| A | B |
| On a construit les arènes de Nîmes au premier siècle. | The Nîmes'arenas were built in the first century. |
| Victor Hugo a écrit beaucoup de romans, de poèmes et de pièces de théâtre. C'est un très bon écrivain. | Vicot Hugo wrote a lot of novels, poems, and plays. He was a very good writer. |
| Pierre Auguste Renoir est un peintre français qui a vécu au dix-neuvième siècle. | Pierre August Renoir was a French painter who lived in the nineteenth century. |
| Au moyen-âge beaucoup de gens vivaient très mal. | In the Middle ages many people were living very poorly. |
| Un siècle c'est une durée de cent ans. | A century is a period of one hundred years. |