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Question
Guess why M. Hamel was leaving the country.
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Solution
- M. Hamel was highly patriotic and had a profound love for the French language.
- With the Prussians having taken over Alsace and Lorraine, he might be leaving the country because he did not want to live under Prussian rule, where teaching the French language was forbidden.
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