Abstract

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This article presents information on the book "Memoirs of Madame de Rémusat." It is informed that the book will take a place among the most important documents concerning the history of France at the beginning of the nineteenth century. From what one reads in the preface it seems that M. de Rémusat, the elder had once wished to publish the "Memoirs" after the Revolution of 1848, but that the return of the Empire seemed to him an insurmountable obstacle. It is informed that Madame de Rémusat was the daughter of a M. de Vergennes, and who, though favorable at first to the ideas of the Revolution, died on the scaffold, in 1794, three days before the fall of Robespierre. His wife was left with two daughters, and one of them married M. de Rémusat , who belonged to a parliamentary family of Aix.