Excerpt from Memoirs, Vol. 4 of 4 Everyone owes a debt to posterity when he has been an actor in, or a spectator of, a revolution which has changed the moral, civil, or legislative state of his country; he owes, above. All, the tribute of truthful ness and justice in his narratives and descriptions. It is thus that an honest writer ought to contribute in fixing for the future, always just, the opinion of men, things, and events; by rendering justice to talents, merit, and virtues, by criticising errors without bitter ness or exaggeration of facts, by destroying calumnies and false interpretations, and by giving to facts their whole meaning and precision. There is, from 1789 to the present time (the first quarter of the nineteenth century), an incalculable number of men and families in France who have fixed public attention by their actions, writings, opinions and votes in political matters and various phases of public liberty. All these men, all these families have a right to be known, appreciated, and judged with impartiality and full knowledge of motive. The enemies of liberty have an equal right to be judged with impartiality according to true facts and without exaggeration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.