Excerpt from France It is hoped that the following unpretending sketch, supplemented by chronological, bio graphical, and geographical indices, will be deemed useful. No pains have been spared to make it as complete as possible; and, in order to give to it additional literary interest, I have inserted short characteristic extracts from the leading French. 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.