Excerpt from The Strange Life and Strange Loves of Edgar Allan Poe: English Version Francaise were especially generous. Among those who approved and wished to encourage us was Jean Richepin who devoted a lecture -to us (annales Littéraires, i5th of June, This scientific work, he said, is most respectful and even affectionate towards Poe; It explains him, which is often the true way to excuse him. 'it was only twenty years later that the offensive words came in two brutal attacks after a certain academic success in an entirely different work. In the Sorbonne and in California there was a desire to cri-ti cise. But as the result of a more or less unconscious but strange aber ration, they only reinforced the thesis which they pretended to combat, for, without confessing it, both adopted nearly all that it contains concerning Poe's morbid nature. 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.