Durfort and Desponts, finished my education; and I regretted that they did not come sooner.

The often-repeated assertion of Bonaparte having received a careful education at Brienne is therefore untrue.

The monks were incapable of giving it him; and, for my own part, I must confess that the extended information of the present day is to me a painful contrast with the limited course of education I received at the Military College.

It is only surprising that the establishment should have produced a single able man.
Though Bonaparte had no reason to be satisfied with the treatment he received from his comrades, yet he was above complaining of it; and when he had the supervision of any duty which they infringed, he would rather go to prison than denounce the criminals.
I was one day his accomplice in omitting to enforce a duty which we were appointed to supervise.

He prevailed on me to accompany him to prison, where we remained three days.