Explanation: Louis-Alexandre Berthier was Napoleon Bonaparte's chief of staff, and one of the core points of transmission for Napoleon's orders to his military commanders. As Napoleon's handwriting was infamously hard to read, and his orders often clipped and short, Berthier's experience in both reading Napoleon's script and interpreting his meaning was indispensable. The soldiery even jokingly referred to Berthier as "Napoleon's wife" because of how close the two were.
Berthier died shortly before the Battle of Waterloo, and Napoleon's subordinates at the famous battle struggled with reading and interpreting Napoleon's orders without getting a 'cleaned up' copy from Berthier.
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