Excerpt from The Works of Daniel Defoe: Carefully Selected From the Most Authentic Sources, With Chalmers' Life of the Author, Annotated Daniel DE foe, or Foe, as the name was originally Spelt, * was born in London, parish of St Giles, Cripplegate, in the year The nhme is obviously a cor ruption of foi, and of French origin. For centuries there was a family so called seated in Warwickshire, as we are informed by De Foe himself in his Tour through Great Britain.' Whether, however, the author of Robinson Crusoe' was or was not entitled to claim affinity with Norman blood, is as uncertain as it is immaterial. What he may have wanted in titles of honour, and the gifts of fortune, was amply compensated for in the possession of many other excellences of a far more valuable nature. 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.