I indented paragraphs, for clarity, when Tolstoy quotes large blocks of text from other authors. However, often Tolsoy interspersed quoted material with his commentary [as when talking about the author Farrar]. I was not able to separate these for fear of editing the author.
Italics were represented here, with the substitution of capital letters.
Translations for long passages of French follow in the footnotes.] ——————————————————————————————————