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Excerpt from Historical Illustrations of Quentin Durward: Selected From the Memoirs of Philip De Comines, and Other Authors Curious and instructive to trace such a writer to the sources from which he has derived his incidents and characters - to mark where he has followed, or where he has departed from, the authentic relations or established traditions of the periods of which he treats; and to discover how readily 'a creative genius avails itself of the most trifling anec dote, or the slightest description, to give a Spirit and truth to his fiction which pure invention can never attain. The labour of such an inquiry is, however, great. To abridge that. Labour, has been the object of the present little work. In addition to the Memoirs of Comine's, his various com mentators, and other historians, have been carefully consulted; and the illustrations which they offered of Quentin Durward' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.