5 sentences with 'memoirs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word memoirs and other words derived from it.
• « Catherine the Great was not only an admirer of Enlightenment philosophy, but an active member of the 'Republic of Letters', writing a series of plays, memoirs and operas intended to celebrate Russian culture (not least against accusations of Russian backwardness by writers in the West), as well as her own success as a ruler. »
• « Decades later, as a prisoner in a miserable British island prison in the South Atlantic, Napoleon would claim in his memoirs that all he had done was in the name of France and the Revolution. »
• « Napoleon was imprisoned on the cold and miserable island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he eventually died in 1821 after writing his memoirs. »
• « In his memoirs, Saavedra writes that on that occasion he told the viceroy: "He who gave authority to Your Excellency to command us no longer exists; consequently, neither does Your Excellency have it any more, so do not count on the forces of my command to support you". »
• « "Today we have reliable information on maybe ten per cent of the useful plants in the Amazon. In the rest of my life we may know, at most, 40 per cent. When I write my memoirs, the Tyrians will probably be wearing suits and ties. »