Lanterna Rally

Author: Le Petit Homme Rouge

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-12-24

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 9780484640183

Excerpt from Republican France 1870-1912: Her Presidents, Statesmen, Policy, Vicissitudes and Social Life Behind the cab, laden as we have described, came a small troop Of enthusiastic citizens exchanging cries Of Vive la Republique with the onlookers whom they passed; and while the bugle sounded yet another fanfare the procession crossed the Place Beauvau and halted outside the lofty wrought-iron gates of the Ministry Of the Interior. Some Of the cab's passengers then alighted, the first to do so being a man of two-and-thirty, Of average height and Of a robust but still fairly slim figure. He had somewhat long and wavy black hair and a full, glossy, black beard. His nose was aquiline, almost of the semitic type; his under-lip full and sensual; one eye attracted you by its ardour and mobility, whereas the other, being false, stared with a Vitreous blindness. Garmented in one Of those black frock-coat suits then favoured by all French professional men, with his shirt-front badly rumpled. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.