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Excerpt from Madame Therese: Or the Volunteers of '92 <p>The series of National Novels, indeed, is very much more than a series of simple and affecting tales with more form than German and more avor than French stories of a similar sort. It comprises six chapters of familiar chronicle of the most valuable kind, concerned for the most part with one of the most interesting epochs of history - that of the French Revolution and the First Empire. Each book describes public events of the first importance from the stand-point of an actor in them and, thus, together they give one a picture of the wars of the First Republic and of Napoleon of remarkable vividness and reality. But this again would not make the series as noteworthy as it is, if this were its sole or its main characteristic. The novels, in fact, are, further, so many historical pictures com posed not at hap-hazard nor for their pictorial value alone, but 111 illustration of consistent and con firmed principles of political philosophy. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>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.