After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819

The Project Gutenberg EBook of After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819, by Major W. E FryeThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819Author: Major W. E FryeRelease Date: February 4, 2004 [EBook #10939]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFTER WATERLOO ***Produced by Robert Connal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available bygallica (Bibliotheque nationale de France) at http://gallica.bnf.fr.AFTER WATERLOOReminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819ByMAJOR W.E. FRYEEDITED WITH A PREFACE AND NOTESBy SALOMON REINACHMember of the Institute of FranceLONDON 1908ToV.A.M. S.R.PREFACEThe knowledge of Major Frye's manuscript and the privilege of publishing it for the first time I owe to the kindness of twoFrench ladies, the Misses G——. Their father, a well known artist and critic, used to spend the summer months at SaintGermain-en-Laye together with his wife, who was an English woman by birth. They had been for a long time intimatelyacquainted with Major Frye, who lived and ended his life in that quiet town. The Major's hostess, Mme. de W——, afterhis death in 1858, brought the manuscript to Mrs. G—— and gave it to ...