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  Anatole France: In His Own words                    (Your comments are most welcome) from The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard HISTORICAL BOOKS " It is a historical book ," he said to me, with a smile - "a book of real history."  "In that case," I replied,  'it must be very tiresome; for all  all the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious. I write some authentic myself; and if you were unlucky enough to carry a copy of any of them from door to door  you would run the   keeping it all your life in that green baize of yours, without ever  finding even a cook foolish enough to buy it from you .  ( The crime of Sylvestre  Bonnard -p. 6)       "This old-book man" evidently thought Hamilcar" talks to no purpose at all", while our housekeeper never utters a word which is not full of good sense, full of significance containing either the announcement of a meal or ...