GTHE FRENCH LIBRARIAN OR LITERARY GUIDE, POINTING AUT THE BEST WORKS OF THE PRINCIPAL WRITERS OF FRANCE, PRECEDED BY A SKETCH OF THE PROGRESS OF French Literature, BY L. T. VENTOUILLAC. LONDON: TREUTTEL, WÜRTZ, treuttel, jun. and richter, PREFACE. IT is now five or six years since a friend who was collecting a Library for his own use, requested me to furnish him with a list of the best works written in French, in every branch of literature; a request with which I readily complied. The repeated expressions of the advantage and facility thus afforded him by guiding his choice, on a subject where it was natural to suppose I possessed the greater share of information, led me to suppose that what had been advantageous to him, might prove so to others; that in this country, where French is so much studied, many persons might, like him, wish to form a French Library, and like him be at a loss for information, and desirous of assistance on the subject. It was not assuming too much, perhaps, to suppose that I was able to afford |