Note 693 — BOOK XII[500] (continued 2)
Alexander Teixeira de Mattos translation
I am inclined here to echo a footnote by M. Edmond Biré, who says:
"The readers, I hope, will not skip a line of this Memorandum, a master-piece of logic and patriotism and, which is no detriment, a master-piece of style. Chateaubriand has written no pages that do him more honour."