We learn from the Memorial that M.de Las Casas wrote daily, and that the manuscript was read over by Napoleon, who often made corrections with his own hand.

The idea of a journal pleased him greatly.

He fancied it would be a work of which the world could afford no other example.

But there are passages in which the order of events is deranged; in others facts are misrepresented and erroneous assertions are made, I apprehend, not altogether involuntarily.
I have paid particular attention to all that has been published by the noble participators of the imperial captivity.

Nothing, however, could induce me to change a word in these Memoirs, because nothing could take from me my conviction of the truth of what I personally heard and saw.
It will be found that Napoleon in his private conversations often confirms what I state; but we sometimes differ, and the public must judge between us.