They'll put you, Caulaincourt, in a cage and show you off to the London merchants. I can just see you all full of honey and covered with flies in that cage. How would you like that?
French Emperor and conqueror
Further joking with Caulaincourt during the retreat from Russia, imagining their captivity.
December 1812
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