Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette, V1
Publisher: IndyPublish
Published: January 8, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9781414238722
Subjects: Biography: general; Biography: historical; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography; France; Generals; Statesmen; United States
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.