Excerpt from From the Gun Room to the Throne: Being the Life of Vice-Admiral Philip D'auvergne, Duke of Bouillon This is not a Romance. It is the true life-story of a man whose career was marked by greater vicissitudes of fortune than fall to the lot of many amongst mortals. 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.