It's what I like so much about French grammar. You (finally) learn the rules once, you know they'll be exactly the same twenty years from now.

Actually, that's not quite true. There are ebbs and tides of phrasing (within unchangingly obscure grammar), as I re-encounter every year when the "grandes poches" all want to "modernize" our correspondence.

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And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smiling [faces] lyin' to ye' everywhere ye' go
Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.