" The memoirs also say that the plate included the date of the landing, Drake's name, and the queen's portrait on a sixpence coin, showing through a hole in the plate.

Chartres was reared alongside Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, later famous for his memoirs and defense of the rights of the peerage of France ; Saint-Simon often accompanied the duke, and his wife was later a lady-in-waiting to Philippe's daughter, Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, duchesse de Berry.

He was one of the last of the philosophes, and in this character he figures in many memoirs, such as those of Madame de Rémusat.

* See contemporary memoirs of Madame de Sévigné, of Saint-Simon, of Bussy-Rabutin and others ; also the proceedings of the Chambre Ardente preserved in the Archives de la Bastille ( Arsenal Library ) and the notes of La Reynie preserved in the Bibliothèque Nationale.

“ Paul was exceedingly ugly ,” Madame Vigee Le Brun wrote in her memoirs “ A flat nose, and a very large mouth furnished with very long teeth, made him look like a death's head .”

Madame de Sévigné relates in her memoirs that when Louis XIV visited in 1671, François Vatel, the maître d ' hôtel to the Grand Condé, committed suicide when he feared the fish would be served late.

A certain Madame Legros became interested in him through a chance reading of one of his memoirs, and, through vigorous agitation in his behalf, secured his release in 1784.

Fred H. Colvin described Kate Gleason in his memoirs as " a kind of Madame Curie of machine tools Kate spent her youth learning her father's business from the ground up, both in the shop and in the field, so that when she branched out for herself about 1895 as a saleswoman for her father's gear-cutting machines, she knew as much as any man in the business.

In November 2001, Taliban, Al-Qaeda combatants and ISI operatives were safely evacuated from Kunduz on Pakistan Army cargo aircraft to Pakistan Air Force bases in Chitral and Gilgit in Pakistan's Northern Areas in what has been dubbed the " Airlift of Evil " Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf wrote in his memoirs that Richard Armitage, the former US deputy secretary of state, said Pakistan would be " bombed back to the stone-age " if it continued to support the Taliban, although Armitage has since denied using the " stone age " phrase.

Papon had begun writing his memoirs before his death ; he criticized Chirac's official recognition of the involvement of the French state in the Holocaust.

Makino Nobuaki, a student member of the Iwakura Mission, was to remark in his memoirs: Together with the abolition of the han system, dispatching the Iwakura Mission to America and Europe must be cited as the most important events that built the foundation of our state after the Restoration.

Samuel's memoirs state: " I mentioned that two things would be essential — that the state should be neutralized, since it could not be large enough to defend itself, and that the free access of Christian pilgrims should be guaranteed ...

Sarpi's memoirs on state affairs remained in the Venetian archives.

In his memoirs, he also stated that " Canada should have its own head of state who isn't shared by others " and that the status quo gave the impression that " Canada had not yet achieved full independence from Britain.

The Prime Minister, Jim Bolger, defended the move in his memoirs on the grounds that he had been badly misled in the runup to the 1990 election as to the actual state of the New Zealand economy.

Van Buren wrote in his autobiography of Jackson ’ s toast, “ The veil was rent – the incantations of the night were exposed to the light of day .” Thomas Hart Benton, in his memoirs, stated that the toast “ electrified the country .” Jackson would have the final words a few days later when a visitor from South Carolina asked if Jackson had any message he wanted relayed to his friends back in the state.

He describes himself as a fervent Arab nationalist, in his memoirs he wrote that he is unable to accept Israel's existence and that Iraq and Syria should unite into one Arab state.

In his memoirs Hoare claimed that his intentions were twofold: to appease Italy to keep Mussolini away from a German alliance, and to find a compromise which preserved elements of the Ethiopian state from Mussolini.

Makino Nobuaki, a student member of the mission was to remark in his memoirs: Together with the abolition of the han system, dispatching the Iwakura Mission to America and Europe must be cited as the most important events that built the foundation of our state after the Restoration.

In their memoirs, some operators state that they only fired one missile in their careers.

In addition to being a military chronicle written by a participant of those events, Kvinitadze's memoirs are a political commentary, directing harsh criticism at the Mensheviks, accusing them of undermining the state and alienating the Georgian people with their socialist and internationalist rhetoric, incompetence and failure to defend the country against the anticipated foreign intervention.

Speer's memoirs reveal Hitler's thoughts about Nazi state architecture in relation to Roman imperial architecture:

As Kazys Škirpa summarized in his memoirs, the uprising demonstrated the determination of the Lithuanian people to have their own independent state and dispelled the myth that Lithuania joined the Soviet Union voluntarily in June 1940.

He left a book of memoirs, entitled Comentarios de el desengenado de Si Mismo prueba de todos estados, y eleccíon del Mejor de ellos ( The Commentaries of one who knew his own little worth, the touchtstone of all the state of man, and the choice of the best ).

