I don't want to be sidetracked down this well-worn sidepath, but I can't resist putting this in since it gives his private opinion of the looting rather then his public pronouncements.

From the New Letters of Napoleon 1:

To Daru October 1807
"..The reckoning given you by the Prussians is absurd. If they want to count all the possible pilferings by individual officers. very soon I shall be owing them money instead of their owing it to me! As to the property of private individuals, if that had not been contrary to my honour and principles, I might have taken it all. It would be comical if the victor's conduct had to be justified to the vanquished! All that is a very poor joke. I intend that nothing which has been taken, whether from the Savings bank, Mines' department, that of firewood etc. shall be deducted."

Susan