Legends of
the Bastille
BY
FRANTZ FUNCK-BRENTANO
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY VICTORIEN SARDOU
AUTHORISED TRANSLATION BY
GEORGE MAIDMENT
WITH EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
DOWNEY & CO. Limited
1899
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Legendes et Archives de la Bastille. Paris: Hachette et Cie., 1898; second edition, 1899. Crowned by the French Academy.
Die Bastille in der Legende und nach historischen Documenten. German translation by Oscar Marschall von Bieberstein. Breslau: Schottlaender, 1899.
TRANSLATOR’S PREFACE
IN his own entertaining way, Mr. Andrew Lang has recently been taking the scientific historian to task, and giving him a very admirable lesson on “history as she ought to be wrote.” But though the two professors to whom he mainly addresses himself are Frenchmen, it would be doing an injustice to France to infer that she is the alma mater of the modern dryasdust. The exact contrary is the case: France is rich in historical writers like the Comte d’Haussonville, M. de Maulde la Clavière, M. Gaston Boissier, to name only a few, who know how to be accurate without being dull.