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Excerpt from Le Compagnon du Tour de France: Préface Et Notice Nouvelle Comment tomba la république romaine, et comment tombent les empires, sinon parce qu'à la cité patente se substituent obscurément toutes sortes de cités secrètes, qui travaillent sourdement en elle et ruinent peu à peu ses fondements? L'édifice social est encore debout et élève son dôme dans les airs, un observateur superficiel le croirait durable et solide; mais, palais ou temple, cet édifice, miné et lézardé, s écroulera au premier soufe. 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.