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Mrs Jefferson.

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I'm Owen Lettinger
from the Pike County Republican.

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Come in, sir.

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Mrs Hemings.

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I'll do some water for tea.

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My wife, Mary Hemings,
former Mary McCoy.

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We never took the name Jefferson, sir.
We's all Hemingses.

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I trust you had no trouble
finding our place.

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We are a bit out of the way.

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Yes. Well, we journalists
will always find our destination

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if there's a good story at the end of it.

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Sit, please.

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Well, thank you.

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It's like this, sir.

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When my father died,
he was what they calls bankrupt.

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Your father being...

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President Thomas Jefferson.

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Yes, sir.
That is true and correct.

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He was the third president
of the United States.

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- You write mighty fast, sir.
- We call this shorthand.

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See?

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Mary don't read or write nothing.

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I learned it my own self. Got the
white children to learn me, in secret.

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Mr Lettinger,

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has anybody ever told you
it was against the law

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to learn a Negro how to read
and write during slavery?

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They did tell about some owners.

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They cut off a finger every time
they catch a slave trying to get learned.

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They was afraid of the Negro reading
and getting to know too much,

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getting ideas in his head.

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Mary, take my key
and bring them things out.

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There was four of us
living at Monticello.

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The children of Thomas Jefferson
and Sally Hemings.

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There were three of us boys:
Beverly, Eston and myself, Madison,

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and one sister, Harriet.

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Did Mr Jefferson have children with any
other slave woman besides your mother?

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No. Only our mother.
We was the only ones.

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Did Mr Jefferson ever
show you any partiality

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or fatherly affection?

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He didn't favour us like he did
his white children and grandchildren,

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but we was well-treated.

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We didn't have to do any
of the field work or hard labour.

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My sister Harriet was put
to weaving and spinning and such

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in the little factory
on the home plantation.

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And I was put
to the carpenter trade.

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My brother Eston and me
was more of the African blood.

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But my brother Beverly,
you couldn't hardly tell him from white.

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He so took after my father that
they tell a story of a French gentleman

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dining with Mr Jefferson, and seeing
Beverly, he did give a mighty jump

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to see the spitting image
of Thomas Jefferson serving his soup.

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They were given
by my father to my mother.

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And when she dies,
she give 'em to me.

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So these are your sole and only...

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- May I?
- Sure.

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Sole and only legacy from...
Thomas Jefferson?

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No, sir.

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Our legacy was our freedom,
long before emancipation.

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By the age of 21,
we could pick up and leave.

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Wasn't slaves no more.

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This was written
in the will of our father

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in his solemn promise to our mother:
"All our children will be free.

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"I will set them free."

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And so it was done.

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It was mighty sweet to be free, sir.
They used to sing a song.

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<i>Free at last</i>
<i>Free at last</i>

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<i>Thank God Almighty</i>
<i>I's free at last</i>

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<i>Once was a ruler</i>
<i>just like you</i>

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<i>Thank God Almighty</i>
<i>I's free at last</i>

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Lord, Lord, Lord!
Them days was the days!

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<i>Thank God Almighty</i>
<i>I's free at last</i>

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<i>Journey passed</i>
<i>And I get prayed</i>

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Thomas Jefferson.

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Minister Plenipotentiary of America.

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In the name of
the United States of America,

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I have the great honour
of paying homage to Your Majesty...

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as well as to all members
of the royal family.

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It is in obedience to
the expressed commands

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of the Congress
of the United States of America

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that I have the honour
of assuring Your Majesty...

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of their unanimous
disposition and desire

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to cultivate the most friendly and liberal
intercourse between Your Majesty's...

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subjects and their citizens.

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Another great nation, sire,
is rising in America.

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Have you found a good house?

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I thank Your Majesty for your kind concern.

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I have agreed to the H�tel de Langeac,
by the Grille de Chaillot.

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It's very important to have
a decent house in Paris.

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Look over these figures again.
We'll go over them in the car.

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All right. All right.

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I want a bull's-eye opening.

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Better get used
to getting hit over the head.

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Master can't live
but he's pulling something down,

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building something up,
pulling that down again.

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A step!

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Come see!

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A new girl.

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She's odd-looking, but pretty.
She must come from abroad.

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Good day, Mr Jefferson.
Mademoiselle...

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Please follow me.
I'll take you to Mother Superior.

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Your father will see you
before he leaves.

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A fine tall girl.

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She has inherited
your height, monsieur.

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Yes, and that's no trifle
for a girl to inherit.

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I'm relieved that your English is so greatly
superior to my French, Madame Abbesse,

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because what I wish to say

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is not altogether
easy to express in any language.

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Perhaps I may even venture
to express it for you, monsieur.

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We have 55 girls

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studying in the convent.

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Of these, 15 are not Catholic

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but, like your daughter,
of various Protestant persuasions.

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These girls are completely free
to pursue their own religious faith,

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and no attempt is ever made
to convert them to ours.

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I assure you.

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They emerge quite as good Protestants
as when they entered.

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You will forgive my perhaps
somewhat exaggerated anxiety.

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For an American,

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freedom of religious conscience
is one of our great principles.

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I believe, monsieur,

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you have to fulfil the part of both
father and mother to your daughter?

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My wife died three years ago.

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Well, Patsy,

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this is not any kind of parting.

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James will be coming to fetch you
home on Saturday afternoon...

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and every Saturday after that.

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If only Polly
and Lucy were with me.

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One day soon, both your sisters
will join us here,

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and our little family
will be reunited.

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I promise you.

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You know that I live
only for that day.

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And I live only for Saturday.

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There's something in my eye.

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Just the right amount of nutmeg.
The sauce is well-seasoned.

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It could be reduced more
for finicky palates...

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Get the glasses!

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This dish could be served at
the best French tables!

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Come have a drink with us
at the tavern tonight.

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People here get paid for working.

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- Ask the Master for wages!
- You should be paid like us.

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Put more wood on.

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- Master?
- You see how this works, James?

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As the wheel turns, the distance
is recorded on this metre.

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- Master?
- What is it, James?

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I was wanting to say...

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This should be most helpful
in recording accurate boundaries,

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within certain limits.

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- I was wanting to say...
- Wanting to say what?

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I like finished sentences.

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Yes, Master, and what it is
I was wanting to finish <i>is...</i>

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I wants to get paid.

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Master, I wants money.

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In our present circumstances,
your request is not unreasonable.

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I shall tell Monsieur Petit
that on the first of each month,

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you are to receive 24 francs
by the way of salary.

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You realise that this arrangement
holds good only in Paris,

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and in Monticello,
we shall revert to our own system.

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Yes, Master.
Thank you.

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- I sure enough realise 24 francs...
- Understand, James?

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- Yes, sir.
- Very well.

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You mock our poor Queen.

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Indeed!

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Out of misguided modesty, she avoids
drawn-out, scandalous affairs...

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By saying "yes" at once!

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What would you do if your husband were
sluggish and impotent to boot?

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Leaving aside the tapir,
we still have among us the moose.

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The moose.
The American moose.

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Stands so tall that a reindeer
can walk with ease under its belly.

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I'd like to see that!

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And so you shall, Monsieur De Bouffant.

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I have the pleasure
of introducing you to our moose.

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Adrienne!

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What an adventure! My dear, we're lucky
to be here. They lit an enormous bonfire

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and they're throwing on everything
they can lay their hands on.

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I was certain they were going to drag us
out of our coach and throw us on top, too.

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I told them I was quite prepared
to sacrifice Maria, of course.

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I said, "Take her. She's much
more inflammable than I am."

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- Mr Cosway!
- You are. You know you are.

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Let me introduce you to Mr Thomas
Jefferson and his daughter, Patsy.

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Mrs and Mr Richard Cosway,
one of the greatest English painters.

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What am I saying?
The greatest English painter.

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<i>Vous exag�rez,</i> my dear Lafayette.

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I said to the coachman,
"Who is this they're burning?"

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"The biggest rascal on earth," he said.
"And burning's too good for him."

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Allons. Is that his name?
Minister of Finance.

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I should not like to fall
into the hands of your Paris mob.

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People of Paris need only one little
spark and, boom, they explode.

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The tables are laid and waiting.
Sit wherever you like.

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We can't eat now!
We want to perform first.

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- Come, friends!
- We've rehearsed for hours.

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You'll be even more entertaining
after dinner.

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<i>Au revoir,</i> my dear.

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I will join you afterwards, my dear.

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Mr Trumbull, Patsy.

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Mr Jefferson.

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Your secretary appears
to admire the duchess.

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We should be happy for her.

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She is married to her uncle,
who is 40 years older than she.

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Is your daughter here to learn
French manners and morals?

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Manners, to some extent,

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but when it comes to morals,
we should keep to our own.

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Why? Are yours better than ours?

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They are better for us.

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That is, for us Americans.

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And are they difficult to learn?

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Certainly not difficult to unlearn.

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Tell me about America.

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Madam, the subject is as large
as the land itself.

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England is so small.
Even the sky is small.

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In Italy it is a vast, cerulean blue.

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It's not so much sky as... heaven.

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You are Italian?

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Mr Jefferson! Mr Jefferson.

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00:22:03,248 --> 00:22:06,913
Is it true what my young
friends are telling me?

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That the revolt of our American colonies
was really against trade restrictions.

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All you wanted, you Americans,
was the liberty to drink French wine!

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Instead of English beer, one might say
that exchange alone was worth our trouble.

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"We hold these truths to be self-evident:
That all men are created equal;

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"that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights."

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Are all men created equal,
Mr Jefferson?

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Or should this read,
"All white men are created equal?"

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We allowed for civil differences
that are not caused by the laws of man

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but by those of nature.

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And though the Negro
may or may not be inferior,

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his status in no way alters
the wrongness of slavery.

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It is evil.

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Yet your first draft contained a clause
on the abolition of slavery.

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I considered it essential,

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but Congress struck it out of the final
Declaration as being too particular.

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So the question remains open
with you and unsolved.

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Your revolution, Mr Jefferson,
appears to be incomplete.

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Why did you omit the notion of property
as one of those rights?

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While I hold the right of the individual
to possess property as basic,

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I consider it as
a means to human happiness

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but not as an end in itself.

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It is Madame Cosway.

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It is only Monsieur D'Hancarville,
declaring that he loves me.

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He thinks I don't take him seriously,
but how can I?

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A man of society has to be in love,
preferably with a married woman.

239
00:25:41,132 --> 00:25:45,296
And Monsieur D'Hancarville
has done me the honour of choosing me.

240
00:25:46,930 --> 00:25:49,717
Do go, my dear,
and see if we are wanted.

241
00:25:49,808 --> 00:25:52,215
Please. Do go.

242
00:25:58,108 --> 00:26:00,480
Come on, everybody!
Time to play!

243
00:26:00,568 --> 00:26:03,106
Are you always cruel
to those who love you?

244
00:26:03,196 --> 00:26:06,612
It's just a game we both play.

245
00:26:06,699 --> 00:26:11,361
That's how it is here.
People play at love. It's not serious.

246
00:26:11,454 --> 00:26:15,618
It is different in Italy.
There, we kill for it.

247
00:26:15,709 --> 00:26:18,959
Well! That was going too far.

248
00:26:19,045 --> 00:26:21,417
Why? How far do you go in America?

249
00:26:21,506 --> 00:26:24,626
In America.
In America, we stay at home

250
00:26:24,718 --> 00:26:27,387
and are happy and contented
with the wives we have chosen.

251
00:26:27,470 --> 00:26:30,257
If you can choose.

252
00:26:30,348 --> 00:26:32,886
And are you happy and contented?

253
00:26:34,894 --> 00:26:36,175
Forgive me.

254
00:26:36,271 --> 00:26:40,434
I have been told that your wife died
in giving birth to your son.

255
00:26:40,525 --> 00:26:42,316
My daughter, Lucy.

256
00:26:42,402 --> 00:26:44,809
And the child?

257
00:26:44,904 --> 00:26:46,612
The child survived.

258
00:26:46,698 --> 00:26:49,533
- So you have two daughters.
- I have three daughters alive.

259
00:26:49,617 --> 00:26:52,488
We lost our first child
when she was 18 months old.

260
00:26:52,579 --> 00:26:57,656
- Do you have no son?
- He did not survive beyond 17 days.

261
00:27:00,754 --> 00:27:03,671
The perfect place for it. Come on!

262
00:27:03,757 --> 00:27:06,248
Quickly. Let's play this game.

263
00:27:07,552 --> 00:27:09,011
"Heads and Hearts."

264
00:27:09,095 --> 00:27:11,800
Now, let's divide up.

265
00:27:11,890 --> 00:27:16,101
Hearts should be on this side.
That's right. So you stay there, Mr Short.

266
00:27:16,186 --> 00:27:17,561
Heads on this side.

267
00:27:17,645 --> 00:27:19,305
Monsieur D'Hancarville...

268
00:27:19,397 --> 00:27:24,273
Mr Jefferson, I think you belong
over there with the heads.

269
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:27,564
And that's right, Maria.

270
00:27:27,655 --> 00:27:30,360
Definitely with the hearts.

271
00:27:31,951 --> 00:27:35,403
I know, to my cost,
that she has no heart.

272
00:27:35,497 --> 00:27:38,118
And I, to mine, that she has no head.

273
00:27:38,208 --> 00:27:41,327
You would know, too, if you had
to pay her bills, as I do.

274
00:27:43,755 --> 00:27:46,376
So, I shall start.
For the head.

275
00:27:46,466 --> 00:27:51,673
Friendship is but another word for
an alliance with the misfortunes of others.

276
00:27:51,763 --> 00:27:56,508
Our own share of miseries is sufficient.
Why take on those of another?

277
00:28:03,650 --> 00:28:08,063
When sorrow makes us weep, how sweet it
is to have a friend to wipe away our tears.

278
00:28:08,154 --> 00:28:11,654
With such a comfort,
our very grief may turn to joy.

279
00:28:11,741 --> 00:28:15,193
Come, come, Mr Short. Take a man's part
and speak up for the head.

280
00:28:15,286 --> 00:28:18,702
Well, sir, when my heart speaks,
the rest of me must needs be silent!

281
00:28:18,790 --> 00:28:20,414
What rubbish!

282
00:28:22,669 --> 00:28:26,749
Nothing is in our power except
intellectual pleasure.

283
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:32,047
In contemplating truth and nature,
matter and emotion,

284
00:28:32,137 --> 00:28:38,389
we ride, serene and sublime,
above the concerns of the mortal world.

285
00:28:39,644 --> 00:28:43,856
Listen to me!
All the frigid speculations of the head

286
00:28:43,940 --> 00:28:47,689
are not worth
one generous spasm of the heart.

287
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,449
The best way of being secure against pain
is to retire within ourselves

288
00:28:53,533 --> 00:28:55,490
and to suffice for our own happiness.

289
00:28:55,577 --> 00:28:57,700
Nobody cares for him
who cares for nobody.

290
00:28:57,787 --> 00:28:59,827
A wise man will only depend on himself.

291
00:28:59,914 --> 00:29:03,118
It's not your turn, madam,
nor is it your turn, sir.

292
00:29:06,046 --> 00:29:09,165
I believe it's the heads' turn.

