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The Origins of Contemporary France
Volume 5 (of 6)

CHAPTER III
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210.] [Footnote 3354: Thiers, ibid., p.195 (October 1806).

Napoleon, in one of his bulletins, had mentioned Murat's cavalry alone, omitting to mention the infantry of Lannes, which behaved as well.

Lannes, disappointed, did not dare read this bulletin to his men, and spoke to the emperor about it.

'What reward can they look for if they don't find their names published by the hundred-tongued voice of Fame which is under your control!" Napoleon replies: "You and your men are children--glory enough for all!...

One of these days your turn will come in the bulletins of the grand army." Lannes reads this to his troops on the great square of Stettin and it is received with outbursts of enthusiasm.] [Footnote 3355: Madame de Remusat.III., 129.] [Footnote 3356: "The Revolution," pp.


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