Napoleon said: I saw the French crown on the ground. I picked it up with a sharp knife! What does this mean?

I found a crown in the slum. I provoked it with my sword, and then people put it on my head. This is what Napoleon said in response to the Russian emperor or the king of England saying that he was a robber and stole the throne.

France killed the king in the Great Revolution and drove the Bourbons out of France. There was no king in France, and Louis XVI was caught and killed by thugs. For France at that time, the "crown" was worthless. The royal family was like a crown in France at that time: "the crown abandoned in the slums"

In the Great Revolution, the French revolutionary government forces were defeated again and again, and only Napoleon kept winning military victories. Many military victories made Napoleon's reputation rise to the extreme, so it was "I provoked it with my sword." Symbolizing Napoleon's military influence, Napoleon returned to the throne.

"People put him on my head" basically needs no explanation.

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This is the time when Napoleon returned to France from Elba to establish a hundred-day government. When the king of England and the emperor of Russia declared war on him, he called him a robber and took off his crown. So Napoleon used this to mock them, and at the same time he was mocking the decline of the kingship of European countries at that time.

The translation you posted should be subtitles in the game or something. After all, knowing this story requires a lot of historical knowledge, so it is likely that the translator didn't understand it either, so it was translated out of context into "I saw the French crown on the ground, and I picked it up with a sharp knife!" "