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Attributed quotes — Louis-Nicolas Davout

1770–1823 France

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When Napoleon asked him, "How would you behave if I made you King of Poland?" he replied, "When a man has the honour to be a Frenchman, he must always be a Frenchman," but he added, "From the day on which I accepted the crown of Poland I would become entirely and solely a Pole, and I would act in complete contradiction to your Majesty if the interests of the people whose chief I was demanded that I should do so."

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Louis-Nicolas Davout (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.