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In 1807 Napoleon held a rabbit hunt for the Treaty of Tilsit. His aide Berthier gathered tame farm rabbits, not wild ones, and—used to being fed by people—they charged at Napoleon instead of fleeing. Swarmed, with rabbits climbing his legs, the emperor fled the field.
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