Personal Characteristics From French History (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Personal Characteristics From French HistoryThe personal characteristics of those who have played a great, or even merely an interesting part in the annals of the past, continue to exercise an increasing fascination over the minds of the present generation. Their achievements in the various branches of human effort constitute the more important aspects of history, but the things they said, their typical peculiarities of thought or action, give a more direct clue to their personalities, and a more vivid insight into their thoughts. In the following pages an endeavour has been made to present, chiefly through the medium of their spoken replies, an idea, however superficial, of some of the salient characteristics of certain notable actors in the drama of French history. These replies are occasionally accompanied by short biographical sketches of the personages from whom they proceeded, so as to obviate, as far as possible, the compilation of a bald catalogue.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.