promote quotes

Re¤  compensez, avancez ce jeune homme; car, si l'on e¤  tait ingrat envers lui, il s'avancerait de lui-me"  me. Reward that young man, promote him; for if his services are not recognised, he will promote himself.

-Dugommier, General Jean Fran c° ois Coquille
 Comment to the Minister for  War, speaking of the 24-year- old Napoleon Bonaparte, after the siege of  Toulon. Quoted in John  Julius Norwich Venice (1981).

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