Excerpt from Contemporary French Novelists To assert that Octave Feuillet's contemporaries were unjust to him seems at once a paradox and an impertinence. But there is a form of injustice which consists in exalting certain qualities in an author in order to refuse him certain others, and this they practised toward Feuillet. 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.