AUTHENTIC MEMOIRS

OF THE

PUBLIC LIFE

OF

M. FOUCHÉ,

DUKE OF OTRANTO.

COMPRISING

VARIOUS LETTERS ADDRESSED TO THE

EMPEROR NAPOLEON, KING JOACHIM, THE COMTE D'ARTOIS,
THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, PRINCE BLUCHER,
LOUIS XVIII., COUNT DE BLACAS, &c. &c.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON,

LEIPSIC, and AMSTERDAM :

H. COLBURN, F. A. BROCKHAUS, AND

C. G. SÜLPKE.

Printed by Cox and Baylis,

75, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields,

arla 12. Jaylar

1-20-42

PREFACE

THE

GERMAN EDITOR.

AMIDST the tempests which, after having excited the passions of a nation of twentyfive millions of men replete with energy, have, for twenty-five years, agitated the whole civilized world, France has beheld, at the head of an administration of the highest importance, and in a situation the most perilous, three men, firm and upright, supported by themselves, endowed with a strong mind and with an unusual superiority of intellect: Sieyes, Carnot and Fouché.

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