ISBN: 9781153880077

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not … More...

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1895. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... VII. A PARIS BARRIER IN 1793. The young man''s journey through the France he had so longed to see was melancholy enough. It was not that he experienced so many difficulties on approaching the centre as he would have met with had he been going to the frontier. No, the French Republic welcomed the coming more warmly than it sped the parting guest. However, a stranger was not admitted to the honor of enjoying the benefits of that precious form of government until he had complied with certain formalities that were none too mild. It was the period when the French knew least about writing, but when they wrote more than ever before. It seemed meet, therefore, to all recently appointed functionaries to abandon their domestic or mechanical callings, in order to sign and visa passports, draw up descriptions, invite recommendations, and, in a word, to do whatever befits the profession of patriot. The paper trade had never been so flourishing as at that period. That endemic disease of the French people, being grafted upon terrorism, produced the finest specimens of grotesque calligraphy that had ever been heard of up to that time. Hoffmann''s passport was remarkably small. It was the day of small things. Newspapers, books, the pamphlets hawked about the streets were all reduced to the simple octavo at the largest. But, small as it was, the traveller''s passport was invaded as soon as he entered Alsace, by official signatures which were not unlike the zigzags described by a drunken man as he staggers diagonally across the street, colliding with both walls. Hoffmann was compelled, therefore, to add one leaf to his passport there, and another in Lorraine, where the handwritings assumed especially colossal proportions. Where patriotism was hottest, the writers were most a... Alexandre Dumas, Books, Fiction and Literature, Romances of Alexandre Dumas (Volume 50); D'Artagnan Ed Books>Fiction and Literature, General Books LLC<

1895, ISBN: 9781153880077

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned… More...

[ED: Taschenbuch], [PU: Cambridge Scholars Publishing], The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 50 Original Publisher: Little, Brown Publication date: 1895 Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / European / FrenchVersandfertig in 6-10 Tagen, [SC: 0.00]<