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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:30,708 Ladies and gentlemen... 2 00:03:30,875 --> 00:03:34,708 In this little box I'll show you a new world, 3 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,374 with distance and perspective. 4 00:03:37,709 --> 00:03:40,999 One sou per person. You'll see wonders! 5 00:03:41,209 --> 00:03:45,083 We came straight from Venice by boat, 6 00:03:45,250 --> 00:03:47,499 with our musicians to show you 7 00:03:47,875 --> 00:03:50,499 this wonderful invention. 8 00:03:50,625 --> 00:03:54,499 With it, you can see for yourselves 9 00:03:54,709 --> 00:03:59,999 the greatest events of history, old and new. 10 00:04:01,375 --> 00:04:04,499 Come, bring your children! See our wonderful machine... 11 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:07,499 Step right up. Put your eye 12 00:04:07,709 --> 00:04:10,458 to the miraculous keyhole, the mirror of history. 13 00:04:10,625 --> 00:04:14,458 Look at good King Louis XVI and his Queen. 14 00:04:14,625 --> 00:04:17,708 The Queen in the midst of her people. 15 00:04:17,875 --> 00:04:21,249 Notice the Queen's sumptuous attire! 16 00:04:21,459 --> 00:04:23,999 And now, a great episode! 17 00:04:24,625 --> 00:04:27,874 Those who were there can see it again in the magic machine. 18 00:04:28,209 --> 00:04:30,874 Come on! Good day, sir and madam. 19 00:04:31,209 --> 00:04:33,499 Something very important happened 20 00:04:33,709 --> 00:04:36,749 two years ago: 1789. 21 00:04:37,500 --> 00:04:41,749 The storming of the Bastille! 22 00:04:42,250 --> 00:04:45,583 Fortress of tyrants, prison of men and ideas! 23 00:04:45,750 --> 00:04:50,249 5,000 Parisians, on July 14th, leave their homes. 24 00:04:50,459 --> 00:04:52,833 while their children sleep 25 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,208 to forge a new destiny. 26 00:04:56,375 --> 00:05:00,874 83 dead, 88 wounded, poor people. 27 00:05:01,500 --> 00:05:03,874 Admire, impaled on this lance, 28 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:08,208 the Bastille Governor's severed head. 29 00:05:08,584 --> 00:05:10,999 The symbol of the fall of the old regime, 30 00:05:11,125 --> 00:05:13,999 of the triumph of the Third-estate! 31 00:05:14,375 --> 00:05:14,999 Come on! 32 00:05:15,250 --> 00:05:18,374 October 5, 1789: 10,000 starving women, 33 00:05:18,959 --> 00:05:21,958 and a few men in women's clothes, 34 00:05:22,125 --> 00:05:25,624 go to Versailles to ask the King for bread for their children. 35 00:05:26,459 --> 00:05:29,374 6 hours on foot in the rain! 36 00:05:29,959 --> 00:05:33,583 Here we meet a beautiful woman, 37 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:35,583 with a medieval sword. 38 00:05:35,750 --> 00:05:38,624 The fascinating Miss Theroigne de Méricourt, 39 00:05:38,834 --> 00:05:42,624 in love with war, with revolution, but especially with men. 40 00:05:42,834 --> 00:05:44,999 Messalina and Joan of Arc! 41 00:05:45,209 --> 00:05:47,749 She loved the battle of love and war. 42 00:05:47,875 --> 00:05:49,999 The King, the good daddy of the people, 43 00:05:50,125 --> 00:05:53,083 appears on the balcony. 10,000 women scream: 44 00:05:53,250 --> 00:05:56,124 "The King back to Paris!" 45 00:05:56,459 --> 00:05:58,333 So he'll return to Paris. 46 00:05:58,500 --> 00:06:01,374 Marie-Antoinette with her friend Axel de Fersen 47 00:06:01,500 --> 00:06:04,499 is afraid to appear as the crowd is chanting 48 00:06:04,709 --> 00:06:06,999 "Come on out. Great Harlot!" 49 00:06:07,209 --> 00:06:10,208 La Fayette leads her on to the balcony 50 00:06:10,375 --> 00:06:13,749 and kisses her hand. The people, 51 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,124 being kind-hearted, as we know, begin to shout: 52 00:06:17,334 --> 00:06:19,124 "Long live the Queen!" 53 00:06:19,334 --> 00:06:22,499 "Our Queen!" So the women went back to Paris with the baker, 54 00:06:22,750 --> 00:06:24,958 the baker's wife and the baker's son, 55 00:06:25,125 --> 00:06:28,124 meaning that Their Majesties' presence in Paris 56 00:06:28,250 --> 00:06:29,624 guaranteed them bread. 57 00:06:29,959 --> 00:06:31,874 Name any event, I'll give it to you! 58 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:34,624 The magic box shows you a new world, 59 00:06:34,750 --> 00:06:36,499 with distance and perspective! 60 00:06:36,625 --> 00:06:39,624 One sou per person. You'll see wonders! 61 00:06:40,709 --> 00:06:43,708 "Agreement between the subscribers and the author. 62 00:06:43,875 --> 00:06:46,624 "Two copies for the price of one. 63 00:06:46,750 --> 00:06:48,958 "Louis X and The Human Heart Exposed, 64 00:06:49,125 --> 00:06:50,833 "450 copies printed of each. 65 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,583 "Subscribers include the King and Queen, 66 00:06:53,750 --> 00:06:55,374 "the Crown Princes, 67 00:06:55,584 --> 00:06:57,874 "the Ambassadors of Russia, Prussia and Spain..." 68 00:06:58,000 --> 00:07:01,499 England, Hungary, Sardinia, Naples, Vienna... 69 00:07:01,709 --> 00:07:04,999 Correct that's how Citizen Restif 70 00:07:05,209 --> 00:07:08,374 paid his wife's alimony and his legal costs. 71 00:07:08,584 --> 00:07:11,124 200 subscribers at 100 louis adds up to... 72 00:07:11,250 --> 00:07:12,624 Adds up to zero! 73 00:07:12,834 --> 00:07:15,833 My father selected their names 74 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,124 and none of them have bothered to answer him. 75 00:07:21,334 --> 00:07:24,124 It's not enough to write, 76 00:07:24,334 --> 00:07:26,833 print, publish books. 77 00:07:27,209 --> 00:07:28,999 You have to sell them! 78 00:07:31,959 --> 00:07:33,333 "My Calendar." 79 00:07:34,000 --> 00:07:37,458 Each day is dedicated to a woman my father loved. 80 00:07:37,625 --> 00:07:38,999 365 women? 81 00:07:39,334 --> 00:07:41,083 No, far more! 82 00:07:41,250 --> 00:07:44,333 Often 2 women a day, even 3. 83 00:07:44,500 --> 00:07:48,333 Feb 8. Sister Pinon, of the Grey Order of Bicêtre. 84 00:07:48,500 --> 00:07:52,124 Her job was doing my hair. I hid my head in her thighs. 85 00:07:52,334 --> 00:07:54,374 She'd say, squeezing my head: 86 00:07:54,500 --> 00:07:57,624 "Make the most of it, lad." She'd come, too. 87 00:07:58,125 --> 00:08:01,624 April 27. Nanette Precy. My first woman... 88 00:08:01,750 --> 00:08:04,374 It happened in a stable. I was 9, she was 16. 89 00:08:04,584 --> 00:08:06,249 The first time for both of us. 90 00:08:06,375 --> 00:08:08,833 Later, we wept for joy in each other's arms, 91 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:12,124 May 10. Bathilde Boujard. I met her in a bordello. 92 00:08:12,334 --> 00:08:14,874 Only later, after the wildest delights, 93 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:18,499 did we discover she was my daughter Bathilde..." 94 00:08:19,084 --> 00:08:23,333 My name's Agnes, not Bathilde. I have lots of little sisters. 95 00:08:23,500 --> 00:08:26,833 It's scandalous! I'm... outraged! 96 00:08:27,625 --> 00:08:29,333 I can tell! 97 00:08:30,125 --> 00:08:34,083 There are almost 400! We'll read them on your next visit. 98 00:08:34,500 --> 00:08:37,374 Tote up the books and include the figure in the report. 99 00:08:37,500 --> 00:08:41,249 I know it: 1230! 100 00:08:45,125 --> 00:08:50,124 I met your father on one of his nightly tavern rounds. 101 00:08:50,250 --> 00:08:52,458 He'd read his stories for hours. 102 00:08:52,625 --> 00:08:54,999 Some nights we'd walk him home 103 00:08:55,125 --> 00:08:58,124 to hear more of his stories. 104 00:08:58,500 --> 00:09:02,124 My mother said most of the people he brought home 105 00:09:02,250 --> 00:09:04,624 were vagabonds, beggars and thieves! 106 00:09:04,834 --> 00:09:07,833 Most were. I was among the others. 107 00:09:09,125 --> 00:09:12,333 Thomas Paine: "The Rights of Man". 108 00:09:12,500 --> 00:09:14,833 Introduction to the French edition. 109 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:18,999 I presume your father got an order to print this. 110 00:09:19,125 --> 00:09:20,833 From Mr. Paine himself. 111 00:09:21,125 --> 00:09:23,458 You know the famous writer of the American Revolution? 112 00:09:23,625 --> 00:09:25,499 He's not doing it for free. 113 00:09:25,625 --> 00:09:27,833 Certainly not. But so far, 114 00:09:28,125 --> 00:09:31,833 he's had no advance, not even for ink or paper. 115 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:34,083 I'm impounding this material. 116 00:09:34,250 --> 00:09:37,374 - I'm not sure you have the right! - I'm sure! 117 00:09:37,584 --> 00:09:42,749 "Any source of profit may be impounded until a debt is repaid." 118 00:09:42,875 --> 00:09:44,499 You'll have a long wait! 119 00:09:44,625 --> 00:09:48,083 How can he pay if you impound his sources of profit? 120 00:09:48,250 --> 00:09:50,583 That's the law. Anyway... 121 00:09:51,375 --> 00:09:53,083 when you've had 400 women 122 00:09:53,584 --> 00:09:56,291 paying alimony only to one is a bargain! 123 00:09:56,500 --> 00:10:01,249 The kind of bargain you'll never experience! 124 00:10:20,167 --> 00:10:24,749 Charity! Alms! Have pity on your less fortunate brethren! 125 00:10:24,917 --> 00:10:28,249 On those grounds, I qualify for alms, too. 126 00:10:28,542 --> 00:10:31,624 Anyway, let's shake hands, brother! 127 00:10:31,792 --> 00:10:35,499 I'll introduce myself: Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne. And you ? 128 00:10:35,667 --> 00:10:38,541 - Half-pint. - Half-pint! Delighted! 129 00:10:45,917 --> 00:10:46,916 Owl! 130 00:10:50,917 --> 00:10:53,916 Is that you, Owl? 131 00:10:55,125 --> 00:10:57,541 My lovely Faustine. A pleasure! 132 00:10:57,792 --> 00:11:02,166 I recognized your footsteps, you scoundrel. How's life? 133 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:05,499 Trying hard to wear me down. 134 00:11:05,667 --> 00:11:08,249 - Headed for my place? - Of course! 135 00:11:08,792 --> 00:11:13,124 I was at the café Manoury. I thought of you, and here I am. 136 00:11:13,542 --> 00:11:16,624 You always were a good liar! 137 00:11:17,250 --> 00:11:18,916 You didn't think of me. 138 00:11:19,292 --> 00:11:21,916 True. I was just passing by. 139 00:11:22,125 --> 00:11:25,916 But when you called out, I was about to think of you, I swear! 140 00:11:26,417 --> 00:11:29,291 So come on up. You'll meet someone nice. 141 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:31,041 It's too late. 142 00:11:31,292 --> 00:11:33,291 Tonight I've got printing to do. 143 00:11:33,500 --> 00:11:36,999 Must be urgent if you don't have time 144 00:11:37,167 --> 00:11:40,666 to sing a lullaby to a lovely young thing, 145 00:11:40,917 --> 00:11:45,291 whose tiny feet are encased in green satin mules with pink heels. 146 00:11:48,917 --> 00:11:50,124 Pink? 147 00:11:55,042 --> 00:11:57,916 The biggest of my many mistakes 148 00:11:58,125 --> 00:12:00,791 was refusing your hand in marriage. 149 00:12:00,917 --> 00:12:04,291 You still remember? We were two puppies. 150 00:12:04,417 --> 00:12:08,041 My business was taking off, you'd have had money 151 00:12:08,167 --> 00:12:10,416 and a supply of young girls. 152 00:12:10,625 --> 00:12:12,666 I only had eyes for you. 153 00:12:12,875 --> 00:12:15,041 That was so long ago! 154 00:12:15,500 --> 00:12:18,999 Anyway, you loved your shady friendships. 155 00:12:19,542 --> 00:12:22,291 Darkness was your domain. 156 00:12:22,500 --> 00:12:26,291 You were the first to call me "The Owl". 157 00:12:27,042 --> 00:12:30,166 - Nathalie! - I said with an "M"! 158 00:12:30,417 --> 00:12:31,999 Hurry, Manon. 159 00:12:32,167 --> 00:12:33,916 - Mariette. - No. 160 00:12:34,042 --> 00:12:35,916 - Melisande. - No. 161 00:12:36,625 --> 00:12:38,999 Despite my talent for lying, 162 00:12:39,167 --> 00:12:43,249 I'd best forget how many of them are underage! 163 00:12:43,917 --> 00:12:45,041 Come along. 164 00:13:06,625 --> 00:13:09,624 Feast for the eyes, ecstasy to the soul! 165 00:13:10,625 --> 00:13:13,124 Undeniable proof of God's existence! 166 00:13:15,875 --> 00:13:17,041 To have loved others, 167 00:13:18,125 --> 00:13:20,999 is like having wasted one's sword in water. 168 00:13:23,917 --> 00:13:25,374 Oh, to fondle... 169 00:13:25,542 --> 00:13:26,791 those tiny... 170 00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:31,499 sparrow's feet! Those slim, doe-like ankles! 171 00:13:31,667 --> 00:13:33,249 He's a great writer. 172 00:13:33,792 --> 00:13:36,541 Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne. 173 00:13:36,792 --> 00:13:40,124 Does that mean I have to do something special? 174 00:13:40,792 --> 00:13:42,874 Just what you usually do. 175 00:13:43,042 --> 00:13:46,416 Intellectuals or blacksmiths, they're all alike in bed. 176 00:13:46,667 --> 00:13:49,416 But intellectuals talk more! Hubertine! 177 00:13:49,625 --> 00:13:50,541 I'm late! 178 00:13:50,750 --> 00:13:54,916 I'll be damned! You, too, honor with your presence this place of... 179 00:13:55,292 --> 00:13:57,416 My daughter works at the Royal Palace. 180 00:13:57,625 --> 00:13:59,666 She's in charge of the Queen's bouillon. 181 00:13:59,917 --> 00:14:01,291 You can't have her! 182 00:14:03,917 --> 00:14:05,791 You're already here? 183 00:14:06,417 --> 00:14:09,291 I was about to leave at 11, but they locked 184 00:14:09,417 --> 00:14:12,416 my door from the outside. That lasted an hour. 185 00:14:12,792 --> 00:14:16,124 Around midnight, the door was unlocked. I went out. 186 00:14:16,500 --> 00:14:18,166 One of the floor-polishers told me 187 00:14:18,292 --> 00:14:20,416 he'd seen the Queen go out around 11.30. 188 00:14:20,542 --> 00:14:22,666 She was going to her husband's bed. 189 00:14:22,875 --> 00:14:27,124 No, when that happens, the King goes to her bed. But it's very rare. 190 00:14:27,292 --> 00:14:30,166 There was a commotion in the galley overlooking rue de l'Echelle. 191 00:14:31,167 --> 00:14:35,416 But the page who sleeps by the King's door saw no one! 192 00:14:35,792 --> 00:14:38,624 What happened in the Palace between 11 and midnight? 193 00:14:38,792 --> 00:14:40,416 He's an old friend of mine. 194 00:14:41,042 --> 00:14:42,791 And the nosiest man in Paris! 195 00:14:43,000 --> 00:14:46,124 Professional concern: I write the truth. 196 00:14:46,417 --> 00:14:49,791 Then what has been rumored in Paris for a month 197 00:14:50,167 --> 00:14:51,166 has occurred? 198 00:14:51,292 --> 00:14:54,541 What was rumored? I heard footsteps and voices, 199 00:14:55,125 --> 00:14:57,416 but when I went out, all was normal. 200 00:14:58,125 --> 00:14:59,916 Not to rush things, 201 00:15:00,042 --> 00:15:02,874 but here we're still at my tiny feet. 202 00:15:06,625 --> 00:15:10,124 If La Fayette stayed, instead of fleeing abroad... 203 00:15:10,292 --> 00:15:12,749 like d'Artois, Condé, Polignac, d'Orléans, 204 00:15:12,917 --> 00:15:14,291 it means he's for the King. 205 00:15:14,500 --> 00:15:18,874 They hope other European Kings will help them crush the Revolution. 206 00:15:19,667 --> 00:15:21,249 Listen to this: 207 00:15:21,625 --> 00:15:24,416 "A perverse Queen eggs on a cowardly King 208 00:15:24,542 --> 00:15:27,291 "who is plotting to slaughter all patriots. 209 00:15:27,417 --> 00:15:29,791 "Our gold and weapons are sent abroad. 210 00:15:29,917 --> 00:15:34,374 "The tyrants around us pounce on a starved and unarmed France." 211 00:15:34,542 --> 00:15:36,166 Impossible, no? 212 00:15:36,292 --> 00:15:39,291 Louis' brother-in-law is King of Austria... 213 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:44,124 Can I help you? 214 00:15:44,417 --> 00:15:48,124 I'm looking for a friend, a coachman. 215 00:15:48,292 --> 00:15:51,249 You didn't see... a Royal coach leave? 216 00:15:51,417 --> 00:15:52,916 A Royal coach? No. 217 00:15:53,292 --> 00:15:55,291 From rue de l'Echelle, maybe? 