Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.

Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.

Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.

Page 1: The letters after the second “Ç” in the sub-title “JEAN FRANÇOIS—JEAN FRANÇOIS” were missing; Transcriber added what is shown in this ebook.

Page 294: “it was only connection with her” seems to be missing the word “in”.