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Excerpt from Four French Adventurers (From the Causes Celebres)
Anthelme collet was his full name; and he was born on the loth of April, 1785, in the town of Belley, near what was then the frontier of France and Savoy. His father, Jean Baptiste, was a cabinetmaker; his mother, Claudine Bertin, Was a dressmaker; and they owned a little land which they worked. Altogether, they supported them selves and their three children easily until the Revolution came to upset everybody and everything. In 1793, after the Republicans had cut off the head of King Louis the Sixteenth, the armies of the monarchies of Europe prepared to invade France. In a fever Of patriotism, nearly every able-bodied Frenchman enlisted in the Republican army to drive them back. Jean Baptiste Collet marched off with the rest; and he was one of the first to be killed. With all her work the widow was unable to keep her three children together. SO Anthelme was put to live with his grand father, a man of the old school who believed that boys should be trained up to work, and that to Spare the rod was to spoil the child. Anthelme Collet was now nine years old and wide-awake and his ideas were very different from those of his grandfather. One morning he was nowhere to be found, but he was heard of shortly. 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.
