syuminiki:…Napoleon fell on my neck and pressed me with vehemence against him for at least two minut
syuminiki:…Napoleon fell on my neck and pressed me with vehemence against him for at least two minutes. He embraced me several times, and said to me, pulling my mustachios — “ Come, come, a hero of Egypt and Austerlitz can never forsake me. You shall take the command of the army of the Rhine, while I treat with the Austrians and Russians. I hope that, in a month’s time, you will receive my wife and son at Strasburg. It is my pleasure that from this evening you perform the duty of my aide-de-camp. Write to Count Maison to come to embrace me ; he is a brave man, I wish to see him.“ Napoleon related a part of this conversation to some persons about him. He told them that I had spoken to him with too great liberty, and that he had pulled my ears. Fortune smiled on him.—Jean Rapp, Memoirs of General Count Rapp, first aide-de-camp to Napoleon, 1823, pp. 345-346. -- source link