Excerpt from Celebrated Crimes IN preparing for publication, in an English dress, the following work of one of the most popular French writers of the present day, the Translator has carefully removed from it several of the blemishes of the modern school of literature to which it belongs levity of expression on serious subjects, indelicacy of language, and a desire to gratify the vulgar appetite for horrible and revolting de tails. These faults vitiate many productions which are otherwise of value and importance; and which, simply by revision, may be accommodated to English taste and moral feeling, and rendered not only unexceptionable, but inte resting and useful. This, it is believed, will be found to be the case with the Crimes Celebres of M. Alexandre dumas. 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.