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Excerpt from Songs From Beranger
IN the year 1780, nine years before the fall of the Bastile, there was born at Paris, in the humble abode of a poor tailor, the subject of this brief sketch. N 0 flowers, as he himself tells us in graceful verse, were laid by fate in the cradle of the infant Beranger. He was early deserted by his parents, the remembrance of whose neglect of the duties of afl'ection touched his sensitive heart in after years, and he was left to the care of a poor and pious aunt, living in the town of Peronne, who supplied to him the maternal protec tion due to his tender years. Like an eaglet in a dove-cote, the nascent genius of the vivacious child must often have fluttered the propriety of his well meaning, simple-minded aunt. There is an anecdote of these early days in example, the earliest one which we have of his youth. His aunt, according to her pious custom, had sprinkled holy water about the house, when on a sudden a thunder-storm arose. 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.
