Excerpt from Valentin a French Boy's Story of Sedan, Vol. 1 of 2 You demand my nationality; I reply that I am entirely uncertain of it. I call myself a Frenchman. Still, although the best part of my father's estates are now in Germany, I begin to believe that I have no nationality at all; I speak German quite as well as I do French. My heart is m France, but my home is in Germany. The English and the Scotch were at deadly war for many years, yet now they are but one na tion. You can understand then that I, 31 though a Frenchman, have no prejudices; in fact, I think that the people of the Rhine Provinces are much more intelligent than the peasants of Alsace, Lorraine, and Cham pagne, but I like the French the best. 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.