218 00:15:55,625 --> 00:15:56,916 I don't recall. 219 00:15:57,125 --> 00:16:00,291 So everything's normal. No activities. 220 00:16:00,625 --> 00:16:01,791 What kind? 221 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:06,291 The nocturnal kind. I don't know, maybe... 222 00:16:07,667 --> 00:16:09,041 Good night, corporal. 223 00:16:50,292 --> 00:16:52,666 - They said 2... You're alone? - For the time being, yes. 224 00:16:52,792 --> 00:16:55,291 I'll give the other to your servant. Wait here. 225 00:16:55,625 --> 00:16:58,416 The ladies are coming. Don't follow too closely. 226 00:16:58,625 --> 00:16:59,624 Sure... 227 00:18:04,667 --> 00:18:05,749 Who are you? 228 00:18:06,625 --> 00:18:09,541 A stranger who couldn't resist 229 00:18:09,667 --> 00:18:12,291 helping such a lovely lady. 230 00:18:44,375 --> 00:18:47,041 - How did they find it? - By searching! 231 00:18:47,250 --> 00:18:51,541 Couldn't you stop them? You can handle men, when you want to. 232 00:18:51,917 --> 00:18:56,291 Law-men want things to take away, not to consume on the spot! 233 00:18:56,500 --> 00:19:00,791 It was the only profitable job I'd had all year! 234 00:19:01,625 --> 00:19:05,916 My poor little girl. That fate gave you such a father! 235 00:19:10,417 --> 00:19:13,624 Mr. Paine said not to worry about the manuscript. There's no hurry. 236 00:19:13,792 --> 00:19:15,791 But I'm in a hurry to get paid! 237 00:19:17,125 --> 00:19:19,124 He said that... when? 238 00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:21,666 3 hours ago. He came to say good-bye. 239 00:19:21,917 --> 00:19:25,624 He's off to Metz for several weeks. He'll get in touch 240 00:19:25,792 --> 00:19:27,124 when he's back. 241 00:19:27,792 --> 00:19:31,124 Several weeks... He left you money? 242 00:19:32,792 --> 00:19:35,791 A little. But it's for me! 243 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:37,791 For you! Little bitch! 244 00:19:39,625 --> 00:19:41,291 Metz, you said? 245 00:19:52,917 --> 00:19:55,791 We need money not only for the seizure, 246 00:19:55,917 --> 00:19:58,666 but for the butcher, the baker, the stationer. 247 00:19:58,792 --> 00:20:00,499 They can wait to get wealthy! 248 00:20:00,667 --> 00:20:03,291 I've waited 60 years! 249 00:20:11,375 --> 00:20:13,416 Out of the way! 250 00:20:38,917 --> 00:20:41,791 Strawberries for your journey! 251 00:20:45,125 --> 00:20:47,916 Passengers for Sens, Auxerre, 252 00:20:48,125 --> 00:20:50,624 Mâcon, all aboard! 253 00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:02,291 Hats for sale! Old hats! 254 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,541 134 pounds! 255 00:21:37,292 --> 00:21:39,041 Wendel and Paine. 256 00:21:39,167 --> 00:21:42,416 Two for Metz. That coach will be departing 3rd. 257 00:21:42,625 --> 00:21:44,499 - You're Mr. Paine? - My friend. 258 00:21:45,375 --> 00:21:48,541 A gentleman to see you. He said to wake him up 259 00:21:48,750 --> 00:21:50,291 as soon as you got here. 260 00:22:04,542 --> 00:22:07,124 Mr. Restif. What are you doing here? 261 00:22:09,542 --> 00:22:13,291 My daughter told you of the seizure. 262 00:22:13,625 --> 00:22:15,916 "Man cannot live on poetry"! 263 00:22:16,417 --> 00:22:19,124 I don't have much money on me. 264 00:22:19,792 --> 00:22:21,666 It's not prudent when traveling. 265 00:22:21,875 --> 00:22:26,124 I can give you only a few ducats. Here. 266 00:22:29,167 --> 00:22:33,749 But don't worry. We'll deal with all that when I'm back. 267 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:37,499 Come and meet Mr. de Wendel. 268 00:22:39,042 --> 00:22:43,499 May I introduce my friend, M. Restif de la Bretonne 269 00:22:44,625 --> 00:22:47,416 Mr. de Wendel owns foundries in Alsatia. 270 00:22:48,042 --> 00:22:51,666 Only they can make 10-ft iron bars. 271 00:22:51,792 --> 00:22:54,041 I need them for my project. 272 00:22:54,250 --> 00:22:57,124 That you showed to the Academy of Sciences? 273 00:22:57,292 --> 00:22:58,916 Your partner dropped out? 274 00:23:00,042 --> 00:23:04,416 Passengers for Meaux, Châlons, Verdun, Metz, all aboard! 275 00:23:33,542 --> 00:23:34,874 It's there, Madame. 276 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:38,124 Hurry, you! 277 00:23:38,292 --> 00:23:42,249 A single-arch bridge 300 feet long! I can't sleep nights! 278 00:23:44,375 --> 00:23:46,041 All those people! 279 00:23:46,875 --> 00:23:48,374 Well, good-bye. 280 00:23:48,667 --> 00:23:50,874 I'm up by the coachman. 281 00:24:25,375 --> 00:24:27,666 Take care of them. 282 00:24:29,292 --> 00:24:32,249 Be very careful... The other one, too. 283 00:24:33,292 --> 00:24:34,541 They're fragile. 284 00:24:37,667 --> 00:24:41,166 I must leave, too. An unforeseen event. 285 00:24:41,375 --> 00:24:43,374 But I have no reservation. 286 00:24:43,917 --> 00:24:45,749 Nothing doing. We're full up. 287 00:24:45,917 --> 00:24:50,166 Up there... There's room for 3. 288 00:24:51,042 --> 00:24:52,874 If you have a ticket. 289 00:24:54,625 --> 00:24:56,166 But I can... I can pay you. 290 00:24:56,625 --> 00:25:00,416 We're late! When are we leaving? There isn't room for 3! 291 00:25:00,625 --> 00:25:01,374 Where to? 292 00:25:01,542 --> 00:25:03,749 I'm going to Verdun... to Metz... depends. 293 00:25:03,917 --> 00:25:06,541 See if they'll sell you a ticket... 294 00:25:06,917 --> 00:25:09,791 Thank you, fellow. I'll be right back. 295 00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:14,291 We'll be traveling together. Where are you going? 296 00:25:14,667 --> 00:25:16,874 I haven't had the pleasure, sir. 297 00:25:17,667 --> 00:25:21,666 Yet... I have a feeling I've seen you before. 298 00:25:22,792 --> 00:25:24,499 Highly unlikely! 299 00:25:25,125 --> 00:25:28,666 The lady with you, too. I've met her before, 300 00:25:29,167 --> 00:25:29,999 somewhere. 301 00:25:30,167 --> 00:25:33,291 Hardly. Madame doesn't associate with your kind! 302 00:25:34,125 --> 00:25:35,416 A German traveler wrote 303 00:25:35,792 --> 00:25:38,291 of the politeness of the French. 304 00:25:38,792 --> 00:25:40,874 He didn't meet you on his travels! 305 00:25:41,625 --> 00:25:44,541 Lottery tickets! 306 00:25:47,750 --> 00:25:50,291 One ticket to Metz. Sorry, I'm in a hurry. 307 00:25:50,917 --> 00:25:52,999 You getting on, so we can leave? 308 00:25:56,042 --> 00:25:58,416 It's uncomfortable... 309 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,041 We're waiting for you! We're late already! 310 00:26:01,500 --> 00:26:03,999 - I'm coming, sir. - Get moving! 311 00:26:04,167 --> 00:26:05,541 I'm sorry, sir. 312 00:26:06,750 --> 00:26:09,874 I'm a student in Paris. My name's Emile Delage. What's yours? 313 00:26:10,042 --> 00:26:11,041 Marie Madeleine. 314 00:26:11,417 --> 00:26:13,249 It's taking hours! 315 00:26:14,375 --> 00:26:16,249 - Out of the way! - Hurry! 316 00:26:17,542 --> 00:26:20,749 Wait for me! 317 00:26:21,917 --> 00:26:23,749 I have to leave, too! 318 00:26:25,417 --> 00:26:26,749 Bastard! 319 00:26:28,875 --> 00:26:30,041 A horse! 320 00:26:31,250 --> 00:26:35,499 I have to catch up with that stage! 321 00:26:36,375 --> 00:26:39,249 - A horse ? We'll see. - How much is it? 322 00:26:49,792 --> 00:26:52,499 Are you sure his ducats were counterfeit? 323 00:26:52,667 --> 00:26:55,999 Absolutely. Whereas mine are real. 324 00:26:56,250 --> 00:26:59,791 You can be sure of it. I know that man... 325 00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:04,499 A shady character, a crook, a traveler without baggage. 326 00:27:05,375 --> 00:27:08,166 You noticed? I pretended not to know him! 327 00:27:09,375 --> 00:27:11,499 I hope he doesn't lodge a complaint. 328 00:27:11,792 --> 00:27:14,166 About what? We were ready to leave 329 00:27:14,292 --> 00:27:16,791 and he had no ticket! His own fault! 330 00:27:26,500 --> 00:27:28,166 I hate flowers! 331 00:27:34,792 --> 00:27:36,791 Restif wasn't what I expected. 332 00:27:36,917 --> 00:27:40,499 He came to bid farewell to Mr. Tom Paine. 333 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:42,666 He has exquisite manners. 334 00:27:43,167 --> 00:27:47,166 What did you expect? An obscene faun? 335 00:27:48,292 --> 00:27:52,416 Like most Frenchmen, you've only read "The Perverted Peasant", 336 00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:54,541 or "The Peasant Wife". 337 00:27:54,750 --> 00:27:57,374 But he's written novels and essays. 338 00:27:57,750 --> 00:27:59,249 - Thank you, Madame. - Don't mention it! 339 00:27:59,417 --> 00:28:01,999 ...anthologies, over 100 works. 340 00:28:02,292 --> 00:28:04,916 He writes his "Paris Nights", day after day. 341 00:28:05,667 --> 00:28:07,999 Quantity doesn't mean quality. 342 00:28:08,917 --> 00:28:12,666 That holds for nature's works and men's. 343 00:28:13,292 --> 00:28:17,999 But he writes with such style that some think... 344 00:28:18,292 --> 00:28:22,416 Restif de la Bretonne is a pen-name for Beaumarchais or Diderot. 345 00:28:23,042 --> 00:28:25,999 I haven't read his works, but I'm told 346 00:28:26,167 --> 00:28:28,791 they're so full of scurrilous material, 347 00:28:29,167 --> 00:28:32,416 they should be burned in public. 348 00:28:33,292 --> 00:28:34,749 With their author? 349 00:28:36,917 --> 00:28:40,291 If it were up to him, he'd have no qualms. 350 00:28:40,417 --> 00:28:42,166 I've only seen him smile 351 00:28:42,375 --> 00:28:45,291 when, before popular juries existed, 352 00:28:45,417 --> 00:28:49,249 he could pass death sentences all by himself. 353 00:28:50,542 --> 00:28:52,041 Don't make a face, dear! 354 00:28:52,500 --> 00:28:54,374 Have you read them, Madame? 355 00:28:54,542 --> 00:28:58,041 That man's books, me? I wouldn't dream of it! 356 00:28:59,042 --> 00:29:03,624 I would! And with the greatest pleasure. 357 00:29:04,875 --> 00:29:08,666 I found them uniquely inspired on the subject of man, 358 00:29:08,875 --> 00:29:12,041 of woman, of love amongst our good people. 359 00:29:12,292 --> 00:29:15,666 I'm glad to hear some aristocrats 360 00:29:15,792 --> 00:29:17,666 don't scorn the people. 361 00:29:18,542 --> 00:29:21,624 None of us here scorns the people. 362 00:29:21,792 --> 00:29:25,499 But to go as far as make them the heroes of books! 363 00:29:25,792 --> 00:29:29,166 We should read this Restif, too. Right, Mr. Baldi? 364 00:29:30,042 --> 00:29:32,374 Sounds very instructive. 365 00:29:32,667 --> 00:29:35,791 Though we don't need lessons in that field! 366 00:29:36,667 --> 00:29:39,249 3 or 4 years ago, I read something by Restif 367 00:29:39,417 --> 00:29:42,374 in a journal, I think. What struck me, 368 00:29:42,875 --> 00:29:47,666 was that he spoke of sudden upheavals, and disorders, 369 00:29:47,875 --> 00:29:51,541 and it has all come about as he predicted. 370 00:29:51,875 --> 00:29:55,416 You, the wealthy, don't be harsh and haughty! 371 00:29:55,875 --> 00:29:59,041 Beware, judges. A deadly revolution 372 00:29:59,167 --> 00:30:00,874 is in the making. 373 00:30:01,167 --> 00:30:03,999 The nobility hasn't understood the people. 374 00:30:04,167 --> 00:30:07,291 The clergy has lost contact with them. 375 00:30:07,542 --> 00:30:11,666 Soon the people will fight social injustice. 376 00:30:11,875 --> 00:30:13,791 Everyone will be a citizen. 377 00:30:14,167 --> 00:30:17,791 Listen to the voice of a plebeian who lives with the people. 378 00:30:19,875 --> 00:30:22,541 Artists can often sense what's afoot, 379 00:30:23,375 --> 00:30:27,041 they understand the causes, know who's responsible 380 00:30:27,167 --> 00:30:29,041 long before others do. 381 00:30:29,375 --> 00:30:31,541 I hold your "artists" to be among 382 00:30:31,750 --> 00:30:33,791 the most responsible. 383 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,041 All your philosophers and encyclopaedists, 384 00:30:37,167 --> 00:30:38,874 who discredited the regime, 385 00:30:39,042 --> 00:30:42,416 through irony and doubt. Like Beaumarchais! 386 00:30:42,792 --> 00:30:45,999 His "Marriage of Figaro" is more dangerous than 10,000 mortars 387 00:30:46,167 --> 00:30:50,541 aimed at the nobility. Yet what happens? He is applauded at Court 388 00:30:51,542 --> 00:30:53,791 out of coquetry and stupidity. 389 00:30:54,375 --> 00:30:56,041 I applauded him. 390 00:30:56,875 --> 00:30:58,874 A sure sign of stupidity 391 00:30:59,042 --> 00:31:01,541 is being deaf to criticism. 392 00:31:02,167 --> 00:31:04,291 Wise words, Countess. 393 00:31:05,167 --> 00:31:08,749 Providing you accept the worst when it happens. 394 00:31:10,417 --> 00:31:13,374 I think that the worst has already happened. 395 00:32:28,542 --> 00:32:29,791 Stop! 396 00:32:32,667 --> 00:32:34,041 Help me! 397 00:32:41,167 --> 00:32:44,874 Are you hurt? Try to get up. Give me your hand. 398 00:32:55,417 --> 00:32:56,291 Nothing broken? 399 00:32:58,542 --> 00:32:59,249 No, nothing. 400 00:33:00,167 --> 00:33:02,999 You're not much of a horseman. 401 00:33:03,167 --> 00:33:06,416 In my youth I was. But the years have caught up with me. 402 00:33:07,250 --> 00:33:10,291 - As you can tell. - They caught up with me, too. 403 00:33:11,125 --> 00:33:13,874 I had to settle for that poor nag, 404 00:33:14,375 --> 00:33:18,166 because of a slippery hairdresser. But I'll catch up 405 00:33:18,625 --> 00:33:22,541 with him and his Countess. Their flight confirms my suspicions. 406 00:33:22,667 --> 00:33:25,666 - Are you sure you're all right? - Don't worry. 407 00:33:26,042 --> 00:33:28,166 I hit myself way below my head! 408 00:33:28,917 --> 00:33:30,791 Now please help me, 409 00:33:31,042 --> 00:33:34,291 catch up with that coach. On this horse, I'll never manage. 410 00:33:34,667 --> 00:33:36,624 It's on your way, I'll explain. 411 00:33:36,792 --> 00:33:40,541 I'd like to, but this is almost an "uncharitable". 412 00:33:41,167 --> 00:33:45,041 "Uncharitable": so-called because its small size exempted the driver 413 00:33:45,167 --> 00:33:47,999 from having to give a ride to a friend or acquaintance 414 00:33:48,167 --> 00:33:49,874 traveling on foot. 415 00:33:50,042 --> 00:33:51,916 Forgive me if I insist. 416 00:33:52,042 --> 00:33:55,666 I can't offer you money, only my gratitude. 417 00:33:56,042 --> 00:33:58,541 Perhaps even posterity's. 418 00:33:58,667 --> 00:34:01,166 Isn't that too great a commitment, sir? 419 00:34:01,375 --> 00:34:05,041 This event will become one of my "Revolutionary Nights". 420 00:34:05,167 --> 00:34:07,374 I'll mention you, if you'll let me. 421 00:34:07,667 --> 00:34:09,499 But I haven't introduced myself: 422 00:34:09,667 --> 00:34:12,541 Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne. 423 00:34:13,875 --> 00:34:16,624 The author of "Fanchette's Foot"? Of "The Bastard Daughter", 424 00:34:16,792 --> 00:34:19,541 "The Parisian Couple", "The New Abelard", "Contemporary Women"? 425 00:34:19,667 --> 00:34:21,041 At your service. 426 00:34:21,292 --> 00:34:24,666 And thank you for not mentioning "The Perverted Peasant". 427 00:34:25,042 --> 00:34:26,916 I've read and enjoyed that, too. 428 00:34:27,042 --> 00:34:30,041 But I can see why it may not be your favorite. 429 00:34:30,917 --> 00:34:34,041 Some fathers prefer their least gifted children... 430 00:34:34,167 --> 00:34:35,624 To whom do I have the honor? 431 00:34:38,042 --> 00:34:39,666 Chevalier de Seingalt. 432 00:34:40,792 --> 00:34:44,916 When I saw the Countess get into the stagecoach 433 00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:48,166 with the 2 packages that came from the Palace, 434 00:34:49,417 --> 00:34:53,124 I concluded she was following some important person. 435 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:00,374 My suspicions were well-founded. 436 00:35:01,292 --> 00:35:03,124 You're saying that right now, 437 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,541 Louis Capet has left Paris? 