Excerpt from La Grammaire In a large number of cases the persons made fun of by Labiche belong to the bourgeois class, - that good, substantial, matter-of-fact middle-class, to which he himself belonged, and from which so much that is worthy has come. But the ridicule is kindly. You are almost made to sympathise with the bourgeois. He, poor fellow, is indeed merely the victim of circumstances. It is no fault of his that he is born in an age in which people are crazy about antiquarianism, correctness in spelling or the management of public affairs. 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.