Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Portraits Contemporains, Vol. 1
Cependant, tandis que ces enfants arraches a la char rue, coe ouvriers enleves a l'atelier, ces gentilshommes pris au club, se faisaient soldats, il y avait, dans cette Eu rope sourde et lache qui assistait immobile a notre agonie, il y avait sur les chemins, errant de capitale en capitale pour demander aide et protection ala France, un vieillard de soixante treize ans, frappe au coeur par la chute de la patrie, mais aiguillonne par ses dangers, et qui, traver sant les mers et brulant les routes, allait porter a l'oreille des rois le cri de la France mourante. 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.
