That, with respect to drinking wine, we were poor cold people, inhabitants of the north, who could not exist without it.
They consulted together accordingly, and in about three weeks issued a fetham, declaring that circumcision might be omitted, because it was merely a profession; that as to drinking wine, it might be drunk by Mussulmans, but that those who drank it would not go to paradise, but to hell I replied that this would not do; that we had no occasion to make ourselves Mussulmans in order to go to hell, that there were many ways of getting there without coming to Egypt, and desired them to hold another consultation.

After deliberating and battling together for I believe three months, they finally decided that a man might become a Mussulman, and neither circumcise nor abstain from wine; but that, in proportion to the wine drunk, some good works must be done.

I then told them that we were all Mussulmans and friends of the Prophet, which they really believed, as the French soldiers never went to church, and had no priests with them.

For you must know that during the Revolution there was no religion whatever in the French army.

Menou," continued Napoleon, "really turned Mahometan, which was the reason I left him behind." -- (Voices from St.Helena.)]-- The General-in-Chief had a Turkish dress made, which he once put on, merely in joke.