Trivia / The Emperor of Paris

• Box Office Bomb: Not accounting for home video sales, the film didn't attract enough spectators in French theaters to make up for its €22 million budget.
• Cast the Expert: For his brief appearance, Napoleon is played by American reenactor Mark Schneider, who's impersonated the Emperor in many official reenactments of Napoleonic battles for their anniversaries and looks a lot like him.
• Dawson Casting: The film is set in 1805, Eugène-François Vidocq was 30 year old at the time. He's played by Vincent Cassel, who was 51 when the film was made.
• Fake Nationality:
  • German actor August Diehl plays Nathanael de Wenger, who's from Alsace, which was in the Germanic Holy Roman Empire for a long time but got progressively annexed by France from circa 1648 to the 1790s (making de Wenger a French). The region's Alemannic dialect was still widely spoken there at the time (its use is dwindling since the second half of the 20th century) and there's a specific accent coming with it, but Wenger's accent when speaking French clearly comes from somewhere in Germany (Diehl's native Berlin most likely) and not from Alsace.
  • The American Mark Schneider as the French Napoleon Bonaparte.
• Production Posse: It's the fourth movie directed by Jean-François Richet in which Vincent Cassel stars after the Mesrine diptych and One Wild Moment.

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