Napoleaon the Great:

Napoleon told the Piedmontese he had executed a soldier for rape the previous night, and
diplomatically praised them for their strategic withdrawals on April 17 and 21, saying: ‘You twice
escaped very dexterously out of my claws.’ He showed Beauregard the small travelling case in which he
kept all his personal belongings, and said: ‘I had a great deal more of these superfluities when I was a
simple artillery officer than now when I am commander-in-chief.’ In their hour-long conversation while
watching the sun rise, Beauregard was impressed with his knowledge of Piedmont’s histor