It is with his personal relations with Napoleon that we are most concerned, and it is in them that his account receives most corroboration.
It may be interesting to see what has been said of the Memoirs by other writers.

We have quoted Metternich, and Lucien Bonaparte; let us hear Meneval, his successor, who remained faithful to his master to the end: "Absolute confidence cannot be given to statements contained in Memoirs published under the name of a man who has not composed them.

It is known that the editor of these Memoirs offered to M.de Bourrienne, who had then taken refuge in Holstein from his creditors, a sum said to be thirty thousand francs to obtain his signature to them, with some notes and addenda.

M.de Bourrienne was already attacked by the disease from which he died a few years latter in a maison de sante at Caen.

Many literary men co-operated in the preparation of his Memoirs.