He'll certainly be hovering today somewhere over the ground between the two armies--either to observe the Germans or more likely to carry messages between the French generals.

I tell you, Mr.
Scott, that Philip Lannes is perhaps the most wonderful young man in Europe.

In addition to his extraordinary ability in the air he has courage, coolness, perception and quickness almost without equal.
There's something Napoleonic about him." "You know he's descended from the family of the famous Marshal, Lannes, not from Lannes himself, but from a close relative, and the blood's the same.

They say that blood will tell, and don't you think that the spirit of the great Lannes may have reappeared in Philip ?" "It's altogether likely." "I've been thinking a lot about Napoleon.

There's a wonderful picture of him as a young republican general in a room here.