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Excerpt from Some Memories of Paris At the commencement of the Second Empire Paris was still a city of many mean streets and a few grand ones; still a city of rare pavements, rough stones, stagnant gutters, and scarcely any drainage; still a city of uncomfortable homes, of varied smells, of relatively simple life, and of close intermixture of classes. This last element. 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.

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Excerpt from A Journey to Paris: In the Year 1698 Now that I might not wholl truft my Memory, in what I faw at ark, I fet down my Thoughts under certain Heads. 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.

Excerpt from On Some Antiquities in the Neighbourhood of Dunecht House Aberdeenshire It was known to the archaeologist that there were ogam inscriptions in the district, two Of them being among the most important in Caledonia; and that within an easy motor drive there was a minuscule inscription of six lines Of which no satisfactory explanation had been given. This inscription they had visited in a previous year. Further, the quick eye Of the hostess of Dunecht had caught sight of some curious sculptures on a stone by the road-side on the way to the minus cule inscription; and other like stones in the neighbourhood had been shewn in Stuart's two volumes of Sculptural Stones of Scotland. The suggestion was then made that for the sake of visitors at Dunecht a sort Of guide book should be prepared, giving some simple description of the several Objects and their meaning and uses. 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.

Excerpt from Memories of French Palaces The political troubles of which Paris had been the scene during the minority of Louis XIV., had in Spired that monarch with such an aversion to the capital of his kingdom that he determined, after the death of the queen-mother (anne of Austria), in 1667, to withdraw his Court thence and establish it at St.' Germain. In 1660 he had been married to the Infanta of Spain he was then scarcely twenty-two years of age, and by this royal alliance, ordained for him by the united political devices of the queen-mother and Cardinal Mazarin, he was forcibly separated from his first love, Marie Mancini. The marriage of Louis XIV. Was not a happy one, but it was at first popular, as being identical with the epoch of peace between France and Spain, and by it Cardinal Mazarin attained. The summit of his glory) 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.

Excerpt from Imperial Paris: Including New Scenes for Old Visitors Some of the papers contained in this book have already appeared in Household Words; but there are many which are now published for the first time. Two or three of these original chapters, form part of a work I had once projected, on the Poor of Paris, but which other avocations compelled me to abandon. They may, however, stimulate some inquirer who has the leisure to finish a task that could not fail to interest the English public. Chifi'ons and Cliifi'oniers; the Four Seasons in Prose; the French Waiter' s Story; Departed this Life in Paris; street-note and Paris under the Bees, are original chapters, in which the reader will find, if I am not mistaken, views of Parisian activity with which no book has yet made him acquainted. In the paper entitled The English Painted by the French, I have woven into one narrative, a series of quotations from various French writers, who have written recently on En g land. It presents, at a glance, a series of whimsical. 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.

Excerpt from Paris During the Commune What can I say about one of the brightest, purest, loveliest spirits that ever sojourned for a while on this earth? As I write, solemn influences from his last moments still linger round me, and it seems almost desecration to make public any details concerning one whose life was signalized by humility and self-forgetfulness. But I would fain have him live on longer here below than will even the tenderest memories of those who loved him best. Being dead, I would have him yet speak, and speak to the glory of the God he loved and served from childhood. I feel convinced that the simple portrayal of a character such as his cannot fail to prove an inspiration to some who will henceforth seek to follow him as he followed Christ. As to my own pain in recalling so many hallowed but now harrowing memories I count it a very small offering to bring for over thirty-two years of incomparable devotion and almost infinite tenderness, and the sad satisfaction outweighs the suffering. His family are not alone in appreciating his singular worth: over four hundred beautiful letters recently received bear unqualified testimony to his faultless life, his ideally perfect character and his wide-spread and holy influence. From all parts of the world witnesses rise up to call him blessed, in that he not only pointed them to the way of life but by his own Christlike example helped them to walk in it. He "lived with God in such untroubled love, And clear confiding, as a child on whom The Father's face has never yet but smiled; 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.