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Title: Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

Author: Henry Labouchere

Release Date: September 13, 2006 [EBook #19263]

Language: English

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DIARY

OF

THE BESIEGED RESIDENT

IN PARIS.

DIARY

OF

THE BESIEGED RESIDENT

IN PARIS.

REPRINTED FROM "THE DAILY NEWS,"

WITH

SEVERAL NEW LETTERS AND PREFACE.

IN ONE VOLUME.

Second Edition, Revised.

LONDON: HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS, 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1871.

_The Right of Translation is Reserved_.

LONDON: BRADBURY, EVANS, AND CO., PRINTERS, WHITEFRIARS.

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|Transcriber's note: In this book there are inconsistencies in|
|accentation and capitalisation; these have been left as in |
|the original. This book contains two chapters labeled XVII. |
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PREFACE.

The publishers of these letters have requested me to write a preface. In
vain I have told them, that if prefaces have not gone out of date, the
sooner they do, the better it will be for the public; in vain I have
despairingly suggested that there must be something which would serve
their purpose, kept in type at their printers, commencing, "At the
request of--perhaps too partial--friends, I have been induced, against
my own judgment, to publish, &c., &c., &c.;" they say that they have
advertised the book with a preface, and a preface from me they must and
will have. Unfortunately I have, from my earliest childhood, religiously
skipped all introductions, prefaces, and other such obstructions, so
that I really do not precisely know how one ought to be written; I can
only, therefore, say that--

These letters are published for the very excellent reason that a
confiding publisher has offered me a sum of money for them, which I was
not su