習衙內跑到法國告訴法國人：拿破崙說過中國是睡獅。

拿破崙是否說過中國是睡獅？答案是：沒有。希望習衙內回國後，不要打秘書屁股。

很多英文書刊都登載過拿破崙的語錄：“中國是個病態的沉睡巨人（sickly sleeping giant)，……”。

也有的文章省略了“病態”，以免影響病人心情。例如《芝加哥論壇報》的這篇：
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2008-08-26/features/0808220547_1_sleeping-giant-china

俺查了一下，“中國是病態的沉睡巨人，一旦他醒來，會震動世界”這段所謂拿破崙語錄，收錄於《新政治詞典>（紐約藍燈出版社，1993年，第715頁）。但是，牛津大學出版社在2006年出版了一本名為《偽語錄》（What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations）的書，該書指出：拿破崙對曾率英國使團到中國的阿姆赫斯特爵士說過：“如果英中交戰，你們會教會他們戰鬥，迫使他們保衛自己。並可能得到美國和法國的技術援助，最終戰勝你們”。僅此而已。

《偽語錄》最後評論道：“人們後來把戲劇性的語錄塞到拿破崙嘴裡，也是可以理解的。”

下面是英文相關內容。

In 1978, Vermont Royster offered another possible source in the 'Wall Street Journal': 'China is a sickly, sleeping giant. But when she awakes the world will tremble.' For over a century and a half that prophecy -- attributed to Napoleon by Lord Amherst who visited him at St. Helena on his way back from China in 1816 -- has remained unfulfilled." "Safire's New Political Dictionary" by William Safire (Random House, New York, 1993). Page 715.

下面這句才是正版拿氏語錄（沒有“巨人”更沒有“獅”）：

You would teach them their own strength. They would be compelled to adopt measures to defend themselves against you. In the end they would get technical help from France and America, and even from London; they would build a fleet, and in the course of time, defeat you.