Napolean and Marie Louise, a memoir

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Preface To The First Edition. 1

the author, in a preface which he had no right whatever to place at the head of his book, has ahnost pointed me out as the writer of it.

I submit these Souvenirs to the public, just as I wrote them for my own family, and I give my name, because, if this work be worthy of blame, that blame should fall only upon myself, and not upon estimable persons who have been very unjustly accused.*

* This final edition of the "M^moirei snr Napoleon et Marie- Louise" had been prepared by Madame la Grenerale Durand, who died without having published them.

They could not have been placed before the publio at an earliAir date,— Editor's Nota.

NAPOLEON AND MARIE-LOUISE.