293
00:29:09,257 --> 00:29:11,084
It's the heads' turn.

294
00:29:11,176 --> 00:29:13,667
He's lost his head,
and she's lost her heart.

295
00:29:16,181 --> 00:29:20,344
Yes, you, Mrs Cosway,
must speak only from your tender heart.

296
00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:21,715
Now answer me.

297
00:29:21,811 --> 00:29:26,390
Is it not in the company of a friend
that Nature wears her liveliest hue?

298
00:29:26,483 --> 00:29:29,982
- Whence did she borrow it?
- From her charming companion.

299
00:29:30,070 --> 00:29:33,070
Speak only from your head,
Mr Jefferson.

300
00:29:34,115 --> 00:29:36,902
Our heart is pleased
because she is pleased.

301
00:29:40,121 --> 00:29:42,114
No one is pleased at all.

302
00:29:42,207 --> 00:29:45,077
You've ruined the game
and lost everything.

303
00:30:03,853 --> 00:30:06,523
This place makes me shudder.

304
00:30:06,606 --> 00:30:08,397
Ill-formed...

305
00:30:10,151 --> 00:30:12,477
overloaded monstrosities.

306
00:30:14,864 --> 00:30:19,573
When I was 17, I wanted
to take my vows, as a nun.

307
00:30:21,871 --> 00:30:24,279
I see you are amused.

308
00:30:24,374 --> 00:30:30,210
It is only because you are the opposite
of everything gloomy and ascetic.

309
00:30:30,296 --> 00:30:34,460
To me you appear all clarity and light.

310
00:30:34,551 --> 00:30:38,085
Of this world, not the next.

311
00:30:41,266 --> 00:30:45,678
It's true. I was born in the sun
and I can't live without it.

312
00:30:45,770 --> 00:30:49,815
But when my father died, we had
to leave Florence and go to London.

313
00:30:49,899 --> 00:30:53,103
We were poor, but I had
a little talent for painting

314
00:30:53,194 --> 00:30:56,480
and ambition to become an artist.

315
00:30:56,573 --> 00:30:59,242
But, instead...

316
00:30:59,325 --> 00:31:01,318
You were married.

317
00:31:02,495 --> 00:31:07,323
Mr Cosway encourages me to paint,
but not to exhibit my work.

318
00:31:24,851 --> 00:31:27,852
I tell you freely
about myself and my life,

319
00:31:27,937 --> 00:31:32,065
but about yourself you keep
everything hidden and closed.

320
00:31:42,660 --> 00:31:45,116
When my wife died,

321
00:31:45,205 --> 00:31:50,495
I destroyed every letter
that had ever passed between us.

322
00:31:50,585 --> 00:31:56,588
I wanted no one to find
the least trace of our happiness.

323
00:31:56,674 --> 00:32:00,340
It was hers and mine.

324
00:32:00,428 --> 00:32:03,631
And then, only mine...

325
00:32:03,723 --> 00:32:06,131
to be shared with no one.

326
00:32:21,366 --> 00:32:24,949
Mrs Jefferson, please sit still.

327
00:32:25,495 --> 00:32:28,366
Enough now. It looks fine as it is.

328
00:32:28,456 --> 00:32:31,457
I've been sitting here for hours.

329
00:32:34,504 --> 00:32:36,912
This is unbearable!

330
00:33:05,660 --> 00:33:08,578
I see Signor Leonardo's been with you.

331
00:33:10,832 --> 00:33:12,410
Let me look.

332
00:33:14,252 --> 00:33:19,080
I would be proud, Mr Jefferson,
to have such a pretty daughter.

333
00:33:20,925 --> 00:33:23,214
Mrs Cosway plays well.

334
00:33:39,819 --> 00:33:43,354
<i>On Sunday last,</i>
<i>I went as a private citizen,</i>

335
00:33:43,448 --> 00:33:47,148
<i>and accompanied by my daughter,</i>
<i>to the Palace of Versailles.</i>

336
00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,952
<i>We joined the crowd admitted,</i>
<i>according to some ancient custom,</i>

337
00:33:53,041 --> 00:33:55,958
<i>to view the king and queen</i>
<i>on their way to Mass.</i>

338
00:33:56,044 --> 00:34:00,670
<i>I meant to impress upon my daughter</i>
<i>the vainglory of these spectacles.</i>

339
00:34:00,757 --> 00:34:03,295
<i>May we Americans never emulate them</i>

340
00:34:03,385 --> 00:34:08,723
<i>nor burden our taxpayers</i>
<i>with such useless splendours.</i>

341
00:34:08,807 --> 00:34:12,472
<i>The royal procession showed</i>
<i>an unexpected informality</i>

342
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:14,636
<i>and animation of spirits.</i>

343
00:34:14,729 --> 00:34:17,683
<i>It is said that this is due</i>
<i>to Marie Antoinette,</i>

344
00:34:17,774 --> 00:34:21,606
<i>who tries to make such occasions</i>
<i>agreeable to her husband,</i>

345
00:34:21,694 --> 00:34:24,067
<i>who is often awkward</i>
<i>and unsociable.</i>

346
00:34:24,781 --> 00:34:29,858
No other American ambassador gave us
the pleasure of meeting his family.

347
00:34:29,953 --> 00:34:33,037
You should have come earlier.
What is your name?

348
00:34:33,832 --> 00:34:36,204
Martha Jefferson.

349
00:34:36,292 --> 00:34:37,324
Madam.

350
00:34:42,173 --> 00:34:47,844
There is nothing to fear. She was only
asking your name, and quite charmingly.

351
00:34:47,929 --> 00:34:52,306
<i>Daily life at court is still ruled</i>
<i>by an etiquette so rigid</i>

352
00:34:52,392 --> 00:34:55,428
<i>that the most private pursuits</i>
<i>of the king and queen</i>

353
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:57,976
<i>are converted into public ceremony.</i>

354
00:34:58,064 --> 00:35:03,271
<i>It is like watching actors, fantastically</i>
<i>painted, bewigged and bejewelled,</i>

355
00:35:03,361 --> 00:35:06,944
<i>disporting themselves on a stage.</i>

356
00:35:07,031 --> 00:35:10,566
<i>The leading actress, though never</i>
<i>a popular one, is the queen,</i>

357
00:35:10,660 --> 00:35:15,073
<i>whose extravagance is blamed for the</i>
<i>desperate financial situation of France.</i>

358
00:35:15,165 --> 00:35:20,669
<i>But the king loves her very much,</i>
<i>and she rules him completely.</i>

359
00:35:20,754 --> 00:35:26,092
<i>As a foreigner, an Austrian, she feels</i>
<i>lonely and isolated at the French court</i>

360
00:35:26,176 --> 00:35:30,588
<i>and has surrounded herself</i>
<i>with her own little band of friends.</i>

361
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:33,883
<i>They love to play at being</i>
<i>simple shepherdesses,</i>

362
00:35:33,975 --> 00:35:38,471
<i>a game that is said to cost the</i>
<i>exchequer one million livre a year.</i>

363
00:35:38,563 --> 00:35:43,770
<i>But the friendship of the shepherdesses</i>
<i>is based on their ferocious greed.</i>

364
00:35:43,860 --> 00:35:48,273
<i>The queen's favourites take advantage</i>
<i>of her lonely craving for affection,</i>

365
00:35:48,364 --> 00:35:50,820
<i>threatening to leave her</i>
<i>whenever she fails</i>

366
00:35:50,909 --> 00:35:54,527
<i>to accede</i>
<i>to their insatiable demands.</i>

367
00:36:04,964 --> 00:36:08,131
<i>The French royal family</i>
<i>are the butt of salacious skits</i>

368
00:36:08,218 --> 00:36:11,883
<i>and slanders unimaginable</i>
<i>in any other Christian kingdom.</i>

369
00:36:11,971 --> 00:36:16,799
<i>The queen is depicted with the appetites</i>
<i>of a Messalina or a Sappho</i>

370
00:36:16,893 --> 00:36:19,598
<i>or engaged in incestuous monstrosities</i>

371
00:36:19,687 --> 00:36:23,353
<i>with Count d'Artois,</i>
<i>the king's debauched brother.</i>

372
00:36:38,039 --> 00:36:40,079
"The Surrender at Yorktown."

373
00:36:40,166 --> 00:36:42,574
Well done, Trumbull.
It's very life-like.

374
00:36:42,669 --> 00:36:47,461
And that is you, sir, here, on the left
of my little sketch, and hard to see.

375
00:36:47,549 --> 00:36:50,253
I assure you, in the finished painting,
no one will ask,

376
00:36:50,343 --> 00:36:52,217
"Where is General Lafayette?"

377
00:36:52,303 --> 00:36:55,507
And here is Lord Cornwallis, surrendering.

378
00:36:55,598 --> 00:36:57,805
No, a mistake, sir.
It was not Cornwallis.

379
00:36:57,892 --> 00:37:01,641
My lord feigned sickness to escape
sharing his men's humiliation.

380
00:37:01,730 --> 00:37:03,437
Then I'm very sorry.

381
00:37:03,523 --> 00:37:07,307
Must've been misinformed in London,
probably on purpose.

382
00:37:07,402 --> 00:37:12,194
You really rubbed their noses in it,
playing Yankee Doodle!

383
00:37:12,365 --> 00:37:15,983
<i>Yankee Doodle went to town</i>
<i>Riding on a pony</i>

384
00:37:16,077 --> 00:37:20,407
I was shaking like a leaf with the malaria
I caught in your confounded swamps.

385
00:37:20,498 --> 00:37:22,705
And this is Monsieur...

386
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:29,167
Is that you, Viomesnil?
I didn't recognise you with two legs on!

387
00:37:29,716 --> 00:37:32,041
Inform Mr. Jefferson.

388
00:37:32,135 --> 00:37:34,507
We're asking no more than our due.

389
00:37:34,596 --> 00:37:37,680
The eye I've given them
deserves a pension.

390
00:37:39,309 --> 00:37:43,093
My dear friend...
My dearest friend and comrade,

391
00:37:43,188 --> 00:37:45,264
we are all here comrades,

392
00:37:45,356 --> 00:37:48,607
and so perhaps it is not
too greatly indelicate to mention

393
00:37:48,693 --> 00:37:50,686
what weighs on these gentlemen.

394
00:37:50,779 --> 00:37:52,902
Although a considerable amount is due

395
00:37:52,989 --> 00:37:55,397
for their services
rendered in the American war,

396
00:37:55,492 --> 00:37:59,785
the States have not yet paid
their debts to them.

397
00:37:59,871 --> 00:38:01,828
Promises must be kept.

398
00:38:01,915 --> 00:38:04,157
I'd never have thought
we'd have to beg.

399
00:38:04,250 --> 00:38:05,626
Not even the interest.

400
00:38:05,752 --> 00:38:08,373
Sir, we put our lives in danger.

401
00:38:08,463 --> 00:38:11,215
We sacrificed arms and legs...

402
00:38:11,299 --> 00:38:14,253
We offered them willingly
for your cause.

403
00:38:17,347 --> 00:38:22,175
Many of these gallant officers
have lost limbs...

404
00:38:24,896 --> 00:38:29,309
or have been disabled
in other ways...

405
00:38:31,027 --> 00:38:34,895
fighting for our cause.

406
00:38:36,950 --> 00:38:42,953
Yet all requests for monies
justly due to them

407
00:38:43,039 --> 00:38:45,115
have been ignored.

408
00:38:47,585 --> 00:38:52,461
The fact is, Mr Short, there is no money.
Our congress is insolvent.

409
00:38:52,549 --> 00:38:55,004
I know your own salary
hasn't been paid yet.

410
00:38:55,093 --> 00:39:00,218
I haven't been reimbursed for the outlay
I've made on my domestic establishment.

411
00:39:00,306 --> 00:39:02,133
That is a personal matter.

412
00:39:02,225 --> 00:39:06,804
But all this financial business
presses on my mind like a mountain.

413
00:39:08,148 --> 00:39:09,939
<i>This is to inform the Congress</i>

414
00:39:10,024 --> 00:39:13,808
<i>that our crushing debts compel me</i>
<i>forthwith to journey to The Hague.</i>

415
00:39:13,903 --> 00:39:17,319
<i>I intend to appeal to some</i>
<i>private Dutch bankers</i>

416
00:39:17,407 --> 00:39:20,408
<i>who are justly famous</i>
<i>for their financial wizardry.</i>

417
00:39:20,493 --> 00:39:22,901
<i>These shrewd money men</i>
<i>have devised a loan</i>

418
00:39:22,996 --> 00:39:25,534
<i>to cover our interest</i>
<i>on another loan;</i>

419
00:39:25,623 --> 00:39:28,293
<i>a bit ofjuggling to restore our credit</i>

420
00:39:28,376 --> 00:39:31,959
<i>and honour our debt</i>
<i>to those gallant French officers.</i>

421
00:39:35,050 --> 00:39:37,338
- Mr Short.
- Mrs Cosway.

422
00:39:48,646 --> 00:39:52,015
- It was unexpected and most urgent.
- Evidently.

423
00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:54,938
He was promised for the f�te on Friday.

424
00:39:57,113 --> 00:40:00,648
I trust we will have the honour
of your presence, Mr Short.

425
00:40:00,742 --> 00:40:03,233
You keep faith with your friends, I hope.

426
00:40:03,328 --> 00:40:08,203
Alas, madam, I leave for Rome tomorrow,
also on urgent business.

427
00:40:11,169 --> 00:40:15,747
I've heard that you Americans
are always on urgent business.

428
00:40:21,304 --> 00:40:24,590
<i>Your friends miss you,</i>
<i>and none more than myself,</i>

429
00:40:24,682 --> 00:40:29,677
<i>and Mr Cosway, who, however, has much</i>
<i>to fill his time with in this place.</i>

430
00:40:29,771 --> 00:40:32,262
<i>I pass my more solitary hours</i>

431
00:40:32,357 --> 00:40:35,940
<i>in great hopes of a continuance</i>
<i>of our happy days together.</i>

432
00:40:36,027 --> 00:40:39,811
<i>I imagine I see you,</i>
<i>smiling down at me once more.</i>

433
00:40:40,865 --> 00:40:44,199
Absence from a friend grown dear...

434
00:40:47,330 --> 00:40:49,453
is harder than I have imagined.

435
00:40:49,541 --> 00:40:51,498
My dear Mrs Cosway.

436
00:40:51,584 --> 00:40:54,420
Nor had I imagined how dear this friend...

437
00:40:54,504 --> 00:40:57,955
My dear Miss...
My very dear missed friend...

438
00:40:58,049 --> 00:41:01,169
My dear friend...
How close you are...

439
00:41:01,261 --> 00:41:04,546
My dear, dear friend...

