Excerpt from Le Pere Corot In this atmosphere the young Camille grew up, and was placed successively in a lycee at Rouen till he was sixteen, and afterward for two years in a col lege at Poissy. Then came his father's unsuccessful attempt to train him for a commercial career. Though his tastes and tendencies were turned to ward art, he tried as a dutiful son to obey the paren tal edict, picking up what instruction was possible and practising it almost by stealth. It would have been much more helpful to his predestined vocation had these eight long years been devoted to a thorough training in drawing and painting. 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.