#wow marmont was just a hater

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

Marmonts thoughts on Dalmatia and it's residents

He actually talks about this topic alot in his memoirs but I think this paragraph sums everything up the best

Sloppy huts where the whole family lives and sleeps together; rivers with clogged courses and unhealthy banks, and others which are hollowed out in the cliff vertical troughs twenty to thirty deep ; very rich but untapped coal and rock deposits,plains without any vegetation five to six miles long, over which rise mountains seven to eight hundred fathoms made of bare and exposed rock faces: such a picture is presented by the inner part of Dalmatia. But this very sad and poor country has beautiful, hardworking and cheerful inhabitants; ignorant, simple, bold, ready to sacrifice themselves for their leaders; but like all uncivilized .they do not understand wisdom; in order to start them, it is necessary to act On their senses and subject them to material action. Lazy like of all those whose civilization is late, they exaggerate in strength,women serve them for the most difficult jobs, while men rest and have fun. They are short-sighted, so they spend in seven to eight months all the food they could live on for a year, then every spring they starve and live on greens and goat's milk. Yet their strength and beauty surprises every stranger. This beauty and strength is the result various factors.

(Sorry that the translation is a little shitty)