The research deals with the issue of the use of original documents (Les documents authentiques) in teaching the French language as a foreign language, and we have presented a quick historical look at the beginning of this educational technology, and we reviewed the opinion of some educated professionals regarding the issue of these documents and their exploitation of the foreign language learning process. We presented models for documents of various subjects, and to clarify the matter, we presented two texts: the first deals with astronomy, and the second is a text on tourism that talks about the Syrian city of Palmyra with suggested exercises to give to learners.