438 00:35:05,750 --> 00:35:10,291 He may be traveling on this same road. But where to? 439 00:35:11,167 --> 00:35:14,124 I find it hard to believe. He's such a coward. 440 00:35:14,292 --> 00:35:17,041 When he moves, it's only to go hunting. 441 00:35:17,542 --> 00:35:22,291 Dante said it long ago, when he meets Hugues Capet in Purgatory: 442 00:35:23,667 --> 00:35:25,666 "I was the root of the evil weed 443 00:35:25,875 --> 00:35:28,541 "That Christian lands in shadows kept 444 00:35:28,917 --> 00:35:31,999 "Ne'er did much good come of its seed". 445 00:35:35,292 --> 00:35:37,916 I knew Louis as a child. 446 00:35:39,375 --> 00:35:42,291 I was loyal to his father until... 447 00:35:44,167 --> 00:35:45,874 What year was it? 448 00:35:47,375 --> 00:35:49,416 Seventeen hundred... 449 00:36:29,625 --> 00:36:31,249 There's the stage! 450 00:36:34,042 --> 00:36:35,749 - Fasten your belt. - Belt? 451 00:36:35,917 --> 00:36:39,166 It's there. Tie it on. Now, watch! 452 00:36:39,542 --> 00:36:41,041 Hold on tight! 453 00:36:44,917 --> 00:36:46,624 Move! 454 00:36:47,250 --> 00:36:49,374 Catch that stage! 455 00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:58,541 What? They're not allowed to pass us. 456 00:37:06,750 --> 00:37:09,791 We'll get killed! Put me down! 457 00:37:10,792 --> 00:37:13,166 You hear me? You're mad! 458 00:37:13,792 --> 00:37:15,541 - Let him by! - Get back! 459 00:37:15,917 --> 00:37:18,791 I'm going to faint. I've fainted. 460 00:37:18,917 --> 00:37:20,499 Virginie, darling! 461 00:37:24,792 --> 00:37:26,749 We're near Meaux. They'll need fresh horses. 462 00:37:27,125 --> 00:37:30,249 Maybe we should let them by. 463 00:37:30,417 --> 00:37:34,416 Never! Chevalier de Seingalt eats no one's dust! 464 00:37:34,542 --> 00:37:37,416 Not the King's. Nor that of a nameless scoundrel! 465 00:37:39,625 --> 00:37:40,666 Sniff, Madame! 466 00:37:52,375 --> 00:37:55,166 Make way for de Seingalt and de la Bretonne! 467 00:37:55,417 --> 00:37:57,041 Make way for genius! 468 00:38:12,375 --> 00:38:13,791 How amusing! 469 00:38:27,375 --> 00:38:28,666 Meaux relay! 470 00:38:29,542 --> 00:38:32,874 I need no one. Here! Move over! 471 00:38:33,875 --> 00:38:35,874 Bring my toilet case. Hurry! 472 00:38:39,917 --> 00:38:41,374 My toilet case! 473 00:38:44,667 --> 00:38:47,041 - A quiet spot? - This way, sir. 474 00:38:51,542 --> 00:38:54,416 Friend, did a very large carriage go by 475 00:38:54,542 --> 00:38:56,916 this morning, from Paris? 476 00:39:00,042 --> 00:39:01,374 Wait... 477 00:39:03,542 --> 00:39:07,666 This morning, around six. They wanted 11 fresh horses! 478 00:39:08,375 --> 00:39:12,166 3 saddle-horses for 3 horsemen, 2 for a carriage, 479 00:39:12,375 --> 00:39:15,041 and 6 for a huge coach. 480 00:39:15,167 --> 00:39:16,874 I never saw one so big! 481 00:39:17,042 --> 00:39:19,624 How'll they cross the Somme bridge? 482 00:39:20,417 --> 00:39:22,374 Who was inside? 483 00:39:22,667 --> 00:39:24,041 The curtains were drawn. 484 00:39:24,667 --> 00:39:28,499 They say it's a Russian noblewoman returning home. 485 00:39:29,375 --> 00:39:32,291 Quite a way to go! Put your hat back on, please. 486 00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:35,624 And loaded! 487 00:39:35,792 --> 00:39:38,291 The head flunky, a tall fellow, 488 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:40,874 handed out ecus like pennies. 489 00:39:41,625 --> 00:39:45,249 Did likewise at the Clayes relay, and at Bondy. 490 00:39:46,167 --> 00:39:50,374 If they got here at 6, they must have left Paris at midnight. 491 00:39:51,542 --> 00:39:55,416 I also heard a child's voice, a little girl. 492 00:39:56,792 --> 00:39:58,791 Strange hours to travel! 493 00:39:59,125 --> 00:40:01,874 Sneaking out incognito... 494 00:40:04,917 --> 00:40:07,291 Meaux relay! 495 00:40:15,500 --> 00:40:17,791 Mr. Baldi has to pee. 496 00:40:23,292 --> 00:40:26,291 You were in a big hurry this morning: what happened? 497 00:40:26,417 --> 00:40:28,666 I told you: I've never had the pleasure! 498 00:40:28,875 --> 00:40:31,791 Madame, what a journey! Not too shaken? 499 00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:35,999 May I? 500 00:40:41,542 --> 00:40:42,291 You, here? 501 00:40:42,500 --> 00:40:44,791 I'll tell you why I'm here. 502 00:40:45,292 --> 00:40:49,291 Last night, someone left Paris in secret. 503 00:40:49,625 --> 00:40:51,374 I think I know who it was. 504 00:40:51,917 --> 00:40:53,291 You mean the King? 505 00:40:53,417 --> 00:40:55,416 - You knew? - Yes. 506 00:40:55,917 --> 00:41:00,291 The Marquis de Lafayette who I knew from the American revolution, 507 00:41:00,500 --> 00:41:03,791 burst into my room this morning, saying: 508 00:41:03,917 --> 00:41:06,124 "The birdies have flown." 509 00:41:06,292 --> 00:41:08,124 The King's bed was empty. 510 00:41:08,292 --> 00:41:11,291 So you left to chase the King? 511 00:41:11,542 --> 00:41:14,749 No, my trip with M. de Wendel had been planned. 512 00:41:14,917 --> 00:41:17,166 What are you doing here? 513 00:41:17,292 --> 00:41:18,791 Observing. 514 00:42:23,792 --> 00:42:26,291 We're here, in Meaux. 515 00:42:26,667 --> 00:42:27,999 It's 10:30. 516 00:42:28,167 --> 00:42:32,041 If they left at midnight, they'd be at Montmirail, 517 00:42:32,750 --> 00:42:35,291 then Chaintrix, Châlons, 518 00:42:35,750 --> 00:42:39,874 St. Menehould, Clermont... Careful! 519 00:42:41,625 --> 00:42:43,416 Verdun, Metz. 520 00:42:44,500 --> 00:42:48,416 They want to reach the eastern border 521 00:42:48,625 --> 00:42:52,916 and be protected by the troops of Alsatia, Lorraine, Champagne: 522 00:42:53,542 --> 00:42:56,249 90 battalions and 400 squadrons, 523 00:42:56,417 --> 00:42:58,791 mostly Swiss and German mercenaries. 524 00:43:00,125 --> 00:43:02,666 Unless at Clermont 525 00:43:03,292 --> 00:43:06,416 they make a detour to Montmédy, here. 526 00:43:07,417 --> 00:43:10,041 It's a mile from the border with Luxembourg. 527 00:43:10,167 --> 00:43:12,791 Where the King's brother-in-law's troops are. 528 00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,416 14,000 Austrians ready to move on Paris. 529 00:43:16,625 --> 00:43:20,624 Mr. Paine, if this plan succeeds, 530 00:43:21,792 --> 00:43:24,916 then the old régime will return to power. 531 00:43:25,792 --> 00:43:28,624 The French people won't stand for that. 532 00:43:30,292 --> 00:43:33,416 I agree. They won't give up all they've gained 533 00:43:33,542 --> 00:43:37,291 in the last 2 years. It would mean civil war. 534 00:43:42,917 --> 00:43:44,916 It will be a hot day. 535 00:44:07,542 --> 00:44:09,249 Come take off my veil. 536 00:44:10,417 --> 00:44:12,749 Can't she take it off herself? 537 00:44:13,917 --> 00:44:15,249 Come, Madame... 538 00:44:42,250 --> 00:44:44,291 Life gets more expensive by the day. 539 00:44:45,167 --> 00:44:46,749 Tradesmen won't take notes. 540 00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:49,916 They distrust the currency of their own revolution! 541 00:44:50,417 --> 00:44:53,541 - Leaving, Chevalier? - That's the lady with the packages? 542 00:44:53,750 --> 00:44:56,041 In my day, I'd have led her a dance! 543 00:44:56,167 --> 00:44:58,874 If I see the King, I'll tell him to wait for you, 544 00:44:59,042 --> 00:45:01,541 so a great writer can witness his flight! 545 00:45:01,750 --> 00:45:03,249 Thank you, Chevalier. 546 00:45:04,750 --> 00:45:06,666 People like us, responsible for the wealth 547 00:45:06,875 --> 00:45:10,249 of this country, have been saddled with more taxes, 548 00:45:10,417 --> 00:45:11,749 and scorned. 549 00:45:12,250 --> 00:45:13,916 Move, I hate children! 550 00:45:14,417 --> 00:45:18,791 My poor husband, a landowner, used to say: our biggest crop is taxes! 551 00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:22,041 But you got even by forcing up prices. 552 00:45:23,042 --> 00:45:26,041 And then took over the clergy's lands... 553 00:45:37,042 --> 00:45:38,541 Strange man! 554 00:45:39,750 --> 00:45:42,749 It's him. Now I'm sure it is. 555 00:45:43,750 --> 00:45:45,749 I never saw such a tall man. 556 00:45:46,042 --> 00:45:48,999 Remember at the coronation, 17 years ago? 557 00:45:49,417 --> 00:45:52,041 Of course, it's Giacomo Casanova! 558 00:45:52,417 --> 00:45:54,916 That's what I thought. You're right, Madame. 559 00:45:55,042 --> 00:45:58,416 I met him years ago at the Cardinal of Strasbourg's court. 560 00:45:58,625 --> 00:46:01,541 He had a great reputation as a ladies' man. 561 00:46:01,750 --> 00:46:04,166 Why didn't you introduce us, dammit! 562 00:46:05,750 --> 00:46:07,749 The stage is ready to leave. 563 00:46:09,917 --> 00:46:11,249 I'll travel on top. 564 00:46:12,042 --> 00:46:13,916 No... I insist. 565 00:46:14,250 --> 00:46:15,541 You're too kind. 566 00:46:17,667 --> 00:46:20,291 That reckless driver a gentleman? How odd! 567 00:46:20,417 --> 00:46:22,541 He still doesn't know how to travel! 568 00:46:22,917 --> 00:46:24,541 He knows other things... 569 00:46:24,917 --> 00:46:27,541 Casanova... Yes, a Venetian nobleman. 570 00:46:28,042 --> 00:46:30,416 - Never heard of him. - Neither have I. 571 00:46:34,042 --> 00:46:38,041 What? Perhaps I should explain that, at the time, my name 572 00:46:38,167 --> 00:46:40,999 didn't cause much excitement in France, 573 00:46:41,250 --> 00:46:43,541 except among people -mostly women- 574 00:46:43,917 --> 00:46:45,916 I'd known personally. 575 00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:50,041 Though "My Escape from the Dungeon" had been published, 576 00:46:50,250 --> 00:46:52,999 my reputation wasn't made till much later, 577 00:46:53,542 --> 00:46:57,291 through the success of my "Memoirs"' written in French 578 00:46:57,750 --> 00:47:01,499 and published after my death 579 00:47:03,542 --> 00:47:07,541 which, as you all know, occurred in 1798. 580 00:47:09,417 --> 00:47:10,749 So it goes... 581 00:47:13,542 --> 00:47:15,249 Never heard of him! 582 00:47:15,542 --> 00:47:17,416 What are we waiting for? 583 00:47:18,417 --> 00:47:20,041 Let's go! Let's go, hurry! 584 00:48:12,542 --> 00:48:15,666 Had I known that Casanova was hiding 585 00:48:15,875 --> 00:48:18,916 under the name of Chevalier de Seingalt, 586 00:48:19,042 --> 00:48:21,166 I'd have expressed my admiration. 587 00:48:21,292 --> 00:48:24,874 But he expressed his for me first. 588 00:48:25,042 --> 00:48:28,749 From what I just heard, I doubt his main talent 589 00:48:28,917 --> 00:48:31,416 was as an author. 590 00:48:32,417 --> 00:48:35,124 In Strasbourg, he was known as a gambler, 591 00:48:35,292 --> 00:48:38,916 as a man who ran lotteries, designed textiles, 592 00:48:39,125 --> 00:48:42,166 put on plays, dabbled in the occult sciences... 593 00:48:42,375 --> 00:48:43,666 As a seer, too! 594 00:48:43,875 --> 00:48:46,666 But mostly for his boudoir escapades! 595 00:48:47,375 --> 00:48:49,249 I heard even 596 00:48:49,417 --> 00:48:52,374 Madame de Pompadour was mad for him. 597 00:48:52,667 --> 00:48:56,874 It seems no woman could resist your compatriot. 598 00:48:57,167 --> 00:49:01,541 Thank you! Did you really travel with him? 599 00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:05,541 Certainly. But I assure you I resisted him! 600 00:49:07,667 --> 00:49:10,999 I barely saw him. He must have been very handsome. 601 00:49:11,542 --> 00:49:13,124 How old is he? 60? 602 00:49:13,292 --> 00:49:15,874 Even 70. Does it matter? 603 00:49:16,750 --> 00:49:18,166 In my country, there's a saying... 604 00:49:21,167 --> 00:49:23,374 What does that mean? 605 00:49:23,542 --> 00:49:25,374 Well, it means: 606 00:49:25,917 --> 00:49:29,499 "Go out with young men, but go to bed with old ones". 607 00:49:30,875 --> 00:49:34,166 This trip confirms that old Europe 608 00:49:34,292 --> 00:49:37,166 still has writers who can blend personal charm 609 00:49:37,750 --> 00:49:39,791 with seductive language. 610 00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,041 I won't discuss Mr. Casanova's literary talents, 611 00:49:43,167 --> 00:49:45,666 but as for his amorous exploits, 612 00:49:46,042 --> 00:49:48,166 I have some reservations. 613 00:49:48,875 --> 00:49:51,874 First, he's too big. I told him: 614 00:49:52,542 --> 00:49:57,416 the best lovers are always of small stature. That's been proven. 615 00:49:57,875 --> 00:49:59,291 "Proven" by whom? 616 00:49:59,542 --> 00:50:01,541 The influx of blood, 617 00:50:02,042 --> 00:50:04,874 which gives the virile member its potency, 618 00:50:05,042 --> 00:50:09,374 is all the greater and fiercer, if the area to be irrigated is smaller. 619 00:50:10,167 --> 00:50:14,124 Your conversation isn't fit for a barrack-room! You're revolting! 620 00:50:14,292 --> 00:50:17,791 No wonder: you're the author of "The Pornographer". 621 00:50:18,042 --> 00:50:21,249 Don't bother to read it. It won't live up 622 00:50:21,542 --> 00:50:23,999 to your expectations, dear Judge! 623 00:50:24,167 --> 00:50:26,041 I'm sorry. 624 00:50:27,042 --> 00:50:28,666 I'd like to catch some sleep. 625 00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,499 Change places! Here, quick! You've got some nerve! 626 00:50:33,875 --> 00:50:35,166 Shame on you! 627 00:50:36,792 --> 00:50:40,749 You should shut up... with your filthy mind! 628 00:51:06,125 --> 00:51:07,416 Eleven horses! 629 00:51:07,750 --> 00:51:11,291 Teams changed at relays further ahead, 630 00:51:11,542 --> 00:51:13,666 returning to Meaux relay. 631 00:51:13,792 --> 00:51:16,041 It could be a single team! 632 00:51:16,167 --> 00:51:18,541 The countryside is full of horses! 633 00:51:21,625 --> 00:51:26,249 A carriage drawn by 6 or 8 horses would go much faster than us, right? 634 00:51:26,417 --> 00:51:30,041 Not necessarily, sir. Depends on the weight of the carriage. 635 00:51:30,250 --> 00:51:33,624 And you can't always find enough fresh horses. 636 00:51:33,792 --> 00:51:35,874 Especially now, in the haymaking season. 637 00:51:36,042 --> 00:51:38,291 You always get fresh horses? 638 00:51:38,500 --> 00:51:42,416 Sure. We're a State service! Horses are always 639 00:51:42,625 --> 00:51:43,541 waiting for us. 640 00:51:43,667 --> 00:51:46,916 Must we talk about horses this whole trip! 641 00:51:48,292 --> 00:51:50,791 Thank you. How kind. 642 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:53,499 Look up there! 643 00:51:54,667 --> 00:51:58,499 Etienne, look at them! 644 00:52:54,417 --> 00:52:55,791 Pull up, François. 645 00:53:07,167 --> 00:53:08,499 Need any help? 646 00:53:08,667 --> 00:53:12,916 No thank you, my coachman rode off to look for a wheelwright. 647 00:53:14,667 --> 00:53:16,291 Mr. Casanova! 648 00:53:16,667 --> 00:53:18,791 How did you know? I'm incognito. 649 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:21,416 Your reputation travels faster than you! 650 00:53:21,542 --> 00:53:23,499 That takes some doing! 651 00:53:23,667 --> 00:53:27,999 True! We went at such a merry clip, that one of our hubs broke. 652 00:53:28,292 --> 00:53:31,166 Join us... until the next relay. 653 00:53:40,167 --> 00:53:42,124 To refuse such... 654 00:53:44,667 --> 00:53:48,791 such an invitation, is a sign of my decrepitude. 655 00:53:49,667 --> 00:53:53,041 That's all my worldly wealth! I can't leave it unguarded; 656 00:53:53,917 --> 00:53:57,291 - Someone could stay and guard it. - In that case... 657 00:53:57,917 --> 00:54:01,291 Maybe your hairdresser could stay. 658 00:54:04,417 --> 00:54:05,874 Well, Mr. Jacob? 659 00:54:08,500 --> 00:54:11,666 You'll stay with Mr. Casanova's carriage 660 00:54:12,250 --> 00:54:15,291 and join us at the next stop, or the following one. 661 00:54:16,750 --> 00:54:20,041 But, Madame, may I remind you... 662 00:54:20,500 --> 00:54:21,666 You'll stay here! 663 00:54:24,417 --> 00:54:26,041 Yes, I think... I mean, I'm sure... 664 00:54:26,292 --> 00:54:29,249 - I can't leave you all alone! - Thank you for your help. 665 00:54:30,125 --> 00:54:31,874 For wanting to stay. 666 00:54:32,875 --> 00:54:36,624 My coachman will soon be back. Take care of my things. 