Excerpt from The Labyrinth (Le Dedale): A Play in Five Acts A member of the French Academy, president of the Society of Dramatic Authors, the recipient of nearly every public honor that can be accorded to a French writer, M. Hervieu is held in the highest esteem by his confreres and respected by the F rench public at large. 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.