Excerpt from On the Boulevards, Vol. 1: Or Memorable Men and Things Drawn on the Spot, 1853-1866, Together With Trips to Normandy and Brittany King Louis the Thirteenth is besieging. His son is there in the royal service but the old man is drawn thither chiefly to know whether his last poem has been read by the King. The tragedy that, in a few hours, is enacted under the old man's eyes, is nu folded with great force, and in a few pages. If M. Thomas had spared his reader the picture of the father dragging a corpse into the moonlight, to find whether it was his dead son, he would have improved his work. However, he has drawn even this revolting scene with a masterly hand. 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.