About this page

This page is for students at Quinsigamond Community College. If you arrived here in error, please see the main Liberté page at lightandmatter.com/french.

About the book

Liberté, by Gretchen Angelo, is a first-year college French textbook that aims to get students speaking French right away. It has been adopted by instructors at over thirty-five colleges and high schools. The textbook may be downloaded for free in accordance with the license, or printed copies can be ordered.

To get the student copy of the book, click (or right-click, depending on your computer) here to download it, or go to Lulu to purchase a printed copy for $12.75 plus shipping. The book is 583 pages.

The download is a large Adobe Acrobat file (about 25 Mb), and may take some time to load if you have a slow connection. You will need the free Adobe Reader software, which comes preinstalled on most computers. Liberté is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, which for students basically means that you are free to download it or print it but not to sell it at a profit.

About the audio recordings

The audio recordings for each chapter are in MP3 format. Your professor will tell you how to access these.