My disobedience of the law placed my name on the list of emigrants.
It has been said of me, in a biographical publication, that "it was as remarkable as it was fortunate for Bourrienne that, on his return, he got his name erased from the list of emigrants of the department of the Yonne, on which it had been inscribed during his first journey to Germany.

This circumstance has been interpreted in several different ways, which are not all equally favourable to M.de Bourrienne." I do not understand what favourable interpretations can be put upon a statement entirely false.

General Bonaparte repeatedly applied for the erasure of my name, from the month of April 1797, when I rejoined him at Leoben, to the period of the signature of the treaty of Campo-Formio; but without success.

He desired his brother Louis, Berthier, Bernadotte, and others, when he sent them to the Directory, to urge my erasure; but in vain.

He complained of this inattention to his wishes to Bottot, when he came to Passeriano, after the 18th Fructidor.