The real manual is broken to 18 lessons, containing base grammatical information, small texts and dialogues, and also exercises on fixing of material. The authors of manual for self-tuition, having teaching experience, do not put before itself an aim to overcome all complications of French. They offer to the reader a necessary grammatical and lexical minimum allowing to make first advances to sure possession French by a language.In a book a few texts are placed from French classic literature: fairy-tales of Шарля Перро, separate heads from "Tristan and Isolde" and "Cathedral of Parisian Mother" of God, verses of the prominent French poets. All of it, together with short cross-cultural information, does the process of educating more various and enthralling.At the end of book Appendix, that was entered by additional lexical and grammatical material, Dictionaries (including to the literary works placed in a manual for self-tuition) and Keys to exercises.Edition is intended for the wide circle of readers proceeding to the study of French.