Œuvres de Buffon, 12mo, figures 58 ” Hérodote de Larcher, 8vo 7 ” Œuvres de Démosthenes et d’Eschyle, par Auger, 4to 4 ” Histoire Ancienne de Rollin, 12mo 14 ” Cours d’Etudes de Condillac, 12mo 16 ” Histoire Moderne, 12 mo 30 ” — du Bas-Empire, 12mo 22 ” Corpus Juris Civilis, folio 2 ” Encyclopédie par Ordre de Matières, toutes les livraisons excepté la dernière (1). The whole is valued at just over a hundred pounds (2800 livres). IX EXTRACTS FROM THE MEMOIR WRITTEN IN 1846 BY THE SONS OF DANTON This memoir was written by Danton’s sons. Both survived him, the one by fifty-five, the other by sixty-four years (1849, 1858). Their fortune was restored to them by the Republic two years after their father’s death (13th April 1796). Their guardian, Charpentier (their maternal grandfather), died in 1804; they then were taken in by Danton’s mother, Mme. Recordain, who was still living at Arcis. She died in October 1813, a year in which the youngest came of age, and they sold out the greater part of the land in which Danton’s fortune had been invested, and appear to have put the capital into one of the new factories which sprang up after the peace. In 1832 we find them partners and heads of a cotton-spinning establishment at Arcis, which they maintain till their deaths. They left, unfortunately, no surviving sons. The manuscript was written for Danton’s nephew, the son of a younger brother. This nephew became inspector of the University of Paris, and lent the MSS. to several historians, among others, Michelet and Bougeart. It finally passed into the possession of the latter, who gave it to Dr. Robinet. This writer printed it in the appendix of the “Vie Privée,” from which I take it. It is not a precise historical document, such as are the official reports, receipts, &c., upon which much of this book depends. Thus, it ignores the dowry of Mdlle. Charpentier and the exact date of the second marriage; it is weak on some points, especially dates, but there attaches to it the interest due to the very quality from which these errors proceed—I mean its familiar reminiscences. While the memory of these men, advanced in life, is at fault in details, it is more likely to be accurate in the motives and tendencies it describes than are we of a hundred years later. “Rien au monde ne nous est plus cher que la mémoire de notre père. Elle a été, elle est encore tous les jours calomniée, outragée d’une manière affreuse; aussi notre désir le plus ardent a-t-il toujours été de voir l’histoire lui rendre justice.