Note 230 — BOOK VIII[146]
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
Jean Baptiste Cléry (1759-1809), the King's valet. His Memoirs were published in London, in 1799; with the title. Journal de ce qui s'est passé à la Tour du Temple pendant la captivité de Louis XVI., roi de France, and printed the same year in France. In order to destroy the interest attached to this publication, the Directory caused a spurious edition to be disseminated, entitled Mémoires de M. Cléry sur la détention de Louis XVI., and filled with matter calculated to injure the memory of the unhappy Sovereign and the Royal Family. Cléry protested against this with indignation so soon as it reached his ears, his protest appearing in July 1801 in the Spectateur du Nord, published in Hamburg.—B.