Excerpt from A Roundabout Journey The ancient hotel received us in its ancient court yard, where the big sycamore tree grows and the galleries run round, and where there are benches for loiterers to sit in the sun. The next morning was cloudless, delicious. The soldiers and the children were sunning themselves in Place de la Ville, at the head of Rue de la Republique, where stands the statue of Crillon, friend of Henry Cf Navarre, and the pretty theater with the figures of Racine and Corneille seated in front. We were come to a land where statues can sit out-doors with comfort in win ter. I returned to the hotel with my hands full of the open-air roses of Provence, which are blooming everywhere. 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.