Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Siege (1996)

Féodor Atkine: Major Pierre Ducos

Quotes 

• [in French] 

  General Calvet : He's good, this Sharpe?

  Major Pierre Ducos : [dismissively]  He's just lucky.

  General Calvet : When Napoleon picks a general, he doesn't ask, "is he good?" He asks, "is he lucky?"

• [in French] 

  Compte de Maquerre : General, my mother is dying. Can I get her out of the castle before the battle?

  General Calvet : You think the Englishman will let her go?

  Compte de Maquerre : He will let her go.

  Major Pierre Ducos : He's a romantic.

  General Calvet : Very well. Tomorrow, you and Ducos go under a flag of parlay.

  Major Pierre Ducos : He will kill me.

  General Calvet : Under a white flag?

  [Ducos shrugs] 

  General Calvet : He's not as romantic as all that.