Excerpt from Tricolored Sketches in Paris, During the Years 1851-2-3 A m preface to a book of running shots at manners living as they rise, would be as absurd as to charge a flock of quails with a brigade. I only propose, therefore, at this beginning, which is after all but an ending, to make a supplementary sketch, of my sketches. The title-page sufficiently indicates the general tanor of this book; a glance at the heading of the chapters will tell the rest - that it consists of articles written from Paris, for publication in a N ew-york daily journal. They were intended only for this transient and fugitive purpose, without any idea of reproduction in another form. But the leading events they record are not only in themselves remarkable, even amid the astonishing annals of modern France, but they have acquired importance from the fact, that, taken together, they constitute the birth, cradling, and consecration of an Empire. 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.