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Excerpt from Memoirs Relative to the Duke D'enghien
Having thus established themselves on an erroneous basis, they have obtained credit for deductions equally erroneous.
I belong to a family of which I may justly feel proud my father, by long service in war, had Obtained a superior rank in the cavalry; and at the age of fifteen I entered the Royal Normandy regiment of cavalry, in which he had served. The Prince de Chalais was my colonel, and I was made an officer, as having been six years a king's scholar in the royal college of saint-louis, at Metz; it was then a matter of right. That appointment, and the ancient hereditary honour transmitted in families from generation to generation, were my sole patrimony.
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