O quote this from the letters.
With this in mind, it is highly unlikely that N`s staff served as the model upon which modern army staffs were based.

Prince of Neufchâtel and Wagram, Major General of the Grand Army (Louis Alexandre Berthier) , Vilnius.

" Vilna, July 2nd, 1812.

My cousin, a staff officer to follow the construction of the ovens. For five days we have been in Vilna, they should already be built, and yet they are not yet started. The cause is a lack of horses to transport the bricks. However, the Joinville officer has horses from the service of the small headquarters, the tenth battalion of crews has arrived, and finally there is a large quantity of draft horses attached to the headquarters and the staff officers, to begin even by those of my house.

It was therefore fitting that, for an operation as important as the construction of the furnaces, chores should be ordered.

But the staff is organized in such a way that nothing is planned.

Napoleon. "