The last sound version made by Gance himself of his famous Napoléon, not to be confused with the highly-praised reconstruction of the 1927 original made after his death by Kevin Brownlow. As early as 1934 Gance made a short sound version of his Napoléon, but Gance made the ultimate version, entitled Bonaparte et la révolution, with Claude Lelouch. The basis was still the original Napoléon from the silent era, but Gance added several new scenes. Almost fifty years later, Gance had developed a different vision on the historic figure of Napoléon Bonaparte: the self-proclaimed emperor would really have been a Republican. Gance was also inspired by the fact that general De Gaulle and André Malraux first met during the première of Napoléon.
