“...The French in the East were still impudent, impolite, arrogant and irritable. Very few of them at that time were pleasant or even tolerable to deal with. It was necessary to behave very carefully with them, and anyone who was proud or impressionable himself had to move away from their company in order to avoid an almost certain quarrel... People of all nations and all confessions experienced this; everyone experienced this so sensitively that I myself witnessed how even those people who feared unfavorable consequences for their nation or state could not restrain themselves from personal joy at the news of the defeat of the French troops...”