The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1914-06-21

poleon Indignantly commanded, Let Mas
sena be advised to return the 6,000,000
francs To do SO quickly is his salvation"
Yet this observation-disclosures also loved
honor. He was already the Duke of Ri
yoli when the Emperor said: .Massena
would risk being shot tomorrow to be a
prince" And the next day he won the
title CT Prince of Essling
A Quartet
Avarce was surprisingly common with
the marshals. Oudlnot, however. must
have been innocent of that vice, for allud-
ing TO the generosity which was always
impoverishing that marshal and to his
20 wounds, Napoleon said He gives away
the gold and Keeps the lead"
Soult and Suchet in the Spanish cam
paign We're thrown more on their own re-
sources than other marshals. Able but
too ambitious" Napoleons descrip-
ton of Soult, who was disappointed with
the title OF Duke of Damatia and thought
he should have been made Duke of AUS
teiltz, a name which the Emperor de-
cided lot to share with anyone. While
campaigning on the 1berian peninsula, the
marshal sought to console himself by
cir bling Upon the throne of Portugal.
Napoleon was furious over that presume
ton. but restrained himself with the re-
mark. IT remember nothing but AUS
terlitz."
Suchet went to Spain only count, but
there won his marshal's truncheon and
the title of Duke of Albufera. "If / had
two Suchets," the Emperor said. 81 should
not only have conquered Spain, but kept
it,"
The one born aristocrat to approach
first rank among the marshals was Da-
vout. who belonged to as poor a noble
family as Napoleon himself. Davouts
hot blood newer rushed to his cool. bald
Isc No.. A tss.f. .lf
corrected the. worst guess Napoleon had
made up to that time. Moreover his gem
eral efficiency and administrative talent
were useful to the Emperor, who en-
played him In the intervals of war to
govern and despoil conquered provinces,
where, as Napoleon expressed 1t, "he
never plundered for himself" Still his
income was estimated to have been $500, 900
a year.
Davout's first reward was the title of
Duke of Auerstadt and his next that of
Prince of EciSmuhl. In his loyalty to
his master he boosted to a comrade. IF
the Emperor ordered you and me to
destroy Paris. you would give your family
a warning to save themselves, but /,
rather than reveal the Emperors secret,
would leave my wife and children there
Yes he was marked for his devotion to his
wife, to whom he sent letter nearly
every day when away In the wars, and
NaIt leon. knowing his dependence, once
sent the duchess to him to keep him con-
tented through long absence at governor
OF Poland.
Bold, Bloody Lannes
IT found him pygmy aud / lost him
a giant" Napoleon said of another Gas
con among his marshals. Lannes. the
peasant from the Pyrenees blunt, inso-
lent. quarrelsome, daring. was too coarse
for the court but joyed in the gore of
battle. lie was forever besmearing him
self with blood and powder, and the
Duke of Montebello seemed to take
pleasure in remembering the terrible fury
of the battle from which he derived his
ducal title: II could hear the bones crash
in nv division like hailstones beating on
window pane"
He was first across the bridge of Lodi