The incredible ignorance which runs through those memoirs, the absurdities and inconceivable silliness with which they abound, do not permit a man of honour and common sense to allow such wretched rhapsodies to be imputed to him.

I declared in 1816, and at later periods in the French and foreign journals, that I had no hand in those publications, and I here formally repeat this declaration.
But it may be said to me, Why should we place more confidence in you than in those who have written before you?
My reply shall be plain.

I enter the lists one of the last I have read all that my predecessors have published confident that all I state is true.

I have no interest in deceiving, no disgrace to fear, no reward to expect.

I ether wish to obscure nor embellish his glory.