📖 Excerpt from Lettres à Sa Mère: Selected And EditedThe Delegates of the Clarendon Press having suggested that I should prepare some volumes of modern French literature, of a size suitable for school use, not containing entire works, but at the same time giving specimens of a more substantive character than the short extracts usually contained in reading books, I have chosen Quinet's. Eez'z'res sa M ère as the first subject. It will be followed by a selec tion from sainte-beuve's Cazeserz'es, and perhaps by other.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.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.