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It has been superintended, above all, by an accomplished gentleman, perfectly acquainted with both languages, and able, with a rare felicity, to be perfectly faithful to the English text, while rendering it in elegant and expressive French.
I am proud to be so presented to the great French people, whom I sincerely love and honour, and to be known and approved by whom must be an aspiration of every labourer in the Arts, for which France has done so much, and in which she has made herself renowned through the world.
This is the only edition of my writings that has my sanction. I humbly and respectfully, but with full confidence, recommend it to my French readers.
Charles Dickens.
Tavistock-House, London, January 17th, 1857.
