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LEGENDS OF THE BASTILLE
Model of the Bastille, carved in one of the Stones of theFortress.
One of these models, made by the instructions of the architect Palloy,was sent to the chief-town of every department in France.
Legends of
the Bastille
BY
FRANTZ FUNCK-BRENTANO
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIEN SARDOU
AUTHORISED TRANSLATION BY
GEORGE MAIDMENT
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
DOWNEY & CO. Limited
1899
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Legendes et Archives de la Bastille. Paris: Hachette et Cie.,1898; second edition, 1899. Crowned by the French Academy.
Die Bastille in der Legende und nach historischen Documenten.German translation by Oscar Marschall von Bieberstein. Breslau:Schottlaender, 1899.
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
IN his own entertaining way, Mr. Andrew Lang has recently been takingthe scientific historian to task, and giving him a very admirable lessonon “history as she ought to be wrote.” But though the two professors towhom he mainly addresses himself are Frenchmen, it would be doing aninjustice to France to infer that she is the ...