312-13) says, "At the time when it appeared the manuscript of St.Helena made a great impression upon Europe.
This pamphlet was generally regarded as a precursor of the memoirs which Napoleon was thought to be writing in his place of exile.

The report soon spread that the work was conceived and executed by Madame de Stael.

Madame de Stael, for her part, attributed it to Benjamin Constant, from whom she was at this time separated by some disagreement." Afterwards it came to be known that the author was the Marquis Lullin de Chateauvieux, a man in society, whom no one had suspected of being able to hold a pen: Jomini (tome i.p.

8 note) says.

"It will be remarked that in the course of this work [his life of Napoleon] the author has used some fifty pages of the pretended 'Manuscrit de Sainte Helene'.