Excerpt from A General History of the World All these requirements M, Duruy possessed in preeminent degree. Minister of Public Instruction (1863 he revolutionized historical education in France. Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor Senator of the Em pire Member of the Academy he attained the highest grades of civic and literary distinction. But as a historian he won his permanent renown. A tireless stu dent and author, during his life of over eighty years he knew no such thing as rest. The mere enumeration of his works is bewildering. Among them are a sacred history, based upon the Bible, a history of the Romans in seven volumes, of the Greeks in three volumes, of France in two volumes, of the Middle Ages and of modern times. Of his publications more than two million copies have been sold in France. 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.