Seeing the numerous capital commanders turning red in the face over the order of deployment to the Near East, Chief of Staff Marshal Saint Arno got up to restore order in the meeting room under Jerome Bonaparte's suggestive gaze.
"Quiet!" Marshal Saint Arno shouted sternly at everyone present.
The noise and arguments ceased under Saint Arno's reprimand, and the fiercely arguing commanders suddenly remembered they were in the Tuileries Palace, not their unruly barracks.
"Look at yourselves! What have you become now? Who do you think you are?" Saint Arno immediately scolded the capital commanders present.
Facing Marshal Saint Arno, who had long established his authority through iron-fisted means, none of the capital commanders dared to contradict him, fearing he would summarily have them stripped of their uniforms and dismissed.
