Dalrymple and Shitting in Churches

Alexander Martin, reviewing Dominic Lieven's Russia Against Napoleon – The Battle for Europe, 1807 to 1814 in the Nov 30th (I think) issue of the Times Literary Supplement claims that French revolutionary soldiers shat in Orthodox churches (presumably in Moscow). I thought that was an interesting counterpoint to Theodore Dalrymple's story, retold, here and elsewhere, a tad too often for my liking, about the Liberian soldiers shitting on a Steinway.