Monsieur N.

Monsieur N.
Monsieur N. film poster
Directed byAntoine de Caunes
Written byRené Manzor
Produced byPierre Kubel
StarringPhilippe Torreton
Richard E. Grant
Elsa Zylberstein
Narrated byFrançois Marthouret
CinematographyPierre Aïm
Edited byJoële Van Effenterre
Music byStephan Eicher
Distributed byMars Distribution (France)
Redbus Film Distribution (United Kingdom)
Release date
  • 12 February 2003 (2003-02-12)
Running time
120 min.
CountriesFrance
United Kingdom
LanguagesFrench
English
Corsican
Budget$17 million
Box office$860.094

Monsieur N. is a 2003 British-French film directed by Antoine de Caunes. It tells the story of the last years of the life of the Emperor Napoleon (played by Philippe Torreton), who was imprisoned by the British on St Helena. Napoléon retained a loyal entourage of officers who helped him plot his escape, and evaded the attentions of Major-General Sir Hudson Lowe (Richard E. Grant), the island's overzealous Governor.

The film suggests that Napoléon could have escaped to Louisiana, where he died, and that the body exhumed and now at Les Invalides is that of Napoléon's officer Cipriani. The film also suggests that Napoléon and his young new English wife, Betsy Balcombe, could have attended the ceremony of "Napoléon's" burial in the Invalides.