Excerpt from Woman's Whims, or the Female Barometer: Translated From the French Fon many years past the book market has been flooded with historical novels and sketches, purport ing to give a description of social life in Paris and in France, portraying such gross licentiousness, exhibit ing such terrible moral obliquity, that the public mind has become disgusted, and persons have learned to look upon a French novel as a thing not to be talked of in polite society, and not to put in the hands of chaste and refined ...
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Excerpt from Woman's Whims, or the Female Barometer: Translated From the French Fon many years past the book market has been flooded with historical novels and sketches, purport ing to give a description of social life in Paris and in France, portraying such gross licentiousness, exhibit ing such terrible moral obliquity, that the public mind has become disgusted, and persons have learned to look upon a French novel as a thing not to be talked of in polite society, and not to put in the hands of chaste and refined women. No one pretends to doubt the capacity and talent of Dumas, of De Kock, of Sue, and of de Balzac, for the very success of the produc tions of these writers places their power of enchaining attention beyond dispute, yet there are other authors quite as gifted, the names of whom are comparatively. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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