Quotes
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Napoléon : Remember to say Sire when you address me. And this goes for all of you.
Lucien Bonaparte : But it's a family gathering.
Napoléon : The imperial family, from now on. All the princes of Europe are watching us, and they can't believe what they see. Those Bonapartes aspire to the rank of Royal Highness, and they are not even aristocrats. They are barely French.
Caroline Bonaparte : We will show them we are their equals.
Napoléon : Don't nurse any illusions, Caroline. If we want those people to treat us as equals, we must behave as they do. They will mock us at the tiniest slip. It doesn't bother me at all, except that France, and the honor due to France, is at stake, through me.
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Lucien Bonaparte : I continue to think that the truth...
Napoléon : The truth? What truth? You still have not understood that power is in the appearance of power.
