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This book is an insightful examination of the plight of the working class amidst the industrial revolution in 19th century France. The author delves into the social and economic turmoil of the period, exploring the harsh conditions faced by factory workers and the tensions between them and their employers. Written as a series of vignettes, this book provides a complex and nuanced portrayal of the human cost of industrialization. The author illustrates the dehumanizing effects of factory labor, the exploitation of workers, and the desperate poverty that plagued working-class communities. Yet, amidst the suffering, the author also finds resilience and a yearning for justice. Through its exploration of class struggle, social inequality, and the search for dignity in the face of adversity, this book offers profound insights into the historical roots of modern labor movements and the ongoing struggle for workers' rights.

Excerpt from Truth: Vérité The horrible crime on which he bases a part of his nar rative is not ascribed to any military man (in fact the army scarcely figures in Vérité it is one of the crimes spring ing from the unnatural lives led by those who have taken vows in the Roman Church, of which some record will be found in the reports on criminality in France, which the Keeper of the Seals issues every ten years. Many such crimes, particularly those which are not carried to the point of murder, are more or less hushed up, the offenders being helped to escape by their friends in the Church; but suffi cient cases have been legally investigated during the last thirty years to enable one to say that the crime set forth in Vérité is not to be regarded as altogether exceptional in its nature. The scene of the book is laid in the French school world, and by the intriguing of clericalist teachers the crime referred to is imputed to a Jew schoolmaster. Forthwith there comes an explosion of that anti-semitism - cruelly and cowardly spurred on by the Roman Church - which was the very fans at orz'go of the Dreyfus case. 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.