440
00:41:04,639 --> 00:41:08,886
<i>Absence from a friend grown dear</i>
<i>is harder than I imagined.</i>

441
00:41:16,317 --> 00:41:20,529
<i>I observe the hog of this land,</i>
<i>of which the celebrated ham is made,</i>

442
00:41:20,613 --> 00:41:24,113
<i>is tall, gaunt</i>
<i>and with heavy-lopped ears.</i>

443
00:41:24,951 --> 00:41:28,616
<i>People here pride themselves</i>
<i>on their unique smokehouses</i>

444
00:41:28,705 --> 00:41:30,247
<i>that have no chimney,</i>

445
00:41:30,331 --> 00:41:33,535
<i>but I had the pleasure of</i>
<i>informing them that in Virginia,</i>

446
00:41:33,626 --> 00:41:36,830
<i>we use the same method</i>
<i>of smoking our bacon.</i>

447
00:42:26,221 --> 00:42:30,349
When they rise,
it's called The Resurrection,

448
00:42:30,433 --> 00:42:33,138
after having been dead to the world.

449
00:42:36,106 --> 00:42:40,933
- But why are you crying?
- It's with joy.

450
00:43:31,161 --> 00:43:32,275
Patsy.

451
00:43:33,955 --> 00:43:35,497
Wait, dear.

452
00:43:37,959 --> 00:43:40,035
I wanted to see you.

453
00:43:41,171 --> 00:43:44,290
And I hoped you
might want to see me.

454
00:43:46,885 --> 00:43:49,755
You must miss your father
so very much in his absence.

455
00:43:49,846 --> 00:43:53,132
- He'll be back soon.
- When? Have you had word?

456
00:43:57,687 --> 00:44:03,227
I had hoped to know you better and even,
if you will let me, to be your friend.

457
00:44:03,318 --> 00:44:05,026
Thank you, madam.

458
00:44:08,198 --> 00:44:12,776
See, I know how it is to be
a foreigner in a foreign country.

459
00:44:12,869 --> 00:44:16,618
I was born in that condition,
for in Italy, I'm English,

460
00:44:16,706 --> 00:44:19,660
and in England, I'm Italian.

461
00:44:19,751 --> 00:44:21,909
But I'm American everywhere.

462
00:44:22,003 --> 00:44:25,253
Yes. There you are like your father.

463
00:44:25,340 --> 00:44:28,257
Wherever he is, he is what he is.

464
00:44:30,011 --> 00:44:36,049
There is another reason why I feel
such a sympathy for you and your family.

465
00:44:36,142 --> 00:44:39,060
Because you have suffered tragedy
in the loss of your mother

466
00:44:39,145 --> 00:44:41,767
and so many little brothers and sisters.

467
00:44:43,274 --> 00:44:46,478
My childhood was also made tragic
for my poor parents

468
00:44:46,569 --> 00:44:51,362
and in the most horrible
and unnatural way.

469
00:44:51,449 --> 00:44:54,984
May I tell you?
May I tell you my story?

470
00:44:57,580 --> 00:45:01,281
I had three little sisters
and a brother,

471
00:45:01,376 --> 00:45:03,949
all of whom died very suddenly.

472
00:45:04,045 --> 00:45:07,248
And only I and one little brother were left.

473
00:45:10,135 --> 00:45:17,181
One day, someone overheard
my Italian nurse singing to me,

474
00:45:17,267 --> 00:45:20,849
"I have sent four to heaven before you,

475
00:45:20,937 --> 00:45:25,350
"and now I will send you, too,
and save your eternal soul."

476
00:45:27,527 --> 00:45:31,572
It was she who had poisoned
the little babies

477
00:45:31,656 --> 00:45:34,859
for what, in her madness,
she thought was their salvation.

478
00:45:38,288 --> 00:45:42,914
Imagine the state of mind
and heart of my poor parents.

479
00:45:46,629 --> 00:45:49,714
You will understand better than anyone

480
00:45:49,799 --> 00:45:53,049
that I have to stay with Papa always.

481
00:45:55,221 --> 00:45:57,297
That he needs me.

482
00:45:59,017 --> 00:46:04,224
He will never marry again. That is what
he vowed to my mama on her deathbed.

483
00:46:28,880 --> 00:46:31,881
Look. Look who it is.

484
00:46:38,932 --> 00:46:41,423
We are so glad
to see you, Mr Jefferson.

485
00:46:41,518 --> 00:46:45,467
We're enchanted to see you.
We thought you'd completely forgotten us.

486
00:46:45,563 --> 00:46:48,398
I arrived from my travels
only one hour ago.

487
00:46:48,483 --> 00:46:50,191
Come up. Come on.

488
00:46:54,864 --> 00:46:59,491
- What a dwarf!
- Is it draughty up there?

489
00:47:04,290 --> 00:47:09,248
You're so attached to the opera that you
would not waste a moment to come here.

490
00:47:09,337 --> 00:47:12,836
Rather, so attached to my friends
whom I hoped to find here.

491
00:47:12,924 --> 00:47:14,418
You have found us.

492
00:47:14,509 --> 00:47:19,135
It is by no means certain that my wife
is any longer your friend.

493
00:47:19,222 --> 00:47:21,760
See how angry your neglect
has made her.

494
00:47:21,850 --> 00:47:22,964
Why would I be angry?

495
00:47:23,059 --> 00:47:26,428
Alas, my duties were official,
or I would've returned weeks ago.

496
00:47:26,521 --> 00:47:28,810
Women will never believe any business

497
00:47:28,898 --> 00:47:32,563
could take precedence
over our business with them.

498
00:47:32,652 --> 00:47:34,728
Mr Jefferson, take your bow.

499
00:47:56,134 --> 00:47:58,423
Mademoiselle Contat.

500
00:47:58,803 --> 00:48:02,468
Such large hats are forbidden
in the theatre now.

501
00:48:02,557 --> 00:48:06,008
Throw me in the Bastille then,
with the thieves,

502
00:48:06,102 --> 00:48:09,436
the forgers, and the child molesters.

503
00:48:09,522 --> 00:48:13,354
Meanwhile, come join us
as we yawn through the ballets.

504
00:48:21,117 --> 00:48:23,026
Well, Mr Jefferson,

505
00:48:23,119 --> 00:48:26,903
I shall leave you to make
your peace as best you can.

506
00:48:26,998 --> 00:48:30,912
Come, Monsieur D'Hancarville.
Be at least as tactful as her husband.

507
00:49:27,475 --> 00:49:31,853
I came back as soon as I could.
I was restless for Paris.

508
00:49:31,938 --> 00:49:34,429
I can't imagine you restless

509
00:49:34,524 --> 00:49:38,652
or even thinking of anyone or anything
except... what do you call it?

510
00:49:38,737 --> 00:49:40,480
"The business at hand."

511
00:49:40,572 --> 00:49:43,857
I thought of you constantly.
I wrote you constantly.

512
00:49:43,950 --> 00:49:48,030
Yes, about smoked bacon and hogs.

513
00:49:50,582 --> 00:49:53,073
What an extraordinary person you are.

514
00:49:53,168 --> 00:49:56,868
I hoped to interest you
in what interested me.

515
00:49:56,963 --> 00:50:01,091
I missed you.
I missed you immensely.

516
00:50:23,531 --> 00:50:26,616
I kept having a debate
between my head and my heart.

517
00:50:26,701 --> 00:50:29,868
Which, in your case,
the head always wins.

518
00:50:29,954 --> 00:50:31,413
Not this time.

519
00:50:31,498 --> 00:50:35,080
My poor head was simply whirled
around by my unruly heart.

520
00:50:35,168 --> 00:50:37,576
Oh, dear God.

521
00:50:37,670 --> 00:50:41,205
It kept telling me, "I love the lady,

522
00:50:41,299 --> 00:50:44,217
"and will continue to love her forever.

523
00:50:47,722 --> 00:50:52,965
"If she were on one side of the globe
and I on the other,

524
00:50:53,061 --> 00:50:56,394
"I would pierce through the whole mass
of the world to reach her."

525
00:50:59,818 --> 00:51:01,063
Dardanus!

526
00:51:01,152 --> 00:51:04,070
Dardanus! Bring Dardanus to me!

527
00:51:04,155 --> 00:51:07,820
I want to kiss him!
I want to go up to Heaven with him!

528
00:51:07,909 --> 00:51:11,610
- Get him a new wig!
- And new legs, too!

529
00:53:20,166 --> 00:53:23,286
They seemed to have
survived the ordeal.

530
00:53:27,799 --> 00:53:30,835
Don't you wish it were possible
to fly off to America?

531
00:53:30,927 --> 00:53:35,007
Yes, if I could take you with me.
It is not impossible.

532
00:53:35,098 --> 00:53:38,965
- We are not on the other side of the globe.
- What are you saying?

533
00:53:39,060 --> 00:53:41,183
I'm saying come to America.

534
00:53:42,814 --> 00:53:45,186
Come to Monticello.

535
00:53:45,275 --> 00:53:46,899
And leave everything?

536
00:53:46,985 --> 00:53:49,476
Leave everything here?
Leave my husband?

537
00:53:53,575 --> 00:53:56,492
I've thought of it sometimes.

538
00:53:56,578 --> 00:54:00,410
Mr Cosway and I have even spoken of it.

539
00:54:00,498 --> 00:54:04,081
We are good friends,
although he does not...

540
00:54:04,169 --> 00:54:08,118
He cannot love me the way
a man loves a woman.

541
00:54:09,174 --> 00:54:11,250
You must've guessed that.

542
00:54:14,220 --> 00:54:19,725
What I guessed, from the beginning,
was that you needed me,

543
00:54:19,809 --> 00:54:21,885
as I need you.

544
00:54:29,611 --> 00:54:33,739
Within a year or two, my government
will recall me from my assignment here,

545
00:54:33,823 --> 00:54:36,149
and I shall go home for good.

546
00:54:36,242 --> 00:54:38,912
Which is what you want
more than anything in the world.

547
00:54:38,995 --> 00:54:42,613
I can't deny that all my wishes end

548
00:54:42,707 --> 00:54:46,159
where I hope my days will end,
at Monticello.

549
00:54:46,252 --> 00:54:48,162
But to leave you...

550
00:54:50,757 --> 00:54:53,674
to leave you behind...

551
00:54:53,760 --> 00:54:56,049
with all the ocean between us...

552
00:54:57,847 --> 00:55:01,845
and no hope of ever seeing you again...

553
00:55:15,824 --> 00:55:18,908
But even if I had no vows to break,

554
00:55:18,993 --> 00:55:22,197
what about yours?

555
00:55:22,288 --> 00:55:25,622
Your vow to your wife?

556
00:55:25,709 --> 00:55:28,413
You and I are alive...

557
00:55:28,503 --> 00:55:30,994
and the earth belongs to us,

558
00:55:31,089 --> 00:55:32,963
to the living.

559
00:55:35,927 --> 00:55:37,920
Would you dare?

560
00:55:38,012 --> 00:55:40,089
Would you?

561
00:55:40,181 --> 00:55:42,803
Yes. Yes.

562
00:55:42,892 --> 00:55:47,638
For you.
For you, I would dare anything.

563
00:55:47,731 --> 00:55:49,273
I would fly in the balloon.

564
00:55:49,357 --> 00:55:53,853
No. It might carry you
too far away from me.

565
00:55:53,945 --> 00:55:58,773
- Then I would ford a flood.
- No. That's too dangerous.

566
00:55:58,867 --> 00:56:01,192
Then I would leap over these logs.

567
00:56:03,204 --> 00:56:04,319
Thomas!

568
00:56:05,248 --> 00:56:06,659
Mr Jefferson!

569
00:56:06,750 --> 00:56:09,241
Mr Jefferson!

570
00:56:09,335 --> 00:56:12,206
What have you done?

571
00:56:44,871 --> 00:56:47,742
He's going the wrong way
for Mr Jefferson's house.

572
00:56:47,832 --> 00:56:49,872
I told him to drive straight to the ball.

573
00:56:49,959 --> 00:56:54,088
It is fashionable to be late to a certain
degree, but beyond that it's uncouth.

574
00:56:54,172 --> 00:56:57,588
Not to visit a sick friend
for fear of being late for a ball.

575
00:56:57,675 --> 00:57:00,795
Not a ball, madam.
It is the ball.

576
00:57:00,887 --> 00:57:02,346
Everyone will be there.

577
00:57:02,430 --> 00:57:05,467
<i>Le tout Paris,</i>
except, of course, Mr Jefferson.

578
00:57:05,558 --> 00:57:09,508
Poor Mr Jefferson. We must send him
some calves' foot jelly

579
00:57:09,604 --> 00:57:13,649
or whatever one sends to invalids
who have hurt their wrist.

580
00:57:13,733 --> 00:57:16,936
Forgive me, madam.
I forgot to tell you.

581
00:57:17,028 --> 00:57:22,070
I have secured passage
for the packet on Thursday.

582
00:57:22,158 --> 00:57:24,566
I have, thank heaven,
finished recording...

583
00:57:26,287 --> 00:57:30,415
the entire Orleans family for posterity.

584
00:57:30,500 --> 00:57:32,124
We are now free to go home.

585
00:57:32,210 --> 00:57:36,208
Dear, dull London.
I've grown weary of Paris, have not you?

586
00:57:36,297 --> 00:57:43,047
There are many amusements, it's true,
but some of them are of the wrong kind.

587
00:57:44,013 --> 00:57:47,299
<i>I write with pain and must be short.</i>

588
00:57:47,392 --> 00:57:52,184
<i>Failing a private messenger,</i>
<i>I'll send this letter whatever way I can.</i>

589
00:57:52,272 --> 00:57:56,934
<i>I fear it may be opened at the post office,</i>
<i>and my words, meant only for you,</i>

590
00:57:57,026 --> 00:58:00,111
<i>read by spies and strangers.</i>

591
00:58:05,702 --> 00:58:10,031
<i>When you come next, I shall</i>
<i>never let you part from me again.</i>

592
00:58:10,123 --> 00:58:13,990
<i>But are you coming to Paris?</i>
<i>I dread the answer may be no</i>

593
00:58:14,085 --> 00:58:18,546
<i>and that all this time my fond heart</i>
<i>has been deceiving me.</i>

594
00:58:31,644 --> 00:58:33,851
Look into my eyes.

595
00:58:37,734 --> 00:58:40,937
A power now pervades you.

596
00:58:41,362 --> 00:58:45,111
My wand... and my fingertips...

597
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:47,773
will do the rest.

598
00:59:01,383 --> 00:59:05,795
Nature touches upon the Divine.

599
00:59:06,888 --> 00:59:08,133
The Divine flows...

600
00:59:08,223 --> 00:59:15,934
I have made myself a medium
between this force and you. Receive...

601
00:59:18,608 --> 00:59:21,360
Receive from my eyes...

602
00:59:22,112 --> 00:59:25,896
this heavenly current
which lessens pain...

603
00:59:25,990 --> 00:59:29,194
and assuages souls tormented
by every maladie.

604
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:33,907
I tingle all over.

605
00:59:36,710 --> 00:59:39,876
I am reborn. My body is purified.

606
00:59:39,963 --> 00:59:43,913
I'm overwhelmed.
My senses are abandoning me.

607
00:59:48,263 --> 00:59:50,469
My body throbs.

608
00:59:54,978 --> 00:59:58,062
Will you excuse me?

609
00:59:58,148 --> 01:00:01,102
Calm down, dear friend.
You must give it a chance.

610
01:00:01,192 --> 01:00:04,608
Sir, this is just trash and tricks
for the weak mind.

611
01:00:05,405 --> 01:00:07,397
The method is completely scientific.

