Excerpt from The Golden Tress: Translated From the French HE Bois de Boulogne had not undergone, in 1847, the changes which in our time have made an English park of it.' It was then a thinly-scattered copse with few roads and paths, dusty in summer, mud in winter, and the fashionable world knew no other drive than that around the fortifications. On a winter morning at that time, the Porte Maillot was a completely deserted place, where at most might be seen occasionally an early duellist. Nevertheless, on Ash Wednesday, in the year 1847. 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.