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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;quick dog, post: 113044, member: 4093&quot;]In the memoirs of General Jean Compte de Rapp, Napoleon&#039;s most important Aide de Camp, Rapp recalls a terse remark made to Napoleon Bonapart as they were playing cards.&nbsp; Rapp, who was actually German, not French, always felt that he was treated as a second-class citizen in Napoleon’s military entourage.&nbsp; Most of Napoleon&#039;s Marshals and counselors were either related or aristocrats.&nbsp; Citizen Rapp was a commoner from Colmar, a town in southern Germany.</p><p><br /></p><p>Napoleon flipped a gold Napoleon coin across the table at General Rapp and said, &quot;Your Germans are rather fond of these Napoleons are they not?&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; To which Rapp replied, &quot;They prefer them to the Great one Sire.&quot;&nbsp; He had a way of cutting through the French BS, and was one of the few who could usually get away with such impertinence.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have always wanted a few Napoleons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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