Napoléon was also inspecting the 37e léger, and not happy with the results (letters of 27th April to Marmont and to Clarke ):

It is impossible to see a more beautiful corps of soldiers, but at the same time impossible to see a worse corps of officers. If your ministery had taken up the task to nominate the most inept officers of France, it couldn't have succeeded better ...

By the way, this may be an answer to the question we had elsewhere, whether there is humor to be found in the Correspondence ...