I come on one side from Germany, on the other from the south of France; my mind has a Teutonic love of reverie, my blood the vivacity of Provence.

I am noble on my father's and on my mother's side.

On my mother's I derive from every page of the Almanach de Gotha.

In short, my precautions are well taken.

It is not in any man's power, nor even in the power of the law, to unmask my incognito.