A Princess of Paris

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Excerpt from A Princess of Paris: A Novel "Monsieur Le Comte, how many of us will come back?" whispers Lieutenant d'Essais. "About our usual proportion - one out of two. The regiment of Laval is always lucky, " laughs Raymond d'Arnac, as he looks into the blindness of a night opaque as chaos. But in this darkness, he knows straight in front of him lie the fortifications and strong works of the little town of Friburg, manned by the German, crowned with cannon and laden with death. These works consist of walls of unusual thickness, pierced by four sortie-gates, eight heavy bastions with liemi-lunes protecting their curtains, and the usual covered-ways, escarpments and glacis peculiar to the method of fortification invented by that first great master of artillery attack and defense, Monsieur Vauban, the French Engineer. 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.