Excerpt from La Cagnotte: Comedie-Vaudeville En Cinq Actes The life of eugene-marin Labiche was not wildly exciting, as one might imagine from reading the fantastic adventures which he was so fond of describing, and in consequence biographical details are few. He was born in Paris on May 5, 1815. His studies were carried on at the College Bourbon and the Ecole de Droit, but as he had no inclination to practice law his early work consisted of little stories in various news papers. 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.