Mexico Before and After the Conquest (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mexico Before and After the Conquest<br><br>This essay was published during the latter portion of the past year in La Revue des deux Mondes, and excited in France the liveliest attention. Mr. Chevalier, the author, is well known in this country, through which he traveled some years since, winning, by his gentlemanly bearing and high tone of feeling, many friends. In France he occupies a high position in the literary and political world, and is distinguished by the hospitality he has ever extended to Americans.<br><br>The translator originally contemplated the publication of only a portion of this essay, intending to omit nearly all of the last half of the second part, but was deterred from this course by the difficulty of doing justice to the author unless his whole argument was given. This book, it is believed, will be found a faithful reflex of the original and in the present condition of affairs, an amusing contribution to our information about a country in many respects interesting to us.<br><br>This essay was written as a feeler to the popular mind, and to awaken it to the great value of Mexico, in a commercial point of view, to France. How far it was successful, the public is well aware, from the great interest taken by the government and diplomatists of France in our disputes with that country.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.