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Updated: May 6, 2025

La puissance de l'armée Française," they added, with an air of true French gasconade, "est dans l'intelligence des soldats." Of the Austrians, they said, "Ils brillent dans leur cavalerie, mais pour leur infanterie, elle ne vaut rien."

Sir Archibald Alison - Travels in France during the years 1814-15 : Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.