At ten o'clock the breakfast as announced, usually by the steward, in these words: "The general is served." No title, it will be observed, not even that of First Consul.
The repast was a frugal one.

Every morning a dish was served which Bonaparte particularly liked--a chicken fried in oil with garlic; the same dish that is now called on the bills of fare at restaurants "Chicken a la Marengo." Bonaparte drank little, and then only Bordeaux or Burgundy, preferably the latter.

After breakfast, as after dinner, he drank a cup of black coffee; never between meals.

When he chanced to work until late at night they brought him, not coffee, but chocolate, and the secretary who worked with him had a cup of the same.

Most historians, narrators, and biographers, after saying that Bonaparte drank a great deal of coffee, add that he took snuff to excess.
They are doubly mistaken.