Excerpt from The Chronicles of an Old Campaigner M. De La Colonie, 1692-1717: Translated From the French By the time I had reached the age of ten years I had learned to read and write in a market town in Perigord, my native country. I was the sixth child in a family by no means well endowed with this world's goods. The ancestors of my father and mother were well known by their services to the public and by the important posts that they had held, but certain reverses of fortune had so reduced their descendants that they could no longer maintain the position held by the family during a period of many centuries. 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.