667 00:54:37,792 --> 00:54:40,499 - Please... - No, I'll go on top. 668 00:54:40,667 --> 00:54:44,291 Our charming ladies would never forgive me! 669 00:54:44,500 --> 00:54:47,916 But I refuse to deprive them of your company. 670 00:54:48,292 --> 00:54:49,749 They'd lose on the deal! 671 00:54:49,917 --> 00:54:52,291 You're in a delicate spot. 672 00:54:52,500 --> 00:54:54,791 Those 2 gentlemen have such regard for each other, 673 00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:57,166 and I certainly won't travel on top. 674 00:54:57,667 --> 00:54:59,999 Yes, of course. 675 00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:05,666 The air will do me good. 676 00:55:07,167 --> 00:55:07,999 After you... 677 00:55:12,000 --> 00:55:14,499 The toilet-case that fell onto the road is yours? 678 00:55:14,667 --> 00:55:17,541 It didn't fall. I put it there to caution drivers. 679 00:55:17,750 --> 00:55:20,041 Now you can take its place, 680 00:55:20,250 --> 00:55:21,666 to prevent accidents. 681 00:55:34,167 --> 00:55:37,791 When you passed us earlier, I fainted! 682 00:56:23,125 --> 00:56:25,416 De la Borde... 683 00:56:26,042 --> 00:56:28,124 I knew someone by that name. 684 00:56:28,417 --> 00:56:30,791 He was Louis XV's farmer-general, 685 00:56:31,875 --> 00:56:34,791 and his head valet. I remember well. 686 00:56:35,000 --> 00:56:36,874 He was my husband's father. 687 00:56:37,042 --> 00:56:40,916 Now I understand why he was such a dour, crusty old man: 688 00:56:42,292 --> 00:56:46,374 he couldn't guess some day he'd have a daughter-in-law like you 689 00:56:47,167 --> 00:56:49,416 You've spent time at the Court of France! 690 00:56:49,875 --> 00:56:52,916 He's been the toast of every court in Europe! 691 00:56:53,125 --> 00:56:55,374 It wasn't a great privilege! 692 00:56:55,792 --> 00:56:59,791 Courts aren't the gardens full of rare blossoms people imagine. 693 00:57:00,292 --> 00:57:03,916 I mostly met wrinkled old countesses and princesses! 694 00:57:05,417 --> 00:57:08,874 I mean, in my time. These days, queens 695 00:57:09,125 --> 00:57:12,791 judging by you, choose their ladies-in-waiting better. 696 00:57:13,625 --> 00:57:15,541 What makes you think 697 00:57:15,667 --> 00:57:18,041 I'm a lady-in-waiting to Her Majesty? 698 00:57:19,917 --> 00:57:22,124 Yes... that's true. 699 00:57:23,625 --> 00:57:25,291 How did I know you were... 700 00:57:29,417 --> 00:57:33,374 You underestimate Mr. Casanova's talents as a seer! 701 00:57:34,125 --> 00:57:36,791 They're only part of his great success. 702 00:57:37,542 --> 00:57:40,916 He told you that in Louis XV's time, 703 00:57:41,292 --> 00:57:44,249 old Count de la Borde had yet to meet you. 704 00:57:44,625 --> 00:57:45,874 Hence you married 705 00:57:46,250 --> 00:57:50,416 the young Count after Louis XVI's marriage to Marie-Antoinette. 706 00:57:51,292 --> 00:57:55,291 Mr. Casanova, hearing your charming accent, 707 00:57:55,917 --> 00:57:58,916 fancied you might be Austrian 708 00:57:59,417 --> 00:58:00,874 like Marie-Antoinette, 709 00:58:01,292 --> 00:58:04,541 and, admiring your lovely figure, 710 00:58:04,667 --> 00:58:09,041 concluded you were her age, 711 00:58:09,625 --> 00:58:13,791 had grown up together in Austria, 712 00:58:14,125 --> 00:58:16,749 and that when she became Queen, 713 00:58:16,917 --> 00:58:20,499 Marie-Antoinette called you to Paris 714 00:58:20,667 --> 00:58:24,416 as a lady-in-waiting. Makes sense! 715 00:58:30,542 --> 00:58:34,291 What about me? Guess something about me? 716 00:58:36,125 --> 00:58:38,416 That you're Italian... from Bologna. 717 00:58:38,542 --> 00:58:41,166 You have character and your husband... 718 00:58:41,417 --> 00:58:44,416 Me ? A husband? I'm an artist! 719 00:58:44,667 --> 00:58:47,499 Art and husbands don't mix. 720 00:58:47,667 --> 00:58:51,916 No way! His wife looks like an old shoe. 721 00:58:52,125 --> 00:58:54,624 He told her he had a case in Metz, 722 00:58:54,792 --> 00:58:56,791 so he could follow me to my concert. 723 00:58:57,292 --> 00:58:58,291 You're a musician? 724 00:58:58,792 --> 00:59:00,166 Opera singer. 725 00:59:00,917 --> 00:59:03,041 You loathe my friend the tenor Baldi. 726 00:59:04,417 --> 00:59:08,041 - Right? - How do you know? 727 00:59:08,625 --> 00:59:10,791 I heard you call your dog. 728 00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:13,666 You so hate Baldi, you gave your dog his name! 729 00:59:14,375 --> 00:59:16,416 He's diabolical. 730 00:59:16,542 --> 00:59:19,166 He guesses everything! 731 00:59:19,792 --> 00:59:22,374 He knows all about us! He reads us 732 00:59:22,542 --> 00:59:24,624 like an open book. 733 00:59:30,292 --> 00:59:32,666 He only has insights when people interest him. 734 00:59:33,917 --> 00:59:35,916 He guessed nothing about me. 735 00:59:37,417 --> 00:59:39,791 I'm respectful: you're in mourning. 736 00:59:40,292 --> 00:59:43,541 If a widow's inconsolable, she's wedded to her sorrow. 737 00:59:43,667 --> 00:59:47,791 If she's consolable, at least in public, she hides her availability. 738 00:59:47,917 --> 00:59:51,124 And if she's already been consoled, she doesn't want it known. 739 00:59:51,292 --> 00:59:54,041 In any event, she'd rather not be unveiled. 740 01:00:00,917 --> 01:00:02,916 I'm a winegrower in Champagne. 741 01:00:04,625 --> 01:00:06,291 A reassuring activity. 742 01:00:08,792 --> 01:00:11,624 Mr. Casanova and Mr. de la Bretonne, I thank you. 743 01:00:11,792 --> 01:00:15,291 It's a privilege for me, never a ladies' man, 744 01:00:15,875 --> 01:00:19,916 to witness your seduction lessons: how to act with ladies, 745 01:00:21,417 --> 01:00:23,624 how to interest them, 746 01:00:23,792 --> 01:00:26,124 ask them questions... 747 01:00:27,625 --> 01:00:29,624 Forgive me for covering my head. 748 01:00:30,792 --> 01:00:33,124 I do it only to take off my hat to you! 749 01:00:35,292 --> 01:00:38,166 The gentleman's making fun of us! 750 01:00:39,792 --> 01:00:41,416 He's one of the richest men in France. 751 01:00:41,792 --> 01:00:43,416 He can afford to! 752 01:00:44,042 --> 01:00:45,791 Makes no difference to me! 753 01:00:46,292 --> 01:00:49,624 I once horsewhipped Salomon de Rothschild, the banker. 754 01:00:50,875 --> 01:00:54,291 Maybe that's why I'm destitute now! 755 01:00:54,500 --> 01:00:58,291 In that case, I must have walloped every banker in Europe! 756 01:01:00,500 --> 01:01:03,291 Gentlemen, you're mistaken. 757 01:01:03,792 --> 01:01:04,791 I'm being sincere. 758 01:01:04,917 --> 01:01:08,124 But your pasts are so eventful, you neglect the present. 759 01:01:08,292 --> 01:01:10,541 You haven't even noticed 760 01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:12,541 the three ladies here watching you. 761 01:01:12,750 --> 01:01:16,791 The looks they're giving you! Who knows, 762 01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,124 maybe I'll witness in this very coach, 763 01:01:21,542 --> 01:01:23,749 between 2 relays, your 1,000th conquest, 764 01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:27,791 Mr. de la Bretonne or Mr. Casanova! 765 01:01:28,792 --> 01:01:30,124 What a pain in the ass! 766 01:01:33,625 --> 01:01:36,416 Why not give Mr. Wendel that pleasure? 767 01:01:38,917 --> 01:01:41,416 True, the conditions aren't ideal, 768 01:01:41,625 --> 01:01:43,291 6 people in a carriage, 769 01:01:43,917 --> 01:01:45,999 four more than necessary. 770 01:01:46,917 --> 01:01:48,999 But you've been 771 01:01:49,167 --> 01:01:51,416 in more desperate straits, 772 01:01:53,042 --> 01:01:55,541 and come out ahead. I remember, 773 01:01:55,917 --> 01:01:58,416 Mr. Restif, reading 774 01:01:59,125 --> 01:02:02,124 some of your truly perilous escapes, 775 01:02:03,125 --> 01:02:06,791 with a husband snoring in the same bed beside you. 776 01:02:09,500 --> 01:02:13,041 Or in a confessional, 777 01:02:13,500 --> 01:02:14,999 within convent walls, 778 01:02:15,292 --> 01:02:18,624 on a river-barge, up a tree, in a stable, 779 01:02:19,042 --> 01:02:21,541 with a girl holding yarn, for her blind mother 780 01:02:21,667 --> 01:02:22,999 to skein. 781 01:02:23,167 --> 01:02:27,041 You can't be defeated by a stage coach! 782 01:02:27,542 --> 01:02:30,624 Since you've read my works, you know I never favored 783 01:02:30,792 --> 01:02:32,999 the kind of women who travel by carriage. 784 01:02:34,417 --> 01:02:36,666 Then what would you do, sir, 785 01:02:37,375 --> 01:02:39,374 to instruct Mr. de Wendel? 786 01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:41,666 Maybe... 787 01:02:43,417 --> 01:02:47,874 after an exchange of glances, at the next post-station. 788 01:02:48,042 --> 01:02:51,041 No. The husbands will be there. 789 01:02:51,625 --> 01:02:53,624 It must happen in the carriage. 790 01:02:54,292 --> 01:02:56,999 We could wait for nightfall... 791 01:02:57,167 --> 01:02:59,291 And travelling in the darkness... 792 01:02:59,417 --> 01:03:00,374 No. 793 01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,374 The journey will be over before nightfall. 794 01:03:04,542 --> 01:03:09,124 At best, one could draw the curtain. 795 01:03:11,542 --> 01:03:12,291 Like this... 796 01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:16,499 This game doesn't amuse me. 797 01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:20,666 Making love in a carriage, which we may have done anyway, 798 01:03:20,792 --> 01:03:23,749 or in the most secret alcove, is all the same. 799 01:03:25,000 --> 01:03:26,666 What matters is... 800 01:03:28,667 --> 01:03:29,999 that there should be... 801 01:03:33,292 --> 01:03:36,166 is that in love-making, there should be... 802 01:03:36,292 --> 01:03:37,291 should be... 803 01:03:46,292 --> 01:03:48,749 There should be... what? 804 01:03:50,667 --> 01:03:52,291 Mystery! 805 01:04:02,875 --> 01:04:06,666 Even if America fought harder for its independence 806 01:04:06,875 --> 01:04:09,041 than for changing institutions, 807 01:04:09,167 --> 01:04:12,541 your revolution is an extension of ours. 808 01:04:13,292 --> 01:04:16,666 It's a movement that will affect the whole world. 809 01:04:16,792 --> 01:04:21,041 I don't agree with you. Nor does the American ambassador. 810 01:04:21,250 --> 01:04:24,041 I sat next to him at a dinner recently. 811 01:04:24,250 --> 01:04:27,291 He said the new social order being imposed here, 812 01:04:27,417 --> 01:04:31,041 against religion, order, and property, 813 01:04:31,250 --> 01:04:34,416 seriously worries all Americans. 814 01:04:34,625 --> 01:04:39,166 All? He and his pals from the Southern states 815 01:04:39,667 --> 01:04:43,166 are fearful of a constitution that favors equality 816 01:04:43,292 --> 01:04:45,791 and the abolition of slavery. 817 01:04:45,917 --> 01:04:49,416 No, but even in New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 818 01:04:49,625 --> 01:04:53,041 they fear that France won't manage to maintain 819 01:04:53,167 --> 01:04:55,541 its stability and treaties. 820 01:04:55,750 --> 01:05:00,374 Which would be a threat to its trade with Europe. 821 01:05:01,500 --> 01:05:04,291 America needn't fear for its European trade. 822 01:05:04,417 --> 01:05:07,374 As long as Europeans don't stop eating. 823 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:12,291 Ambassador Morris also said 824 01:05:12,625 --> 01:05:14,874 and I think that... 825 01:05:16,042 --> 01:05:21,416 he was referring to you and what you wrote about equality, 826 01:05:21,875 --> 01:05:25,666 that the rights of man are established by the laws of nature. 827 01:05:25,792 --> 01:05:28,541 Which is why it never can be true 828 01:05:29,292 --> 01:05:31,916 that all men are equal. 829 01:05:32,292 --> 01:05:37,374 I, unlike you and Mr. Morris, if you'll allow me, 830 01:05:37,917 --> 01:05:41,791 wish for man's right to enjoy the fruits of his labor, 831 01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:43,916 within the common interest, 832 01:05:44,167 --> 01:05:46,666 to be recognized as soon as possible. 833 01:05:46,875 --> 01:05:49,416 When royal courts stop plundering 834 01:05:49,542 --> 01:05:54,166 poverty will disappear from nations for the greater good of the many. 835 01:06:19,250 --> 01:06:20,291 He never stops. 836 01:06:20,417 --> 01:06:23,916 He's not working, he's asleep on his feet. 837 01:06:24,042 --> 01:06:26,999 Gilbert, you work too hard. 838 01:06:27,167 --> 01:06:30,374 You work at charcoal even as you sleep. 839 01:06:31,167 --> 01:06:34,374 The stagecoach! They're not there yet! 840 01:06:38,125 --> 01:06:39,416 Carrying quite a load! 841 01:06:41,792 --> 01:06:45,041 They'll have to stop at the climb. 842 01:06:45,625 --> 01:06:47,916 And they'll want us to help 'em. 843 01:06:48,792 --> 01:06:50,124 No chance! 844 01:06:55,917 --> 01:06:59,291 The climb is too steep. We must walk a ways. 845 01:07:07,667 --> 01:07:09,374 All that smoke! 846 01:07:10,792 --> 01:07:12,916 It's terrible for my throat. 847 01:07:14,375 --> 01:07:17,041 What do all those brawny young men do? 848 01:07:20,625 --> 01:07:23,416 What opera are you performing in Metz? 849 01:07:23,625 --> 01:07:28,291 The program says "Dido Abandoned" and "Don Giovanni". 850 01:07:28,417 --> 01:07:30,124 "Don Giovanni"? Really? 851 01:07:30,292 --> 01:07:33,124 I was at the première in Prague 4 years ago. 852 01:07:33,625 --> 01:07:36,166 Mozart conducted at his harpsichord. 853 01:07:36,375 --> 01:07:40,499 Da Ponte, who had to leave, asked me to stand in for him at rehearsals. 854 01:07:40,667 --> 01:07:42,624 Mozart speaks perfect Italian. 855 01:07:42,917 --> 01:07:47,416 He and I reworked a few verses of the "Catalogue" aria. You know... 856 01:08:25,417 --> 01:08:27,416 More smokestacks, 857 01:08:27,667 --> 01:08:31,166 mean more machinery, more dependence on workmen. 858 01:08:31,292 --> 01:08:33,666 And those who manipulate them. 859 01:08:34,792 --> 01:08:38,624 Agitators are using the financial crisis to stir up the workers 860 01:08:38,792 --> 01:08:41,166 First blacksmiths, hatters, 861 01:08:41,292 --> 01:08:44,624 then fruitsellers, carpenters, now iron workers... 862 01:08:44,792 --> 01:08:48,291 In Paris, they're holding meetings. 863 01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:52,624 Instead of working, they go on strike. 864 01:08:53,542 --> 01:08:56,791 I've actually seen it: a workman stopping work. 865 01:08:57,292 --> 01:08:59,291 Just suddenly stop working. 866 01:09:00,917 --> 01:09:04,916 The most terrifying sight I ever saw! 867 01:09:15,417 --> 01:09:18,541 Forgive an amateur for imposing on an artist. 868 01:09:18,917 --> 01:09:22,916 Don't worry! I'm a contralto. Leporello's a baritone. 869 01:09:23,125 --> 01:09:25,624 Leporello's as great as Sancho Panza. 870 01:09:25,792 --> 01:09:28,624 He has all the anger of the servant 871 01:09:28,792 --> 01:09:31,291 who envies and despises his master. 872 01:09:31,417 --> 01:09:33,416 At one point he sings: 873 01:09:33,792 --> 01:09:36,791 "I want to be a gentleman and serve no more". 874 01:09:37,625 --> 01:09:40,874 The impossible dream of all servants of all times! 875 01:09:41,292 --> 01:09:45,916 It seems you don't approve of what's happened in France since '89? 876 01:09:46,292 --> 01:09:48,541 I may displease some of you, 877 01:09:48,792 --> 01:09:50,291 but I'll say no. 878 01:09:50,417 --> 01:09:53,916 I don't approve because things have grown uglier here. 879 01:09:54,125 --> 01:09:57,499 Coachmen and servants think they have 880 01:09:57,667 --> 01:09:59,416 the right to be rude. 881 01:10:00,792 --> 01:10:04,416 I miss the sweeter France of yore, 882 01:10:05,792 --> 01:10:07,791 when all was harmony and light. 883 01:10:08,917 --> 01:10:11,291 It was a good place for a foreigner to live. 884 01:10:11,500 --> 01:10:13,291 Dignity was respected. 