📒 Excerpt from Guillaume Tell, ou la Suisse LibreIN reading the works of an author who inter ests us, the desire is natural to know something of his life and character. As it is not easy to find any extended biography of Florian in English, it has been thought that, in offering to the public a new edition of William Tell, some notice of the author's life would form an appropriate intro duction. Connected with this, it is proposed to make a brief statement of the facts on which the story rests.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.