They are indeed full of interest for every one.
But they also require to be read with great caution.

When we meet with praise of Napoleon, we may generally believe it, for, as Thiers (Consulat., ii.

279) says, Bourrienne need be little suspected on this side, for although be owed everything to Napoleon, he has not seemed to remember it.

But very often in passages in which blame is thrown on Napoleon, Bourrienne speaks, partly with much of the natural bitterness of a former and discarded friend, and partly with the curious mixed feeling which even the brothers of Napoleon display in their Memoirs, pride in the wonderful abilities evinced by the man with whom he was allied, and jealousy at the way in which he was outshone by the man he had in youth regarded as inferior to himself.

Sometimes also we may even suspect the praise.