Excerpt from Memoirs of the Countess De Genlis, Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries The efforts of malevolence have never succeeded in fixing upon any of my works a single falsehood, or a single erroneous citation; yet these works contain many severe remarks. I have never however allowed myself to employ such severity, but for the interest of religion and morals, * and I have constantly praised every one frankly, (even my enemies, ) when they have been blameless in these particulars the same honesty and impartiality will be traced throughout these memoirs, which will be useful, be cause they are true, and because neither malignity nor resentment have dictated a single line in them. 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.