Chapter 54

"Pray, monsieur le vicomte, accept the homage of the profound respect with which I have the honour to be, "Your very devoted colleague and sincere admirer, "MONTALIVET." This did not prevent my "respectful colleague and sincere admirer," M. le Comte de Montalivet, in his day so great a partisan of the liberty of the press, from making me, as an abettor of that liberty, enter M. Gisquet's[266] prison. An abstract of my new war of polemics, which lasted five years but ended by triumphing, will prove the strength …