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Excerpt from L'Artistaire: Livre des Principales Initiations aux Beaux-Arts, la Peinture, la Sculpture, l'Architecture, la Poésie, la Musique, la Mimique Et la Gymnastique Qui ne veut pas devenir connaisseur en beaux arts, ne veut pas devenir connaisseur en vertus, l'etude de la beaute manifeste par l'art etant la meilleure preparation a l'etude de la vertu. 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.