Napoleon deeply regretted the loss of General Desaix. In Hortense’s Memoirs, Napoleon said (after Desaix’s death) that he had wanted to marry him to Hortense. Méneval writes that Desaix was Haephastion to Napoleon’s Alexander. Napoleon believed he was the reincarnation of Alexander.
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