7/28 Bonaparte, giving his opinion to the Directory respecting the generals employed in his army, said, "Berthier has talents, activity, courage, character--all in his favour." This was in 1796. He then made an eagle of him; at St.Helena he called him a goose. He should neither have, raised him so high nor sunk him so low. Bonaparte was a man of habit; he was much attached to all the people about him, and did not like new faces. |