He did not deserve either this adoration, or the outrages with which he was soon after overwhelmed.

He was a brave and coarse soldier, as misplaced in courts as in clubs.

For some days he was an idol, then the plaything of the Jacobins, who, at last, threw him to the guillotine, without his being able to comprehend either his popularity or his crime.
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Berthier, who afterwards became Napoleon's right hand, was then the head of Luckner's staff.

The old general seized, with warlike instinct, on Dumouriez's bold plan.

He had entered at the head of 22,000 men on the Austrian territory at Courtray and Menin.