Excerpt from Modern France, 1789-1895 There is some difficulty in compressing into one volume the history Of a century so rich in ideas, in events and in men as the present period has been in France. Such an effort at reduction necessitates the elimination Of all that is picturesque in the facts to be related, leaving only their substance, and all attempt at giving any portrait Of the personages whose acts are narrated in their results alone. 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.