Download or read book In Old France and New (Classic Reprint) written by William McLennan and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from In Old France and New When the struggle between France and England ceased in America, in the middle of the last century, all that class which would naturally have kept up an intercourse between Canada and her mother-country returned to France. All the Officials, both civil and mili tary, with nearly all the principal families, left her shores, and there remained the clergy, a handful Of gentry, some few merchants and professional men, and all the peasantry. 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.