One of Napoleon’s Marshals discovers that victory is like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get… literally!

>After Victor had been kidnapped in Stettin on January 20, 1807 by twenty-five Prussian soldiers disguised as peasants, the grizzled fifty-two-year-old [Marshal Lefebvre](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Fran%C3%A7ois-Joseph_Lefebvre.jpg) was given the task of besieging Danzig. When he succeeded in taking it on May 24, so securing the French left flank, [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) sent him a box of chocolates. The marshal was unimpressed until he opened it, when he found it stuffed with 300,000 francs in banknotes. _____________________ **Source:** Roberts, Andrew. "Tilsit." *Napoleon: A Life*. New York: Penguin, 2014. 448. Print. _____________________ **Further Reading:** [François Joseph Lefebvre](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Joseph_Lefebvre) [Napoleone di Buonaparte / Napoléon Bonaparte / Napoleon I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon) ___________________________ **If you enjoy this type of content, please consider donating to my [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/HistoryLockeBox)!**