612
01:00:07,490 --> 01:00:10,160
I have been cured of ailments
through animal magnetism.

613
01:00:43,735 --> 01:00:47,815
<i>The high price of bread in France</i>
<i>is an old grievance.</i>

614
01:00:47,906 --> 01:00:50,907
<i>But now the many deprivations,</i>
<i>coming all together,</i>

615
01:00:50,992 --> 01:00:55,453
<i>whether these be bread or fuel</i>
<i>and warm clothes for the dreadful winter,</i>

616
01:00:55,538 --> 01:00:58,290
<i>are judged by the populace</i>
<i>to be insupportable.</i>

617
01:00:58,374 --> 01:01:02,372
Once the French people get started,
they then go to it with gloves on.

618
01:01:04,297 --> 01:01:08,544
<i>Their wrath has found an object</i>
<i>in the person of the queen,</i>

619
01:01:08,635 --> 01:01:11,126
<i>who devotes herself to her amusements,</i>

620
01:01:11,221 --> 01:01:15,764
<i>indulging in every current</i>
<i>fancy and delusion.</i>

621
01:01:15,850 --> 01:01:20,892
<i>She welcomes fashionable charlatans,</i>
<i>like the dangerous Dr Mesmer,</i>

622
01:01:20,980 --> 01:01:25,358
<i>and allows them intimacies, such as</i>
<i>freedom to touch the royal person,</i>

623
01:01:25,443 --> 01:01:29,690
<i>that not so long ago would have</i>
<i>condemned them to the rack.</i>

624
01:01:30,323 --> 01:01:33,110
It's very amusing.

625
01:01:33,201 --> 01:01:37,412
Please do sit down. You'll see.

626
01:01:39,332 --> 01:01:42,997
<i>While outside the people</i>
<i>starve and freeze to death,</i>

627
01:01:43,086 --> 01:01:46,455
<i>the queen and her ladies</i>
<i>are cozy in warm chambers</i>

628
01:01:46,548 --> 01:01:49,217
<i>scented by blooms</i>
<i>from the royal hothouse</i>

629
01:01:49,300 --> 01:01:51,756
<i>and dressed as if it</i>
<i>were a different season</i>

630
01:01:51,845 --> 01:01:55,842
<i>or as if they lived in a different climate</i>
<i>from the rest of France.</i>

631
01:01:55,932 --> 01:02:01,092
<i>Is it any wonder that Marie Antoinette</i>
<i>is hated by the people?</i>

632
01:02:01,187 --> 01:02:03,857
What a perfect patient.

633
01:02:05,483 --> 01:02:10,311
The doors to healing are now open.

634
01:02:10,405 --> 01:02:14,023
Here you are, Monsieur.
Don't be shy. Come to Mother.

635
01:02:14,117 --> 01:02:16,442
Go on, Dr Mesmer.

636
01:02:16,536 --> 01:02:20,071
Watch this.
It's a fascinating scientific experiment.

637
01:02:20,165 --> 01:02:23,747
Look at the Duchess.
Isn't she funny?

638
01:02:24,335 --> 01:02:26,458
How was your trip?

639
01:02:26,546 --> 01:02:30,045
<i>Yet their sentiments have not changed</i>
<i>toward the little dauphin,</i>

640
01:02:30,133 --> 01:02:33,383
<i>who is still loved,</i>
<i>as is the king himself,</i>

641
01:02:33,470 --> 01:02:37,337
<i>despite the iniquities</i>
<i>he has come to represent.</i>

642
01:02:37,432 --> 01:02:41,809
<i>The Marquis de Lafayette</i>
<i>and other liberal aristocrats</i>

643
01:02:41,895 --> 01:02:44,468
<i>are eager to break down</i>
<i>the monstrous privilege</i>

644
01:02:44,564 --> 01:02:48,811
<i>both of their own quarter and of the clergy.</i>

645
01:02:50,487 --> 01:02:55,232
<i>They propose to revive a long dormant</i>
<i>assembly called the States General,</i>

646
01:02:55,325 --> 01:02:59,109
<i>which has not convened since 1614.</i>

647
01:02:59,204 --> 01:03:03,367
<i>In this, the common people</i>
<i>will have their own elected deputies</i>

648
01:03:03,458 --> 01:03:05,783
<i>to be called the Third Estate.</i>

649
01:03:05,877 --> 01:03:08,368
<i>But the king, who has the most to lose,</i>

650
01:03:08,463 --> 01:03:13,089
<i>says, "What does it matter if I give up</i>
<i>some of my own authority?</i>

651
01:03:13,176 --> 01:03:16,343
<i>"As long as my people are happy."</i>

652
01:03:19,349 --> 01:03:21,591
<i>London is so melancholy.</i>

653
01:03:21,684 --> 01:03:25,018
<i>There is something in this air</i>
<i>which always makes me sad.</i>

654
01:03:25,105 --> 01:03:28,937
<i>How I long for blue skies</i>
<i>and for church bells</i>

655
01:03:29,025 --> 01:03:31,433
<i>and for your presence.</i>

656
01:03:31,528 --> 01:03:35,146
<i>What am I without seeing</i>
<i>or hearing from you?</i>

657
01:03:35,240 --> 01:03:37,944
<i>Write to me. Write to me!</i>

658
01:03:38,034 --> 01:03:40,110
<i>I live only in your letters</i>

659
01:03:40,203 --> 01:03:44,995
<i>and in memories of</i> ourjours heureux,
<i>our happy days together.</i>

660
01:04:08,064 --> 01:04:11,599
<i>It is impossible to paint</i>
<i>the anguish of my heart.</i>

661
01:04:11,693 --> 01:04:14,896
<i>Confined a week to her bed</i>
<i>with the whooping cough,</i>

662
01:04:14,988 --> 01:04:19,032
<i>your dear angel Lucy was thrown</i>
<i>into convulsions and then expired.</i>

663
01:04:19,117 --> 01:04:24,028
<i>She retained her senses perfectly,</i>
<i>called me a few moments before she died</i>

664
01:04:24,122 --> 01:04:26,743
<i>and asked distinctly for water.</i>

665
01:04:43,058 --> 01:04:48,479
You shall always, always,
above everyone, be first in my life.

666
01:04:48,563 --> 01:04:51,979
I vow to you now as you vowed to Mama.

667
01:04:56,404 --> 01:04:59,904
No one shall ever come between us.

668
01:05:01,034 --> 01:05:04,699
I shall write to your Aunt Elizabeth
that Polly must come to France

669
01:05:04,788 --> 01:05:08,453
on the next available ship
before winter sets in.

670
01:05:08,541 --> 01:05:11,032
Her nurse may accompany her.

671
01:05:14,214 --> 01:05:18,294
I will be her nurse
and her mother and her sister

672
01:05:18,385 --> 01:05:22,299
and her everything
and your everything, dearest Papa.

673
01:05:26,559 --> 01:05:28,635
Your poor wrist.

674
01:05:34,234 --> 01:05:38,812
The surgeon has made
a bad thing of setting it.

675
01:05:38,905 --> 01:05:44,362
I may have to carry it as a reminder
of foolishness the rest of my life.

676
01:05:50,834 --> 01:05:52,873
Polly dearest!

677
01:05:52,961 --> 01:05:55,333
<i>You may imagine, my dear Mrs Epps,</i>

678
01:05:55,422 --> 01:05:58,422
<i>how greatly we desire</i>
<i>to have Polly with us</i>

679
01:05:58,508 --> 01:06:01,509
<i>and never to be parted from her again.</i>

680
01:06:01,594 --> 01:06:05,343
<i>The voyage and the change of domicile</i>
<i>would be greatly eased for her</i>

681
01:06:05,432 --> 01:06:10,177
<i>by the company of any one servant</i>
<i>to whom she is particularly attached.</i>

682
01:06:10,270 --> 01:06:12,097
I's goin' with ya'.

683
01:06:12,188 --> 01:06:17,349
We two, we'll be laughing
and joking each other all the way.

684
01:06:17,444 --> 01:06:20,480
We's gonna ride on a big old ship.

685
01:06:20,572 --> 01:06:23,822
We'll be rockin' on the water.

686
01:06:24,951 --> 01:06:27,359
Ain't that gay, Polly? Huh?

687
01:06:27,454 --> 01:06:29,577
Ain't that gay?

688
01:06:39,632 --> 01:06:42,468
My grandmother, Betty Hemings,

689
01:06:42,552 --> 01:06:46,336
was the daughter of a full-blooded
African slave woman

690
01:06:46,431 --> 01:06:49,930
and an English sea captain
named Hemings.

691
01:06:50,018 --> 01:06:53,268
She was the property of Mr John Wayles.

692
01:06:53,354 --> 01:06:56,937
Mr Jefferson, having married
Mr Wayles's daughter,

693
01:06:57,025 --> 01:07:00,643
my grandmother and all of her kin
came to live at Monticello.

694
01:07:01,571 --> 01:07:07,158
That is... Thomas Jefferson
inherited your family

695
01:07:07,243 --> 01:07:09,913
from his wife's father, John Wayles.

696
01:07:09,996 --> 01:07:11,159
Yes, sir.

697
01:07:11,247 --> 01:07:15,162
Mr Wayles was the father
of Mrs Thomas Jefferson.

698
01:07:15,251 --> 01:07:19,166
He was also the father of my mother,
Sally Hemings,

699
01:07:19,255 --> 01:07:21,378
and her brother, James Hemings,

700
01:07:21,466 --> 01:07:24,550
and four other offspring
that he had with my grandmother,

701
01:07:24,636 --> 01:07:26,427
who he took as concubine.

702
01:07:26,513 --> 01:07:29,716
So Mrs Thomas Jefferson...

703
01:07:29,808 --> 01:07:33,508
and Sally Hemings...

704
01:07:33,603 --> 01:07:35,679
were half-sisters.

705
01:07:35,772 --> 01:07:41,608
Ain't no use in askin' who is sister with who
and who the father and who the brother.

706
01:07:41,694 --> 01:07:45,146
They don't speak of it now
and they didn't speak of it then.

707
01:07:45,240 --> 01:07:49,534
No matter whose blood flows in your veins,

708
01:07:49,619 --> 01:07:52,573
you're either master or you're slave.

709
01:07:52,664 --> 01:07:56,993
You're white or you're black
and no in between.

710
01:08:06,469 --> 01:08:08,462
Here she is!

711
01:08:08,555 --> 01:08:10,298
Polly!

712
01:08:11,307 --> 01:08:13,763
Hello, Sally. What is it?

713
01:08:13,852 --> 01:08:17,386
- Have you forgotten your own sister?
- Sally, Polly, we've missed you.

714
01:08:17,480 --> 01:08:20,054
- You've let her be away from us too long.
- Help me up with her.

715
01:08:20,150 --> 01:08:22,854
- Your wrist.
- It'll be all right. Yes!

716
01:08:22,944 --> 01:08:25,233
We missed you.

717
01:08:26,114 --> 01:08:27,063
Sally.

718
01:08:27,157 --> 01:08:30,608
Welcome to France,
Mademoiselle Jefferson,

719
01:08:30,702 --> 01:08:33,240
to the land of liberty and equality,
or soon it will be.

720
01:08:33,329 --> 01:08:37,078
- Polly, come on inside. Come with Papa.
- It's all right.

721
01:08:37,167 --> 01:08:38,958
Sally!

722
01:08:41,963 --> 01:08:44,003
So Granny's gone?

723
01:08:46,843 --> 01:08:49,251
She was sick a while.

724
01:08:49,345 --> 01:08:52,512
You see her there layin' in bed.

725
01:08:52,599 --> 01:08:56,181
And she couldn't take nothin' to eat.

726
01:08:56,269 --> 01:09:01,346
Little Isaac, he tried givin' her
a piece of his crust.

727
01:09:01,441 --> 01:09:04,276
But she said,

728
01:09:04,360 --> 01:09:08,026
"Granny don't want bread no more."

729
01:09:08,114 --> 01:09:11,732
They done buried her
over by Weaver's cottage.

730
01:09:11,910 --> 01:09:13,783
Sit down, Mademoiselle.

731
01:09:13,870 --> 01:09:16,242
He said sit.

732
01:09:18,917 --> 01:09:21,242
This is my sister.

733
01:09:23,213 --> 01:09:26,664
- Get to work!
- Let's celebrate Sally's arrival.

734
01:09:26,758 --> 01:09:29,712
Welcome.
You have a beautiful sister.

735
01:09:36,518 --> 01:09:39,472
It is still very swollen.

736
01:09:39,562 --> 01:09:43,394
This will take longer to heal
than you thought.

737
01:09:43,942 --> 01:09:48,568
You wants a poultice on that, Master,
with hot ashes and mustard.

738
01:09:48,655 --> 01:09:52,320
My old nurse at Tucker Hall
had all kinds of roots and herbs

739
01:09:52,409 --> 01:09:56,323
for the mumps and the whooping cough
and every sort of ache and pain.

740
01:09:56,413 --> 01:10:00,327
And no medicine ever suited me
as well or tasted better.

741
01:10:06,464 --> 01:10:08,872
I have some letters for you, sir.

742
01:10:11,302 --> 01:10:14,588
Letters from a lady.

743
01:10:14,681 --> 01:10:17,172
- And how is the lady?
- She sends her regards.

744
01:10:17,267 --> 01:10:18,927
Thank you.

745
01:10:39,622 --> 01:10:42,030
My French harpsichord is easier.

746
01:10:43,043 --> 01:10:47,870
<i>Did you receive my last two letters?</i>
<i>What does this silence mean?</i>

747
01:10:47,964 --> 01:10:50,537
<i>Inconstant friend.</i>

748
01:10:50,633 --> 01:10:53,919
<i>I live in misery waiting</i>
<i>for a letter from you.</i>

749
01:10:54,012 --> 01:10:56,717
<i>Unable to bear this anxiety,</i>

750
01:10:56,806 --> 01:11:01,349
<i>I have taken a passage for Calais</i>
<i>on Thursday next.</i>

751
01:11:05,690 --> 01:11:08,395
<i>I am in a million fears about you.</i>

752
01:11:08,485 --> 01:11:11,106
<i>I long to be with you.</i>

753
01:12:06,126 --> 01:12:09,958
- Polly. Polly.
- Lucy, Lucy.

754
01:12:13,967 --> 01:12:16,173
What if little Lucy wasn't dead

755
01:12:16,261 --> 01:12:21,682
but was sitting up in her coffin,
in the cold, wet ground?

756
01:12:21,766 --> 01:12:24,518
- Patsy.
- Hush.

757
01:12:27,564 --> 01:12:29,603
You hush.

758
01:12:31,526 --> 01:12:35,275
Our little Lucy is an angel now
in heaven with Mama.

759
01:12:42,829 --> 01:12:45,154
Where have you been?

760
01:12:45,248 --> 01:12:47,704
This is for Master's poor hand.

761
01:12:50,170 --> 01:12:52,328
When Miss Polly is home
from the convent,

762
01:12:52,422 --> 01:12:55,043
you are to sleep with her, I told you.

763
01:13:03,058 --> 01:13:04,682
Go on.

764
01:13:14,652 --> 01:13:16,479
Papa.

765
01:13:19,449 --> 01:13:24,905
Try some of this.
It might do you some good.

