Excerpt from Two Quaint Republics, Andorra and San Marino I recall a miniature republic lost in a corner of the Pyrenees, said Napoleon Bonaparte. Yet Andorra exists as a fact of history. Few modern travellers on the great thoroughfare routes of Spain and France pause to seek the tiny strong hold Of liberty, entrenched amidst a rampart of rocks and encircling mountains. Situated in a nook Of the southern Slopes of the Pyrenees, with an area of one hundred and fifty square miles, it has been an independent state since the latter part of the Eighth 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.