Joubert owed a large share of the success of that fine Tyrolean campaign to my father, and, being a loyal man, he did for his comrade-in-arms what under similar circumstances his comrade-in-arms would have done for him. Each report he sent in to Bonaparte contained my father's name coupled with the highest of praise. To have heard Joubert, one might have thought the whole success of the campaign was owing to my father's energy and courage. My father was the terror of the Austrian cavalry he was a medieval Bayard, and if, added Joubert, by one of those miracles which govern the march of the centuries, Italy had produced two Cesars, General Dumas would have been one of them.
Very different was Berthier's treatment of him Berthier, who had stigmatised my father as a "looker-on" during a campaign in which three horses were killed under him.
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