He watched, unmoved, as tens of thousands of soldiers from all corners of France, resplendent in their fine uniforms, fought to the death for him. In his twenty years of military service, he had long since become accustomed to conquest and glory, to danger and death; such scenes no longer stirred him.,At first, officers tried to stop the tide of fleeing soldiers, but they soon realized they were powerless and were even swept up in the retreat themselves.,Now that he is only four years old, he can barely understand the meaning of words like "empire" and "emperor." Of course, he couldn't possibly know that today his father has gambled away the entire empire, and in doing so, robbed him of all the glory that once surrounded him.。