[Illustration: ALPHONSE DE LAMARATINE.]




RAPHAEL, or

PAGES OF THE BOOK OF LIFE AT TWENTY

BY ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE


_ILLUSTRATED BY SANDOZ_


SOCIÉTÉ DES BEAUX-ARTS
PARIS, LONDON AND NEW YORK

1905


Comédie d'Amour Series




INTRODUCTION


It is all very well for Lamartine to explain, in his original prologue,