Note 42 — BOOK THE FIRST 1807-1810
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The circumstances related in the text, which I committed to paper in 1817 or 1818, have been confirmed this year by the publication of Fouché’s memoirs: the agent, I learnt from those memoirs, to be no other than Ouvrard.—V.H.
[Gabriel Julien Ouvrard (1770-1846), French financier.]