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. 356-358. (Laff. I. pp.
825-826.)--Marmont, "Memoires," I. 122. (Letter to his mother, January
12, 1795.) "Behold your son zealously fulfilling his duties, deserving
of his country and serving the republic.... We should not be worthy of
liberty if we did nothing to obtain it."]

[Footnote 3357: Compare the "Journal du sergent Fricasse," and "les
Cahiers du capitaine Coignet." Fricasse is a volunteer who enlists
in the defence of the country; Coignet is a conscript ambitious of
distinguishing himself, and he says to his masters: "I promise to come
back with the fusil d'honneur or I shall be dead."]

[Footnote 3358: Marmont, I., 186, 282, 296. (In Italy, 1796.) "At this
epoch, our ambition was quite secondary; we were solely concerned about
our duties and amusements. The frankest and most cordial union existed
amongst us all.... No sentiment of envy, no low passion found room in
our breasts. (Then) what excitement, what grandeur, what hopes and what
gayety!... Each had a presentiment of an illimitable future and yet
entertained no idea of personal ambition or calculation."--George
Sand, "Histoire de ma vie." (Correspondence of her father, Commander
Dupin.)--Stendhal, "Vie de Napoleon." "At this epoch (1796), nobody in
the army had any ambition. 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. One
enjoys fighting; it is pleasure enough in itself to fight! You are
in the midst of the uproar, of the action, of the smoke. An