The things we do!

- At Strasbourg, General Luckner, commander-in-chief,
worked a whole afternoon in his shirt-sleeves just like the
commonest laborer. The confederates are fed, housed, and have their
expenses paid everywhere on all the roads. At Paris the publicans
and keepers of furnished houses lower their prices of their own
accord, and do not think of robbing their new guests. "The
districts," moreover, "feast the provincials to their heart's
content.[6] There are meals every day for from twelve to fifteen
hundred people." Provincials and Parisians, soldiers and bourgeois,
seated and mingled together, drink each other's health and embrace.
The soldiers, especially, and the inferior officers are surrounded,
welcomed, and entertained to such an extent that they lose their
heads, their health, and more besides. One "old trooper, who had
been over fifty years in the service, died on the way home, used up
with cordials and excess of pleasure." In short, the joy is
excessive, as it should be on the great day when the wish of an
entire century is accomplished.


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