History of the Girondists, Vol. 3 of 3
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Excerpt from History of the Girondists, Vol. 3 of 3: Or, Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse De Lamartine was born at Mâcon in France, on the 21st of October, 1792. His family name was De Prat, but he subsequently assumed that of Lamartine, after a maternal uncle, from whom he inherited a considerable fortune. His father was major of a regiment of cavalry under Louis XVI., and his mother was grand-daughter of Madame Des Roys, under-governess to the Princess d´Orleans. Thus attached to the ancien régime, the Lamartine family were necessarily deeply involved by the French Revolution, and the poet´s earliest recollections are of a gloomy prison-house, in which he visited his father. His mother(who died the victim to terrible accident) and his father, escaping the dangers of the period, retired to an obscure retreat near Milly, where the earliest years of the subject of our sketch were passed. The recollection of the domestic serenity of his youth has never been effaced from his mind; and many times in after life, as poet and traveler, he has evoked the well-remembered images of this humble roof of Milly, with its "seven linden trees" his aged father, his mother and sisters, and all the grand and quiet scenery, so well calculated to excite and feed the imagination of a young, highly-gifted, and reflective mind. In his first chapter of "Travels in the East," in 1832-33, he says - "My mother had received from her mother, when on her death-bed, a handsome Bible of Royaumont, from which she taught me to read when I was very young. This Bible had engravings of sacred subjects at nearly every page. When I had read about half a page with tolerable correctness, my mother allowed me to see a picture; and, placing the book open on her knees, she explained the subject to me as a recompense for my progress. She was most tender and affectionate by nature, and the impressive and solemn tone of her clear and silvery voice added to all she said an accent of strength, impressiveness, and love, which still resounds in my ears after six years that that voice has, alas! been mute. 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.
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