I have known officers to refuse promotion so as not to quit their regiment or their mistress."] [Footnote 3359: Roederer, III., 556.

(Burgos, April 9, 1809, conversation with General Lasalle written down the same evening.) "You pass through Paris ?" "Yes, it's the shortest way.

I shall get there at five in the morning; I shall order a pair of boots, get my wife with child and then leave for Germany."-- Roederer remarks to him that one risks one's life and fights for the sake of promotion and to profit by rising in the world.

"No, not at all.

One takes pleasure in it.