>Уж с чем, а с глазами у маршала все было в порядке!
Мемуары барона де Марбо подойдут? Сорри, что на бусурманском, быстро в инете только это нашел, ключевые слова подчеркнуты:
"One day the Emperor, accompanied by several marshals, among them Masséna, was shooting in the forest of Fontainebleau, and fired at a pheasant. The shot, badly aimed, went in Masséna's direction, ____and one pellet destroyed his left eye_____. No one but the Emperor had fired at the moment, and he was certainly the involuntary author of the accident; ____but Masséna, realising that his eye was gone_____ and it would do him no good to call attention to the clumsiness which had been the cause of his wound, while the Emperor would be grateful to him for diverting attention from himself, attacked Prince Berthier, who had not yet fired, for his reckless shooting. Napoleon and all those present quite understood this courtier-like discretion, and every attention was paid to Masséna by his master."
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