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Excerpt from The Plays of Moliere, Vol. 3: The Female Pedants; The Imaginary Sick Man
IT is difficult to believe that two hundred and eighty years ago, at the death of Henri IV. In 1610, France had, comparatively speaking, no written language, no diffused intellectual knowl edge, little refinement Oi habits and manners, and scarcely any domestic and social life. A study of the French language in its course from Celtic to Latin, classic and popular, then to pop ular Latin exclusively (the parent of French, Spanish, and Italian, Portuguese and W'alla chian, otherwise called the Romance languages), with admixture after the invasion of the bar. 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.
