Pot-Pourri Parisien (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Pot-Pourri Parisien I have sought in writing and subsequently arranging this book to place things in the order in which they come and to leave practically untouched the impressions of each period of my life in Paris. I have carefully avoided the dangerous practice of inserting afterthoughts in the midst of past impressions. Only by adherence to this rule can one trace the gradual changes that take place in the ideas of a stranger who is living permanently in a foreign country. His first impressions are almost all negatived by later experience. To-day I regard the French as a race whose star is in the descendant. To-morrow my impressions may change, for I fasten myself to no dogma. The French may recover a purer religious instinct than that which led them before, and upon the ruins of which they now hastily trample. Their administrative departments may emerge from the corruption of jobbery; the decoration of the Legion of Honour may once again be placed beyond the bid of wealthy purchasers and become the reward of valour instead of cunning. The intrinsic qualities of the French race abide - courtesy, honesty, and purity now and again emerge from the surface of the flood of atheism, and without doubt there are units of the French army who, devoid of treachery and unblinded by conceit, are still worthy to stand under those tattered and glorious Napoleonic banners which formerly floated over three-quarters of European territory. 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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