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Excerpt from Le Parnasse Français: A Book Of French Poetry, From A. D. 1550 To The Present Time History, he says, in the preface just named, dated J ersey, J uly, 1853, history is ecstatic ever Michael Ney, who, born a cooper, became a marshal of F rance, and over Murat, who, - bom a stable boy, became a king. The obscurity of their point of departure is counted' to them as one title more tof esteem, and heightens the splendor of their point of arrival. 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.