Excerpt from High-Ways and by-Ways, or Tales of the Roadside, Picked Up in the French Provinces, Vol. 1 of 3<br><br>In the former recitals of my Pyrenean walks, I have happily had to sketch but scenes of nature, and acts of men, which, though imper fect in the mass, or individually objectionable, had nothing so revolting as the source of the events I would now record. For they had their existence in that of the cordon sanitaire, a me morable establishment, formed for the perpetra tion of a political crime, which led to thousands of instances of suffering, deeper than the insu lated one which I, by chance, was witness to.<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.