The Duellists (1977)

Albert Finney: Fouché

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• Fouche : [hands d'Hubert the list of executions]  Take a pen, my dear fellow, and cross out the name; I can't do everything for you.

  Armand D'Hubert : [crosses off Feraud's name, then]  Your Excellency, I must beg you to keep my interefence a secret, most particularly from General Feraud.

  Fouche : [takes back the list]  General Feraud, alive or dead, is not worth a moment's gossip.

• Fouche : [to d'Hubert, who has come to see him to save Feraud from execution]  I am something of a virtuoso in survival. You would be aware of that, I think. Besides, I despise these nobodies who offer their neck to the block. The list is in my control because if it were not my own name would almost certainly be on it.