Excerpt from Paul Gustave Doré<br><br>Paul Gustave Doré was born at Strasbourg, the capital of the present German province of Alsace Lorraine, on January A precocious child, he was early sent to school, commencing his studies at the Lycée of Strasbourg, and continuing them at that of the town of bourg-en-bresse, the ancient capital of Burgundy.<br><br>From the time when he could first discern differ enoce, he seems to have had the desire to express them pictorially. At the age of six years he was the marvel of his schoolmates, and even of the profess ors in the Lycée, through his extraordinary aptitude at delineation. The benches of the school-room where he studied are said to have been covered with the first efforts of his genius: crude and faulty, necessarily, but showing natural ability and original power. Some of his first drawings, thus produced, were representations of the victories achieved by the French in Africa: subjects containing many figures in varied action, and which easily awakened the pa triotic enthusiasm of the young Alsatians - who were, in those days, French.<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.