"The demi-brigades are expressly forbidden to carry with them more women than the laundresses the law provides for. Every woman found with the army and not duly authorized shall be publicly whipped."
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Napoleon (28 March 1797), at Goritz; reported in R. M. Johnston, ed. The Corsican (1910), p. 60
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