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The celebrated Vicomte de Chateaubriand, after flaunting an ancestry of princes and kings in his _Memoires d'outre-tombe_, then turns about and tells us that he attaches no importance to such matters.
I shall do the same. I intend to furbish up our family history and mythology, and then I shall assert that I attach no importance to them. And, what is more, I shall be telling the truth.