Théophile Gautier Scenes of Travel (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Théophile Gautier Scenes Of Travel Théophile gautier, who for combined variety and facility of literary accomplishment has hardly a superior among recent French writers, was born at Tarbes, on the 315t of August, 1811, and presents in more ways than one characteristic example of the southern F renchman. When he was a very little boy his parents went to live in Paris, and he was princi…