In his memoirs from 1955, the Reverend Christopher Campling described the school's state when he became chaplain.

In 1965 Eisenhower explicitly defended his strong position against Israel, Britain and France in his memoirs.

It is narrated in the < U > memoirs of the apostles </ U > that as soon as Jesus came up out of the river Jordan and a voice said to him: ' You are My Son, this day I have begotten you ', this Devil came and tempted him, even so far as to exclaim: ' Worship me '; but Christ replied: ' Get behind me, Satanas, the Lord your God shall you worship, and Him only shall you serve '.

Although their marriage would last for over 40 years and produce 10 children, Longstreet never mentioned Louise in his memoirs and most anecdotes about their relationship came to historians through the writings of his second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet.

Shidehara admitted to his authorship in his memoirs Gaikō Gojū-Nen ( Fifty Years Diplomacy ), published in 1951, where he described how the idea came to him on a train ride to Tokyo ; MacArthur himself confirmed Shidehara's authorship on several occasions.

According to his memoirs, it was " shown to me in an unplayable condition, without bridge, strings or fingerboard .... No case was available -- it was such a large instrument 17 1 / 8 inches -- so my wife came to the rescue by wrapping it in her waterproof coat, and that is how it was taken across the English Channel.

* Lin Haiyin 林海音 ( 1918-2001 ; ancestral Jiaoling, Guangdong ; family came from Toufen, Miaoli, Taiwan ; born in Japan ; Hakka pronunciation: Lim Hoi Yim ), Taiwanese novelist whose memoirs, 城南旧事 ( My Memories of Old Beijing ), was made into a movie of the same name

Shidehara, in his memoirs Gaikō gojũnen (" Fifty-years Diplomacy ", 1951 ) also admitted to his authorship, and described how the idea came to him on a train ride to Tokyo.

Also, commentators on the memoirs have pronounced it likely that Speer himself came close to being assassinated by Himmler after he unwittingly put himself in the care of an SS doctor.

" My earliest memory ," Andersen wrote in his memoirs, " is of riding with him on the streetcar and being permitted to clang the bell as we came to street crossings.

In the 1970s, a San Jose State University graduate student came across Galland's memoirs The First and the Last while researching records of United States Army Air Forces records and matching them to German victory claims.

" We came away from the meeting more determined and better prepared to advance the two-party system in the South ," recalls Cobb in his memoirs, as the Republicans won at the presidential level that year in Tennessee, Texas, Florida, and Virginia.

Beginning with memoirs published by one of his sons-in-law, the General came to be referred to as " von Riedesel " in American historical writing, but this is historically incorrect.

In emigration, Makhno came to believe that anarchists would only have a future in Ukraine if they Ukrainianized and he stated that he regretted that he was writing his memoirs in Russian and not in Ukrainian.

The " X " article meant sudden fame for Kennan, who became the father of the government's containment doctrine overnight, leading him to write in his memoirs, " My official loneliness came in fact to an end .... My reputation was made.

Many of Pell's manuscripts fell into the hands of Richard Busby, master of Westminster School, and afterwards came into the possession of the Royal Society ; they are still preserved in nearly forty folio volumes in the British Library, which contain, not only Pell's own memoirs, but much of his correspondence with the mathematicians of his time.

According to C. Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however " by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs 1906, the fact that her mother and father were related ... had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage ".

De Marbot, one of Marshal Lannes aide-de-camps, wrote in his memoirs of the battle, in which he had to observe the last moments of his close friends, and describes the amount of bloodshed and sadness which came to the Grande Armée after the crossing of the Danube.

So varied were Thomas's activities that when it came time for the Library of Congress to catalog his memoirs they were forced to put them in " CT " (" biographies of subjects who do not fit into any other category ") in their classification.

* Vic Cox, Vic: Lambeth to Lambourn ( 2001 )-the memoirs of Lambeth boy whose family came from Lambourn and returned there once the London bombing began, Vic served overseas during WWII and returned to Lambourn at the end of the war and remained there until his death in 2003.

Stephen J. Pyne in his memoirs of his years as a firefighter at the North Rim, Fire on the Rim, wrote, concerning Abbey: "... fire busts came and went with hardly a word from the North Rim tower.

The depiction of Crockett's fate came from memoirs written by former Mexican officer José Enrique de la Peña, an officer in Santa Anna's army who fought in the battle.

According to the memoirs of Bonch-Bruyevich, the mariners came by a barrel of pure alcohol and feasted on it.

Karpis ' version of the story, told in his memoirs, was that Hoover came out only after all the other agents had him seized.

In the Dalai Lama's memoirs, Freedom in Exile, he says he came outside to greet the disguised lama.