766
01:13:24,996 --> 01:13:27,321
Did Sally make it?

767
01:13:30,585 --> 01:13:32,412
Well, I'll try anything.

768
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:45,466
<i>Walk like ladies</i>

769
01:13:46,518 --> 01:13:51,725
<i>The cake's all done</i>

770
01:13:51,815 --> 01:13:55,812
<i>You needn't mind the weather</i>

771
01:13:57,320 --> 01:14:02,611
<i>If the wind don't blow</i>

772
01:14:17,048 --> 01:14:23,003
While it is true that under French law
slavery is considered illegal,

773
01:14:23,096 --> 01:14:26,714
I don't think that American citizens
need to be too concerned.

774
01:14:26,808 --> 01:14:31,517
My advice to you would be to keep
your boy here and say nothing about him.

775
01:14:31,604 --> 01:14:34,095
- Where you from?
- Byrd's Nest, Gooseland County.

776
01:14:34,190 --> 01:14:35,566
Mr James Byrd is my master.

777
01:14:35,650 --> 01:14:38,402
Would you be knowin' Susie Melton
what was cook there one time?

778
01:14:38,486 --> 01:14:42,650
- Married Israel Jefferson?
- She be my mother's own sister.

779
01:14:42,741 --> 01:14:44,318
Lordy!

780
01:14:44,409 --> 01:14:47,326
Ain't it a small world to turn around in?

781
01:14:47,412 --> 01:14:49,737
What sort of place would that be,
Byrd's Nest?

782
01:14:49,831 --> 01:14:51,824
We's getting on most fine.

783
01:14:51,916 --> 01:14:54,787
Plenty to eat, new clothes
for the summer and winter.

784
01:14:54,878 --> 01:14:58,827
Saturday night, Master don't care
how much we dance and carry on,

785
01:14:58,923 --> 01:15:00,583
so long we don't do it on Sunday.

786
01:15:00,675 --> 01:15:03,546
Some fares good.
Some fares common.

787
01:15:03,636 --> 01:15:05,712
- He fare pretty good.
- Yes, sir.

788
01:15:05,805 --> 01:15:09,423
Master so fond of me
I's like his own child almost.

789
01:15:09,517 --> 01:15:11,557
Company comin'.

790
01:15:11,644 --> 01:15:13,933
- What's your name?
- Horatius. Horatius Byrd.

791
01:15:14,022 --> 01:15:16,098
My own master's name.

792
01:15:20,612 --> 01:15:23,648
- Afternoon, Miss Cosway.
- James.

793
01:15:39,464 --> 01:15:41,540
What a pretty girl that was.

794
01:15:41,633 --> 01:15:44,753
That's Sally. She my baby sister.

795
01:15:51,684 --> 01:15:55,634
James. She come to see old Master?

796
01:15:55,730 --> 01:15:58,731
That Miss Cosway. She go away.

797
01:15:58,817 --> 01:16:00,690
Now she back.

798
01:16:05,824 --> 01:16:10,569
If slavery is illegal in France,
the boy could claim he was free

799
01:16:10,662 --> 01:16:13,449
and refuse to go back home with us.

800
01:16:18,044 --> 01:16:22,208
Master, Miss Cosway is waiting for you
in the music room.

801
01:16:22,298 --> 01:16:25,216
Inform the lady I'll be with her presently.

802
01:16:27,554 --> 01:16:31,503
Strictly speaking, the answer
to your question is yes.

803
01:16:31,599 --> 01:16:34,517
But I don't think your boy would
know enough to claim that right.

804
01:16:34,602 --> 01:16:39,348
Didn't you yourself, Mr Jefferson, bring
over two of your servants from Virginia?

805
01:16:39,441 --> 01:16:42,892
A male and a female, I believe.

806
01:17:05,508 --> 01:17:08,260
You see, I've come back.

807
01:17:08,344 --> 01:17:12,757
Although with very little encouragement.
Why did you not write?

808
01:17:12,849 --> 01:17:15,174
I had always to wait
for a suitable messenger.

809
01:17:15,268 --> 01:17:18,222
How could I run the risk
of exposing my tender sentiments

810
01:17:18,313 --> 01:17:22,975
- to officials of the post office?
- Excuses, vain excuses.

811
01:17:23,068 --> 01:17:26,152
Mr Trumbull could have brought letters,
but you entrusted none even to him.

812
01:17:26,237 --> 01:17:32,276
- Did you have nothing then to say to me?
- I had too much to say.

813
01:17:32,368 --> 01:17:36,497
And have you come back only
to load me with reproaches?

814
01:17:45,048 --> 01:17:47,669
- And how is your poor wrist?
- It is better.

815
01:17:47,759 --> 01:17:51,543
No thanks to the French surgeons, but I've
been trying out some American witchcraft.

816
01:17:51,638 --> 01:17:56,466
I hope it works so that soon you can
play your violin for me again.

817
01:17:56,559 --> 01:18:00,806
Our beautiful duets, our happy day.
<i>Ourjours heureux.</i>

818
01:18:34,305 --> 01:18:36,215
I'm alone here.

819
01:18:36,307 --> 01:18:39,225
Mr Cosway's in London.

820
01:18:39,310 --> 01:18:41,884
He wished me to...

821
01:18:41,980 --> 01:18:44,553
to find my own way.

822
01:18:44,649 --> 01:18:46,891
Did you lose it?

823
01:18:46,985 --> 01:18:48,812
Yes.

824
01:18:48,903 --> 01:18:51,940
From the moment I saw you,
I found it again.

825
01:19:09,215 --> 01:19:12,133
Trust me. I know what girls like
better than you.

826
01:19:12,218 --> 01:19:14,888
- But American girls?
- American girls?

827
01:19:14,971 --> 01:19:18,672
How pray are your American girls
so different to the rest of the world?

828
01:19:18,767 --> 01:19:20,427
Their expectations are different.

829
01:19:20,518 --> 01:19:22,511
You mean they expect
to make corn puddings

830
01:19:22,604 --> 01:19:25,770
and knit woollen stockings
for their lord and master?

831
01:19:25,857 --> 01:19:28,430
I could think of worse occupations
for a woman.

832
01:19:28,526 --> 01:19:30,021
What a tyrant you'd be.

833
01:19:30,111 --> 01:19:34,191
- The turquoise.
- Farther down.

834
01:19:43,374 --> 01:19:46,541
Are you sure?
I'm afraid it won't suit Patsy.

835
01:19:46,628 --> 01:19:49,166
- It's not for Patsy.
- Polly would like it even less.

836
01:19:49,255 --> 01:19:51,829
It's for a servant girl
who needs to be outfitted.

837
01:19:51,925 --> 01:19:55,625
The little Negro nurse.
She's very pretty.

838
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:57,927
How old is she?

839
01:19:58,014 --> 01:20:00,885
I'm not sure. I inherited her.

840
01:20:00,975 --> 01:20:03,348
- You inherited her?
- Yes.

841
01:20:04,562 --> 01:20:07,647
Yes. As a responsibility.

842
01:20:07,732 --> 01:20:12,608
We are responsible for these people
as members of our most intimate family.

843
01:20:12,695 --> 01:20:14,439
They're...

844
01:20:16,157 --> 01:20:19,443
It's impossible to explain to a foreigner.

845
01:20:19,536 --> 01:20:21,991
Even an American not born
in our southern states

846
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:25,828
is unable to understand the special
relationship we have with our Negroes.

847
01:20:28,670 --> 01:20:29,950
Ten metres.

848
01:20:30,046 --> 01:20:33,747
No, eight will be enough.
It's a simple dress.

849
01:20:44,102 --> 01:20:48,431
It's only an effigy. They are burning
an effigy of Brienne, the Finance Minister.

850
01:20:48,523 --> 01:20:50,931
The last time we were in Paris,
they were burning another one.

851
01:20:51,025 --> 01:20:54,394
Monsieur de Calonne.
He is now an exile in England.

852
01:21:07,208 --> 01:21:09,664
The people are making their voice heard.

853
01:21:09,753 --> 01:21:13,038
There's nothing to fear
in the triumph of the people.

854
01:21:13,131 --> 01:21:17,211
Not even you are safe any more.
Come away!

855
01:21:17,302 --> 01:21:21,134
All they want is their liberty,
their right to freedom.

856
01:21:21,222 --> 01:21:25,302
I've seen such horrible sights
in the streets.

857
01:21:25,393 --> 01:21:29,058
It makes me fear that men are not good,
not kind by nature but cruel.

858
01:21:29,147 --> 01:21:31,899
No. No.

859
01:21:31,983 --> 01:21:35,399
They've been warped
by generations of tyranny,

860
01:21:35,487 --> 01:21:37,563
but they are naturally good.

861
01:21:37,655 --> 01:21:39,731
If I were not sure of that,

862
01:21:39,824 --> 01:21:43,573
sure of the goodness
inherent in the natural man,

863
01:21:43,661 --> 01:21:46,579
I would no longer want to be alive.

864
01:21:46,790 --> 01:21:51,119
Loosen up here a bit.
You'll look more graceful.

865
01:21:51,211 --> 01:21:55,291
Let me show you
what I've planned for the ribbons.

866
01:21:55,382 --> 01:21:58,086
I told you I don't want any trimmings.

867
01:21:58,176 --> 01:21:59,339
Sally!

868
01:22:02,555 --> 01:22:04,513
Sally!

869
01:22:07,060 --> 01:22:08,768
Have you gone deaf?

870
01:22:11,439 --> 01:22:16,730
- Where did you get that?
- Master done give me the cloth to sew.

871
01:22:16,820 --> 01:22:20,687
I been calling and calling you.
Come along.

872
01:22:31,584 --> 01:22:34,206
He's gotta pay you for that.

873
01:22:34,295 --> 01:22:37,332
You's out of your head, James.

874
01:22:37,424 --> 01:22:42,169
Folks get wages for their work.
That's the law of this land.

875
01:22:42,262 --> 01:22:44,504
But we's slaves.

876
01:22:46,141 --> 01:22:50,553
You's a slave all right, right down
to the bottom of your soul.

877
01:22:50,645 --> 01:22:54,974
I'd sooner be a slave
to ol' Master than that ol' liquor.

878
01:22:55,066 --> 01:22:58,020
You mind yourself or you'll end up
just like Bob Tuffle.

879
01:22:58,111 --> 01:23:01,361
Think on that and what happened to he
on account of the way he was drinking,

880
01:23:01,448 --> 01:23:03,108
just like you is drinking.

881
01:23:03,199 --> 01:23:08,739
"If that nigger don't walk the chalk,
y'all put him on the block and sell him!"

882
01:23:08,830 --> 01:23:13,408
But ain't nobody gonna buy a drinkin'
nigger. He ain't no use for work.

883
01:23:15,253 --> 01:23:18,005
What's I want with all that money?

884
01:23:18,089 --> 01:23:21,707
I gets me my something to eat.
I gets me my new clothes.

885
01:23:25,305 --> 01:23:26,503
You tell him.

886
01:23:26,598 --> 01:23:30,809
You tell him, right this minute,
20 francs a month for your wages.

887
01:23:31,561 --> 01:23:33,850
You is hurtin' my arm.

888
01:23:37,108 --> 01:23:40,145
I'll hurt you if you
don't tell him right now.

889
01:23:41,863 --> 01:23:43,939
I just talkin' to Sally, Master.

890
01:23:44,032 --> 01:23:47,401
You are?
What are you talking about?

891
01:23:49,037 --> 01:23:51,444
Just talkin', Master.

892
01:23:51,539 --> 01:23:57,459
That's a mighty pretty dress, Sally.
Good night, James.

893
01:23:59,714 --> 01:24:01,623
Come in, Sally.

894
01:24:44,175 --> 01:24:46,464
You tell him? What you doin'?

895
01:24:46,553 --> 01:24:49,304
You better get back in there
and tell him something.

896
01:24:49,389 --> 01:24:51,844
What are you doing there, Sally?

897
01:24:53,351 --> 01:24:55,889
What's the matter?

898
01:24:55,979 --> 01:24:58,600
Master, I scared.

899
01:24:58,690 --> 01:25:00,682
Of what?

900
01:25:05,238 --> 01:25:07,694
- Ghosts.
- Ghosts?

901
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:12,995
Have you ever seen one?

902
01:25:13,079 --> 01:25:17,124
Scare me so bad, my hair "ris" up

903
01:25:17,208 --> 01:25:20,412
till I couldn't get my hat back on my head.

904
01:25:20,503 --> 01:25:22,163
Well,

905
01:25:22,255 --> 01:25:27,166
you won't see any here because
they're all left behind in Virginia.

906
01:25:27,260 --> 01:25:31,507
- They come with us, Master.
- What, they sailed with you on the ship?

907
01:25:31,598 --> 01:25:34,005
I thought ghosts couldn't cross water.

908
01:25:34,100 --> 01:25:39,889
See, they don't need no ship, no water.
They just...

909
01:25:39,981 --> 01:25:41,890
goes on through the air.

910
01:25:41,983 --> 01:25:44,735
Same as smoke.

911
01:26:11,888 --> 01:26:16,349
I done seen Molly.
She drowned herself in the mill pond.

912
01:26:16,434 --> 01:26:19,269
She's here with us?

913
01:26:19,354 --> 01:26:22,141
Doesn't that make you feel
nice and at home

914
01:26:22,232 --> 01:26:27,439
to have Molly come all the way to Paris
from the bottom of our old mill pond?

915
01:26:40,083 --> 01:26:42,704
You know, when they bring Molly up,

916
01:26:42,794 --> 01:26:47,290
there wasn't nothing left to bury,
she was ate up so bad.

917
01:26:47,382 --> 01:26:52,044
All her eyes was gone
and half her face.

918
01:26:52,137 --> 01:26:54,260
Her legs and all.

919
01:26:54,347 --> 01:26:58,676
And there wasn't a morsel of brain
left in her skull.

920
01:26:58,768 --> 01:27:04,308
What was all swarming
with them water bugs.

921
01:27:05,442 --> 01:27:07,066
Good night, Sally.

922
01:27:07,152 --> 01:27:12,775
And thank you for giving me
a pleasant vision to lull me to sleep.

923
01:27:12,866 --> 01:27:14,360
Good night.

924
01:27:51,988 --> 01:27:53,447
Master?

925
01:27:53,531 --> 01:27:56,568
There was this old fly
sittin' on your face.

926
01:27:56,659 --> 01:28:00,159
- Where? I don't see it.
- It's troublin' you.

927
01:28:00,246 --> 01:28:02,916
I just stays here
and fan him right off you.

928
01:28:28,942 --> 01:28:31,611
I do beg your pardon, Mr Ambassador.

929
01:28:32,153 --> 01:28:37,314
The King began dozing off five minutes
after the Assembly opened.

930
01:28:37,409 --> 01:28:39,615
How could he have done otherwise?

931
01:28:39,702 --> 01:28:44,080
The Finance Minister's speech
was a perfect sleeping potion!

932
01:28:44,165 --> 01:28:48,459
And our poor Queen,
so sad and exasperated.

933
01:28:48,545 --> 01:28:51,083
Your immediate task now is practical.

