Excerpt from An Anonymous Letter: A Novel, Translated From the Italian; Una Lettera Anonima; Versione Italiana Fifteen or sixteen years ago, the courtyard of the Holy Chapel presented quite a different aspect from the present one. It is not because many changes have been made, or because the streets leading to it have been improved or widened. No. Indeed, everything has remained in nearly the same primitive state. The wooden wall, which once enclosed the staircase by which the people ascended to the corridor communicat ing with the public Hall of the pas parting, though a little elevated, still encircles the old monument; but with the increasing activity which took place in the locality, many of the characteristic marks of old Paris have gradually disappeared. Before the opening oflettera Anonima. 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.