Excerpt from Eminent Persons: Biographies Reprinted From the Times; 1870-1879 Napoleon, disclaiming at the same time all ideas of being either his adviser or his confidant. He was simply, he said, an impartial witness in his behalf, and he strongly denounced the conduct of those who were undermining his legitimate authority as a stupid and inexcusable ingratitude. He was one of the pro moters of the plan for revising the Con stitution, and was named on the Commis sion charged with preparing it. M. De Tocqueville was the reporter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.