Excerpt from French Nursery Rhymes, Poems, Rounds and Riddles, for Schools and Families: Edited and Accompanied With Explanatory Notes The notes accompanying the following selection of French Nursery Rhymes are only intended to explain such words and phrases as are not likely to be clearly understood by children. Philological and other notes, fully entering into the origin and purpose of each particular rhyme, and offering a key to all obsolete words or provincialisms, would have been out of place in a book of such an unpretending character as the present. Students or lovers of this branch of juvenile poetry are referred to the labours of Messrs. Gaidoz, Kuhfi', and others, to whom the editor is indebted for a considerable number of the rhymes contained in. 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.