Note 558 — BOOK XII[500]

Chateaubriand here gives only the commencement of his letter of 11th October. The other letters to Madame Récamier contained in the present book have all been more or less modified by the author, who sometimes curtails and sometimes adds to the original text. Madame Lenormant, in the second volume of her Souvenir de Madame Récamier, has reprinted the great writer's letters in their entirety, after the originals in her possession.—B.