Then he burst out: "Could I have expected that from Dupont, a man whom I loved, and was rearing up to become a Marshal?
They say he had no other way to save the lives of his soldiers.

Better, far better, to have died with arms in their hands.

Their death would have been glorious: we should have avenged them.

You can always supply the place of soldiers.

Honour alone, when once lost, can never be regained." Moreover, the material consequences were considerable.