934
01:28:51,172 --> 01:28:54,292
Your three separate orders
of nobles, clergy and commons

935
01:28:54,384 --> 01:28:56,709
must be combined into one single vote.

936
01:28:56,803 --> 01:29:01,512
But that is our resolve. We shall vote
not by rank, but with the commons.

937
01:29:01,599 --> 01:29:03,972
Sir, I once knew a young man who,

938
01:29:04,060 --> 01:29:07,725
having visited countries
where liberty and equality were the rule,

939
01:29:07,814 --> 01:29:11,764
decided to import those commodities
into his own country.

940
01:29:11,860 --> 01:29:14,185
Do you know what happened to him?

941
01:29:16,865 --> 01:29:20,068
Well, sir, he was hanged.

942
01:29:38,053 --> 01:29:40,010
Don't laugh.

943
01:29:41,389 --> 01:29:45,387
My invention is the most humane
form of execution ever conceived.

944
01:29:59,574 --> 01:30:04,913
Mr Guillotin, for whom
did you invent your charming machine?

945
01:30:04,996 --> 01:30:06,740
Is it only for us?

946
01:30:06,831 --> 01:30:11,374
Can commoners also take advantage of
so noble a form of execution?

947
01:30:11,461 --> 01:30:12,706
Certainly!

948
01:30:12,796 --> 01:30:17,339
No more wretches swaying from gallows
or pulled apart by horses.

949
01:30:17,425 --> 01:30:21,423
No more rascally hangings, no more
low-life drawings and quarterings.

950
01:30:21,513 --> 01:30:24,182
What a terrible shame.

951
01:30:36,611 --> 01:30:39,398
Whatever these learned
French surgeons may say,

952
01:30:39,489 --> 01:30:42,940
our old American remedies
are still the best.

953
01:30:44,411 --> 01:30:48,539
Now, Sally, since the cure
was due to your ministrations,

954
01:30:48,623 --> 01:30:52,122
it's only right that the results
should be to your benefit.

955
01:30:52,210 --> 01:30:54,084
Yes, Master?

956
01:30:55,880 --> 01:31:00,341
To Sally... Hemings.

957
01:31:00,427 --> 01:31:04,638
Wages, 24 francs.

958
01:31:20,113 --> 01:31:23,233
You shall receive
the same amount every month.

959
01:31:26,244 --> 01:31:28,782
Of course it's yours
to do with as you please,

960
01:31:28,872 --> 01:31:31,493
but I would advise you
not to give it to James,

961
01:31:31,583 --> 01:31:35,117
or he will be spending it in ways
that won't do him any good.

962
01:31:35,211 --> 01:31:37,453
He young and wild.

963
01:31:37,547 --> 01:31:40,299
And you're so old and sage?

964
01:31:44,429 --> 01:31:46,837
Would you want me to keep it for you?

965
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:53,889
Sally.

966
01:31:55,356 --> 01:31:59,485
This is your money.
It'll be right here in the corner.

967
01:32:03,239 --> 01:32:06,774
You'll be rich soon, and then what
will you do with all your wealth?

968
01:32:06,868 --> 01:32:09,276
I takes it home to Virginia.

969
01:32:09,370 --> 01:32:13,867
Don't you want to spend it
on pretty things here in Paris?

970
01:32:13,958 --> 01:32:18,455
They has no pretty things
like we has in Virginia.

971
01:32:18,546 --> 01:32:21,334
Well, what about this?

972
01:32:22,884 --> 01:32:24,627
Yeah.

973
01:32:24,719 --> 01:32:27,506
But I like the bright colours best.

974
01:32:27,597 --> 01:32:31,132
Pink I likes, and yellow.

975
01:32:33,436 --> 01:32:36,521
Now, I wonder...

976
01:32:36,606 --> 01:32:39,560
what do you think of this?

977
01:32:39,651 --> 01:32:42,189
Of course you may not care for it at all,

978
01:32:42,278 --> 01:32:45,482
in which case, I might as well
give it away to some other girl.

979
01:32:45,573 --> 01:32:47,483
What is it?

980
01:32:48,493 --> 01:32:51,779
You show me. Show me what it is.

981
01:32:55,291 --> 01:32:57,617
It's that one.

982
01:32:57,711 --> 01:32:59,703
It's not that one.

983
01:32:59,796 --> 01:33:01,919
It's this one.

984
01:33:03,466 --> 01:33:05,838
Is that for me?

985
01:33:08,513 --> 01:33:11,004
That's plum pretty.

986
01:33:14,394 --> 01:33:16,054
Sally.

987
01:35:34,743 --> 01:35:38,954
Haven't you finished with Patsy yet?
You're so slow, Sally.

988
01:35:39,038 --> 01:35:42,039
What will I say to Soeur Theresa
if we're late again?

989
01:35:42,125 --> 01:35:45,292
You tell her that you only got one girl.

990
01:35:45,378 --> 01:35:48,712
And she's so unlucky to be born
with only two hands.

991
01:35:48,798 --> 01:35:53,010
- You make me so cross.
- You make me so cross.

992
01:35:55,388 --> 01:35:58,508
That's to teach you
respect for your mistress.

993
01:36:02,353 --> 01:36:05,224
You go and lay out Polly's things.

994
01:36:21,414 --> 01:36:24,415
"He spread her legs
as widely as possible,

995
01:36:24,501 --> 01:36:28,035
and knelt down to enjoy her charms."

996
01:36:28,421 --> 01:36:30,213
Is that how we excite men?

997
01:36:30,298 --> 01:36:35,174
"Toinette abandoned herself
to her pleasure."

998
01:36:35,261 --> 01:36:40,054
I do think in lovemaking
some perversity is no bad thing.

999
01:36:40,141 --> 01:36:43,641
Listen: "As she undressed..."

1000
01:36:43,728 --> 01:36:46,978
Jeffy, are you asleep?

1001
01:36:47,065 --> 01:36:51,015
Mother Superior says
I can write to my parents.

1002
01:36:51,111 --> 01:36:56,900
- Yes, I may enter my novitiate.
- You can take your vows.

1003
01:36:56,991 --> 01:36:58,699
Jeffy.

1004
01:37:01,704 --> 01:37:04,196
Now I have only one wish left.

1005
01:37:05,709 --> 01:37:08,662
Jeffy, I pray for it.

1006
01:37:10,672 --> 01:37:12,914
For you.

1007
01:37:13,007 --> 01:37:15,712
That God will allow you
to join the true church.

1008
01:37:23,935 --> 01:37:28,811
<i>The jealousies of rank have brought</i>
<i>the States General to an impasse.</i>

1009
01:37:28,898 --> 01:37:32,813
<i>The older nobles and the clergy</i>
<i>are determined to negate any measures</i>

1010
01:37:32,902 --> 01:37:35,690
<i>that would lose them</i>
<i>the least of their privileges.</i>

1011
01:37:35,780 --> 01:37:38,817
<i>And of course, as usual,</i>
<i>the queen is on their side.</i>

1012
01:37:38,908 --> 01:37:40,533
Your credibility is at stake.

1013
01:37:40,618 --> 01:37:43,952
Your people respect you.
Their representatives will listen.

1014
01:37:44,038 --> 01:37:47,906
The members of the Third Estate
are waiting for your answer.

1015
01:37:48,001 --> 01:37:50,706
Tell them they're on the wrong track.

1016
01:37:53,214 --> 01:37:54,294
The King!

1017
01:37:54,382 --> 01:37:58,594
<i>The order of the commons,</i>
<i>the Third Estate, are equally determined,</i>

1018
01:37:58,678 --> 01:38:02,592
<i>so that there is a deadlock</i>
<i>which only the king can resolve.</i>

1019
01:38:02,682 --> 01:38:04,556
Gentlemen:

1020
01:38:05,977 --> 01:38:09,476
We have listened to your requests

1021
01:38:09,564 --> 01:38:12,850
with all the interest they deserve.

1022
01:38:12,942 --> 01:38:15,979
But we feel obliged to inform you

1023
01:38:16,071 --> 01:38:21,990
that the State
is ruled by secular laws.

1024
01:38:22,077 --> 01:38:27,367
The King cannot allow them
to be changed...

1025
01:38:27,457 --> 01:38:30,660
or even discussed.

1026
01:38:43,431 --> 01:38:44,890
Citizens!

1027
01:38:44,974 --> 01:38:48,225
There's not a minute to lose!
I've come from Versailles.

1028
01:38:48,311 --> 01:38:52,179
Our Finance Minister
has been dismissed.

1029
01:38:52,440 --> 01:38:57,067
This will be a St Bartholomew's Day
massacre for patriots.

1030
01:38:57,153 --> 01:39:02,230
We must choose coloured cockades
so we know our allies!

1031
01:39:05,412 --> 01:39:08,448
- What colour do you want?
- You choose!

1032
01:39:08,540 --> 01:39:11,457
Green, the colour of hope? Or blue...

1033
01:39:12,168 --> 01:39:17,542
Blue, the colour of American
freedom and democracy?

1034
01:39:17,632 --> 01:39:20,004
Green! Green!

1035
01:39:22,429 --> 01:39:25,465
Comrades, the word is out!

1036
01:39:25,557 --> 01:39:29,091
Police spies and informers
watch my every move!

1037
01:39:29,185 --> 01:39:32,305
But they won't get me,
at least not alive!

1038
01:39:33,273 --> 01:39:36,855
Citizens, follow me! To arms!

1039
01:39:45,618 --> 01:39:49,996
<i>The spirit of liberty is cantering</i>
<i>from one end of France to the other</i>

1040
01:39:50,081 --> 01:39:52,537
<i>and through all ranks of society.</i>

1041
01:39:52,625 --> 01:39:54,748
<i>There are some incidents of violence,</i>

1042
01:39:54,836 --> 01:39:57,837
<i>mainly due to the continued</i>
<i>shortage of bread,</i>

1043
01:39:57,922 --> 01:40:01,374
<i>so that grain speculators</i>
<i>are frequent victims.</i>

1044
01:40:01,468 --> 01:40:05,679
<i>Yet, I will agree to be stoned</i>
<i>as a false prophet</i>

1045
01:40:05,764 --> 01:40:09,133
<i>if all does not end well in this country.</i>

1046
01:41:34,102 --> 01:41:38,431
- Is it a revolt?
- No, sire. A revolution.

1047
01:42:13,266 --> 01:42:19,020
<i>Liberty, blessed Liberty.</i>
<i>Goddess of an enlightened people</i>

1048
01:42:19,105 --> 01:42:22,391
<i>Rule today in this holy place</i>

1049
01:42:22,484 --> 01:42:29,482
<i>Through you,</i>
<i>our temple is purified</i>

1050
01:42:29,574 --> 01:42:33,073
<i>Liberty, because of you</i>

1051
01:42:33,161 --> 01:42:36,447
<i>Reason dispels falsehood</i>

1052
01:42:36,539 --> 01:42:41,747
<i>Error flees, fanaticism is overcome</i>

1053
01:42:41,836 --> 01:42:45,454
<i>Our gospel is Nature</i>

1054
01:42:45,548 --> 01:42:51,966
<i>And we are of the cult of Virtue</i>

1055
01:42:52,055 --> 01:42:55,755
<i>And we are of the cult of Virtue</i>

1056
01:43:07,904 --> 01:43:12,815
I fear it is what in England
you would call rather silly,

1057
01:43:12,909 --> 01:43:15,198
but for us it's a beautiful new thought,

1058
01:43:15,286 --> 01:43:21,538
that the flower of the poor potato is
more valuable than our finest jewellery.

1059
01:43:21,626 --> 01:43:23,666
Thank you, Adrienne.

1060
01:43:48,486 --> 01:43:52,021
Perhaps you don't understand
the deep affinity

1061
01:43:52,115 --> 01:43:54,736
between us and the people.

1062
01:43:54,826 --> 01:43:58,242
We are all of us commoners now,

1063
01:43:58,329 --> 01:44:00,452
and they are all noble.

1064
01:44:00,540 --> 01:44:05,451
Some of the faces I have seen
in the streets of Paris do not look noble.

1065
01:44:05,545 --> 01:44:09,958
What I don't understand is
what you're all waiting for.

1066
01:44:10,050 --> 01:44:15,008
Why don't you go, get out?
Run for your lives.

1067
01:44:16,306 --> 01:44:20,256
It is not easy to leave everything behind,

1068
01:44:20,351 --> 01:44:22,759
go to a strange country.

1069
01:44:22,854 --> 01:44:26,472
An <i>�migr�,</i> a refugee.

1070
01:44:27,358 --> 01:44:30,727
Without money or connection or friends.

1071
01:44:32,322 --> 01:44:35,821
So one persuades oneself

1072
01:44:35,909 --> 01:44:38,826
that everything will turn out well.

1073
01:44:40,413 --> 01:44:45,371
<i>On Tuesday last, a crowd of women,</i>
<i>in a direct approach to the king and queen</i>

1074
01:44:45,460 --> 01:44:48,959
<i>to help them feed their children,</i>
<i>marched to Versailles</i>

1075
01:44:49,047 --> 01:44:53,127
<i>and forced the royal family</i>
<i>to return with them to Paris.</i>

1076
01:44:53,218 --> 01:44:57,132
<i>The Marquis de Lafayette,</i>
<i>as commander of the new National Guard,</i>

1077
01:44:57,222 --> 01:45:00,057
<i>had the duty of escort.</i>

1078
01:45:00,141 --> 01:45:02,763
<i>The people hope that the presence</i>
<i>of the king in their midst</i>

1079
01:45:02,852 --> 01:45:06,102
<i>will help relieve</i>
<i>their desperate situation.</i>

1080
01:45:06,189 --> 01:45:08,514
<i>Waving loaves in the air on spikes,</i>

1081
01:45:08,608 --> 01:45:11,728
<i>they jest that surely now</i>
<i>they will have bread</i>

1082
01:45:11,820 --> 01:45:15,189
<i>when they have brought</i>
<i>the baker himself, that is the king,</i>

1083
01:45:15,281 --> 01:45:18,401
<i>and the baker's wife,</i>
<i>and his little apprentice.</i>

1084
01:45:30,755 --> 01:45:33,840
I came to give you this.

1085
01:45:33,925 --> 01:45:38,587
A memento of my small art
and its great subject.

1086
01:45:40,724 --> 01:45:43,428
Papa has always taught us

1087
01:45:43,518 --> 01:45:47,979
that in matters of religion everyone must
be free to follow their own conscience.

1088
01:45:48,064 --> 01:45:50,223
So you've not told him yet.

1089
01:45:52,152 --> 01:45:54,987
I shall have to soon.

1090
01:45:55,071 --> 01:45:57,479
I am so happy for you.

1091
01:45:59,409 --> 01:46:06,206
When I was your age,
I too desired so ardently to take my vows.

1092
01:46:06,291 --> 01:46:09,126
But it was not to be.

1093
01:46:09,210 --> 01:46:12,544
You will be more fortunate than I.

1094
01:46:12,630 --> 01:46:16,580
But what will you do
when he returns to America?

1095
01:46:16,676 --> 01:46:20,425
I shall stay here in the convent
and take my vows.

1096
01:46:20,513 --> 01:46:24,132
And not see your beautiful Monticello?

