I had someone write down the Emperor's words then.

I committed them to memory.

I can hear him speak now." "And what were those words we ask you, we, who are young in the regiment," broke out a youth who was yet a veteran of the German campaign of 1813.
"The Emperor, turning to Marshal Berthier, took the Eagle from him, he held it up thus in his own hands." Lestoype turned to Marteau and suited the gesture to the word.

He seized the Eagle and advanced a step and those who watched him so keenly noticed how he trembled.

It was to him as if the Emperor were there again.