Note 46 — SECTION I: CHAPTER V
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It is scarcely necessary to say that the letter which Napoleon is said to have sent Murat on March 29, and which is printed in the Mémorial de Ste-Hélène, is (as Lanfrey and Count Murat have shown) a forgery composed by Napoleon himself long after. It is quite inconsistent with the offer to Louis Bonaparte, and with other letters to Murat of the same week.