1883).]-- I accompanied him in a carriole as far as Nogent Sur Seine, whence the coach was to start.

We parted with regret, and we did not meet again till the year 1792.

During these eight years we maintained an active correspondence; but so little did I anticipate the high destiny which, after his elevation, it was affirmed the wonderful qualities of his boyhood plainly denoted, that I did not preserve one of the letters he wrote to me at that period, but tore them up as soon as they were answered.
-- [I remember, however, that in a letter which I received from him about a year after his arrival in Paris he urged me to keep my promise of entering the army with him.

Like him, I had passed through the studies necessary for the artillery service; and in 1787 I went for three months to Metz, in order to unite practice with theory.

A strange Ordinance, which I believe was issued in 1778 by M.de Segur, required that a man should possess four quarterings of nobility before he could be qualified to serve his king and country as a military officer.