Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Le Portrait Original de d'Alembert par de la Tour
A ce front riant dirait - ou Que c'est l� Tacite ou Newton? Si mauvais que soit ce distique de l'auteur de Belisaire, il est pr�cieux pour nous, puisqu'il indique bien nettement l'air enjou� que le peintre a donn� � son mod�le, et qu'on retrouve dans le portrait poss�d� par M. D. Danjou. 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.
