Arnold Moss credited as playing...
Fouché
- Maximilian Robespierre: There's a man in Strasbourg who isn't afraid of anything. A man named Duval.
- Fouché: Duval?
- Maximilian Robespierre: You know him?
- Fouché: No, but I know his record. Five hundred executions in a single month. That's almost as good as yours, Max.
- Maximilian Robespierre: I've sent for Duval. He arrives at the Blue Goose Inn tonight. You go there and bring him to the bakery. I'll meet him there.
- Fouché: How will I know him?
- Maximilian Robespierre: As one snake to another, you'll smell each other out.
- Maximilian Robespierre: That's *my* chair you're sitting in, Fouche.
- Fouché: I just wanted to see how it fits.
- Maximilian Robespierre: Danton liked to sit in that chair, too.
- Fouché: And to think that he had supper with us only last night. It's amazing how fast you lose friends these days.
- Maximilian Robespierre: And you never know who's next on the list, Fouche.
- Fouché: It must be quite a thrill, making out your death list every night.
- Fouché: You had a visitor, I see.
- Charles D'Aubigny: All work and no play?
- Fouché: I thought you enjoyed your work.
- Charles D'Aubigny: The real pleasure of my work went out with the guillotine. It's all over too fast now. Even hanging, that lasts for a few moments. No, Citizen Fouche. What this country needs is an elegant, slow death. Give a man four hours to die, it's worth watching.
- Fouché: Let's try it sometime, shall we?
- Charles D'Aubigny: Anyone in particular?
- Fouché: Robespierre has a beautiful long list. We're gonna have some great times together, eh, Duval?
- Charles D'Aubigny: Yes, I can hardly wait.
- Maximilian Robespierre: I can't decide whether to promote you or denounce you.
- Fouché: Where in all Paris would you find anybody as disloyal, unscrupulous, scheming, treacherous, cunning, or deceitful as I? Oh, you'd have to do some tall looking, Max.
- Fouché: [Last lines] Robespierre planned on having statues built of himself. But all he leaves behind him... is stale bread.
- Napoleon Bonaparte: [His face isn't shown] The end is always being put to some use in France, citizen. The art of being a Frenchman is knowing what comes next.
- Fouché: Have you any idea?
- Napoleon Bonaparte: I am neither a Frenchman nor a politician. I am merely a soldier.
- Fouché: Well, my friend, I must be off. Perhaps we shall meet again some time.
- Fouché: [stops, turns around] Oh, uh, by the way, I don't believe I got your name.
- Napoleon Bonaparte: My name is Bonaparte. Napoleon Bonaparte.
- Fouché: Napoleon Bonaparte. I'll try to remember that.
- Fouché: [D'Aubigny, leading Barras out a secret exit, is intercepted by Fouche and his men] Citizen Barras, you're under arrest.
- Charles D'Aubigny: He's my prisoner.
- Fouché: Was.
- Charles D'Aubigny: Is.
- Fouché: I'm afraid you're a little confused, Duval. *I'm* the Chief of Police.
- Charles D'Aubigny: You *were* Chief of Police.
- Charles D'Aubigny: [whips out a document from inside his coat] My authorization from Robespierre. Now, if you'll be so kind as to leave?
- Maximilian Robespierre: Get out of my chair.
- Fouché: [gets up rather deliberately] Is that the way to talk to your Chief of Secret Police? I'm ashamed of you, Max.