Alexandra Maria Lara credited as playing...
Comtesse Marie Walewska
- Countess Marie Walewska: [kisses Napoleon's hand] Welcome, sire. A thousand times welcome. All Polish soil awaited to rise up, and -
- [is lost for words]
- Napoléon: And what?
- Countess Marie Walewska: I don't know anymore. I've prepared so many things to say, but now that I see you, I'm lost for words.
- Napoléon: So am I, mademoiselle. So am I. Which means we will have to see each other again, once we have both found the words we need. Would you like that?
- Napoléon: When such an old man marries such a young wife, he should learn to cover her with jewels. So should we forgive him, and see if something can be done about it?
- Countess Marie Walewska: Sire, that's not what I want from your Majesty. My country no longer exists. Prussia, Austria, and Russia have dismembered it. Return Poland to me.