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, 'of a war is only gradually known. It is found out soonest in the
villages when the deaths of the conscripts are heard of, or are
suspected from their never returning; but in the towns, from which the
substitutes chiefly come, it may be long undiscovered. Nothing is known
but what is officially published, and the Government lies with an
audacity which seems always to succeed. If it stated the loss of men in
a battle at one half of the real number, people would fancy that it
ought to be doubled, and so come near to the truth; but it avows only
one-tenth or only one-twentieth, and then the amount of falsehood is
underestimated.' 'Marshal Randon,' I said, 'told me that the whole loss
in the Italian campaign was under 7,000 men.' 'That is a good instance,'
said Beaumont. 'It certainly was 50,000, perhaps 70,000. But I am guilty
of a _delit_ in saying so, and you will be guilty of a _delit_ if you
repeat what I have said. I remember the case of a man in a barber's shop
in Tours, to whom the barber said that the harvest wa