Excerpt from The Keynote (Monsieur Des Lourdines) The name of Alphonse de Chateaubriant is comparatively new in the modern world of Letters. With one stride, this youthful author has stepped into the front rank. Thanks to the Académie Goncourt, he has been accorded instant recognition; and those who, but a short while ago, knew nothing of his talent, now acclaim him as the most gifted of con temporary prose-writers. 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.