PREFACE

enfants and Le Journal des demoiselles that she became practically acquainted with the work of a printing-office. She also foreshadows in the person of the old musician the suffering and calamity of blindness with which she was afflicted toward the close of her life.

Le Petit Robinson de Paris (1840) is especially remarkable for the attachitient between Fox and his little master ; on the whole it is not only one of the earliest, but also one of the best dog-stories in literature.

Among Mme. Foa's works are le Ridouschim (1830), la Juive, histoire des temps de la Régence (1835), ^ es Mémoires d'un polichinelle (1839), Contes historiques, le vieux Paris (1840), Mémoires de Croquemitaine (1841), les Petits peintres (1842), and les Petits musiciens (1843). She died in Paris in 1853.

Louise de Bonneville.

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