[Temeraire has been starting back with an increasing amount of concern for this strange man, even if he might be French. Did he say something terribly wrong? But it was only the truth. When France finally does speak, add slight bafflement to that concern.]

You...are France?

I do not see how you can be a country. Are you Napoleon, and calling yourself France because you are in charge?

[That's the only thing he can think of that makes any sense at all, although he doubts it's the right answer even as he says it. The way France had been talking before didn't sound like he was talking about himself. And Napoleon surely knew about dragons.]