Quotes
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Maréchal Ney : I will bring that madman back in an iron cage.
Charles Talleyrand : Don't you think it would be better to bring him back dead, on a cart?
Maréchal Ney : It would be wasteful. Parisians adore sensations. They would love seeing him in a cage, gripping the bars, and roaring like the bloodthirsty beast he is.
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Louis XVIII : What's that?
Charles Talleyrand : A dispatch, sire, from the head of the telegram service, and judging by the state he was in, it must be of some importance.
Louis XVIII : In a state? Was I in a state during all those years that the odious Bonaparte spent loitering in this armchair? I awaited my hour, and my hour has come. And this armchair is mine now. It's exceedingly uncomfortable, actually. I shall have it upholstered.
