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Excerpt from Princes and Poisoners: Studies of the Court of Louis XIV
Twelve months ago I had the honour of introducing M. Frantz Funck - Brentano to the English public by my translation of his L gendcs ar Archives de la Bastille, and in 'my preface to that book I gave a rapid sketch of his career which need not be re peated. If history is to be continually recon structed, or rather, perhaps, to undergo a process of destructive distillation, there is no one more competent than M. Funck Brentano to perform the feat. We lose our illusions With our teeth; the fables that charmed our childhood dissolve in the modern historian's test-tube, and the mysteries that fascinated our forebears become clear with a few drops of his critical acid.
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