Excerpt from Portraits of the Eighteenth Century: Historic and Literary Ln the following essays - taken from the Causerz'es da Lundz', the Portraits de Femmes, and the Portraits Litteraz'res - certain passages have been omitted, which relate chiefly to editions that have long passed away, or to discussions on style. Also, where two or more essays on the same person have appeared in the different series. They are here put together, omit ting repetitions. The article on Louis XV in this volume, for instance, is compiled from four of Saint Beuve's articles. 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.