Excerpt from The Refugees, Vol. 1: A Tale of Two ContinentsWere the teller of an old tale to acknowledge all his sources he would have to burden his book with a bibliography. No man, however, can, without ¿agrant injustice, write upon the end of the seventeenth century at the French Court without acknowledging his indebted ness to Miss Julia Pardoe, nor can he treat American history Of the same date without owing much to Mr. Francis Parkman.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.