Excerpt from French Men of Letters A pause followed, as though the great man intended to afford me time to subdue my emo tion and then, in a grave sweet voice, such as I had never heard before, he welcomed me to the house of his exile and invited me to enter. 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.
Excerpt from Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve: French Men of Letters I take pleasure in acknowledging my indebt edness to M. Gustave Michaut, Of the Sorbonne, whose large and profound work, sainte-beiwe avant les Landis, has not only helped me in detail but served as an example of disinterested zeal. I have imagined M. Michaut correcting my conjectures, out of his vast store of exact knowledge, and the thought has been a spur to industry. If I have felt obliged to disagree With him in regard to his main contention that sainte-beuve established a method Of criticism - the reason probably lies in an incor rigible difference Of race. 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.
Excerpt from Classic French Letters: Selected and Edited With Notes The literary interest is much more complex. In my Opinion, the first and indispensable requirement for this is that the letters reveal to us the writer, not his Opinions or his history, but the man himself, in his weakness and his strength, his unreasoned tastes and his unfounded prejudices; they must be letters and not essays. Whatever does not meet this need may have great interest and value, but must rank in an other class. I know of course the danger and the difficulty of classification; if any one chooses to pro nounce Burke's Letter on the French Revolution or the correspondence between Goethe and Schiller the very ideal of letter-writing, there is nothing to be said. But the ordinary man would shrink with horror and alarm at the receipt of such letters, and the judgment of the ordinary man on such a point must be accepted as conclusive. 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.
Excerpt from Letters From France, Vol. 2: Containing Many New Anecdotes Relative to the French Revolution, and the Present State of French Manners; Third Edition Francois? Were almof't loft amid: tlrofe of Vive la nation! C'e: la nation qui triomphe C'eft la conflitution qui triomphe l. 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."
Excerpt from Scenes of Clerical Life Litany, only to feel with more intensity my burst into the conspicuousness of public life when I was made to stand up on the seat during the psalms or the singing. 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.
Excerpt from Letter to a Great Man in France Mr. P-y was again/z a Coalition of Parties, and grew cool in it. When Mr. P-uy was for a Coalition of Parties, it was not, that he approved of the Sentiments and Principles of all Parties, or that he thought, they ever could clo/e toge ther; but that a Coalition of Parties, at that Junéture, was necefi'ary, to carry on the grand Work he had been fo many Years engaged in, of wrefiing Power out of the Hands of one, who, in his Judgment, mif. Ufed it. Could any one in his Senfes, could you, my Lord, imagine, Mr. P-y could ever approve of jacooite Principles, or could ever think them confi/tent with thofe of Wloiggi/nz But Mr. P-y, never thelefs, (your Lordfhip fays) was for a Co alition, and for burying all Dif'tiné'tion of Names and Parties: True Mr. Pu like a wife Man, took in every Aid that he pofiibly could get, that by means of the united Force of all together, he might the fooner compafs his End; after which, each Party, divided ao origine in Principles, emerg'd again, divided in Intere/tr, as be fore. 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.
Excerpt from French Soldiers' Letters If the letters received by the American Ouvroir in Paris may be taken as types representing the average state of mind of the French soldier, then it would appear that the French soldier does not look upon himself in any sense as a hero, but merely as a man who in the simplest way possible is doing his' duty. The courageous way in which most of these men take their hard lives at the front, surrounded as they are continually by danger and discomforts, with death or maiming a daily possibility, is in itself worthy of admiration. When considered in conjunction with the fact that their homes are in the invaded portions of France, that these soldiers have not heard from their wives, children or par ents since the war started, these otherwise simple letters should increase our respect for a nation which produces such men by the million. When one gets to personally know these men on their short leaves and sees how they take what would appear to us a great tragedy in such a simple and, unaffected. Manner, one feels that it is a rare privilege to be able to help them. I would be grateful if you could send me a pair of socks, ' a soldier will write, and then adds that he has not heard from his wife and three children since the war started and does not know whether they are starving, or even alive. The smallness and humbleness of the request, coupled with the real tragic posi tion in which the man is placed, constitutes something that onehas to have actually lived with to appreciate. And then the vast majority of these French soldiers are such a gentle lot, so kindly and genial, that it seems almost impossible to realize that they have just come on leave from the first line of trenches, where they have been engaged in throwing bombs and hand grenades at the enemy and engaging in fierce night attacks with the bayonet. I remember seeing one such gentle creature - perhaps I might say gentle-man - lying in a bed in one of the French hospitals with a very pale, delicate face and. A long beard, while on the lapel of his bed jacket was pinned the cross of the Legion of Honor. This man, who was small in stature and delicate in build, had held up a German armor-plate automobile, armed with a rapid-firing gun and a crew of several Germans. The result of this hold up was that the armor-plated automobile was captured, although the man in question almost lost his life in doing so, and will probably be a human wreck for the remainder of his life. This man's face was almost ascetic in its spirituality, and yet back of all this gentleness lay the moral courage which makes the French soldier one of the best in the world. 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.
Excerpt from A Summer in France: Letters They seem to have been all over the world without learning anything from their travels. Wonderful people! The woman next me I have not yet had the courage to say good morning to; she is - well - you and I would call it stout, but she has a mind of a different order, and thinks herself sweetly plump, and assures the rag-doll lady that the reason she eats so little is because she is afraid she will become stout. I must not forget the young boy who looks just like Nana, the dog, in Peter Pan. 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.
Excerpt from Letters to His Wife My first idea in printing my husband's letters was to have them, in a complete and more convenient form, for private circulation among those few intimate friends and relations to whom I had sent copies of each letter as it arrived. During the last few weeks, however, I have been asked by so many people to have his letters published, that I have at last decided to let them appear as they now do. But I do this very hesitatingly. To those who knew my husband, and who know his writings, no apology is needed. To others I feel I should like to give some explanation. The letters were written under very great difficulties. How great, I think, few people can realise without having known the man. He was French by descent, his branch of the Vernede family being Huguenots, who left southern France in 1685 at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and emigrated to Holland and then to England. 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.
