FRANCE IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWO VERSAILLES AND THE TRIANONS By PIERRE DE NOLHAC, Director of the Versailles Museum. With 50 pictures by R. BINET, reproduced in colour. One Volume, price 16s. net. Edition de Luxe, limited to 100 copies, numbered and signed, price Two Guineas net. THE FLIGHT OF MARIE ANTOINETTE From the French of G. LENOTRE, by Mrs. RODOLF STAWELL. 1 vol., with 50 illustrations, 10s. 6d. net. NAPOLEON, KING OF ELBA From the French of PAUL GRUYER. 1 vol., 24 full-page illustrations, 10s. 6d. net. MADAME RECAMIER (According to many hitherto unpublished documents) From the French of EDOUARD HERRIOT. By ALYS HALLARD. 2 vols., 16 photogravure plates, 10s. 6d. net each volume. FRENCH SONGS OF OLD CANADA Pictured by GRAHAM ROBERTSON. Coloured Plates and Music. 4to, picture boards, 31s. 6d. net. FELICITY IN FRANCE By CONSTANCE MAUD, Author of “An English Girl in Paris.” 1 vol., 6s. “The sight of a book on France from the able and witty pen of Miss Maud is almost as good as a trip thither in person--only much cheaper.... We can imagine no better unconventional guide-book, giving the life and soul rather than the dry bones of fact.”--_Outlook._ WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 21 BEDFORD STREET, W.C. FRANCE IN EIGHTEEN HUNDRED AND TWO DESCRIBED IN A SERIES OF CONTEMPORARY LETTERS BY HENRY REDHEAD YORKE EDITED AND REVISED WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX BY J. A. C. SYKES AND AN INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD DAVEY [Illustration: W H] LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN MCMVI _Copyright 1906 by William Heinemann_ INTRODUCTION BY RICHARD DAVEY Some months ago Lady Sykes accidentally came across a very rare work--Henry Redhead Yorke’s “Letters from France, written in 1802.” She immediately became its possessor, and a perusal of its contents suggested the excellent idea of editing the book for modern publication: for, although intensely interesting, Yorke’s “Letters” were written in the verbose style characteristic of his day. By judicious pruning and omissions Lady Sykes has reduced the volume by about a third, without, however, omitting anything of the least importance; whereby she enables in a concise manner students of French history to bridge over the important though little known period which elapsed between the downfall of Robespierre and the Consulate.