Excerpt from The North British Review, Vol. 39<br><br>These volumes of M. De Barante are not a biography. A few details of Royer Collard's youth and of his deathbed are almost the only private and personal incidents here given of a long career,' begun when Louis XIV. Was king, and closed just three years before the fall of Louis Philippe. Strictly fulfilling the promise of its title, this book is no more than the public life of a public man, as shown in his speeches and writings set in a framework of connectin and ex lanatory notes. M. De Barante has mo destly and a)ly fulfil ed his editorial function in collecting to gether these memorials of his illustrious friend.<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.