AUTHOR OF "THE PREACHER AND THE KING," ETC.

In Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

BOSTON:

GOULD AND LINCOLN,

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PREFACE

BY

THE TRANSLATOR.

AFTER the very favorable reception of the "Preacher and the King," it seems altogether unnecessary to preface the present work by any account of its purpose or merits.

It may, however, be well to inform the reader that in a communication lately received from the author, Monsieur Bungener, a minister of the Reformed Church of Geneva-not France, as was stated in the preface to the preceding work-he informs the translator that his works have been conceived upon the plan of exhibiting in a series, the principal religious aspects of France, from the age of Louis XIV., to the close of the last century.