Lights and Shades of Military Life (Classic Reprint)

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It is necessary to apprise the reader, before he commences the perusal of this work, that the volumes composing it pro oecd from the pens of two different writers. The first portion is the production Of Count de Vigny, who is known to his countrymen as the author Of the historical novel, Cinq Mars, and other works of fiction: and the contents of the second are taken from a publication by M. Elzear Blaze. The former commenced his military career just after the first dethronement of Napoleon, and, weary of inactive service, has relinquished the sword for the pen. The latter, on finishing his studies at the military academy Of Fontainebleau, joined the French army soon after the battle of Eylau, and was attached to it either in Poland, Germany, or Spain, during all the succeeding campaigns in one or other of those countries, till the conclusion Of the general peace.

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