Editing Battle of Austerlitz (section)

==In popular culture==
[[File:Battle of Austerlitz.jpg|thumb|''The Battle of Austerlitz, 2 December 1805'' by [[Joseph Swebach-Desfontaines]]]]

Artists and musicians on the side of France and her conquests expressed their sentiments in the popular and elite art of the time. Prussian music critic [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]], in his famous review of [[Beethoven's 5th Symphony]],
<blockquote>singles out for special abuse a certain ''Bataille des trois Empereurs'', a French battle symphony by [[Louis-Emmanuel Jadin|Louis Jadin]] celebrating Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz.{{sfn|Rumph|1995|pp=50–67}}</blockquote>

[[Leo Tolstoy]] dramatized the battle as the conclusion of Book 3 and Volume 1 of ''[[War and Peace]]'', making it a crucial moment in the lives of both [[Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky|Andrei Bolkonsky]], who is badly wounded, and of [[Nikolai Rostov]].<ref name="Leo">{{cite book |last1=Tolstoy |first1=Leo |title=War and Peace |date=1949 |author-link=Leo Tolstoy |publisher=International Collectors Library |location=Garden City}}</ref>{{rp|118, 152–169}}

[[Sir Archibald Alison, 1st Baronet|Archibald Alison]] in his ''History of Europe'' (1836) offers the first recorded telling of the apocryphal story that when the Allies descended the Pratzen Heights to attack Napoleon's supposedly weak flank,
<blockquote>The marshals who surrounded Napoleon saw the advantage, and eagerly besought him to give the signal for action; but he restrained their ardour ... "when the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt him."{{sfn|Alison|1836|p= 476}}</blockquote>

In subsequent accounts, this Napoleonic quote would undergo various changes until it became: "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/06/never-interfere/ |title=Quote Investigator: "Never interfere" |date=6 July 2010 |access-date=23 October 2018 |archive-date=2 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221202024426/https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/07/06/never-interfere/ |url-status=live }}</ref>