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Excerpt from A Great Man of the Provinces in Paris You, monsieur, who, by the privilege of the Raffaelles and the Pitts, were already a great poet at an age when other men are still immature, - you have known, like Chateaubriand and all other true artists, what it is to struggle against Envy ambushed behind the columns of a newspaper, or lurking in the dark places of journalism. Therefore I desire that your victorious name should help to victory the work I now inscribe to it; a work which is, in the minds of some, an act of courage, inasmuch as it is a history of plain truth. Think you that journalists would not have found their place, like physicians, marquises, financiers, and notaries, on Moliere's stage? Why then should the "Comedy of Human Life," which castigat ridendo mores, spare such a power when the Parisian press itself spares none? 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.