Prussia has taken over Alsace and Lorraine districts of France in the war. They have sent an order that French will no longer be taught in the schools of Alsace and Lorraine. They will learn only German now. M. Hamel is teaching his last lesson in French. He wants all of them to take their education seriously and to learn their own language i.e. French properly. He says when people are enslaved, as long as they hold fast to their language, it is as if they had the key to their prison.