885 01:10:13,500 --> 01:10:15,916 Dignity is the first thing you lose. 886 01:10:16,292 --> 01:10:19,124 Soon you'll have the people as your monarch: 887 01:10:19,625 --> 01:10:22,791 the most violent and tyrannical of monarchs! 888 01:10:22,917 --> 01:10:25,249 Stop it! I forbid you to say that! 889 01:10:26,417 --> 01:10:30,291 I'm speaking to you, Mr. Casanova. Or Madame Casanova! 890 01:10:33,125 --> 01:10:35,124 I thank you for that! 891 01:10:35,792 --> 01:10:38,666 You just proved my point! 892 01:10:39,417 --> 01:10:42,541 In the older France, no one 893 01:10:43,125 --> 01:10:47,374 would have so rudely forbidden me to speak. 894 01:10:51,292 --> 01:10:53,916 Young man, you should only forbid 895 01:10:54,167 --> 01:10:57,166 - actions which can harm society. - Words can be harmful, too. 896 01:10:57,625 --> 01:11:01,874 Maybe. But to forbid them is a step towards tyranny. 897 01:11:13,625 --> 01:11:15,916 He's handsome, but what a disposition! 898 01:11:16,125 --> 01:11:18,416 In Bologna, we call them "ball busters"! 899 01:11:19,125 --> 01:11:21,666 The girl is charming, too. Not bad. 900 01:11:22,125 --> 01:11:23,916 A bit dark, maybe. 901 01:11:24,042 --> 01:11:26,541 If God made them black, there's a reason. 902 01:11:40,292 --> 01:11:42,916 Out of the way! 903 01:11:48,792 --> 01:11:51,166 These roads are truly getting dangerous! 904 01:12:15,125 --> 01:12:17,124 Nature calls! 905 01:12:17,625 --> 01:12:18,916 Good idea. 906 01:12:29,792 --> 01:12:31,124 Wretched bladder! 907 01:12:32,125 --> 01:12:35,416 I'm at that age: you never stop peeing, 908 01:12:36,125 --> 01:12:37,416 and what an effort! 909 01:12:37,542 --> 01:12:41,916 You always get punished in the places where you sinned. 910 01:12:42,417 --> 01:12:43,416 True! 911 01:12:44,125 --> 01:12:46,416 If it was limited to that area... 912 01:12:46,792 --> 01:12:51,124 but the eyes, hands, feet, they all weaken. 913 01:12:51,292 --> 01:12:54,124 I don't have gout, it's my kidneys. 914 01:12:54,625 --> 01:12:57,624 You're lucky: I have gout and kidney trouble. 915 01:12:57,917 --> 01:13:01,916 In case you didn't notice, I'm also a bit deaf. 916 01:13:02,042 --> 01:13:02,916 What? 917 01:13:08,417 --> 01:13:09,666 Finally... 918 01:13:11,167 --> 01:13:12,666 seeing our fate: 919 01:13:12,875 --> 01:13:15,374 poverty, illnesses, 920 01:13:15,542 --> 01:13:18,249 sorrows, suffering... 921 01:13:18,792 --> 01:13:22,291 They have one advantage: they make dying easier. 922 01:13:25,542 --> 01:13:29,749 I visited Voltaire in his chateau in Ferney, in 1779. 923 01:13:29,917 --> 01:13:32,666 He was dying. We had a fierce argument, 924 01:13:32,792 --> 01:13:35,499 but he fed me sublimely. 925 01:13:44,667 --> 01:13:47,749 You two! Get some rocks for the wheels. 926 01:13:56,167 --> 01:13:58,874 Block the wheel. The other one, too! 927 01:14:00,375 --> 01:14:02,541 Now push! Harder! 928 01:14:26,542 --> 01:14:29,041 Mr. Baldi, I'm coming! 929 01:14:30,875 --> 01:14:31,874 De Florange! 930 01:14:32,292 --> 01:14:34,666 How are my other darlings up there? 931 01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:41,291 Poor Mr. Baldi. 932 01:14:41,417 --> 01:14:44,541 Were you scared, Mr. Baldi? 933 01:14:44,792 --> 01:14:48,249 What did you do all alone? Play with yourself? 934 01:15:11,542 --> 01:15:14,166 An alfresco lunch, hurriedly consumed, 935 01:15:15,667 --> 01:15:17,541 and not by just anyone! 936 01:15:18,875 --> 01:15:21,541 This bottle is from the Royal cellars. 937 01:15:22,375 --> 01:15:26,624 I forgot, you're a seer. 938 01:15:26,875 --> 01:15:31,666 No, I'm just observant, even though my eyesight is failing. 939 01:15:32,375 --> 01:15:35,999 I've drunk that wine at the King's table. 940 01:15:38,875 --> 01:15:40,166 You know... 941 01:15:42,375 --> 01:15:44,666 I saw you when I was fifteen. 942 01:15:45,375 --> 01:15:46,666 Really? 943 01:15:47,542 --> 01:15:50,166 Can you keep a secret? 944 01:15:51,167 --> 01:15:53,541 You were my first love. 945 01:15:59,375 --> 01:16:03,416 You met me too soon, and I met you too late. 946 01:16:06,167 --> 01:16:10,291 So it goes... Our traveling companions are waiting. 947 01:16:11,042 --> 01:16:13,374 Seeing it's you, they must think 948 01:16:13,542 --> 01:16:17,874 we went off for a flirtatious interlude... 949 01:16:19,167 --> 01:16:21,416 For me, it was one, Madame. 950 01:17:00,542 --> 01:17:01,916 Off we go! 951 01:17:17,125 --> 01:17:19,624 "Enemies of the Revolution have kidnapped the King. 952 01:17:19,792 --> 01:17:21,749 "Loyal citizens must wrest him from them 953 01:17:21,917 --> 01:17:24,124 "and return him to the Assembly. 954 01:17:24,292 --> 01:17:26,416 "Signed: La Fayette." 955 01:17:39,500 --> 01:17:43,791 Orders are also hereby issued to stop the 6-horse green coach 956 01:17:43,917 --> 01:17:46,416 carrying the King and his family. 957 01:17:47,625 --> 01:17:48,541 6 horses... 958 01:17:48,750 --> 01:17:51,791 Carrying the King and his family. 959 01:17:54,792 --> 01:17:56,291 I, Commander Bayon 960 01:17:57,625 --> 01:18:01,124 of the 7th Battalion of the 2nd division of the National Guard. 961 01:18:01,292 --> 01:18:04,291 dispatched by the city of Paris to arrest them, 962 01:18:05,375 --> 01:18:08,791 here at the first stop after a 6-hour journey, 963 01:18:09,625 --> 01:18:12,291 do hereby send citizen... 964 01:18:12,417 --> 01:18:14,374 Gabriel Vallet, Excellency. 965 01:18:14,625 --> 01:18:18,916 Gabriel Vallet, to the Châlons town hall, 966 01:18:20,917 --> 01:18:25,166 to carry the above-mentioned orders 967 01:18:25,625 --> 01:18:29,624 to all townships from here to the border. 968 01:18:46,292 --> 01:18:50,124 If it takes you more than an hour, you're guilty of treason! 969 01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:51,749 Leave at once! 970 01:18:56,292 --> 01:18:59,916 You heard? Orders to arrest the King and his entire family. 971 01:19:00,667 --> 01:19:03,041 You can't arrest the King! 972 01:19:03,792 --> 01:19:07,791 By now, he's at the head of 1,000 hussars! 973 01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:09,874 You knew about this? 974 01:19:10,125 --> 01:19:14,916 I didn't know it, but I foresaw it last night. 975 01:19:15,292 --> 01:19:17,166 The King fled along this road today? 976 01:19:17,417 --> 01:19:19,916 Mr. Baldi, maybe you can catch him. 977 01:19:20,292 --> 01:19:22,624 How does the news strike you, Mr. Paine? 978 01:19:22,792 --> 01:19:24,416 A king in flight 979 01:19:25,417 --> 01:19:27,666 grows less of a king by the minute. 980 01:19:30,417 --> 01:19:32,291 - You're the host? - At your service. 981 01:19:32,500 --> 01:19:34,624 On his throne or in flight, no king 982 01:19:34,792 --> 01:19:36,874 ever made me miss a meal. By the fire. 983 01:19:37,042 --> 01:19:41,291 I saw him. But it wasn't him. He wasn't wearing his red coat! 984 01:19:41,417 --> 01:19:44,041 Yes, it was. Here. 985 01:19:44,250 --> 01:19:46,916 There he is! Just as he was. 986 01:19:50,959 --> 01:19:53,874 Supreme of truffles, roast partridge, 987 01:19:54,084 --> 01:19:57,249 foie gras, carp in sorrel, 988 01:19:57,459 --> 01:19:59,749 cheeses, desserts, wines... 989 01:19:59,959 --> 01:20:01,374 Bring me the lot! 990 01:20:19,250 --> 01:20:22,249 They saw 6 people in the large carriage. 991 01:20:22,459 --> 01:20:25,958 An old woman, 2 ladies, one very pretty, 2 little girls, a majordomo. 992 01:20:26,125 --> 01:20:30,499 That's Mme de Tourzel, the Royal children's governess, 993 01:20:30,959 --> 01:20:33,249 Madame Elizabeth, the King's sister. 994 01:20:33,459 --> 01:20:36,124 The pretty lady is Marie-Antoinette. 995 01:20:36,250 --> 01:20:38,708 And the Dauphin, dressed as a girl. 996 01:20:39,459 --> 01:20:41,874 And his Royal sister. 997 01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:47,124 The majordomo in frock coat and round hat. 998 01:20:47,250 --> 01:20:49,708 The King? In a frock coat? 999 01:20:50,250 --> 01:20:52,958 What's so odd about that? 1000 01:20:53,125 --> 01:20:56,749 A King can't flee in his crown and ermine cape. 1001 01:20:56,875 --> 01:20:58,458 Much too showy! 1002 01:20:58,750 --> 01:21:03,874 The King isn't fleeing! He's on his way to joint his allies. 1003 01:21:04,584 --> 01:21:07,124 For the good of France. 1004 01:21:07,750 --> 01:21:11,083 The pride of kings throws humanity into confusion. 1005 01:21:11,625 --> 01:21:13,999 France is confused 1006 01:21:14,125 --> 01:21:17,499 because of people who wanted a new government. 1007 01:21:18,500 --> 01:21:19,999 I love disorder. 1008 01:21:24,625 --> 01:21:26,124 No government is good. 1009 01:21:26,334 --> 01:21:28,999 Because it enriches one part of society, 1010 01:21:29,125 --> 01:21:30,833 and impoverishes another. 1011 01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:34,374 More than either would be in their natural state. 1012 01:21:34,584 --> 01:21:37,374 Governments, alas, are governed! 1013 01:21:38,250 --> 01:21:40,124 But worst of all, 1014 01:21:40,709 --> 01:21:43,624 is the government of the aristocracy and the monarchy. 1015 01:21:44,250 --> 01:21:47,999 The two most tyrannical swindles in the history of man. 1016 01:21:49,625 --> 01:21:50,749 For instance, 1017 01:21:51,125 --> 01:21:54,958 look at the Royal Beast of England, dear George III. 1018 01:21:56,750 --> 01:21:58,874 He needed more subjects overseas to squeeze like lemons, 1019 01:21:59,125 --> 01:22:01,374 to keep up the luxurious living at his court. 1020 01:22:01,959 --> 01:22:02,958 But America... 1021 01:22:03,125 --> 01:22:05,583 General Lafayette edited that. 1022 01:22:06,834 --> 01:22:09,874 When did they discover he'd fled? 1023 01:22:10,625 --> 01:22:11,749 7 a.m. 1024 01:22:12,250 --> 01:22:15,208 When did you leave? 1025 01:22:15,500 --> 01:22:16,749 8 a.m. 1026 01:22:17,500 --> 01:22:20,333 What's happening in Paris? 1027 01:22:22,084 --> 01:22:23,999 The city's in turmoil. 1028 01:22:24,625 --> 01:22:28,749 How did you decide they'd headed for Metz? 1029 01:22:28,875 --> 01:22:32,374 To meet up with de Bouillé's troops at the border? 1030 01:22:32,500 --> 01:22:33,874 Obviously. 1031 01:22:34,125 --> 01:22:36,124 - Roast partridges! - Fine! 1032 01:22:42,334 --> 01:22:43,833 Do you always eat that much? 1033 01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:48,833 Even when I indulged in other pleasures besides eating. 1034 01:22:51,500 --> 01:22:52,999 It's superb! 1035 01:22:53,209 --> 01:22:55,583 In France, it's even worse. 1036 01:22:56,250 --> 01:22:59,583 4,000 privileged families, princes de blood, 1037 01:22:59,750 --> 01:23:03,083 sword, or church, who despise each other 1038 01:23:03,834 --> 01:23:06,999 and vegetate at Court, indulging in every excess. 1039 01:23:08,584 --> 01:23:13,083 Since you're so well-informed about Court life, 1040 01:23:14,084 --> 01:23:17,083 did you know those 4,000 families 1041 01:23:17,250 --> 01:23:19,624 contribute huge sums to the Royal budget 1042 01:23:19,750 --> 01:23:21,749 and to charity? 1043 01:23:23,209 --> 01:23:26,958 The people don't want charity. They want their rights. 1044 01:23:28,375 --> 01:23:32,249 Their rights... and the duties that go with them! 1045 01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:35,374 The duty to respect their King! 1046 01:23:35,584 --> 01:23:38,083 A King by divine right! 1047 01:23:38,584 --> 01:23:42,374 The aristocrats were the first to neglect those duties. 1048 01:23:42,500 --> 01:23:44,874 Most fled abroad and forgot their King. 1049 01:23:45,209 --> 01:23:46,874 I don't share your ideas! 1050 01:23:47,250 --> 01:23:49,249 Don't get so excited! 1051 01:23:49,625 --> 01:23:51,999 As to that "divine right"... 1052 01:23:52,750 --> 01:23:56,249 How did the aristocracy obtain it? 1053 01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:03,124 Do they have special access to God that the people don't have? 1054 01:24:04,125 --> 01:24:08,083 No, it's a trick to hand down the office from father to son, 1055 01:24:09,750 --> 01:24:13,249 so that after a lion, an ass may sit on the throne! 1056 01:24:22,625 --> 01:24:28,499 Bon appetit on this day of mystery! Right, Madame? 1057 01:24:31,709 --> 01:24:33,624 Won't you have something? 1058 01:24:33,750 --> 01:24:37,374 Gladly, but I usually fast. 1059 01:24:37,959 --> 01:24:41,749 I have nothing against revolutions. They can do good. 1060 01:24:41,875 --> 01:24:44,708 But those who make them are seldom good. 1061 01:24:44,875 --> 01:24:48,749 For you the only good people are those who don't make revolutions. 1062 01:24:48,875 --> 01:24:51,874 For us judges, this period... 1063 01:24:52,375 --> 01:24:56,208 For the likes of you... Are you glad he escaped? 1064 01:24:57,500 --> 01:25:00,333 Marat was right: La Fayette's in league with the King 1065 01:25:00,500 --> 01:25:02,583 and the great whore! 1066 01:25:02,750 --> 01:25:03,874 You swine! 1067 01:25:04,125 --> 01:25:06,499 - I forbid you to say that! - Go ahead and stop me! 1068 01:25:06,625 --> 01:25:08,999 He can't stop a thing. You can stop yourself! 1069 01:25:09,209 --> 01:25:11,874 For dignity's sake. 1070 01:25:12,750 --> 01:25:14,499 Aline, pick it up. 1071 01:25:18,375 --> 01:25:21,749 Sorry, Judge. Your cheese. 1072 01:25:23,459 --> 01:25:25,999 He has a liver this big! 1073 01:25:28,125 --> 01:25:29,708 What a trip! 1074 01:25:37,959 --> 01:25:39,374 They're everywhere! 1075 01:25:48,334 --> 01:25:52,208 I'm here. With all your things, Mr. Casanova. All's well. 1076 01:25:53,709 --> 01:25:55,374 Good lad! 1077 01:26:02,875 --> 01:26:04,374 Like some? 1078 01:26:05,500 --> 01:26:06,499 Good! 1079 01:26:20,875 --> 01:26:23,208 Princess, give me a kiss! 1080 01:26:23,500 --> 01:26:25,624 What's a kiss to you? 1081 01:26:25,750 --> 01:26:28,499 Give me a kiss! 1082 01:26:28,875 --> 01:26:32,249 Come with me! 1083 01:26:37,750 --> 01:26:40,374 Princess... your King ran away, I saw him. 1084 01:26:40,500 --> 01:26:43,374 He said to me: "Take that bitch!" 1085 01:26:44,875 --> 01:26:47,833 What a pretty neck! For my brother-in-law. 1086 01:26:48,500 --> 01:26:50,708 He's an executioner in Paris! 1087 01:26:56,375 --> 01:27:00,624 What do you want? A kiss, too? 1088 01:27:09,625 --> 01:27:12,999 All right, Countess? It's all over. 1089 01:27:13,209 --> 01:27:16,874 You offended me more than that wretch! 1090 01:27:18,375 --> 01:27:21,208 What is it, Madame? Look at your hair! 1091 01:27:21,709 --> 01:27:22,999 That brute! 1092 01:27:23,250 --> 01:27:24,833 Marie-Madeleine, quick! 1093 01:27:26,000 --> 01:27:27,374 What's going on? 1094 01:27:27,709 --> 01:27:30,499 None of your business, sir! He's such a pest! 1095 01:27:32,875 --> 01:27:34,249 Come help Madame. 1096 01:27:36,709 --> 01:27:38,499 Leave that alone! 1097 01:27:42,125 --> 01:27:44,208 People are restless. 1098 01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:48,208 Today... anything could happen. 1099 01:27:49,875 --> 01:27:52,999 Would you be kind enough 1100 01:27:54,000 --> 01:27:56,374 to say farewell for me, 1101 01:27:57,000 --> 01:27:59,499 to our tempestuous friends. 1102 01:28:01,709 --> 01:28:05,208 I haven't been consoled. My life is a wasteland. 1103 01:28:05,500 --> 01:28:07,708 You took my breath away. 1104 01:28:08,084 --> 01:28:10,333 You made your 1,000th conquest in that coach. 1105 01:28:11,000 --> 01:28:14,499 Please don't refuse. Today anything could happen. 1106 01:28:15,125 --> 01:28:16,374 You said so yourself. 1107 01:28:16,625 --> 01:28:19,374 Make my happiness complete. 1108 01:28:20,709 --> 01:28:22,833 It's insanity, but take me away! 1109 01:28:24,709 --> 01:28:28,624 We'll go to my place in Champagne, or wherever you want. 1110 01:28:29,375 --> 01:28:31,624 Please, Giacomo... 