Originally published in 1906, with the aim of educating British schoolchildren, this book provides a full text, in the original French, of the famous seventeenth-century drama Le Cid by Pierre Corneille. H. W. Eve begins the work with a biography of the playwright and of the original Le Cid, as well as many notes on the linguistic, literary and historical content of the play. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in French drama or the history of French education in Britain.