Certainty, that successor of Aguesseau had not attempted
to justify, after the event, my internment and to dis-
credit the man of resistance by the lowest of political
maneuvers, by getting you to sign a law just for the
purpose of taking away the jurisdiction of a judge who
refused to prosecute me and for that of bringing before
the Court of Riom such an absurd accusation that it refused
to legalize my internment.  The las tsigns of his lack of
balance are the things he is saying about you- which
scandalizes the Midi- who had for a moment drawn him from
nothingness.
     I do not have such a conception of public life.
     I have never though of having those of my collaborators
put in prison who, like you, did not share my opinion on
the armistice.  Instead of attempting to dishonor them, 
when I had the opportunity in the past (perhaps you will
learn this, some day) of preserving the name of certain
one of them from any injury, I did so without his knowing it.
     Keep me in prison, if you see fit.
     Our persons count for little.
     It will be the (greatest) honor of my life to have
suffered for having held the word of France very high and
for not having been willing to diminish the chances of 
victory of the coalition of which she formed part.