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Preface

I dedicate these memories to my beloved children

I wish to record here the most important events of my existence. My life, which, it seems, will not be of long duration, has been filled with difficulties, struggles, a few joys, and much disillusionment. It is fitting that a trace should remain of it so that my children, when they have reached the age of reason, may read these pages and benefit from the experience I have had of men. Warned of some of the dangers and traps along the way, perhaps they will pursue their careers without sustaining too many wounds or damage. It is with that goal in mind that I recount my life in all sincerity, dissimulating nothing about my good actions and my faults, my successes and my disappointments, my ideals and what reality offered me. The moral of my story will emerge from the facts themselves. My children will endeavor to benefit from it and to extract from it principles of moral and practical conduct.

That is why I dedicate these memories to them.

GABRIEL ARIÉ

Davos, October 1906