Acknowledgments

1The editor is grateful to William St Clair of the School of Advanced Study, University of London, for wise counsel, in particular in relation to the Editor's Foreword; to Neil Rudenstine, former President of Harvard, for reminding him of Edmund Wilson's lifelong interest in Michelet; to his collaborators on the project, Flora Kimmich and Edward K. Kaplan, for their hard work and patience in translating complex and intricate texts; to Alessandra Tosi, Rupert Gatti, and Catherine Heygate of Open Book Publishers for their assistance in preparing the text for publication and to Corin Throsby for the cover design; and to the University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences of Princeton University for contributing toward the cost of publication and thus helping to ensure unlimited access to scholarly work.