H. A. Taine Les Origines de la France Contemporaine (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Les Origines de la France ContemporaineTaine visited several of the European countries as a close-observing traveller, and he was called to lec ture at the University of Oxford, England. After his marriage (1868) he usually passed his summers at his country residence in Savoy and his winters in Paris. He died in Paris the 5th of March, 1893.Taine is distinguished as a writer of brilliancy, breadth of culture, and philosophical earnestness.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.