Quotes
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Tsar Alexandre I : I hate the way that the English preach to the whole world. If there's one nation that has a right to preach, it is France. Your revolution was a great step toward the freedom of mankind.
Napoléon : Including freedom for Russia's 10 million serfs?
Tsar Alexandre I : Sire, you can't reform everything.
Napoléon : Perhaps not all at once.
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Tsar Alexandre I : I've commissioned this painting for you. I've determined that you should have a souvenir of our discussion in the middle of the Neman, when the emperor of France and the tsar of Russia met to offer one another peace.
Napoléon : Do you really think France has offered you peace? I would say she has imposed it on you.
Tsar Alexandre I : The French have such a gift for nuance.
Napoléon : It's more than a nuance, sire. You know very well that if you had not accepted my conditions, I would have blown your Austrian and Hungarian allies off the face of the earth, and laid waste to your own empire.
Tsar Alexandre I : And such cruel terminology.
Napoléon : I'm a conqueror, not a lyricist.
