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Excerpt from Memoirs of Madame Lafarge In the solitude of my prison I have forgotten my suffer ings, in order to return With you into the feelings of my life. I have disclosed to you all my joys, all my griefs, all my tears. I have remembered, wept, and written. I have not asked of God to make me eloquent, but I have prayed that he would endue all my recollections with charity and truth, and that he would give to my words the power of persuasion - of conviction. If you shall approve what I have done; if it shall have strengthened a single belief, or have reclaimed a wavering mind, my object Will have been accomplished. My generous friends, you who have withheld me from despair, by placing my honour under the safeguard of your conviction, who have become the guardians of my unhappi ness, may you be a thousand times rewarded! 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.