Excerpt from Montalembert: A Biographical Sketch In 1816, after the Restoration, Montalembert's father had been named a peer of France and sent as minister plenipotentiary to Stuttgart. Thither Charles was sent towards his ninth year, almost a stranger to his own parents and his brother and sister. Returning after wards to Paris, the boy made his First Communion, in his thirteenth year, in the church of St. Thomas Aqui nas, in-the Rue Bac, where forty-seven years later, wasted by the pangs of a cruel disease, he received ...
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Excerpt from Montalembert: A Biographical Sketch In 1816, after the Restoration, Montalembert's father had been named a peer of France and sent as minister plenipotentiary to Stuttgart. Thither Charles was sent towards his ninth year, almost a stranger to his own parents and his brother and sister. Returning after wards to Paris, the boy made his First Communion, in his thirteenth year, in the church of St. Thomas Aqui nas, in-the Rue Bac, where forty-seven years later, wasted by the pangs of a cruel disease, he received his last Com munion and heard his last Mass. Even before his thir teenth year Montalembert had given evidence of unusual force of character. The records of his diary at this time discover a restless love of study rare in one so young. The eight years spent in the sober light of his grand father's library, in an atmosphere of books, go far to wards accounting for this early bias. At a time when others of the same age were entering with zest into the amusements of childhood Charles Montalembert was pining over the loss of time involved in such occupa tions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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