Albert Finney

Joseph Fouche :
Come a little closer, please.
I'm all attention.

D'Hubert :
I believe Your Excellency
has chosen a list of officers...
to be tried for Treason
by the special court.

Joseph Fouche :
I... am The President
of The Commission
that chose them, yes.

D'Hubert :
I've come to petition that the name
of General Gabriel Feraud
be removed from that list.
I have letters of introduction --
Marshalls St. Cyr and MacDonald.

Joseph Fouche :
Have you indeed?
By all accounts, he is a
rabid Bonapartist.

D'Hubert :
So is every Trooper and
Grenadier in The Army...
as Your Excellency knows.

General Feraud hasn't the brains
to make himself dangerous to anyone.
Rather, he could not conceivably
Hurt The State.

Joseph Fouche :
He has a busy tongue.
He talked himself on to our list.
we could not keep him off it.

I am something of
A Virtuoso in Survival.

You will be aware
of that, I think.
Besides, I despise these nobodies...
who offer their neck to The Block.

At least this is in My Control,
because if it were not...
My Own Name would
most certainly be on it.

Our New Masters
and Their Ladies,
bless them, are out for
a Deal of Blood.

Please be seated.

You have an honest
Soldier's Face, General...
but you have come here
to intrigue with me.

Is that not so?
Have you not come here
to intrigue with me?
Is this fellow
a relation of yours?

D'Hubert :
No.

Joseph Fouche :
Intimate friend?

D'Hubert :
No, not exactIy.
We've had a...
long association.

Joseph Fouche :
Mysterious. Still, you have
two marshals at your back.

Yes, there's your man.
Feraud, Gabriel Florian.

He will live in the provinces
under police supervision.
You realise that, of course --

But he will live.

Take a pen, my dear fellow,
and cross out The Name.
I can't do everything for you.

D'Hubert :
Your Excellency, I must beg you
to keep my interference a secret.
Most particularly from
General Feraud.

Joseph Fouche :
General Feraud, Alive or Dead,
is not worth a moment's gossip.