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Excerpt from Histoire de la Grandeur Et de la Decadence de Cesar Birottea, Parfumeur, Chevalier de la Legion-d'Honneur, Et Adjoint au Maire du Deuxieme Arrondissement de la Ville de Paris, Vol. 2
L'architecte examina ce petit vieux avec le plai sir que tout artiste eprouve en voyant une carica ture qui confirme ses opinions sur les bourgeois. Quand on a la tete sous un parapluie on pense generalement qu'elle est a couvert s'il pleut dit l'architecte. 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.