The Californiacs Classic Reprint

Author : Mrs. Townsend
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781331625421
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book Presented to the University Library University of California San Diego (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs. Townsend and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Presented to the University Library University of California San Diego I 796, covered the country within a radius of fifty leagues about Auvergne, exchanging pottery, plat ters, plates, glasses, in a word, household articles required by the poorest families, for old iron, copper, lead, metal of any sort, whatever disguise it might have assumed. The Auvergnat gave an earthen ware saucepan worth two sous for a pound of lead, or for two pounds of iron, a broken spade, a broken hoe, or an old cracked kettle; and, being always the judge in his own cause, he weighed his junk himself. After the third year, Sauviat added the trade of cop persmith to his other trade In 1793 he was able to purchase a chateau sold as national property, and pulled it to pieces; the profit he made by that trans action he duplicated doubtless at several points in his sphere of operations; later, these first essays sug gested to him the idea of proposing to one of his fellow-provincials in Paris a similar business on a grand scale. Thus, the Black Band, so famous by reason of its demolitions, originated in the brain of old Sauviat the peddler, whom all Limoges saw for twenty-seven years in that poor shop, among his cracked bells, his balances, his chains, his iron rods, his twisted leaden gutters, his old metal of all sorts; we must do him the justice to say that he never knew of the celebrity or the extensive operations of that association; he profited by it only in proportion to the funds entrusted by him to the famous house of Brezac. 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.