Excerpt from His Excellency, the Minister<br><br>I saw his funeral procession defile past me, I thinh I even made one of the Committee sent by the Society of Men of Letters to march in the funeral convoy. [t was superé. This lawyer from the Provinces, good honest man, eloquent orator, honest politician that he was, who came to Paris hut to die there, was huried with the greatest magnificence.<br><br>De Musset had eight persons to follow him to the grave his Excellency had one hundred thousand.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.