1097
01:46:24,225 --> 01:46:26,514
- No.
- Patsy.

1098
01:46:26,603 --> 01:46:28,726
I don't ever want to go back to Monticello.

1099
01:46:28,813 --> 01:46:32,893
Dear Patsy, it's your sweet home
and your father's most cherished place.

1100
01:46:32,984 --> 01:46:34,359
You don't know.

1101
01:46:34,444 --> 01:46:36,401
What?

1102
01:46:36,488 --> 01:46:40,320
- What is it, my dear child?
- You don't know how we live in Monticello.

1103
01:46:40,408 --> 01:46:43,160
It is a paradise on Earth.

1104
01:46:43,244 --> 01:46:46,696
Your father has told me so much, so much.

1105
01:46:46,790 --> 01:46:50,704
And he has made me love the place, and...

1106
01:46:50,794 --> 01:46:53,878
made me long to go there, too.

1107
01:46:55,090 --> 01:46:58,256
And has he told you about
our Negroes and how they live?

1108
01:46:58,343 --> 01:47:00,916
I'm sure he's very good to them.

1109
01:47:02,639 --> 01:47:06,637
He's the best master in all of Virginia.

1110
01:47:06,726 --> 01:47:11,353
But he is the master,
and they're the servants.

1111
01:47:11,439 --> 01:47:13,728
Slaves.

1112
01:47:13,817 --> 01:47:16,901
And I'm certain that they hate us.
I know they do. I can see it,

1113
01:47:16,986 --> 01:47:20,355
in their faces, even when they smile
and say, "Yes, Master."

1114
01:47:20,448 --> 01:47:23,319
And they're always there,
watching everything we do

1115
01:47:23,410 --> 01:47:27,110
and listening to everything we say
and hating us.

1116
01:47:27,205 --> 01:47:29,281
And I hate them.

1117
01:47:30,500 --> 01:47:32,825
Yet I pity them
for the misery of their lives,

1118
01:47:32,919 --> 01:47:37,131
and I wish from the bottom of my heart
that all the Negroes could be free forever.

1119
01:47:37,215 --> 01:47:40,714
They of us and we of them.

1120
01:47:42,554 --> 01:47:47,892
Your father has explained to me how it is
in the nature of a family relationship.

1121
01:47:49,144 --> 01:47:55,597
And I've seen how kind he is. For instance,
to the little Negro nurse, Sally.

1122
01:47:55,692 --> 01:47:58,776
He has bought her pretty clothes,
just as he has for you.

1123
01:48:04,659 --> 01:48:07,150
Can't you speak to me?

1124
01:48:07,245 --> 01:48:09,202
Please. Tell me.

1125
01:48:09,289 --> 01:48:12,824
No, Mrs Cosway, don't ask me.
Don't force me.

1126
01:48:12,917 --> 01:48:14,993
Who would force you?

1127
01:48:15,086 --> 01:48:19,879
Only to relieve your heart
by speaking to a friend.

1128
01:48:22,218 --> 01:48:25,006
I can't speak, Mrs Cosway.

1129
01:48:25,096 --> 01:48:29,011
I can't... speak, because...

1130
01:48:29,934 --> 01:48:31,808
Because?

1131
01:48:31,895 --> 01:48:34,220
Because...

1132
01:48:34,314 --> 01:48:36,271
it's unspeakable.

1133
01:48:55,877 --> 01:48:58,878
I can't possibly guess.

1134
01:48:58,963 --> 01:49:01,170
It's late, Master.

1135
01:49:34,165 --> 01:49:37,036
Master's expecting you in the garden.

1136
01:49:59,733 --> 01:50:02,817
What are you doing here?

1137
01:50:02,902 --> 01:50:05,025
You scared me out of my skin.

1138
01:50:05,113 --> 01:50:07,604
I was pickin' corn for dinner.

1139
01:50:07,699 --> 01:50:10,272
Old Master, he's so proud of his corn.

1140
01:50:10,368 --> 01:50:13,286
But I see his Frenchie guests,
they can't abide it.

1141
01:50:13,371 --> 01:50:15,660
They don't even know how to eat it
like it should be ate.

1142
01:50:15,749 --> 01:50:18,418
Why, how do you eat it?

1143
01:50:18,501 --> 01:50:20,790
You roasts it, then you eats it on the cob.

1144
01:50:20,879 --> 01:50:24,164
And it's the sweetest stuff
you ever eat in your life.

1145
01:50:24,257 --> 01:50:28,337
'Cept for couscous. And ash cake.

1146
01:50:39,647 --> 01:50:42,851
Since you are never to be found,
I have boldly come to you.

1147
01:50:42,942 --> 01:50:45,315
But it is you who are never to be found,

1148
01:50:45,403 --> 01:50:50,860
except among a crowd of friends
and admirers who hide you from view.

1149
01:50:50,950 --> 01:50:52,493
At least my view.

1150
01:50:55,830 --> 01:50:58,404
I've planted an American garden.

1151
01:50:58,500 --> 01:51:03,292
I had seeds sent from Virginia, but
only our hominy corn has prospered.

1152
01:51:03,380 --> 01:51:05,586
Everything else has been a dismal failure.

1153
01:51:05,673 --> 01:51:10,798
Our watermelons, cantaloupes,
sweet potatoes.

1154
01:51:10,887 --> 01:51:13,425
You see, it hasn't rooted.

1155
01:51:13,515 --> 01:51:16,800
If only I could give you a taste
of our marvellous sweet potatoes.

1156
01:51:16,893 --> 01:51:19,301
You sound homesick, Mr Jefferson.

1157
01:51:19,396 --> 01:51:22,480
It is hard to leave.
I shall miss my friends

1158
01:51:22,565 --> 01:51:25,021
and so much else.

1159
01:51:25,110 --> 01:51:28,027
Who would not want to be in France
at such a glorious time?

1160
01:51:28,113 --> 01:51:31,197
Yes. The glorious revolution.

1161
01:51:40,875 --> 01:51:42,785
Sally Hemings!

1162
01:51:42,877 --> 01:51:46,081
I, too, shall have to return soon.

1163
01:51:46,172 --> 01:51:50,799
I've overstayed both my leave from London
and my welcome in Paris.

1164
01:51:50,885 --> 01:51:54,550
- Your welcome from whom?
- From you, sir.

1165
01:51:54,639 --> 01:51:58,684
My affections have not altered.
There has been no change

1166
01:51:58,768 --> 01:52:03,810
in the friendship that has been
between us from the first moment.

1167
01:52:03,898 --> 01:52:05,974
You are becoming the perfect diplomat.

1168
01:52:06,067 --> 01:52:10,859
Courteous and amiable always
and always on your guard.

1169
01:52:10,947 --> 01:52:15,609
Well, I confess I fear unguarded moments.

1170
01:52:16,494 --> 01:52:19,164
As when you fell and hurt your wrist?

1171
01:52:21,166 --> 01:52:25,246
I do feel most horribly responsible for that,

1172
01:52:25,336 --> 01:52:27,910
as though it were I
who led you into recklessness.

1173
01:52:28,006 --> 01:52:29,500
No, no.

1174
01:52:29,591 --> 01:52:32,924
It was my own middle-aged vanity
that made me attempt

1175
01:52:33,011 --> 01:52:35,300
what only a youth can do.

1176
01:52:35,388 --> 01:52:36,717
Master?

1177
01:52:36,806 --> 01:52:42,145
Hot corn. You must try our corn.

1178
01:52:42,228 --> 01:52:45,146
Pick it up and eat it with your hands.

1179
01:52:48,651 --> 01:52:51,818
It's like with all your Frenchie guests
when we cook it for 'em.

1180
01:52:51,905 --> 01:52:53,399
They love our corn!

1181
01:52:53,490 --> 01:52:57,737
They loves it when you're looking at 'em,
but when you ain't they just spits it out.

1182
01:52:57,827 --> 01:53:01,659
- Nonsense, Sally. That's nonsense.
- I seen it with my own eyes.

1183
01:53:02,665 --> 01:53:04,243
They just spit.

1184
01:53:06,461 --> 01:53:08,537
Excuse me.

1185
01:53:23,061 --> 01:53:24,092
What's wrong?

1186
01:53:24,187 --> 01:53:27,188
You told me yourself
I could never hope to understand.

1187
01:53:27,273 --> 01:53:31,734
If I have erred in some way,
if I have offended you,

1188
01:53:31,820 --> 01:53:35,485
I beg you to be as frank with me
as I've always tried to be with you.

1189
01:53:35,573 --> 01:53:37,317
On all subjects?

1190
01:53:37,409 --> 01:53:41,620
Or are there some that are
best left unexplained?

1191
01:53:41,704 --> 01:53:44,871
Let me call on you tomorrow.

1192
01:53:44,958 --> 01:53:46,535
I've so missed you.

1193
01:53:46,626 --> 01:53:50,838
Let us resume <i>ourjours heureux,</i>
our happy days together.

1194
01:53:54,300 --> 01:53:56,542
I wish we could.

1195
01:54:14,404 --> 01:54:19,113
- Is someone leaving?
- Yes, sir. Madame Cosway.

1196
01:54:20,201 --> 01:54:23,535
I wish you both success and joy.

1197
01:54:23,621 --> 01:54:26,990
May God protect you
and keep you from harm.

1198
01:54:27,083 --> 01:54:29,621
And without a word
for those who love you?

1199
01:54:29,711 --> 01:54:32,878
Not even our American friend?

1200
01:54:36,176 --> 01:54:38,382
My dear Mrs Cosway,
this is all very hard on me.

1201
01:54:38,470 --> 01:54:41,554
How will I justify myself when
he reproaches me for your absence?

1202
01:54:41,639 --> 01:54:43,050
He will be heartbroken.

1203
01:54:43,141 --> 01:54:46,261
I don't think we need fear
for Mr Jefferson's heart.

1204
01:54:46,352 --> 01:54:51,180
But he has one, believe me.
A great and tender heart.

1205
01:54:51,274 --> 01:54:53,516
He wears it under a suit of armour.

1206
01:54:53,610 --> 01:54:58,106
Then he is safe, for it will never
break or hurt him very much.

1207
01:54:59,240 --> 01:55:01,566
- We have failed you.
- No, not you.

1208
01:55:01,659 --> 01:55:05,408
You have been kindness
and hospitality itself.

1209
01:55:05,497 --> 01:55:11,001
In France, we boast how fertile
is our soil for love and lovers.

1210
01:55:11,086 --> 01:55:16,293
But if the soil is American, then nothing
will grow but corn and what is it?

1211
01:55:16,383 --> 01:55:18,708
Sweet potatoes.

1212
01:55:21,012 --> 01:55:22,756
Come in.

1213
01:55:39,531 --> 01:55:41,737
You sad, Master?

1214
01:55:43,660 --> 01:55:45,368
You cryin'?

1215
01:55:48,540 --> 01:55:51,790
You want me to sing for you?

1216
01:55:51,876 --> 01:55:54,332
I could sing you something sad,

1217
01:55:54,421 --> 01:55:56,662
something merry.

1218
01:55:58,758 --> 01:56:01,843
Let it be sad then, Sally,

1219
01:56:01,928 --> 01:56:04,501
since that's my mood.

1220
01:56:33,668 --> 01:56:35,293
I can't bear it.

1221
01:56:35,378 --> 01:56:38,664
It'll make me sink
into my grave for sadness.

1222
01:56:51,811 --> 01:56:55,014
You want me to show you
how to cut the pigeon wing?

1223
01:56:55,106 --> 01:56:56,814
How to what?

1224
01:56:59,527 --> 01:57:01,769
We calls it cuttin' the pigeon wings

1225
01:57:01,863 --> 01:57:05,991
'cause you hold your neck up
real stiff just like a pigeon do,

1226
01:57:06,076 --> 01:57:11,236
and you're there flappin'
your arms and your legs.

1227
01:57:11,331 --> 01:57:13,489
I'll show you.

1228
01:57:20,840 --> 01:57:23,248
But first a couple has to set the floor.

1229
01:57:23,343 --> 01:57:27,043
They comes up, bends over
to each other at the waist,

1230
01:57:27,138 --> 01:57:30,092
and the woman she puts
her hands on her hips

1231
01:57:30,183 --> 01:57:34,679
and the man rolls his eyes all around,
and he's grinnin'.

1232
01:57:35,105 --> 01:57:37,430
<i>Gonna wear a red gown</i>

1233
01:57:38,650 --> 01:57:41,816
<i>Gonna wear a velvet coat</i>

1234
01:57:42,612 --> 01:57:44,272
<i>Going to the party</i>

1235
01:57:44,364 --> 01:57:48,693
But it's better if you're on a dirt floor
'cause your feet can slap down real hard.

1236
01:57:48,785 --> 01:57:51,952
Or you get a glass of water,

1237
01:57:52,038 --> 01:57:56,581
put it on your head and you see how many
steps you can do without spillin' the water.

1238
01:57:56,668 --> 01:57:58,495
<i>Going to the party</i>

1239
01:57:58,586 --> 01:58:00,330
<i>Going to the party</i>

1240
01:58:00,422 --> 01:58:01,750
<i>Going to the party</i>

1241
01:58:01,840 --> 01:58:04,247
<i>Going to the part...</i>

1242
01:58:06,469 --> 01:58:08,711
Let me show you how to do buck dancing.

1243
01:58:08,805 --> 01:58:12,174
You hold hands, you jumps up and down.

1244
01:58:17,522 --> 01:58:20,227
You still scared of me, Sally?

1245
01:58:20,316 --> 01:58:22,439
I ain't scared of you, Master.

1246
01:58:35,373 --> 01:58:40,664
I respect your decision, monsieur,
but I regret it.

1247
01:58:40,754 --> 01:58:44,621
We have become fond
of both your daughters.

1248
01:58:44,716 --> 01:58:48,334
And I have reason to believe
that your elder daughter

1249
01:58:48,428 --> 01:58:50,551
is not altogether willing to depart.

1250
01:58:50,638 --> 01:58:55,799
But I am confident that she will
be glad of it in her future years.

1251
01:58:55,894 --> 01:58:58,930
We have our own ways, Madame Abbesse,

1252
01:58:59,022 --> 01:59:02,722
which we must follow
if we are to be true to ourselves.

1253
01:59:02,817 --> 01:59:08,025
I believe freedom of worship
is written into your constitution.

1254
01:59:08,114 --> 01:59:10,901
Yes, Madame. I am proud to say it is.

1255
01:59:10,992 --> 01:59:13,827
We allow each man
to choose his religion

1256
01:59:13,912 --> 01:59:16,699
according to his own conscience.

1257
01:59:16,790 --> 01:59:19,541
In spite of promises made to me,

1258
01:59:19,626 --> 01:59:22,543
my daughter was unduly influenced.

1259
01:59:22,629 --> 01:59:25,962
On the contrary, monsieur.

1260
01:59:26,049 --> 01:59:27,840
Your daughter,

1261
01:59:27,926 --> 01:59:33,679
exercising the freedom on which
your country prides itself,

1262
01:59:33,765 --> 01:59:37,216
made the choice
which she judged to be right.

1263
01:59:37,310 --> 01:59:43,562
My daughter is too young
to make such a judgement.

