a little.
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