_Commencé en 1866; interrompu par la mort de l'auteur, en 1897, à Trieste, où il était consul des États-Unis; l'ouvrage s'arrête à l'année 1816..._ The Transcriber believes that the above French text should be translated into English as: This biography was commenced in 1866, but was interrupted by the death of the author in 1897, at Trieste, where he was the American Consul. The work stops at the year 1816..._ Obvious punctuation and other printing errors have been corrected. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Beethoven, by Romain Rolland