1264
01:59:43,650 --> 01:59:48,893
Independence is not a toy
for children to play with

1265
01:59:48,988 --> 01:59:52,440
but the privilege of a fully matured mind.

1266
02:00:25,358 --> 02:00:26,521
Patsy?

1267
02:00:28,319 --> 02:00:30,526
Not yet asleep?

1268
02:00:32,532 --> 02:00:35,652
- It's very late.
- What's the time?

1269
02:00:35,744 --> 02:00:39,029
It's past midnight.
Didn't you hear it strike?

1270
02:00:40,373 --> 02:00:43,043
I thought I counted 11.

1271
02:00:45,587 --> 02:00:49,287
General Washington has written
to ask me to return home

1272
02:00:49,382 --> 02:00:52,917
and become his Secretary of State.

1273
02:00:53,011 --> 02:00:56,510
You know my feelings about public office.

1274
02:00:57,515 --> 02:01:01,595
That I'd rather eat my soup
at home with you and Polly

1275
02:01:01,686 --> 02:01:05,766
than have all the honours and position
my country can heap on me.

1276
02:01:05,857 --> 02:01:08,146
But, Patsy, you have to be at home

1277
02:01:08,234 --> 02:01:12,018
and learn what, after all,
you can only learn in America.

1278
02:01:12,113 --> 02:01:16,906
To be a woman of your own country.
A lady of Virginia.

1279
02:01:24,626 --> 02:01:27,995
Have you so fallen in love with France?

1280
02:01:28,088 --> 02:01:31,254
Or is it the dislike of your own country?

1281
02:01:36,179 --> 02:01:37,757
Surely not.

1282
02:01:42,185 --> 02:01:46,265
Remember what you promised me
when you were only 10 years old?

1283
02:01:48,483 --> 02:01:52,267
You said then, in your sweet way,

1284
02:01:52,362 --> 02:01:56,656
that you were there for me
and would do everything for me

1285
02:01:56,741 --> 02:02:01,652
and would forever be
the lady of my household.

1286
02:02:01,746 --> 02:02:05,495
Who can be the mistress
of Monticello but you?

1287
02:02:05,583 --> 02:02:08,371
Don't you want to be that?

1288
02:02:10,630 --> 02:02:13,382
More than anything else in the world.

1289
02:02:16,553 --> 02:02:18,925
If only it could be.

1290
02:02:19,013 --> 02:02:22,513
Monticello is yours.

1291
02:02:22,600 --> 02:02:25,008
As I am.

1292
02:02:25,478 --> 02:02:29,690
Listen, dearest Patsy, and believe me.

1293
02:02:31,484 --> 02:02:34,521
You are my true life

1294
02:02:34,612 --> 02:02:36,854
and my true love.

1295
02:02:36,948 --> 02:02:40,649
And everything that is best in me

1296
02:02:40,744 --> 02:02:42,820
belongs to you.

1297
02:03:08,813 --> 02:03:10,853
I need some of your money, Sal.

1298
02:03:10,940 --> 02:03:15,519
I ain't got it.
Master done keep it for me.

1299
02:03:15,612 --> 02:03:18,529
You let him keep your money?

1300
02:03:18,615 --> 02:03:20,987
You do be all for natural stupidness.

1301
02:03:21,076 --> 02:03:22,902
I don't needs it.

1302
02:03:22,994 --> 02:03:24,738
I needs it.

1303
02:03:28,083 --> 02:03:30,040
Is you in trouble?

1304
02:03:34,422 --> 02:03:37,257
I just go tell old Master
that I wants my money.

1305
02:03:40,261 --> 02:03:42,337
And if he says what for?

1306
02:03:43,932 --> 02:03:46,719
I say that it's for me

1307
02:03:46,810 --> 02:03:48,886
and the little one that's comin'.

1308
02:03:53,108 --> 02:03:57,485
Who's been at you? One of them down
there? I'll kill him with my bare hands!

1309
02:03:57,570 --> 02:03:59,397
Them Frenchies?

1310
02:03:59,489 --> 02:04:02,324
They as much as look at me
and I bop him in his face.

1311
02:04:03,618 --> 02:04:06,654
Who is it, then?

1312
02:04:06,746 --> 02:04:10,614
You think you know somethin'
and you don't know nothin'.

1313
02:04:18,049 --> 02:04:20,208
So it's him, is it?

1314
02:04:22,762 --> 02:04:25,336
Whole lot better if it was
one of them Frenchies.

1315
02:04:26,558 --> 02:04:31,054
- You scarcely 14.
- I's 15 and you knows it.

1316
02:04:31,146 --> 02:04:32,889
I's almost 16.

1317
02:04:32,981 --> 02:04:36,065
You's glad?

1318
02:04:36,151 --> 02:04:40,231
You's glad to breed more little niggers
to work in your master's fields.

1319
02:04:40,321 --> 02:04:44,900
Won't be no field nigger
if it's his own child I's carrying.

1320
02:04:44,993 --> 02:04:49,037
Oh, yeah.
He let it sit in his parlour,

1321
02:04:49,122 --> 02:04:50,996
drinking his port.

1322
02:04:51,082 --> 02:04:53,573
Like my white father and yours
done for us.

1323
02:04:53,668 --> 02:04:55,162
Don't you shush me.

1324
02:04:55,253 --> 02:04:58,254
You know blame well what
our white father done for us.

1325
02:04:58,339 --> 02:05:01,590
Give us away for her wedding present
when his white daughter,

1326
02:05:01,676 --> 02:05:04,713
our white sister, married Mr Jefferson.

1327
02:05:04,804 --> 02:05:07,889
Mr Jefferson serve you the same
when Miss Patsy get married.

1328
02:05:07,974 --> 02:05:11,592
You'll see. You and all
your little half-niggers,

1329
02:05:11,686 --> 02:05:16,478
y'all gets thrown in with the pots and pans
she'll be taking from Monticello.

1330
02:05:16,566 --> 02:05:18,309
Or he gets married hisself.

1331
02:05:18,401 --> 02:05:20,892
And this new Mrs Jefferson,
she come and say,

1332
02:05:20,987 --> 02:05:24,190
"Who all these brat niggers
running around my house?

1333
02:05:24,282 --> 02:05:28,362
"That don't look good.
You go sell 'em someplace else."

1334
02:05:28,453 --> 02:05:30,280
You don't know nothin'!

1335
02:05:30,371 --> 02:05:32,909
Old Master, he never gonna marry again.

1336
02:05:32,999 --> 02:05:35,953
I was there when he do promise
Mrs Jefferson on her deathbed.

1337
02:05:37,796 --> 02:05:39,788
White folks' promises.

1338
02:05:39,881 --> 02:05:42,752
They keep 'em when they make 'em
to other white folk.

1339
02:05:42,842 --> 02:05:45,168
If the angels
was to come down from heaven,

1340
02:05:45,261 --> 02:05:48,844
they'd treat them the same
as they do us.

1341
02:05:48,932 --> 02:05:51,968
It's pitiful.

1342
02:05:52,060 --> 02:05:54,302
Pitiful times we's in.

1343
02:05:59,484 --> 02:06:02,057
But you listen here.

1344
02:06:02,153 --> 02:06:05,937
Sal, if we stays in Paris,

1345
02:06:06,032 --> 02:06:08,108
we's free.

1346
02:06:08,201 --> 02:06:11,202
Yeah. Plum free to starve to death.

1347
02:06:11,287 --> 02:06:13,114
I can get wages any day I wants

1348
02:06:13,206 --> 02:06:16,207
with making the pastries
and all them things I learnts.

1349
02:06:16,292 --> 02:06:20,160
But he learned you so you can
cook good things at Monticello.

1350
02:06:21,923 --> 02:06:26,502
It's lucky for us I got more sense in my
little toe than you has in your entire body.

1351
02:06:29,139 --> 02:06:33,088
I misses my mammy and they all
something awful.

1352
02:06:33,184 --> 02:06:35,177
I wants to go home.

1353
02:06:35,270 --> 02:06:38,306
Home? Home? What home?

1354
02:06:38,398 --> 02:06:41,933
Your little old slave cabin where they
keeps you like the animals they breeds?

1355
02:06:42,026 --> 02:06:45,442
God Almighty never meant
for human beings to be like animals.

1356
02:06:45,530 --> 02:06:48,650
We has a soul
and a head and a mind.

1357
02:06:48,742 --> 02:06:52,324
We ain't like a dog or a horse.
Now, you listen to me.

1358
02:06:52,412 --> 02:06:55,282
You do what I says and you and me is free.

1359
02:06:55,373 --> 02:06:58,540
And that little one in there... free.

1360
02:06:58,626 --> 02:07:01,830
Don't you want to see what it's like
to own your own body?

1361
02:07:05,341 --> 02:07:09,920
You's crazy, James Hemings.
You's crazy.

1362
02:07:28,948 --> 02:07:31,985
Master, we staying in Paris.

1363
02:07:32,077 --> 02:07:34,532
Sally and I are staying.

1364
02:07:34,621 --> 02:07:39,579
You consider yourself free then,
to go or stay as you please.

1365
02:07:39,667 --> 02:07:42,372
We is free here, Master.

1366
02:07:42,462 --> 02:07:45,629
Ain't nobody is a slave in France.

1367
02:07:45,715 --> 02:07:48,965
Does your sister also wish
to follow the law prevailing here

1368
02:07:49,052 --> 02:07:51,590
rather than the American law
under which she was born?

1369
02:07:51,679 --> 02:07:54,253
She don't understand nothin'.

1370
02:07:54,349 --> 02:07:56,638
She do what I say.

1371
02:08:07,320 --> 02:08:10,404
With no regard for what I say?

1372
02:08:10,490 --> 02:08:14,535
She be wanting her freedom, Master.

1373
02:08:14,619 --> 02:08:16,410
For her own self

1374
02:08:16,496 --> 02:08:18,654
and the little one what's coming.

1375
02:08:24,713 --> 02:08:28,295
So you, James, will provide
for Sally and her child?

1376
02:08:28,383 --> 02:08:30,174
I'll be getting work and wages.

1377
02:08:30,260 --> 02:08:33,380
Remember, once I have left
and you are here on your own,

1378
02:08:33,471 --> 02:08:36,176
there's nothing more I shall
be able to do for you.

1379
02:08:36,266 --> 02:08:39,101
You will be living among strangers
in a strange land,

1380
02:08:39,185 --> 02:08:41,557
of which you do not even
know the language.

1381
02:08:41,646 --> 02:08:46,937
I know some,
more than you, Master.

1382
02:08:47,819 --> 02:08:51,152
Yes. That is true.

1383
02:08:53,199 --> 02:08:55,525
But if, James...

1384
02:08:55,618 --> 02:08:58,240
James, listen to me.

1385
02:08:58,329 --> 02:09:02,742
If I say come home to Virginia,
and I shall give you your freedom.

1386
02:09:05,628 --> 02:09:07,751
You'd give me my freedom?

1387
02:09:07,839 --> 02:09:10,081
That is what I'm proposing.

1388
02:09:12,635 --> 02:09:14,094
My papers and all?

1389
02:09:14,179 --> 02:09:17,844
Everything that is legally required
to release you from my ownership.

1390
02:09:23,646 --> 02:09:25,853
And her and the little one?

1391
02:09:36,659 --> 02:09:38,866
What do you say, Sally?

1392
02:09:40,413 --> 02:09:42,904
Think very carefully.

1393
02:09:45,460 --> 02:09:49,374
You and your child will be free
to leave Monticello

1394
02:09:49,464 --> 02:09:53,129
and earn your living elsewhere
as a free woman.

1395
02:09:56,846 --> 02:10:00,974
- Where's I goin'?
- Wherever you wish.

1396
02:10:02,852 --> 02:10:05,260
But where do I go?

1397
02:10:18,701 --> 02:10:21,074
Let me make another proposal.

1398
02:10:21,162 --> 02:10:27,248
While you, James, may claim your freedom
whenever you wish after I return home,

1399
02:10:27,335 --> 02:10:29,826
Sally and her child...

1400
02:10:31,297 --> 02:10:34,417
will remain at Monticello,

1401
02:10:34,509 --> 02:10:36,917
under my care.

1402
02:10:37,011 --> 02:10:39,633
But upon my death
to be given her freedom.

1403
02:10:39,723 --> 02:10:43,305
How we know it'll happen like that
when we get back to Monticello?

1404
02:10:43,393 --> 02:10:46,098
You have my word.

1405
02:11:07,292 --> 02:11:11,124
You wish me to swear an oath
on the Bible?

1406
02:11:24,809 --> 02:11:27,680
Patsy? Patsy.

1407
02:11:27,771 --> 02:11:30,262
Will you step inside, please?

1408
02:11:36,154 --> 02:11:38,147
Close the door.

1409
02:11:44,204 --> 02:11:47,573
Now, here's a strange to-do, Patsy.

1410
02:11:47,665 --> 02:11:51,829
I'm about to swear an oath
that on our return to Virginia,

1411
02:11:51,920 --> 02:11:54,707
James shall have his freedom.

1412
02:11:56,299 --> 02:11:59,585
But should anything
happen to me, Patsy,

1413
02:11:59,803 --> 02:12:03,136
it will be you who'll have
to fulfil that promise.

1414
02:12:04,849 --> 02:12:06,842
Do you understand me?

1415
02:12:12,857 --> 02:12:16,689
And further there's an oath to Sally
that she, too, upon my death shall be free.

1416
02:12:16,778 --> 02:12:19,732
Her and the little one what's coming.

1417
02:12:21,199 --> 02:12:25,908
Yes, Sally and the child she's expecting.

1418
02:12:25,995 --> 02:12:31,535
And all other children that may be
born to her in the future.

1419
02:12:31,626 --> 02:12:34,627
Do you bind yourself to that?

1420
02:12:47,684 --> 02:12:51,812
I swear by Almighty God that upon
my return to the state of Virginia,

1421
02:12:51,896 --> 02:12:57,317
I shall within a period of not more than two
years give his freedom to James Hemings.

1422
02:13:02,323 --> 02:13:06,404
Since, however, James was brought
to Paris at great expense to me

1423
02:13:06,494 --> 02:13:09,448
for the purpose of learning
the art of French cookery,

1424
02:13:09,539 --> 02:13:12,990
he shall continue to reside
at Monticello in my service

1425
02:13:13,084 --> 02:13:18,291
until he shall have taught the same art
to such persons as I shall place under him.

1426
02:13:18,381 --> 02:13:20,623
Do you swear?

1427
02:13:27,098 --> 02:13:28,890
I swear.

1428
02:13:34,481 --> 02:13:40,353
I also hereby promise and declare
that Sally Hemings,

1429
02:13:40,445 --> 02:13:42,687
sister of James,

1430
02:13:42,781 --> 02:13:45,106
shall be freed upon my death.

1431
02:13:46,326 --> 02:13:49,280
Likewise, all children born to her

1432
02:13:49,370 --> 02:13:54,032
shall be freed from my ownership
or that of my heirs

1433
02:13:54,125 --> 02:13:57,043
upon reaching the age of 21.

1434
02:13:59,506 --> 02:14:01,831
Do you swear, Patsy?

1435
02:14:05,136 --> 02:14:07,045
I swear.