1111 01:28:36,709 --> 01:28:39,749 What you call insanity, 1112 01:28:40,500 --> 01:28:44,374 would have been the height of wisdom 1113 01:28:44,584 --> 01:28:48,499 until a while ago. But at the age of 66, 1114 01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:53,208 one develops another kind of wisdom, 1115 01:28:54,000 --> 01:28:57,749 that doesn't bring happiness, but protects one 1116 01:28:59,375 --> 01:29:01,833 from disappointments. 1117 01:29:05,625 --> 01:29:07,374 It's cold today. 1118 01:29:10,875 --> 01:29:11,874 Where was I? 1119 01:29:14,625 --> 01:29:17,874 Thank you for your double offer. 1120 01:29:18,959 --> 01:29:22,999 Your beauty and your country house. 1121 01:29:23,709 --> 01:29:25,874 I'd have loved them both. 1122 01:29:26,209 --> 01:29:31,249 Believe me, only I will regret this. 1123 01:29:38,875 --> 01:29:42,083 This old man didn't take your breath away. 1124 01:29:43,750 --> 01:29:45,374 It was his name, 1125 01:29:47,084 --> 01:29:48,749 his reputation, 1126 01:29:49,584 --> 01:29:51,249 his past. 1127 01:29:54,084 --> 01:29:57,833 Today, those things are gone. 1128 01:29:59,375 --> 01:30:03,249 In any case, Madame, thank you again! 1129 01:30:14,709 --> 01:30:17,124 I'm glad to have met the great Restif. 1130 01:30:17,334 --> 01:30:21,083 And I'll never forget the Chevalier de Seingalt. 1131 01:30:21,375 --> 01:30:24,708 Your horse is dead. Of a burst heart. 1132 01:30:24,875 --> 01:30:28,374 I can saddle another for you. 1133 01:30:29,375 --> 01:30:30,749 Hey, you! 1134 01:30:32,334 --> 01:30:34,624 I broke my ass on a saddle for 40 leagues, 1135 01:30:34,834 --> 01:30:36,499 at 6 leagues an hour! 1136 01:30:37,209 --> 01:30:39,874 You have room! Take me in your carriage! 1137 01:30:40,084 --> 01:30:42,833 Since you asked so politely... 1138 01:30:44,875 --> 01:30:49,583 See, Madame? That's the company my new wisdom gets me! 1139 01:31:02,084 --> 01:31:05,499 Thank you for your precious help, young friend. 1140 01:31:05,875 --> 01:31:07,374 I'll remember you. 1141 01:31:07,750 --> 01:31:09,874 And I you, Mr. Casanova. 1142 01:31:10,375 --> 01:31:13,874 A pity we didn't meet in our youth... Who knows! 1143 01:31:14,250 --> 01:31:16,583 Of course... Why not! 1144 01:31:17,084 --> 01:31:20,208 One shouldn't turn down anything on principle. 1145 01:31:32,875 --> 01:31:36,083 - My gout! - You're fit as a fiddle! 1146 01:31:37,375 --> 01:31:39,874 Say good-bye to your lovely mistress. 1147 01:31:40,084 --> 01:31:41,374 I won't fail. 1148 01:31:42,250 --> 01:31:44,583 Sir, if you'll allow me... 1149 01:31:44,750 --> 01:31:48,749 The supreme of truffles, partridges, desserts, cheeses, wines... 1150 01:31:48,875 --> 01:31:50,458 Who will pay for them? 1151 01:31:50,625 --> 01:31:53,874 Me! If you'll shout: long live dignity! 1152 01:31:54,084 --> 01:31:56,374 - Long live dignity! - Bravo! 1153 01:31:57,750 --> 01:32:01,124 Here, my good man. Here... 1154 01:32:02,375 --> 01:32:05,499 A letter of credit signed by Count Waldstein, 1155 01:32:05,625 --> 01:32:08,374 the last of that noble lineage. 1156 01:32:08,750 --> 01:32:11,249 "I hereby agree 1157 01:32:12,584 --> 01:32:15,874 "to honor within 6 months, 1158 01:32:17,584 --> 01:32:21,374 "payment of the debt endorsed by Count Wallenstein." 1159 01:32:24,750 --> 01:32:28,374 "...in the amount of... 1160 01:32:28,750 --> 01:32:32,874 "Write the desired amount in the blank space. 1161 01:32:33,250 --> 01:32:35,374 "...on behalf of Mr... 1162 01:32:35,750 --> 01:32:38,749 "Write in the creditor's name. 1163 01:32:39,750 --> 01:32:41,874 "Signed and approved 1164 01:32:42,375 --> 01:32:46,749 "by the Chevalier de Seingalt." 1165 01:32:46,875 --> 01:32:49,208 Jean-Louis Romeuf, aide to General La Fayette. 1166 01:32:49,375 --> 01:32:51,208 Did a Captain of the National Guard 1167 01:32:51,375 --> 01:32:52,749 come through from Paris ? 1168 01:32:52,875 --> 01:32:55,249 He just left by carriage. 1169 01:32:55,375 --> 01:32:57,874 But he'd been here an hour. 1170 01:32:58,084 --> 01:33:02,249 I must leave at once. A horse! He gets a carriage! 1171 01:33:08,125 --> 01:33:10,624 Drink, Madame. It's cocoa. 1172 01:33:10,750 --> 01:33:13,499 Drink some, it always did you good. 1173 01:33:14,125 --> 01:33:16,874 Why are you crying, Madame? It's over now. 1174 01:33:30,459 --> 01:33:34,749 The crowd spilled over from the streets into the Royal Palace. 1175 01:33:35,250 --> 01:33:38,624 But only to look around. They touched nothing. 1176 01:33:39,250 --> 01:33:42,124 In the King's room, beside the huge ceremonial bed, 1177 01:33:42,459 --> 01:33:46,583 a woman sold cherries for 6 sous a pound. 1178 01:33:46,750 --> 01:33:48,624 That's cheap! 1179 01:33:49,959 --> 01:33:53,249 People had climbed onto monuments and bell-towers. 1180 01:33:53,625 --> 01:33:55,208 The General came out, 1181 01:33:55,375 --> 01:33:58,708 oblivious of taunts and insults, and faced the crowd: 1182 01:33:58,875 --> 01:34:02,874 "Is it in the public interest to arrest the King?" 1183 01:34:03,125 --> 01:34:04,374 Everyone shouted: "Yes!" 1184 01:34:04,500 --> 01:34:07,958 Then he said: "I'll take care of it personally." 1185 01:34:08,750 --> 01:34:11,083 Gentlemen, at your leisure. The stage is ready. 1186 01:34:11,459 --> 01:34:14,874 So the orders to capture the King, passed on by that captain, 1187 01:34:15,084 --> 01:34:17,124 came from my friend La Fayette? 1188 01:34:17,625 --> 01:34:21,249 There was no mention of capture in the General's orders. They state: 1189 01:34:21,459 --> 01:34:24,124 "The enemies of the Revolution have kidnapped the King." 1190 01:34:24,250 --> 01:34:26,749 The General dictated them to me. 1191 01:34:28,500 --> 01:34:29,749 How dare that captain! 1192 01:34:30,250 --> 01:34:33,249 He altered the General's orders! 1193 01:34:33,459 --> 01:34:36,249 La Fayette ordered both of you to leave? 1194 01:34:36,625 --> 01:34:40,624 Only me. The Captain was sent by the Assembly. 1195 01:34:40,750 --> 01:34:42,749 Calling it a "kidnapping"! 1196 01:34:42,959 --> 01:34:45,749 What a brilliant idea to save the crown! 1197 01:34:45,959 --> 01:34:48,124 But why did he do it? 1198 01:34:49,500 --> 01:34:52,624 It could divide the various factions 1199 01:34:52,750 --> 01:34:55,333 in the Assembly. 1200 01:34:55,750 --> 01:34:57,999 La Fayette's aide is here. 1201 01:35:00,250 --> 01:35:01,958 Mr. de Romeuf? 1202 01:35:02,959 --> 01:35:05,708 How many officers are following the King? 1203 01:35:22,625 --> 01:35:24,624 Where will I sit? 1204 01:35:31,459 --> 01:35:35,124 There's our stage. What torture! 1205 01:35:39,459 --> 01:35:43,624 Now I'll sit beside the coachman. I insist! 1206 01:35:44,750 --> 01:35:48,124 It's no place for a lady! 1207 01:35:48,250 --> 01:35:51,249 A lady is always a lady. Wherever she sits! 1208 01:35:54,750 --> 01:35:59,458 You always talk of revolution. Now I'll make one: 1209 01:35:59,625 --> 01:36:02,333 I'll sit beside the citizen coachman. 1210 01:36:03,625 --> 01:36:05,999 That's Mr. de Wendel's seat. 1211 01:36:18,584 --> 01:36:20,333 Tell him to sit down! It's unbearable! 1212 01:36:20,625 --> 01:36:24,624 Homeless? The Royal Palace is for rent! 1213 01:36:24,959 --> 01:36:27,208 If you see the King: 1214 01:36:27,375 --> 01:36:29,583 lead him back to the stables! 1215 01:36:48,125 --> 01:36:50,624 Do you have a plan, Lieutenant? 1216 01:36:53,625 --> 01:36:55,833 When I get to Châlons, 1217 01:36:56,000 --> 01:36:59,458 I'll ask for news of the King's kidnappers at the Town Hall. 1218 01:36:59,625 --> 01:37:02,958 I see. The same place where Capt. Bayon, 1219 01:37:03,625 --> 01:37:07,874 who left with Casanova, hopes to get news of the King's escape! 1220 01:37:08,250 --> 01:37:11,624 Kidnapped or escaping, the King did well to leave 1221 01:37:11,750 --> 01:37:15,124 the Palace, where he was under house arrest. 1222 01:37:16,250 --> 01:37:19,458 Humbled by the Assembly, 1223 01:37:20,125 --> 01:37:22,958 he'd become the shadow of a monarch. 1224 01:37:23,459 --> 01:37:25,749 But the people are for the King. 1225 01:37:25,959 --> 01:37:28,708 They call him "good daddy", and love him. 1226 01:37:28,875 --> 01:37:30,999 They'll rejoice when he returns. 1227 01:37:31,459 --> 01:37:35,249 You may be right. But the people have changed. 1228 01:37:35,750 --> 01:37:38,499 The lower classes in the cities and the peasants 1229 01:37:38,709 --> 01:37:40,708 realized they're poor. 1230 01:37:41,250 --> 01:37:45,458 Of course! Revolutionary propaganda taught them that! 1231 01:37:45,625 --> 01:37:47,499 They're starting to wonder 1232 01:37:47,750 --> 01:37:51,999 if in the hereafter, after death, the last will really come first. 1233 01:37:52,250 --> 01:37:56,458 Faced with that doubt, they've become interested 1234 01:37:56,750 --> 01:37:58,249 in the here and now. 1235 01:37:58,625 --> 01:38:02,749 No, Mr. Restif. I could give you countless 1236 01:38:02,959 --> 01:38:06,458 examples of the people's love of its King. 1237 01:38:06,750 --> 01:38:09,833 His Majesty's trip to Cherbourg. 1238 01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:12,124 June 21, 1786. 1239 01:38:12,250 --> 01:38:14,958 Inauguration of the Naval port of Cherbourg. 1240 01:38:15,125 --> 01:38:19,458 In the presence of King Louis XVI, the last of the huge conical towers, 1241 01:38:19,625 --> 01:38:22,208 8 of which are already anchored to the ocean floor 1242 01:38:22,375 --> 01:38:26,124 to mark off the harbor, is towed out to sea. 1243 01:38:26,959 --> 01:38:30,958 I had the pleasure of being there. 1244 01:38:31,459 --> 01:38:33,749 "He and the crowd were one", 1245 01:38:34,125 --> 01:38:36,708 as the War Minister said. 1246 01:38:36,959 --> 01:38:40,624 The cheers of 20,000 citizens drowned out 1247 01:38:41,125 --> 01:38:43,624 the salute of 600 canons! 1248 01:38:44,750 --> 01:38:48,249 I know you disapprove of all I say. 1249 01:38:48,625 --> 01:38:52,749 But if you'd seen him at Cherbourg in his red coat... 1250 01:38:56,125 --> 01:38:59,124 He was my King, my ideal, 1251 01:39:00,125 --> 01:39:01,624 my religion. 1252 01:39:26,250 --> 01:39:28,458 May I have a look, Countess? 1253 01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:02,999 Traveling papers, please. 1254 01:40:03,209 --> 01:40:04,583 We're going to Metz. 1255 01:40:05,959 --> 01:40:07,208 I'm giving a concert. 1256 01:40:08,459 --> 01:40:09,833 I'm going to Metz, too. 1257 01:40:10,709 --> 01:40:13,708 - To Nancy. - I'm home, I live here. 1258 01:40:15,375 --> 01:40:18,374 Did you have a good trip, Madame? 1259 01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:20,874 Get Madame's baggage. 1260 01:40:29,875 --> 01:40:31,874 Something's wrong... 1261 01:40:32,000 --> 01:40:34,999 They went through 2 hours ago instead of 5. They were alone. 1262 01:40:35,125 --> 01:40:37,874 It seems the Duke of Choiseul and his 40 hussars 1263 01:40:38,000 --> 01:40:40,458 left 15 minutes before their carriage arrived. 1264 01:40:40,625 --> 01:40:44,999 They didn't wait! This was to be the safest part of their journey. 1265 01:40:45,209 --> 01:40:48,583 With more soldiers at each relay. What happened? 1266 01:40:48,750 --> 01:40:51,208 No one knows. I'll go get news! 1267 01:41:02,834 --> 01:41:04,499 What went wrong? 1268 01:41:07,084 --> 01:41:08,833 I saw the coach... 1269 01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,124 Drouet says he met them... 1270 01:41:11,250 --> 01:41:12,999 You're sure it was him? 1271 01:41:13,209 --> 01:41:16,208 It's the same face that's on the notes! Look. 1272 01:41:16,875 --> 01:41:20,333 I waved and a woman waved back. 1273 01:41:20,500 --> 01:41:23,124 That explains all those soldiers this morning. 1274 01:41:23,334 --> 01:41:25,374 I was at Clermont fair. I saw 150 hussars! 1275 01:41:25,500 --> 01:41:29,874 They told us we were to escort a treasure coming from Paris to Metz. 1276 01:41:30,625 --> 01:41:33,208 That reassured us local folks. 1277 01:41:33,875 --> 01:41:35,499 - Then what? - What? 1278 01:41:35,625 --> 01:41:38,124 When was this "treasure" coming through? 1279 01:41:38,334 --> 01:41:39,124 At 5. 1280 01:41:39,875 --> 01:41:43,708 Then at 6 a cabriolet appeared carrying the strangest fellow. 1281 01:41:43,875 --> 01:41:46,749 He had little braids and ribbons everywhere! 1282 01:41:47,625 --> 01:41:48,874 And frizzy hair! 1283 01:41:50,959 --> 01:41:52,374 And he was all dressed in yellow! 1284 01:41:52,875 --> 01:41:55,833 Leonard! What was that screamer doing here? 1285 01:41:56,000 --> 01:41:58,208 Choiseul had given him a note 1286 01:41:58,375 --> 01:42:01,958 for Capt. d'Andoins. It read: "The treasure won't come through today." 1287 01:42:02,834 --> 01:42:05,083 But the "treasure", or something very valuable, 1288 01:42:05,500 --> 01:42:07,124 did come through. 1289 01:42:07,625 --> 01:42:10,999 And how! At 7.45, a carriage appeared, 1290 01:42:12,209 --> 01:42:15,208 the biggest I've ever seen, and a cabriolet. 1291 01:42:15,709 --> 01:42:19,458 But we'd had orders to unsaddle our horses and were off duty. 1292 01:42:19,750 --> 01:42:21,083 What did the Captain do? 1293 01:42:21,250 --> 01:42:24,124 What could he do? He came over and said: 1294 01:42:24,334 --> 01:42:27,708 "Things have gone awry. Hurry or you're lost. 1295 01:42:27,875 --> 01:42:30,249 "Change horses fast and away with you!" 1296 01:42:30,625 --> 01:42:34,249 Drouet had been out haymaking in the fields. When he saw... 1297 01:42:34,459 --> 01:42:35,708 Who is Drouet? 1298 01:42:35,875 --> 01:42:37,999 He's our postmaster. 1299 01:42:38,500 --> 01:42:42,874 He saw the huge carriage, and feared for the horses on the climb. 1300 01:42:43,250 --> 01:42:46,583 Now he says he recognized the King and Queen: 1301 01:42:46,750 --> 01:42:50,124 as a dragoon, he'd met them in Versailles. 1302 01:42:50,375 --> 01:42:53,999 As if Drouet hobnobbed with the King! 1303 01:42:56,625 --> 01:42:59,749 Then a man arrived with orders from Paris... 1304 01:42:59,959 --> 01:43:01,333 From Captain Bayon. 1305 01:43:01,500 --> 01:43:04,249 Don't ask me! He said the King had left. 1306 01:43:04,375 --> 01:43:07,874 They were disarmed, the Captain was jailed. 1307 01:43:08,000 --> 01:43:09,999 Drouet went to Town Hall, 1308 01:43:10,125 --> 01:43:14,499 and the mayor told him to go with all speed after the carriage. 1309 01:43:14,959 --> 01:43:17,999 He left Verdun about the same time as Guillaume. 1310 01:43:18,125 --> 01:43:19,374 Known as "Bignose"! 1311 01:43:22,000 --> 01:43:25,624 Then Baron de Goguelat's plan didn't work! 1312 01:43:26,084 --> 01:43:27,999 Why? Was there a traitor? 1313 01:43:28,125 --> 01:43:30,249 No, incompetent officers, disloyal troops, 1314 01:43:30,459 --> 01:43:33,083 towns in favor of the new order. 1315 01:43:33,250 --> 01:43:35,124 And our good people? 1316 01:43:35,334 --> 01:43:38,208 If they recognized their King, why didn't 1317 01:43:38,375 --> 01:43:39,999 they protect him? 1318 01:43:41,375 --> 01:43:43,624 I don't know, Madame. 1319 01:43:44,125 --> 01:43:46,833 They're so different, seen from up close. 1320 01:43:47,000 --> 01:43:51,124 I don't understand, tonight they seem distant and hostile. 1321 01:43:51,584 --> 01:43:53,333 Those ingrates! 1322 01:43:54,250 --> 01:43:56,708 A pleasure meeting you. 1323 01:43:56,875 --> 01:43:59,374 I hope the rest of your journey is pleasant. 1324 01:44:06,500 --> 01:44:07,999 One moment. 1325 01:44:50,959 --> 01:44:52,833 Mr. Baldi, come here! 1326 01:45:09,125 --> 01:45:11,208 Why are you here? 1327 01:45:12,375 --> 01:45:15,499 What are you looking at? Let's go home. 1328 01:45:33,625 --> 01:45:35,749 This morning I woke up, 1329 01:45:36,000 --> 01:45:39,749 sensing something important would happen to me. 1330 01:45:42,250 --> 01:45:45,458 The King and Queen came here with their children. 1331 01:45:45,625 --> 01:45:50,249 So I said to myself: "This is a big day for my inn." 1332 01:45:51,459 --> 01:45:54,124 I was wrong. The King wasn't it. 1333 01:45:54,584 --> 01:45:56,124 It was your coming. 1334 01:45:57,459 --> 01:46:02,083 That's what made it a big day for me. 1335 01:46:02,625 --> 01:46:03,958 Careful! 