anecdotes, which he retails as fact, with the words "It is believed
that..." or something to that effect.

The campaigns can be followed by the use of a good atlas, but
unfortunately the many upheavals which Europe has undergone since
those days has resulted in many of the names of places being changed.
The curious reader may well find maps dealing with the Napoleonic
wars in any well stocked public library.

All translation requires some degree of paraphrase. What sounds
well in one language may sound ridiculous if translated literally
into another. I have endeavoured to produce a version of these
memoirs acceptable to the English-speaking reader, whether I have
succeeded or not only the reader can say.

Oliver.C.Colt


THE MEMOIRS OF GENERAL THE BARON DE MARBOT.

Translated by Oliver.C.Colt

Chap. 1.

I was born on the 18th August 1782 at my father's Château of
Larivière, in the beautiful valley of Beaulieu, on the borders of
Limousin and Quercy--now the department of Corrèze--where my
father owned a considerable property.

The family of Marbot was of noble origin, although for a long time