Memoirs of Constant First Valet De Chambre of the Emperor On the Private Life
Memoirs of Constant First Valet De Chambre of the Emperor On the Private Life
Valet Constant
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At the time when I received this visit, which I was not expecting, we were reading in the family the Memoirs of M. De Bourrienne, which had just been published by the firm of Ladvocat, and we had more than once remarked that these Memoirs were exempt from that spirit of depreciation or infatuation we had met with so frequently, and not Avithout disgust, in other books treating of the same subject. M. Ladvocat advised me to complete the biography of the Emperor, which M. De Bourrienne, on accoun...t of his high position and customary occupations, had been intent on displa^'ing merely on its political side. After the excellent things he had said of this, it still MEMOIES OF CONSTANT remained to me, according to his publisher, to relate simply and in a maimer suitable to my former posi- tion near the Emperor, that which M. De Bourrienne had necessarily been obliged to neglect, and which no one could know better than I, I willingly confess that I found but little to urge against M. Ladvocat's arguments, and that he ended by convincing me when he made me re-read this pas- sage from the introduction to M.
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