Download or read book Contemporary France, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Gabriel Hanotaux and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Contemporary France, Vol. 1 O introduce M. Gabriel Hanotaux to French men would be superfluous his name is already well known in his own country as that of a leading statesman and an author of high reputa tion. In England he is chiefly known as a Minister of Foreign Affairs who smoothed the path of diplo macy during the troubled period of the wars between Turkey and Greece, Spain and the United States of America. He also took an active part in settling questions as to delimitation of frontier in North Africa which had arisen between France and Eng land; during his period of office the Madagascar expedition was decided upon. 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.