Published in the Moniteur, the bulletin at last admitted the Russian disaster, blaming 'excessive cold' and the loss of the horses, and closed with the chilling formula: 'His Majesty's health has never been better.' For the first time, French opinion read a defeat in an official text. Napoleon, back at the Tuileries the day before, had to rebuild an army from nothing.
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