Excerpt from Moliere: His Life and His Works Alfred de Vigny called a man fortunate who was able in his maturity to carry out a plan formed in his youth; and this much of happiness I may claim, as it is now nearly forty years since I first began to hope that I might one day be able to write a life of Moliere. 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.