J'ai l'honneur d'être, etc.
The Brussels edition of the Memoirs, which has been taken as the basis of this translation, ends with p. 571 of the present volume. The three chapters which follow are taken from the eighth volume of the Paris edition of the Souvenirs, 1855, in order to arrive at a more convenient finish. The last chapter of the eighth volume of the Paris edition has been here omitted, as it concerns itself mainly with a recapitulation of the story of the Wars of the Roses.