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Excerpt from Lettre A M. Le Ministre de l'Instruction Publique, sur l'Etat Actuel des Bibliotheques Publiques de Paris
Il est inutile, en s'adressant a vous, Mon sieur le Ministre, de s'etendre sur l'utilite des bibliotheques publiques; elle est d'ail leurs generalement reconnue, et les Cham bres en paraissent bien convaincues, puis qu'elles accordent chaque annee pour celles qui appartiennent a l'etat, dans la ville de Paris, la somme de fr. 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.
