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Charles MauriceCharles-Maurice Descombes [sic], editor of a theatrical paper, had not only written articles against her in his paper, but had also published one or two pamphlets that were most scurrilous and abusive. She alludes to one of these, La Vérité Rachel, in the following:—

"The only answer to be made to such a production," says Janin, alluding to the Vérité Rachel, "is that of Madame de Staël to the man who, knowing how prejudiced she was against Napoleon, once said before her that 'Napoleon Bonaparte had neither talent nor courage.' 'Monsieur,' answered the authoress of Corinne severely, 'you will find great difficulty in persuading me that Europe has remained for fifteen years prostrate at the feet of a fool and a coward.

A great many irrelevancies have been put forward