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Countess Pelagia Walewska
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: Who are you?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: I am Napoleon!
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: Napoleon? Napoleon who?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: Hmm? Bonaparte!
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: Napoleon Bonaparte? What kind of name is that? What nationality are you?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: Corsican by birth. French by adoption. Emperor by achievement.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: So, you are an Emperor, are you? What are you Emperor of?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor of France, madame.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: Hee, hee, hee. So you are Emperor of France. And my very good friend, His Majesty, King Louis Sixteenth abdicated in your honor, I suppose?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: Well, he didn't know it at the time but in a sense he did, madame.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: This house is getting to be a lunatic asylum.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: What were you before you became an Emperor?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: A corporal.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: That's what I thought. A soldier. Why do you say you were an Emperor?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: One can be both, Madame. Alexander was.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: Everybody who goes crazy thinks he is Alexander. Now, if Alexander went crazy, who would he think he was?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: Napoleon.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: Emperor! Corporal! Alexander! Are you Caesar too?
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: A touch.
- Countess Pelagia Walewska: You bear watching.
- Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte: I hear that on every side, Madame.