1336 01:46:06,500 --> 01:46:07,624 Can we have drink? 1337 01:46:22,250 --> 01:46:24,624 Giacomo, it's Nicolas Restif! 1338 01:46:24,834 --> 01:46:26,249 I've had the pleasure. 1339 01:46:27,625 --> 01:46:30,958 - The husband of my poor Zephire. - Mother! 1340 01:46:31,250 --> 01:46:35,124 My son! The husband of our Zephire. 1341 01:46:36,459 --> 01:46:38,374 You married my Zephire? 1342 01:46:38,625 --> 01:46:41,624 Yours? No, hers. Well, yours. 1343 01:46:42,625 --> 01:46:44,249 She's our Zephire. 1344 01:46:45,750 --> 01:46:48,624 Nicolas, Giacomo was my first love. 1345 01:46:48,875 --> 01:46:52,958 - Then you're my father-in-law? - And you my son-in-law? 1346 01:46:55,459 --> 01:46:57,958 - Come, sit down. - What a day! 1347 01:46:58,125 --> 01:47:00,958 All three of us together! 1348 01:47:01,125 --> 01:47:04,458 - Nanette, what about me? - Plato, go away! 1349 01:47:04,625 --> 01:47:05,958 There's no room! 1350 01:47:15,125 --> 01:47:18,124 Madame is waiting for you. We're ready to leave! 1351 01:47:18,250 --> 01:47:20,583 Go! Mr. Restif will travel with me. 1352 01:47:20,750 --> 01:47:22,249 We'll catch up with you. 1353 01:47:22,375 --> 01:47:25,208 Pig's feet, St. Menehould style. 1354 01:47:31,334 --> 01:47:34,874 Sir, if you wish to dine, we have mackerel in sauce, 1355 01:47:35,084 --> 01:47:39,499 stuffed duck, or pig's feet, St. Menehould style. 1356 01:47:39,625 --> 01:47:42,958 Bring everything. Absolutely everything. 1357 01:47:43,125 --> 01:47:45,249 They're my guests. 1358 01:47:54,125 --> 01:47:56,958 Zephire left me after a year. 1359 01:47:58,459 --> 01:48:01,999 She left me for a better world, at least, I hope it is. 1360 01:48:02,125 --> 01:48:04,749 Yes, pneumonia 1361 01:48:05,459 --> 01:48:07,124 carried her off in 3 weeks. 1362 01:48:07,250 --> 01:48:09,624 No one told me... me, her papa! 1363 01:48:13,250 --> 01:48:16,124 Listen... I'll tell you a secret. 1364 01:48:16,375 --> 01:48:19,374 Your Zephire wasn't my daughter. 1365 01:48:20,959 --> 01:48:24,124 Too many of them have been attributed to me, too. 1366 01:48:24,750 --> 01:48:27,374 But as the saying goes, 1367 01:48:27,834 --> 01:48:30,958 one's never too sure of the father. 1368 01:48:31,375 --> 01:48:33,749 Or of the mother. 1369 01:48:34,000 --> 01:48:36,374 I have no recollection 1370 01:48:36,709 --> 01:48:39,833 of this Madame Nanette. I'd never seen her before tonight. 1371 01:48:40,750 --> 01:48:43,208 Then why did you go along when she said... 1372 01:48:43,375 --> 01:48:44,624 Who knows? 1373 01:48:44,834 --> 01:48:47,999 Love of intrigue, gallantry, a sense of theater... 1374 01:48:49,375 --> 01:48:53,583 I don't know. When she hugged me, 1375 01:48:54,000 --> 01:48:58,249 as I came into the inn, I knew I'd never met her. But why say so? 1376 01:48:58,375 --> 01:49:02,249 Why disappoint a woman past her prime in front of her villagers 1377 01:49:03,250 --> 01:49:05,374 Then I'm not your son-in-law? 1378 01:49:05,875 --> 01:49:08,374 Since I'm not your father-in-law... 1379 01:49:12,375 --> 01:49:14,999 I'm not so sure 1380 01:49:15,125 --> 01:49:18,083 my Zephire was Nanette's daughter, either. 1381 01:49:19,250 --> 01:49:22,124 It happened on a journey, a long time ago. 1382 01:49:22,459 --> 01:49:25,583 Shortly after Zephire's death, I stopped at an inn. 1383 01:49:25,750 --> 01:49:28,333 The proprietress had just lost her daughter in Paris. 1384 01:49:29,125 --> 01:49:32,458 Her name was Zephire! What a discovery! 1385 01:49:33,000 --> 01:49:36,874 In truth, some of the details didn't tally. 1386 01:49:37,084 --> 01:49:40,374 But why quibble? 1387 01:49:41,084 --> 01:49:43,333 Nanette's grief was so genuine. 1388 01:49:43,750 --> 01:49:47,374 She was so glad to meet her poor daughter's husband! 1389 01:49:47,875 --> 01:49:50,833 And in those days, 1390 01:49:51,875 --> 01:49:54,249 Nanette was still a great beauty. 1391 01:49:54,875 --> 01:49:58,583 So we pooled our sorrows 1392 01:49:59,125 --> 01:50:01,583 in her bed, for 3 whole days. 1393 01:50:22,209 --> 01:50:24,999 "In the Palace a perverse Queen, 1394 01:50:25,209 --> 01:50:27,708 "incites a cowardly King 1395 01:50:27,875 --> 01:50:32,124 "to massacre all patriots. 1396 01:50:32,875 --> 01:50:35,874 "The gold and weapons of France" 1397 01:50:36,500 --> 01:50:38,874 "are sent abroad so tyrants 1398 01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:41,749 "on our borders..." 1399 01:50:50,125 --> 01:50:51,833 Help me! 1400 01:51:03,084 --> 01:51:05,083 For over 6 years now, 1401 01:51:05,584 --> 01:51:07,749 I've lived in Bohemia at Dux Castle. 1402 01:51:07,875 --> 01:51:10,083 I'm Count Waldstein's librarian. 1403 01:51:10,250 --> 01:51:12,749 In fact, I'm a kind of court jester. 1404 01:51:12,875 --> 01:51:14,874 I'm forever fighting with the servants, 1405 01:51:15,084 --> 01:51:17,249 who mock me and insult me. 1406 01:51:17,375 --> 01:51:19,083 That's why I've run away. 1407 01:51:19,250 --> 01:51:22,124 I wrote to the Duke of Weimar, to the Duchesse of Saxony. 1408 01:51:22,250 --> 01:51:24,749 I want a position with some dignity. 1409 01:51:25,250 --> 01:51:26,999 But they've kept me waiting! 1410 01:51:27,250 --> 01:51:28,874 Shall we sit over there? 1411 01:51:29,584 --> 01:51:32,749 Count Waldstein sent two men to Paris, 1412 01:51:32,875 --> 01:51:37,083 to tell me he was sorry and wanted me back. 1413 01:51:37,875 --> 01:51:39,249 He even honored 1414 01:51:39,750 --> 01:51:43,124 some letters of credit on which I'd signed his name, 1415 01:51:43,584 --> 01:51:47,374 for some German Jews. He did it because 1416 01:51:47,584 --> 01:51:50,249 he wants me to return. He's bored. 1417 01:51:50,375 --> 01:51:52,833 He needs me to amuse his guests. 1418 01:51:53,000 --> 01:51:56,749 I'll show you how. Noble ladies and knights! 1419 01:51:57,584 --> 01:52:01,749 I'll tell you the story of how I pretended to fall from my horse, 1420 01:52:01,875 --> 01:52:06,124 opposite the house of the two most virtuous sisters in Dresden. 1421 01:52:06,334 --> 01:52:07,874 Marika and Birgitt! 1422 01:52:08,375 --> 01:52:11,874 Rescued and laid out on a bed in their house, 1423 01:52:12,084 --> 01:52:14,749 I asked them to fetch from my saddle-bag, 1424 01:52:14,959 --> 01:52:17,999 a flask of miraculous ointment. It was just 1425 01:52:18,250 --> 01:52:21,333 Burgundy wine! I asked Birgitt and Marika 1426 01:52:21,500 --> 01:52:23,874 to rub it with nimble fingers 1427 01:52:24,084 --> 01:52:26,999 on my naked skin, and massage me where... 1428 01:52:46,584 --> 01:52:49,374 Restif, I'm really tired. I think I... 1429 01:52:50,250 --> 01:52:52,249 It's time I returned to port. 1430 01:52:52,375 --> 01:52:54,999 But I want to be alone. On foot. 1431 01:52:55,750 --> 01:52:57,749 Not escorted by gendarmes. 1432 01:52:59,875 --> 01:53:02,499 In Paris, I got them off my tail... 1433 01:53:06,875 --> 01:53:08,249 A fresh horse! Hurry! 1434 01:53:12,250 --> 01:53:15,458 Dr. Mangin! What is it? Where are you off to so late? 1435 01:53:15,625 --> 01:53:18,249 To Paris! To carry 1436 01:53:18,375 --> 01:53:20,958 a message from the town of Varennes 1437 01:53:21,125 --> 01:53:22,083 to the Assembly: 1438 01:53:22,250 --> 01:53:24,374 the King and Queen have been arrested! 1439 01:53:24,584 --> 01:53:27,499 They are at present in the house of Mr. Sauce, 1440 01:53:27,750 --> 01:53:30,999 the deputy-mayor of Varennes. They were arrested 1441 01:53:31,250 --> 01:53:33,624 coming into town by some patriots, 1442 01:53:33,875 --> 01:53:35,749 who'd been alerted by Mr. Drouet, 1443 01:53:35,959 --> 01:53:38,083 postmaster in St. Menehould. 1444 01:53:38,250 --> 01:53:40,999 All the townspeople are guarding the store. 1445 01:53:41,500 --> 01:53:43,249 What kind of store? 1446 01:53:45,125 --> 01:53:49,708 Mr. Sauce makes candles, and sells spices and colonial wares. 1447 01:53:50,250 --> 01:53:51,583 Where is Varennes? 1448 01:53:51,750 --> 01:53:54,749 About 6 leagues from here, toward Montmédy. 1449 01:53:55,250 --> 01:53:57,583 It was lucky the postmaster ran 1450 01:53:57,750 --> 01:54:00,124 into his men bringing back the horses. 1451 01:54:00,334 --> 01:54:03,208 They showed him where the coach veered off.. 1452 01:54:03,375 --> 01:54:06,874 Or else Drouet would have headed for Verdun, not Varennes. 1453 01:54:07,084 --> 01:54:09,333 Lucky for whom? 1454 01:54:28,625 --> 01:54:29,999 An all-night wake... 1455 01:54:30,625 --> 01:54:34,333 It's a whole new show, the audience takes to the stage. 1456 01:54:34,834 --> 01:54:36,958 Your Machiavelli wrote: 1457 01:54:37,250 --> 01:54:39,999 "Chains are too heavy and bonds too tight 1458 01:54:40,834 --> 01:54:43,749 "for those who have tasted freedom." 1459 01:54:44,000 --> 01:54:47,624 In my seminary "The Prince" was banned. 1460 01:54:48,959 --> 01:54:51,208 I presume you're going to Varennes. 1461 01:54:51,375 --> 01:54:54,999 That's why I left Paris, to catch up with them 1462 01:54:55,125 --> 01:54:56,458 and witness the event. 1463 01:54:56,625 --> 01:55:00,458 You'll write about a royal family, prisoners of a candle-maker! 1464 01:55:00,625 --> 01:55:03,999 Even Shakespeare couldn't make a tragedy of that! 1465 01:55:04,625 --> 01:55:07,708 I don't write tragedies. I just jot down 1466 01:55:07,875 --> 01:55:09,124 what I see. 1467 01:55:09,875 --> 01:55:11,833 There's our coach. 1468 01:55:12,334 --> 01:55:14,124 I'll head for Verdun. 1469 01:55:14,834 --> 01:55:17,833 I'd rather not attend a king's funeral. 1470 01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:19,999 The French people don't want his death. 1471 01:55:20,125 --> 01:55:23,208 My dear Restif, when a king is captured, 1472 01:55:23,375 --> 01:55:27,208 not by another king, but by a postmaster, he's as good as dead. 1473 01:55:53,834 --> 01:55:55,333 They've found me. 1474 01:55:57,875 --> 01:56:00,124 But I'm not beaten yet! In my youth, 1475 01:56:00,375 --> 01:56:02,499 I escaped from deeper dungeons. 1476 01:56:03,834 --> 01:56:05,499 When I was young... 1477 01:56:08,375 --> 01:56:11,624 But youth is a habit we soon get over. 1478 01:56:24,375 --> 01:56:27,624 Restif, do me a favor when you get back to Paris... 1479 01:56:27,750 --> 01:56:30,833 Go see Goldoni, he's old, sick, and nearly blind. 1480 01:56:31,000 --> 01:56:34,999 The new regime cancelled his artist's pension. 1481 01:56:36,000 --> 01:56:39,499 He's sold his library, book by book. He's in a garret on rue Dauphine. 1482 01:56:40,125 --> 01:56:41,749 It's a promise. 1483 01:56:42,250 --> 01:56:43,249 Farewell. 1484 01:57:51,625 --> 01:57:53,958 Out of the way! 1485 01:57:54,250 --> 01:57:55,958 Make way for the coach! 1486 01:57:56,625 --> 01:57:59,999 Go to Varennes! 1487 01:58:14,375 --> 01:58:15,499 Head for Varennes. 1488 01:58:15,709 --> 01:58:18,374 This is a State service. We're due in Metz. 1489 01:58:18,500 --> 01:58:20,708 And we're due in Varennes! 1490 01:58:20,875 --> 01:58:23,708 I must get to Metz. I have business to do. 1491 01:58:23,875 --> 01:58:25,208 Our business, Mr. Paine. 1492 01:58:25,875 --> 01:58:29,374 - No coach for Metz? - I'll try and arrange one. 1493 01:58:29,500 --> 01:58:31,708 I'll meet you in Alsatia in a few days. 1494 01:58:31,875 --> 01:58:33,458 My foundries won't move! 1495 01:58:33,625 --> 01:58:35,374 Our baggage! 1496 01:58:39,209 --> 01:58:40,999 They're going to Varennes. 1497 01:58:44,375 --> 01:58:46,374 Our baggage! 1498 01:58:47,209 --> 01:58:50,499 - They're going to Varennes. - Calm down! 1499 01:58:50,875 --> 01:58:52,999 I can see why you're worried. 1500 01:58:53,209 --> 01:58:56,499 Your wife's alone in Paris, 1501 01:58:56,875 --> 01:59:00,708 with all this mess. Go back to her. 1502 01:59:00,875 --> 01:59:02,874 Catch the first stage, 1503 01:59:03,250 --> 01:59:04,999 you'll be home by tomorrow morning. 1504 01:59:05,209 --> 01:59:07,749 No, if I came all this way... 1505 01:59:08,000 --> 01:59:10,124 - So what? - What about you? 1506 01:59:10,250 --> 01:59:11,708 I've got the theater. 1507 01:59:13,875 --> 01:59:16,208 My concert. Don't worry about me. 1508 01:59:16,375 --> 01:59:18,374 You can't stay all alone. 1509 01:59:18,709 --> 01:59:22,708 Me? I am alone. 1510 01:59:23,875 --> 01:59:25,874 I've always been alone. I'm used to it. 1511 01:59:26,084 --> 01:59:29,333 - Hadn't you understood? - Virginie, you have me! 1512 01:59:29,500 --> 01:59:31,083 You have your art. 1513 01:59:31,250 --> 01:59:32,333 You... 1514 01:59:34,334 --> 01:59:38,208 It's easier to get rid of a king, than of your wife. 1515 01:59:38,375 --> 01:59:39,583 As for my art... 1516 01:59:40,125 --> 01:59:42,374 I'm in the first act... 1517 01:59:44,375 --> 01:59:48,083 at the back of the stage with the choir. 1518 01:59:49,250 --> 01:59:53,749 They only hired me because of you and our relationship. 1519 01:59:55,209 --> 01:59:58,249 Don't sulk, Mr. Baldi. 1520 01:59:58,500 --> 02:00:02,208 You'll be my watchdog, you'll take care of me, right? 1521 02:00:02,625 --> 02:00:04,999 Maybe M. de Wendel will agree 1522 02:00:05,125 --> 02:00:08,749 to keep me company till we reach Metz? 1523 02:00:08,959 --> 02:00:12,249 - It will be a pleasure. - Thank you. 1524 02:00:12,375 --> 02:00:15,374 Dearie, go get the basket of doggies. 1525 02:00:15,500 --> 02:00:16,624 Doggies! 1526 02:00:30,334 --> 02:00:31,999 Madame...Mr. Emile wants me to... 1527 02:00:32,209 --> 02:00:34,499 Mr. Emile must be me. 1528 02:00:35,500 --> 02:00:39,708 Emile wants me to see him to his village. It's nearby. 1529 02:00:40,500 --> 02:00:44,583 I said I had to ask you for permission. 1530 02:00:46,500 --> 02:00:49,874 If she doesn't give it, what then? 1531 02:00:53,875 --> 02:00:55,708 I won't go. 1532 02:00:57,709 --> 02:00:59,499 Then you don't love him. 1533 02:01:03,875 --> 02:01:05,458 No, wait. 1534 02:01:07,000 --> 02:01:11,749 Madame always took care of me. I was brought to her when I was 9. 1535 02:01:13,500 --> 02:01:18,374 Madame, maybe for him I'm just a whim, a curiosity. 1536 02:01:19,375 --> 02:01:21,874 But now for the first time, 1537 02:01:22,500 --> 02:01:25,999 I want to laugh and cry. 1538 02:01:27,334 --> 02:01:31,083 Marie Madeleine, what do you want to do? 1539 02:01:34,084 --> 02:01:37,124 Come or don't come, but decide yourself. 1540 02:01:38,459 --> 02:01:39,749 Go on. 1541 02:01:46,459 --> 02:01:51,249 Madame, tonight such strange things are happening... 1542 02:01:52,750 --> 02:01:56,083 I wonder what, in these troubled times, a poor man can do 1543 02:01:56,250 --> 02:01:58,624 with his 100 workmen to care for. 1544 02:02:00,334 --> 02:02:04,249 Maybe a poor man shouldn't have 100 workers to care for. 1545 02:03:34,625 --> 02:03:36,624 Will you forgive me? 1546 02:03:38,750 --> 02:03:43,249 I was never so afraid in my life. Afraid... 1547 02:03:48,459 --> 02:03:51,333 Not only of that madman who attacked me 1548 02:03:52,459 --> 02:03:55,124 afraid of the speeches, of the people, of you 1549 02:03:55,250 --> 02:03:59,749 afraid of the unfamiliar, afraid for all I'm about to lose... 1550 02:04:04,750 --> 02:04:06,624 The Court is a cozy nest... 1551 02:04:09,125 --> 02:04:12,249 Like the King's red coat at Cherbourg, 1552 02:04:12,459 --> 02:04:16,958 it meant security. This has nothing to do with ideals. 1553 02:04:17,125 --> 02:04:19,958 If I felt secure with some other ideal, 1554 02:04:20,125 --> 02:04:22,124 that would suit me. 1555 02:04:29,125 --> 02:04:32,374 My father was a brewer, so you can imagine... 1556 02:04:40,625 --> 02:04:43,624 Will you forgive me? 1557 02:04:45,750 --> 02:04:47,458 It was only fear. 1558 02:04:50,125 --> 02:04:52,333 Won't you be afraid tomorrow? 1559 02:04:53,459 --> 02:04:55,749 Kings are notoriously ungrateful, 1560 02:04:56,750 --> 02:04:59,749 and fallen kings are even worse. 1561 02:05:04,459 --> 02:05:07,374 Raise my spirits tonight? 1562 02:05:07,750 --> 02:05:11,749 No one can do that for you. All of us are afraid. 