Just after Anning finished speaking, Lazar Kano grabbed him, whispering in his ear: "Don't do this. If you punish Lafayette because of this, officers who originally wanted to defect to us might change their minds. We are short of officers!"
Anning thought it through calmly, and it seemed to make sense. However, he immediately recalled a few of the fiercer Marshals in another timeline's Napoleon.
Massena was Italian, and came from a civilian background.
Moura's family ran a small inn, civilians.
Surt's father was a notary, also part of the Bourgeois, civilians.
Nei's family made beer barrels, naturally, they were also civilians.
Jourdan's father was a surgeon, he had also traded in fabrics, a small merchant, naturally a civilian...
Counting down this way, it seemed that more than half of Napoleon's Marshals came from civilian backgrounds, among the nobly born ones a notable figure is Bertier, who is now a prisoner, another was Napoleon, now a supporter of his own.
