Excerpt from The Road to Glory The great painting - it is called Vers la Gloire, if I remember rightly - reaches from floor to ceiling of the Pantheon in Paris. Across the huge canvas, in a Whirlwind of dust and color, sweeps an avalanche of horsemen - cuiras siers, dragoons, lancers, guides, hussars, chasseurs - With lances levelled, blades swung high, banners streaming - France's unsung heroes in mad pursuit of Glory. 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.