Excerpt from Paris-Salon, 1881<br><br>Que ceux qui ne veulent point se donner la peine ou le plaisir de faire eux-mêmes leur voyage de découverte, daignent nous accepter pour guide, et nous nous engageons à les conduire aux bons endroits par le plus court chemin. Ils verront bien tôt que nous avons cueilli pour eux LA fleur DU salon.<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.