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There is an interesting story about Marechale Lefebvre, whom the Marshal had married when he was an NCO and she a regimental laundress.
Apparently they were attending a formal function under the Empire and one of the other guests looked at her in a disdainful manner while waiting to be introduced officially at the reception.
When she was introduced by the official responsible, the other guest looked shocked that she was a marshal's wife. She turned to him and said words to the effect of 'How's that, boy'?
Lefebvre was equally blunt when necessary and when at a reception at his own home, he heard someone complaining about the marshal's wealth and home. Lefebvre approached the offender and told him. 'Stand over there and I will take sixty shots at you with a pistol. If you survive, you can have all I own. That's what it took, more or less, for me to achieve what I have.' The complainer left in a huff and rather in a hurry.
I have no idea if these two stories are exactly true, but I have read them and have no doubt that both the marshal and marechale would indeed speak that way to those that deserved it.