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Moise.

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Maurice.

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I dreamt of you again.

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RUE DUPERRÉ
PARIS 1909

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MAURICE'S BAR

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They let you go quickly
this time, Bobette.

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I hope nobody followed you here

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like so many follow you
to your bed.

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Well, excuse my beauty!

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With so many arrests, Bobette,
you'll soon beat Maurice's record.

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Impossible,
he knew prison very young.

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Since he kissed a man
in the streets of Algiers.

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THE ALGERIAN

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Once, he killed a man with a punch!

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- A single punch!
- Liar!

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Did you know he's a Jew?

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I thought Jews weren't supposed
to have tattoos.

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Nor be homosexuals either.

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Maurice? Last night he said
his name was Moise.

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Look at his fur coat!

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His father sold furs in Algiers.

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Do you think he made him
cut up the animals?

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Look, here he comes.

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Maurice, the Algerian.

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Oh, la la la la!

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Look at those buns!

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His name is Salim.

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He obviously wants you.

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The lights come on,

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the show starts,

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a woman comes up on stage.

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He dances in such an obscene manner
with that chair,

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that one wonders
who enjoy such a show.

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Beardless and roughed young men

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prostitutes of all genders

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Charming women in trousers.

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Old gentlemen in search of

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special sensations.

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The show ends.

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Another begins.

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This time, two women appear.

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Their breasts

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exposed.

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They kiss passionately.

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Almost choking each other.

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A true vision

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of love.

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Obscene!

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Do you remember a bar named

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Le Scarabée?

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Another bar like this one?

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I thought Maurice's
was the first of its kind.

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Those were the days.

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Le Scarabée.

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I went there all the time in 1900.

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It was owned by two lesbians.

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It closed after a police raid

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just a few months
after it opened.

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Disastrous!

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Really!

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The police came here, too.
Several times.

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To our "little theater
of insults to morality".

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In the evening, they seek our company
and at night, they arrest us.

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Either way, we're fucked!

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But thanks to Maurice,

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the bar is still flourishing.

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Come on! Play! That's enough!

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Fuck!

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I lost!

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A few months after the bar opened,

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a client shot Maurice in the chest.

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In the chest?

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I was there when it happened.

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I think it was someone
who wanted the bar closed.

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Someone who was sick with jealousy.

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Or maybe a lover from his past.

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A souvenir from Africa.

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I think he'd have been luckier
selling furs.

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It was the first time
I thought I'd lost you.

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But you're a survivor, of course.

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A bitch is a bitch is a bitch.

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- We're with you!
- Our queen!

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Good evening, darling!

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Good evening, darling!

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Officers...

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Have I been naughty?

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A scandalous story will appear
in the newspapers, tomorrow.

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Three artists were arrested
for their dancing and singing

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in a small sinful bar.

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They were accused
of public indecency,

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female impersonation,

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and corruption of the youth.

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And its owner

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will have no choice
but to close the bar.

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Maurice,

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33 years have passed
since they destroyed your bar.

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Now they've taken you
with the same cruel authority.

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We should have known
what the future reserved

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for us, the perverts,

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the foreigners,

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the degenerates.

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Everyone looks the other way
thinking only we shall be hurt.

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But war

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it's like a drunken drag queen
doing a show

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who pitilessly mocks everyone
in the crowd

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and leaves nobody unscathed.

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You'll die in those damned camps.

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I'll never see you, again.

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All that remains
are my memories of the bar

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and of you.

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Moise.

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MOISE "MAURICE" ZEKRI
1879 - 1942

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BORN IN ALGERIA, LIVED IN PARIS
DIED IN AUSCHWITZ

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OWNER OF THE SECOND
QUEER BAR IN PARIS