French Vignettes a Series of Dramatic Episodes (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from French Vignettes a Series of Dramatic Episodes My warm thanks are due to the French Government and to M. Jean de Foville, Conservateur du Cabinet des Estampes of the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris - four reproductions from the National collection being included by permission in these pages. I am also deeply indebted to M. Jacques de la Faye and his publisher, M. Emile Paul, for their courtesy in allowing me to use the portrait and text of their volume, La Princesse Charlotte de Rohan, and for similar services to M. A. Join-Lambert, editor of Le Mariage de Madame Roland, and to M. Hector Fleischmann, author of La Gtiillotine in 1793. I beg also to express my thanks to MM. Neurdein for the reproductions permitted from their vast collection of historic portraits, and further to M. Langlois, photographic artist, Rue Jacob, Paris, who has carried out my wishes with the utmost care and exactitude. Lastly, and as this work goes to press, I have tc add my thanks to Monsieur le Maire of La Reolc, also M. Augeyrolles, photographic artist, for the portraits of the celebrated Twins, the Generals Faucher, of their town. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.