Beau Pays de France (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Le Beau Pays De France In order to attain this end material has been drawn from sections that give as much variety of type as possible. The chapters are not limited to any one phase of French life or any one locality. There are descriptions of provinces and of folk customs, tales of the troubadours, historic tales, legends, and narratives of events in the late war. An attempt has been made to give in short sketches the salient differences between la Bretagne, la Provence, la Normandie, and la Touraine, and again between these provinces and Paris, the capital; to familiarize the reader with some of the heroic tales that have inspired French childhood; to let him feel some of the atmosphere of the past; to acquaint him with the rugged strength, the simplicity, and the serious capacity for hard work which have produced such heroes as Joffre and Foch. 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.