- Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: This is very pretty.
- Martin: There's an exceptional view of the city.
- Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: I've seen Paris before.
- Martin: Not this Paris, mademoiselle.
- [Walking towards the door]
- Martin: The bedroom suite is this way.
- Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: Wait. Martin, you've known me for a long time.
- Martin: When you were very little, you wanted to marry me so that you could always have chocolate pudding.
- Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: At my first ball, it was you who fastened my dress when it came undone.
- Martin: Such memories belong to another lifetime, mademoiselle. One which has come to an end. And which, unfortunately, some of us have outlived.
- Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: But why have our lifetimes come to an end, our private little worlds?
- Michelle 'Mike' de la Becque: There is something you and/or the German army can do. Nevermind, I'm sure it's punishable by death.
- beginning title card: Paris. May 9, 1940 / The ninth night of the ninth month of a war too uneventful to be taken seriously, and too far away to worry about...
- [first lines]
- General Bartholomew: [giving a radio broadcast speech at an important gala gathering of French leaders] Tonight the people of France have reason to be heartened and encouraged. In the north, Hitler's army stands helpless and immobilized before our impregnable Marginot Line. Our soldiers are fully equipped and trained to the point of perfection. And behind them, the people of France are confident and united as never before. It is because of our leaders of industry and of labour that our imperishable republic will not only emerge triumphant, but will ensure the freedom of Europe for our generation and for the generations to come. France is a great country tonight. On behalf of myself and the general staff, I wish to thank our leader of design, Monsieur Robert Cortot, who serves as chairman
- [applause]
- General Bartholomew: ; Monsieur Bertheil of the Coal and Allied interests
- [applause]
- General Bartholomew: ; J. Clémens and de Brun representing Labour
- [applause]
- General Bartholomew: ; and the others of the Committee of Industrial Coordination who have proved their efforts on behalf of our gigantic war program. The fate of France is in their hands. France will never forget them.
- [applause]
- [last lines]
- Little Boy: [standing at the gate of their home with a little girl and another little boy] Nazi traitors.
- [angrily spits on the ground and walks away along with the other children]
- Robert Cortot: [consoles Michele] We must only begin to worry when they no longer spit at us, and our Nazi friends.
- Michele de la Becque: Our Nazi friends... you knew I'd come back didn't you.
- Robert Cortot: You would've been safe in England.
- Michele de la Becque: Being safe in this world isn't nearly as important as it used to be. I belong in France, and I belong with you. Oh, I won't be much help, I know; but you won't be quite as lonely.
- Robert Cortot: How could I be with twice as many people in my world?
- Michele de la Becque: Our world, and all of us in love.
- [leans in to kiss Robert but hears and sees a skywriting plane flying overhead]
- Michele de la Becque: Robert look, that plane!
- Robert Cortot: It is not your American if that's what you think. This one has come every morning now for a week. The fools don't even shoot at him because he doesn't drop bombs. If the Nazis only knew how dangerous he is to them; if they only knew France.
- [the plane's skywriting reads 'COURAGE' and the scene fades to 'The End']