NO LAUGHING.

>After the battle [**of Mount Tabor**], [Napoleon](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Jacques-Louis_David_-_The_Emperor_Napoleon_in_His_Study_at_the_Tuileries_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg) slept at the convent in nearby Nazareth, where he was shown the supposed bedchamber of the Virgin Mary. When the prior also pointed out a broken black marble pillar and told his staff, ‘in the gravest manner possible’, that it had been split by the Angel Gabriel when he ‘came to announce to the Virgin her glorious and holy destination’, some of the officers burst out laughing, but as one of them recorded, ‘General Bonaparte, looking severely at us, made us resume our gravity.’ __________________________ **Source:** Roberts, Andrew. "Acre." *Napoleon: A Life*. New York: Penguin, 2014. 195. Print. **Original Source Listed:** Lavalette, *Memoirs* p. 58. __________________________ **Further Reading:** [Napoleone di Buonaparte / Napoléon Bonaparte / Napoleon I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon) [Battle of Mount Tabor / Skirmish of Mount Tabor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mount_Tabor_(1799))