I have just been tidying my bookshelves and decided I could do without the memoirs of Mme de Choiseui-Gouffier but I just flicked through and came across this which I couldn't resist passing on.
The lady met Napoleon at Vilna in 1812 - she was a Lithuanian noblewoman and so was invited to court.

'I had often pictured to myself the face of Napoleon with a countenance sparkling with genius. What was my surprise and disappointment on seeing only a little, short, fat, waddling man, with sleek, plastered-down hair, with good enough features but little expression in his face, not even that hardness which is found in all his portraits, with the exception of that by David! On the contrary, there was something pleasant in his smile, which showed very handsome teeth. From a distance, I confess, his sallow, white face without a tinge of colour, and his antique profile took on a character of severity, which disappeared as soon as it was examined near.'