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Excerpt from French Prose and Poetry: Being an Advanced French Reader; Containing Selections From the Principal Classical French Poets and Prose Writers During the Past Two Hundred Years, or From the Age of Louis XIV to the Present Day, With Biographical Notices of the Authors In the preparation of this volume, free use has been made of the various materials at the author's command, collected during a residence of some months in France. While many of the selections have been taken directly from the. Original sources, and have not heretofore appeared in any similar work, so far as the author is aware, it is equally true that many of the articles have been selected by other compilers, and by long usage in the schools of France, and to some extent in this country, have received the seal of public approbation. It IS 1ndeed quite obvious that a selection carefully made from the 'best authors, with a view to the exclusion of every article selected by others, can be, at best. 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.