Author: G. Lenôtre

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-07-20

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9781440044687

Excerpt from The Dauphin (Louis XVII): The Riddle of the Temple The following narrative Of the captivity of the little King Of the Temple is to be distinguished from the numerous works treating the same subject, inasmuch as it is based entirely on Official documents and authorised testimony, intentionally omitting the touching and doubt ful legends under which the thread Of this sorrowful story has too Often disappeared. It does not follow that no deduction is allowable. The gaps in this confused chronicle are numerous and, in order to set forth the peripetia without too many interruptions, one must indeed sometimes have recourse to the subterfuge of argument; yet it has been made use Of with reserve and through neces sity, preferring, in the absence Of certainty, an avowal Of doubt to a rash affirmation. From the comparison Of these presumptions and these indisputably authentic facts re sults a fresh solution Of what Louis Blanc calls the Mystery of the Temple, - a partial but unexpected solution which will perhaps astonish my readers, which will shock some Of them, and which, it is to be feared, will satisfy nobody completely, since it does not lead to the desired end. It presents, however, the advantage Of a rigorous connection with what we know Of the history Of the Temple and it restores to the boyish figure of King Louis XVII the too unrecognised place which it nncon sciously held in the politics of the Revolution. 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.