French Ways and Their Meaning

FRENCH WAYS AND THEIR MEANING

EDITH WHARTON
AUTHOR OF THE REEF, SUMMER, THE MARNE AND THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Copyright, 1918, 1919, by INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excuse for its publication lies in the fact that the very conditions which made more consecutive work impossible also gave unprecedented opportunities for quick notation.