Quotes
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Napoléon : How old do you think she was?
Joseph Fouché : Hungry children always look younger.
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Joseph Fouché : The providence was protecting you.
Napoléon : I didn't appoint Providence as minister of police, Fouche, but you.
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Joseph Fouché : The First Consul can go to hell! When I think that this is how France has ended up after the revolution, under that puffed-up, arrogant little man, makes me appreciate the terrorist's point of view.
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Joseph Fouché : Gather up the remains of the horse.
Policier rue St-Nicaise : The poor are begging for the meat, sir.
Joseph Fouché : It's not meat. It's evidence.
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Napoléon : The royalists claim to be inspired by God. They would never have picked Christmas Eve to carry out such a dreadful crime, and they would never have sacrificed an innocent child.
Joseph Fouché : History is filled with crimes committed in the name of God.
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Napoléon : Why would the royalists want me dead? I've put an end to the extremes of the revolution. Priests are no longer persecuted, and the emigre have been pardoned. No, look for the culprit among those anarchists and rebels, those who long for the return of the reign of terror, the Jacobins.
Joseph Fouché : The Jacobins are political opponents, not assassins.
Napoléon : Oh really. But who sent Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette to the guillotine? After murdering a king and queen, why should they think twice about me?
Joseph Fouché : Louis XVI and his Austrian woman were tried and condemned by the Supreme Tribunal. Their execution was perfectly legal. There is no connection between that and the brutal attack...
Napoléon : It's enough, Fouche!
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Napoléon : If you don't agree with me, then go. I can manage very well without a minister of police. I'll create my own police force and run it myself.
Joseph Fouché : And how will you justify my dismissal?
Napoléon : Justify? To the people? Do you really believe the people are going to miss you?
Joseph Fouché : The people won't. But you will.
