📖 Excerpt from Le PrétendantBeaucoup de rapsodes aussi tenaient pour Périandre. Les rapsodes étaient les journalistes de ces temps reculés. Mais au lieu d'écrire, ils chantaient. Ceux qui tenaient pour Pé riandra allaient de ville en ville, voire même de village en village, célébrant, sur des lyres aux cordes d'or, les vertus de la cour et le génie du roi.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.