Puymaigre, who was employed in the administration of Hamburg after Bourrienne left, says, I shall always remember the astonishment of the hamburgers when they were invaded by this cloud of French officials, who, under every form, made researches is their houses, and who came to apply the multiplied demands of the fiscal system.
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v10"
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
I was then fifteen, and one Sunday afternoon I went with Barop's permission to visit the hamburgers, but on condition that I should return by nine o'clock at latest.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
Do not the hamburgers suffer great losses from the war?
"The Coming Conquest of England"
August Niemann