My Memoirs, Vol. I, 1802 to 1821

CHAPTER I

My birth--My name is disputed--Extracts from the official registers of Villers-Cotterets--Corbeil Club--My father's marriage certificate--My mother--My maternal grandfather--Louis-Philippe d'Orléans, father of Philippe-Égalité--Madame de Montesson--M. de Noailles and the Academy--A morganatic marriage.

I was born at Villers-Cotterets, a small town in the de...