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Excerpt from Life and Adventures of Count Beugnot, Minister of State Under Napoleon I, Vol. 1 of 2
AT this time occurred an episode in my life which caused me most poignant anxiety, and certainly the greatest sorrow in the course of a career full of vexatious incidents. This arose from the arrival at Paris of the woman afterwards so unhappily celebrated under the name of the Countess de Lamotte. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.