Excerpt from A History of the French Academy, 1635(4) 1910: With an Outline Sketch of the Institute of France, Showing Its Relation to Its Constituent Academies Theoretically the sources of the author's information are open to all, but the facts here brought together be tween two covers are collected from the works of so many different writers as to justify the assumption that some of them are not readily accessible either to the casual reader or to the student. A few of these sources, all authoritative works in French, are. 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.