The writer, despite advanced age, poor health, and prolonged confinement, reflects on the relative insignificance of whether lawyers form a formal body or order. He contends that the true concern lies in ensuring justice and protecting the innocent from wrongful punishment by the legal system. Criticising the contemporary state of jurisprudence in France, he traces its flaws to historical roots in barbarism and expresses hope that any new legal body or order might correct these deficiencies.