[Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne]@TWC D-Link bookMemoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte CHAPTER III 41/43
Professed coincidences are put close to unpardonable anachronisms, and to the most absurd revelations.
It contains neither his thoughts, his style, his actions, nor his life.
Some truths are mimed up with an inconceivable mass of falsehoods.
Some forms of expression used by Bonaparte are occasionally met with, but they are awkwardly introduced, and often with bad taste. It has been reported that the pamphlet was written by M.Bertrand, formerly an officer of the army of the Vistula, and a relation of the Comte de Simeon, peer of France. -- ['Manuscrit de Sainte Helene d'une maniere inconnue', London. Murray; Bruxelles, De Mat, 20 Avril 1817.
This work merits a note. Metternich (vol, i.pp.
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