Excerpt from Pleasures of Old Age: From the French of Emile Souvestre Gifted with an aptitude of expression and a te fined taste, tender-hearted, sympathetic, and imagina tive, Emile Souvestre was a romancist from his cradle. While still a boy, nothing delighted him so much as gleaming from the peasantry of his native Brittany legends of the past, and recounting them - or, as often, fairy tales of his own invention - to a youthful audience spell-bound for hours by his fascinating tongue. About the Publisher Forgotten ...
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Excerpt from Pleasures of Old Age: From the French of Emile Souvestre Gifted with an aptitude of expression and a te fined taste, tender-hearted, sympathetic, and imagina tive, Emile Souvestre was a romancist from his cradle. While still a boy, nothing delighted him so much as gleaming from the peasantry of his native Brittany legends of the past, and recounting them - or, as often, fairy tales of his own invention - to a youthful audience spell-bound for hours by his fascinating tongue. 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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