Excerpt from Lorely: Souvenirs d'AllemagneJe l'avais aperçue déjà dans la nuit, sur cette rive où la vigne verdoie et jaunit tour à tour, re levée au loin par la sombre couleur des sapins et par la pierre rouge de ces châteaux et de ces forts, dont les balistes des Romains, les engins de guerre de Frédéric Barberousse et les canons de Louis XIV ont édenté les vieilles murailles.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.