Produced by Bethanne M. Simms, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Edmond-François-Valentin About, the author of the accompanying story, was born at Dieuze, in Lorraine, on February 14, 1828. He followed the course of the French schools and in time was graduated from the _École normale_, whence his taste for classical studies led him to the French school at Athens. In 1853, About returned to Paris and began to write for the newspapers, especially for the _Moniteur_, _Figaro_, and _Soir_, and shortly after, in 1855, he published _La Grèce contemporaine_, a bright, though hardly just satire on the manners and customs of the people he had just left.…
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