Excerpt from The Dayspring Tms day last year I was walking in Paris with a French poet of rare distinction and a French priest, an accomplished man of letters, who had heard, as a child, in 1870, the cannon thundering at Mezieres. We crossed from the Rue de Rivoli into a pleasant garden, where the sun shone and the river ran by, stately monu ments all around. Where did the Tuileries stand? The priest demanded of me. I had seen the Palace in its Imperial days, and yet a second time, when it was nothing save burnt walls and gaping windows. Now I looked for its place in vain. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.