Show 0 o A MARSHAL autobiography hirshal Alit shai vaillant valliant having L I 1 ta briten iten to toby by a A A ain aln 1 emili I of L his bis own r nag nae for fon particulars concerning his famil family tae vie allari the kind ness says galbani Gal gai nani to give th e bowing oo Wing most J rank frable and honorable account of 13 s career and ard ayou you have addressed to me a good uee uge and tile tha person who wrote wrate it must ba be a gou goo hearted man 1 should be vary very tery proud of his rela i though I 1 do not know if we shall be able tae I 1 it ft a apparent rent my bly father whom I 1 had the misfortune toe tog to toe g ia la 1823 1623 was secretary of the distri district cl of D DJ ja and afterwards general of the prebel ture lure of or the cote dor in in 18 5 he ile was elected representative diring during the cent jears bhende primed of his pace at the prefecture impi isone bisone d as a etc 1 I was then in the army of the loire my father died poor but esteemed by ari al 1 I 1 do not know that he llad had a angle enemy I 1 do not resemble him in anything he was thin and arid I 1 am stout lie he was MRS mas milland mils mlis and ans people fidd find fi ad me cross in fact he had as many good qualities as they ihei say I 1 chave have faults and I 1 believe they are nat mie mis mistaken taken aly father who brought up a large family was wag married to a adile jar jan quoi A brother of my mother died at genlis bote ote coo WOO an excellent man whom we constantly re let iet I 1 have no child and this is the greatest sorrow that god has givan giran gir an me I 1 was born at D djon jon on the oth december 1790 1 I scarcely recollect my mother we were poor very poor we were q aarre fully lully luil yand and tenderly brought up but in the midst of privations of every sort bort rt my nurse still jives JAs at tit djon god has not caddo made any being more devoted than she who received ua us as infants us with a love which I 1 cannot express she has refused twenty offers of mar inar A 91 to live with wita us who however gave gari her troubie trouble enough I 1 entered the polytechnic school at the age of lai and I 1 left it to enter the engineers the grade which has given us u most pleasure was that of corporal at the tho the polytechnic 1 I war wai ilai in the he russian campaign of 1813 and aud kvas kyas was made tude druon er at it its conlu sign sidn I 1 was u at t waterloo I 1 was weded wourl ded fed at t the defence ce 1 ot of patis paris in 1815 1 I had a leg torn by a shell shill at at the hie siege slope of algiers in 1833 my chiefs said that thy were pleased with me at the siege elege of alvers in in 1832 such or sir is my history nearly complete I 1 shall ie happy if you yon find in it some proofs of a similarity of origin between your family and mine I 1 pray you to receive cour gour the e assurance of my esteem MARSHAL VAILLANT |