In 1814 he told the French Senate, "France has more need of me than I of France"
It is not our job to tell bidders how much they should pay for the ... Having 
already changed the spelling of his own name from the Italian Napoleone 
Buonaparte to the French version, he christened his ... Napoleon's version, 
directed at France's Senate, was: ... France has more need of me than I of France.