Excerpt from The Bells of Corneville: Comic Opera in Three Acts Hum, uanoms op corneville, who has been since chilo, hood, owing! To civil war, an exile, returns to his ancestral home, on the occasion of the great annual fair, which is being celebrated in the village that receives its name from his chateau. It is one of the 0m fashioned N orman villages of the seventeenth century. 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.