Quotes
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Marquis de Caulaincourt : Sire, the Cossacks have entered Paris. The people will agree to any treason to protect the city. They even applauded the Allies' decree demanding your abdication. Abdication under these conditions...
Napoléon : I don't need to read it to know the conditions are unacceptable.
Marquis de Caulaincourt : Unappealing, perhaps, sire, but unacceptable is a word that is no longer in our vocabulary.
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Marquis de Caulaincourt : Let us not forget that the empress Marie Louise has become completely French, like most of Europe.
Klemens Metternich : Only France is French, Monsieur de Caulaincourt. The other countries are French by force, so it's temporary.
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Marquis de Caulaincourt : You have to leave France. But they are granting you sovereignty of the isle of Elba. It's off the coast of Italy.
Napoléon : I know the place. It's a pebble. Napoleon, king of a pebble. Grotesque.
