I shall briefly repeat what I said in a note when my opinion was asked, under high authority, by a minister of Louis XVIII.
No reader intimately acquainted with public affairs can be deceived by the pretended authenticity of this pamphlet.

What does it contain?
Facts perverted and heaped together without method, and related in an obscure, affected, and ridiculously sententious style.

Besides what appears in it, but which is badly placed there, it is impossible not to remark the omission of what should necessarily be there, were Napoleon the author.

It is full of absurd and of insignificant gossip, of thoughts Napoleon never had, expressions unknown to him, and affectations far removed from his character.

With some elevated ideas, more than one style and an equivocal spirit can be seen in it.