Excerpt from The Gavroche Party: Being Literary Estimates of Political France Some of the sketches which are in this volume, have appeared in T/ze At/teflawm, and have been widely copied and translated. I cannot send them forth again without using the opportunity of expressing my indebted ness to the learned professor Philarete Chasles, for the consideration and generous commendation which he gave to some of my literary estimates of his countrymen, in his course on English literature in the College of France To be compared with La Bruyere for a single passage of critical estimate of French life, by a distinguished savant of La Bruyere's country, is a compli ment which is a rich reward. 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.