Scenes with Napoleon Bonaparte
5 scenes
Napoleon Bonaparte
Well they've done it! The whole of Europe has declared war against me! Not against France, but against me.
LB Le Bedoyere
They dignify you sire by making you a Nation!
Napoleon Bonaparte
[laughing]
Dignify? Dignify? They deny me the decency of law! They make it legal that any clown can kill me.
Michel Ney
Well we've fought with mud in our boots before!
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yes well, I'll discuss peace over Wellington's dead body, that's my peace table!
Napoleon Bonaparte
Cross the river. Tomorrow we will dry our boots in Brussels.
Michel Ney
God willing, sire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
God? God has nothing to do with it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
When I am dead and gone what will the world say of me?
LB Le Bedoyere
They'll say that you extended the limits of glory, sire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The limits of glory'; is that all I have to leave to my son, the 'limits of glory'?
Napoleon Bonaparte
Le Bedoyere, do you have any children?
LB Le Bedoyere
Yes, sire; one son, very young, no taller than your boot.
Napoleon Bonaparte
And if he were with you, would you want him with you here today?
LB Le Bedoyere
Yes, sire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Yes, why?
LB Le Bedoyere
So he could see you, sire.
Napoleon Bonaparte
See me? You know, I have a son. I'd give anything in the world to see him. I'd give my heart, I'd give my life, but not here. I wouldn't want him to witness this battle here today.
Michel Ney
Wellington's on the run! I caught him at Quatre Bras! He's retreating!
Napoleon Bonaparte
If Wellington's retreating, what are you doing here?
Michel Ney
But, Sire...
Napoleon Bonaparte
If Wellington's retreating, what are you doing here? Why didn't you follow him? Why didn't you pursue?
Michel Ney
[Raises voice]
where are the reinforcements you promised me?
Napoleon Bonaparte
[shouting]
Don't you dare criticize me! Don't you dare! Don't you see if Wellington's free to choose his ground then everything I've won in this campaign you've lost!
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