[LEDRU-ROLLIN, GENERAL CAVAIGNAC, LAMARTINE (1848)]
AUTHOR'S INTRODUCTION
There are few facts detailed in the following pages that need explanation here. If my motive in writing them were personal gratification, or simply a desire to preserve a memorial of scenes in which I took an anxious part, I might labour to make the narration more interesting to my readers, without any care for future consequences.