Memoirs, Correspondence And Manuscripts Of General Lafayette
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9781419133800
Subjects: Biography: historical; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: If I were to confound, as is too often done, obstinacy with firmness, I should blush at beginning these memoirs, after having so long refused to do so, and at even increasing their apparent egotism by my style, instead of sheltering myself under cover of the third person; but I will not yield a half compliance to the request of that tender friendship which is far more valuable to me than the ephemeral success which a journal might obtain.