Excerpt from Vigée-Lebrun, 1755-1842: Her Life, Works, and FriendshipsN preparing this account of Madame Lebrun and the catalogue of her works, the author has been helped with information and advice by many to whom he here gives Sincere thanks, especially to Messrs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.