Death alone can break the union which sympathy, love, and sentiment have formed.

Let me have news of your health.

A thousand and a thousand kisses.
It is impossible for me to avoid occasionally placing myself in the foreground in the course of these Memoirs.

I owe it to myself to answer, though indirectly, to certain charges which, on various occasions, have been made against me.

Some of the documents which I am about to insert belong, perhaps, less to the history of the General-in-Chief of the army of-Italy than to that of his secretary; but I must confess I wish to show that I was not an intruder, nor yet pursuing, as an obscure intriguer, the path of fortune.