From Michael Broers' "Napoleon: The Spirit of the Age": “… the officers of the Gendarmerie spotted balconies of single women at the Opera, whom they escorted home on their arms: ‘... it showed me that Prussian hatred, once spinning like a top, lost some of its intensity. In truth, the ladies of Berlin can be pardoned as they believed our regiment would be staying on, on garrison duty.’ True or mythmaking, it was how the French saw themselves, and they were the winners.”