Men and Things of My Time (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Marquis De Castellane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331751438 ISBN 13: 9781331751434

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Men and Things of My Time

At nine o'clock, we were all between the sheets. Under the influence of weariness and excite ment, I fell like a log on the bed prepared for me in a large dormitory containing over fifty. But, the next morning, when, at five o'clock, the persistent strokes of the great bell of the college began to give the signal for awaking, I lay stiff, lifeless, numbed in every limb. Gradually, how ever, I became used to these early hours. Throughout my youth, I endured them, not without regret, but without slackness, and thus acquired the habit of manly effort instead of giving way to the promptings of the more or less indolent nature which we all possess within us.

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Excerpt from Men and Things of My Time My boyhood, like that of almost every Frenchman of the time, was spent in the simplest fashion possible. Nor should I have the presumption to tell the story to a public which I could hardly expect to take any interest in it but for the certainty that this story must needs throw a great light upon the dizzy leap into the unknown that has since been taken by society gone mad. Any one awaking to-day from a fifty years' continuous sleep - a father, a landlord, a public man, a man imbued with notions of tradition and religion - would open his wondering eyes in vain. 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331751438
• ISBN 13: 9781331751434
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 231