The American President (1995)

Clement von Franckenstein: President D'Astier

Quotes 

• [Sydney and President D'Astier were conversing in French during the state dinner] 

  President Andrew Shepherd : Sydney, you didn't dissolve our trade agreements, did you?

  Sydney Ellen Wade : No, I just said we're sitting in this beautiful room, listening to the music of this wonderful orchestra, and I wondered why nobody was dancing.

  President René Jean D'Astier : And I informed Miss Wade that in my country, a guest at the palace of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette would soon find their head in a guillotine if they made the impertinent gesture of dancing without so much as a by-your-leave from the King and the Queen.

  [laughs] 

  A. J. MacInerney : I bet no one accused Louis of being soft on crime.

  Sydney Ellen Wade : There's a lesson there, Mr. President.

  President Andrew Shepherd : More beheadings at the White House!