1563 02:05:12,625 --> 02:05:16,708 Faith and ideals are to protect us from fear. 1564 02:05:17,459 --> 02:05:22,249 But we must find the ideals that suit us. 1565 02:05:22,959 --> 02:05:24,249 Yes, Countess. 1566 02:05:28,125 --> 02:05:31,583 And when we realize our ideals have reached a dead end, 1567 02:05:31,750 --> 02:05:34,124 we must dare to change them. 1568 02:05:36,250 --> 02:05:38,499 Change is what scares me. 1569 02:05:40,459 --> 02:05:43,749 When cats and buffoons lose their rich masters, 1570 02:05:44,625 --> 02:05:46,624 they're pelted with stones. 1571 02:05:48,250 --> 02:05:51,458 In the American Declaration of Independence 1572 02:05:51,625 --> 02:05:56,208 we changed the word "property" to "pursuit of happiness". 1573 02:05:57,125 --> 02:05:59,999 Were you happy, Mr. Jacob? 1574 02:06:01,125 --> 02:06:06,583 No, I was always too afraid... to give up what I had. 1575 02:06:07,959 --> 02:06:10,124 And... I hate happiness! 1576 02:06:37,000 --> 02:06:38,499 To Varennes! 1577 02:07:56,375 --> 02:07:59,083 I ran into my postmen coming back with my horses. 1578 02:07:59,250 --> 02:08:02,749 They warned me that the coach had left the road to Verdun. 1579 02:08:02,959 --> 02:08:05,999 To head for Varennes-Montmédy. 1580 02:08:06,334 --> 02:08:09,999 So we did the same, took a shortcut through the woods, 1581 02:08:10,209 --> 02:08:12,374 that saved us a good 45 minutes. 1582 02:08:12,834 --> 02:08:17,374 Reaching Varennes, we were delighted to see in the darkness 1583 02:08:17,584 --> 02:08:21,583 the two coaches stopped by the church waiting for fresh horses. 1584 02:08:21,750 --> 02:08:22,958 Don't stay there. 1585 02:08:23,125 --> 02:08:25,874 I didn't know the post-station had been moved. 1586 02:08:26,084 --> 02:08:29,249 Beyond the bridge over the river. 1587 02:08:29,375 --> 02:08:33,374 Half a mile further, and they'd all have been safe. 1588 02:08:33,500 --> 02:08:35,499 Luckily, the nearby inn 1589 02:08:35,709 --> 02:08:38,499 still had some customers, all good patriots. 1590 02:08:38,709 --> 02:08:40,583 We worked out a plan: 1591 02:08:40,750 --> 02:08:43,249 some came here to wake up Sauce, the mayor, 1592 02:08:43,459 --> 02:08:47,333 while we built a barricade at the bridge, 1593 02:08:47,750 --> 02:08:50,499 - so the coaches couldn't cross. - Or any soldiers come in. 1594 02:08:50,709 --> 02:08:54,874 Meanwhile, my husband went to cross-examine the travelers. 1595 02:08:55,084 --> 02:08:57,374 We'd been told they were Russians. 1596 02:08:57,584 --> 02:08:59,249 But they all spoke French. 1597 02:09:00,084 --> 02:09:04,874 A doctor! A lady-in-waiting has stomach pains. 1598 02:09:05,084 --> 02:09:07,874 Stomach pains! Next, they'll blame it 1599 02:09:08,084 --> 02:09:09,874 on my food! Annette, go fetch the doctor. 1600 02:09:10,000 --> 02:09:12,124 Dr. Mangin's away. Get Dr. Porel. 1601 02:09:12,334 --> 02:09:14,999 Get the doctor, I tell you. Hurry! 1602 02:09:15,500 --> 02:09:19,374 Excuses, to delay them! To Paris! 1603 02:09:29,584 --> 02:09:32,624 The children are sleeping! 1604 02:09:33,750 --> 02:09:35,333 Those bells! 1605 02:09:37,750 --> 02:09:41,249 Two men with orders from the Assembly and from Gen. La Fayette. 1606 02:09:41,834 --> 02:09:43,833 They're from Paris. 1607 02:09:46,125 --> 02:09:48,749 He arrested the King: the mayor, Mr. Sauce. 1608 02:09:48,959 --> 02:09:53,083 No, deputy-mayor. The mayor's away. I arrested no one. 1609 02:09:53,625 --> 02:09:56,624 The shock of it all, the dark night... 1610 02:09:57,334 --> 02:09:59,333 The traveler's own safety 1611 02:09:59,500 --> 02:10:02,958 made it unwise for them to go on, so I invited them 1612 02:10:03,334 --> 02:10:05,499 to rest in my home, that's all. 1613 02:10:05,834 --> 02:10:08,499 When we got back to the carriage, I shouted to Sauce: 1614 02:10:08,625 --> 02:10:11,624 "If you let them leave, you'll be guilty of treason!" 1615 02:10:11,834 --> 02:10:13,083 It's true, he shouted that. 1616 02:10:14,000 --> 02:10:17,374 That's Mr. Drouet, postmaster at St. Menehould. 1617 02:10:17,584 --> 02:10:21,583 When Sauce asked to see their passport, a man in livery 1618 02:10:21,750 --> 02:10:25,124 ordered the coachman to move on. 1619 02:10:25,334 --> 02:10:27,499 So I shouted: "One step and we'll shoot!" 1620 02:10:27,750 --> 02:10:29,124 Yes, that's what he shouted. 1621 02:10:29,334 --> 02:10:31,624 I told all the lads in Varennes to aim their guns. 1622 02:10:31,750 --> 02:10:33,124 Which weren't loaded! 1623 02:10:39,000 --> 02:10:41,583 I didn't know it, neither did the travelers. 1624 02:10:41,750 --> 02:10:43,999 So they got out and went with Sauce. 1625 02:10:44,209 --> 02:10:47,124 As you can imagine, I was in a state: 1626 02:10:47,250 --> 02:10:49,249 it was late, my house was full of royalty. 1627 02:10:49,375 --> 02:10:52,124 I had to get rooms ready, make food... 1628 02:10:52,834 --> 02:10:55,499 When His Majesty kissed my husband, 1629 02:10:55,875 --> 02:10:59,749 I was moved to tears. It was like a family 1630 02:11:00,125 --> 02:11:03,124 finding a long-lost father again. 1631 02:11:04,125 --> 02:11:07,999 The King said to me: "In Paris, I lived surrounded by daggers." 1632 02:11:08,125 --> 02:11:10,999 "I came to revisit 1633 02:11:11,625 --> 02:11:13,624 "my loyal subjects in the countryside, 1634 02:11:13,834 --> 02:11:16,708 "to experience again the peace and freedom I'd lost." 1635 02:11:16,875 --> 02:11:17,708 Freedom! 1636 02:11:18,459 --> 02:11:19,999 Freedom to flee abroad. 1637 02:11:20,500 --> 02:11:23,374 Drouet! A monster from hell! 1638 02:11:24,125 --> 02:11:26,499 His Majesty said he only planned to go... 1639 02:11:26,625 --> 02:11:28,833 To Montmédy, not far from here. 1640 02:11:29,209 --> 02:11:30,624 Where Bouillé, that blackguard, 1641 02:11:30,750 --> 02:11:33,499 waits to escort him across the border! 1642 02:11:33,625 --> 02:11:37,499 No, he'll go back to Paris! Right now. Prepare the coach! 1643 02:11:37,625 --> 02:11:39,999 To Paris! 1644 02:11:40,334 --> 02:11:43,999 They're resting! 1645 02:11:44,500 --> 02:11:45,999 Those bells! 1646 02:11:47,500 --> 02:11:50,124 You see, what a mess! 1647 02:11:51,000 --> 02:11:52,958 A good thing you people got here! 1648 02:11:53,334 --> 02:11:56,124 Come on up and see His Majesty. 1649 02:11:56,334 --> 02:12:00,874 Make way for the Assembly's envoys! They've come from Paris! 1650 02:12:03,125 --> 02:12:06,874 Let's hope this nasty business does our town some good. 1651 02:12:07,334 --> 02:12:11,833 The King promised he'd help, but we're banking on the Assembly. 1652 02:12:12,000 --> 02:12:14,999 I sent Dr. Mangin straight to Paris so they'd know 1653 02:12:15,125 --> 02:12:18,499 the King was my guest. I also dispatched 1654 02:12:20,125 --> 02:12:23,499 to the far side of town, some old wooden cannons. 1655 02:12:26,000 --> 02:12:28,333 Make way for the Assembly's envoys. 1656 02:12:29,000 --> 02:12:30,374 Please... 1657 02:12:40,709 --> 02:12:43,874 Countess de la Borde, how come you're here? 1658 02:12:46,875 --> 02:12:49,999 Baron de Goguelat, what happened to you? 1659 02:12:50,625 --> 02:12:52,374 A bullet hit my shoulder 1660 02:12:52,584 --> 02:12:55,374 as I made my way through the local Guardsmen 1661 02:12:55,500 --> 02:12:57,833 to reach this wretched inn. 1662 02:12:58,125 --> 02:13:01,833 And your infallible plan to escort the King? 1663 02:13:02,625 --> 02:13:05,083 Counter-orders, delays, mutinous hussars, 1664 02:13:05,250 --> 02:13:08,499 the meddling of the Queen's hairdresser... 1665 02:13:08,709 --> 02:13:12,374 Do you have an even more infallible plan now? 1666 02:13:12,625 --> 02:13:14,708 We must delay the King's departure 1667 02:13:14,875 --> 02:13:18,499 till the Marquis de Bouillé gets here from Montmédy. 1668 02:13:18,959 --> 02:13:22,874 I advised the King to shoot his way out, but he refused. 1669 02:13:25,084 --> 02:13:27,124 Can you blame him? 1670 02:13:36,709 --> 02:13:38,583 Idiocy is the worst of treasons. 1671 02:13:38,750 --> 02:13:41,624 And no revolution will ever stop it. 1672 02:14:01,750 --> 02:14:04,624 Sire, two envoys from the Assembly 1673 02:14:04,750 --> 02:14:07,499 wish to be received by Your Majesty. 1674 02:14:10,959 --> 02:14:12,249 Sire... 1675 02:14:13,250 --> 02:14:14,499 The King. 1676 02:14:14,625 --> 02:14:16,499 You won't get far. 1677 02:14:17,209 --> 02:14:19,083 The interests of the State... 1678 02:14:19,750 --> 02:14:21,624 In Paris, blood is running. 1679 02:14:22,875 --> 02:14:25,124 Our wives, our children, our mothers 1680 02:14:25,250 --> 02:14:27,374 may be slaughtered. 1681 02:14:27,875 --> 02:14:30,624 Am I not a mother, too, sir? 1682 02:14:32,000 --> 02:14:32,874 The Queen! 1683 02:14:33,750 --> 02:14:34,499 Sire! 1684 02:14:34,750 --> 02:14:36,708 We've brought a decree from the Assembly. 1685 02:14:36,875 --> 02:14:38,124 Where is it? 1686 02:14:38,334 --> 02:14:41,583 Lt. Romeuf, the General's aide, has it. 1687 02:14:45,875 --> 02:14:48,708 Monsieur de Romeuf! You, of all people! 1688 02:14:48,875 --> 02:14:52,499 I hoped not to catch up with you. I'm here to serve you. 1689 02:15:09,584 --> 02:15:11,874 France no longer has a King! 1690 02:15:18,875 --> 02:15:21,499 Don't let it soil my children's bed. 1691 02:15:22,875 --> 02:15:25,999 Her Majesty is right... From her point of view. 1692 02:15:27,334 --> 02:15:29,083 Take me away! 1693 02:15:35,875 --> 02:15:39,833 When he embraced my husband, I was so moved. 1694 02:15:40,084 --> 02:15:42,749 It was like a family reunited with their father, 1695 02:15:42,875 --> 02:15:45,833 after fearing they'd lost him. 1696 02:15:46,875 --> 02:15:48,458 Make way! 1697 02:16:38,125 --> 02:16:39,499 Calm down, Madame. 1698 02:16:47,334 --> 02:16:49,083 I'll deal with the baggage. 1699 02:16:59,500 --> 02:17:01,499 The journal just came from Paris! 1700 02:17:01,709 --> 02:17:05,083 Let me read it! Citizens! 1701 02:17:06,875 --> 02:17:08,708 The "Friend of the People" from Paris. 1702 02:17:09,709 --> 02:17:11,249 Listen to Marat: 1703 02:17:13,709 --> 02:17:16,583 "It's a thankless task to be right 6 months ahead of time." 1704 02:17:16,959 --> 02:17:17,874 Make way! 1705 02:17:18,000 --> 02:17:21,124 "Didn't I predict that Louis would flee? 1706 02:17:21,250 --> 02:17:24,124 "How did a whole family that we wrongly 1707 02:17:24,250 --> 02:17:26,833 "felt stood for the well-being of France 1708 02:17:27,000 --> 02:17:29,249 "escape from us in the heart of Paris? 1709 02:17:29,459 --> 02:17:31,583 "Beware of the vows of Princes. 1710 02:17:31,750 --> 02:17:34,374 'The Austrian woman seduced La Fayette. 1711 02:17:34,584 --> 02:17:37,083 "Louis XVI in livery escaped with the Dauphin, 1712 02:17:37,250 --> 02:17:39,749 his wife and his whole family. 1713 02:17:39,959 --> 02:17:42,374 "The Father of France abandoned his people 1714 02:17:42,500 --> 02:17:46,124 "and escaped to send us instead of his royal person 1715 02:17:46,250 --> 02:17:49,374 "a lengthy foreign and internal war. 1716 02:17:50,125 --> 02:17:54,374 "The people's conduct in the most difficult moments, 1717 02:17:54,584 --> 02:17:58,374 "proves that it no longer needs leaders. 1718 02:17:59,000 --> 02:18:03,249 "The time has come for the heads of Bailly and La Fayette to roll, 1719 02:18:03,375 --> 02:18:06,749 "and of all the villains in the General Staff and the Assembly. 1720 02:18:06,959 --> 02:18:10,124 "You need a military tribunal, 1721 02:18:10,334 --> 02:18:12,833 "or you are lost!" To Paris! 1722 02:18:29,000 --> 02:18:30,624 "Last night at 11 1723 02:18:30,834 --> 02:18:34,624 "Louis XVI went to bed after receiving this virtuous order. 1724 02:18:34,834 --> 02:18:37,083 "His only contact with virtue! 1725 02:18:37,250 --> 02:18:41,624 "At 11.15 he left the Luxembourg Palace with his wife. 1726 02:18:43,084 --> 02:18:47,249 "This plot, a scheme of the Bourbon and Austrian royal houses, 1727 02:18:47,375 --> 02:18:50,999 "this cowardly plot hatched 18 months ago..." 1728 02:18:51,125 --> 02:18:53,874 - Need anything else? - No, thanks. 1729 02:18:55,834 --> 02:19:00,999 "The King thought he could escape the National Guard, 1730 02:19:01,375 --> 02:19:03,999 "and the disgruntled people of Paris, 1731 02:19:05,709 --> 02:19:08,249 "to find refuge among his loyal generals. 1732 02:19:08,459 --> 02:19:10,999 "and kindhearted country folk. 1733 02:19:11,750 --> 02:19:16,749 "Instead he ran into the National Guard and disgruntled country folk. 1734 02:19:17,375 --> 02:19:20,333 "who blocked his way to the border." 1735 02:19:20,875 --> 02:19:25,458 You're saying his arrest was a victory for the disgruntled people. 1736 02:19:26,250 --> 02:19:28,374 I spoke of deeds, not victory. 1737 02:19:30,084 --> 02:19:34,083 Moments ago, I watched the faces of those peasants. 1738 02:19:34,834 --> 02:19:38,499 They weren't moved, they weren't 1739 02:19:38,625 --> 02:19:42,374 children happy to have found a "long-lost father". 1740 02:19:43,584 --> 02:19:46,999 Those faces betrayed centuries of famine, 1741 02:19:47,334 --> 02:19:49,624 of poverty and humiliation... 1742 02:19:49,834 --> 02:19:54,874 And the fear that the end of injustice is not yet at hand. 1743 02:19:57,125 --> 02:20:01,874 For that they'll have to wait for a future occasion. 1744 02:20:02,334 --> 02:20:05,374 "Now is the time to make the heads of ministers roll... 1745 02:20:06,500 --> 02:20:09,999 " the heads of the Chiefs-of-Staff, of generals... 1746 02:20:11,625 --> 02:20:15,249 "...of counter-revolutionary townships 1747 02:20:15,375 --> 02:20:17,874 "of traitors in the Assembly." 1748 02:20:18,084 --> 02:20:21,708 "Start by securing them, if there's still time. 1749 02:20:22,250 --> 02:20:25,749 "Men of the National Guard, in these critical times, 1750 02:20:25,875 --> 02:20:28,374 "you've been abandoned by your officers 1751 02:20:28,500 --> 02:20:30,374 "who hide when danger lurks 1752 02:20:30,500 --> 02:20:33,833 "and only come out to betray their country..." 1753 02:20:34,000 --> 02:20:36,624 Gentlemen, I forgot to thank you. 1754 02:20:38,500 --> 02:20:41,124 The journey was long and ended badly, 1755 02:20:41,334 --> 02:20:46,124 but because of you, its memory will be easier to bear. 1756 02:20:46,834 --> 02:20:49,833 Countess, would you satisfy my curiosity? 1757 02:20:50,000 --> 02:20:52,499 What was in those 2 mysterious packages, 1758 02:20:52,625 --> 02:20:56,083 I helped you carry last night? 1759 02:20:57,500 --> 02:20:59,499 So it was you? 1760 02:20:59,625 --> 02:21:03,374 That's why I mistrusted you from the start! 1761 02:21:03,584 --> 02:21:06,499 An understandable attitude to have towards 1762 02:21:06,625 --> 02:21:09,874 men of letters, chroniclers, scribblers... 1763 02:21:10,000 --> 02:21:14,249 We're a race of spies, we don't participate or form bonds, 1764 02:21:14,375 --> 02:21:16,624 yet we describe, classify 1765 02:21:16,834 --> 02:21:19,124 and sometimes confuse everything. 1766 02:21:19,334 --> 02:21:21,249 That's why, am I right, Countess? 1767 02:21:21,375 --> 02:21:25,208 We're a curious lot. 1768 02:21:47,000 --> 02:21:51,124 The costume His Majesty wore at the inauguration of Cherbourg. 1769 02:21:52,459 --> 02:21:56,208 Tomorrow is Corpus Christi. He was to wear it 1770 02:21:56,375 --> 02:21:59,624 at Montmédy, to reviews his troops. 1771 02:22:53,209 --> 02:22:55,624 It must be exhausting to play King! 1772 02:22:56,125 --> 02:22:58,124 To a great task, great honors! 1773 02:23:33,750 --> 02:23:35,999 If he'd traveled in that outfit, 1774 02:23:36,459 --> 02:23:39,874 they might not have dared arrest him. Who knows... 1775 02:24:23,209 --> 02:24:24,499 Your Majesty! 1776 02:24:45,375 --> 02:24:46,999 Long live the people! 1777 02:25:01,750 --> 02:25:04,624 - Long live France! - Everyone to Paris! 1778 02:26:05,875 --> 02:26:08,333 That's what one learns from travelling. 1779 02:26:17,584 --> 02:26:20,249 See the King mount the scaffold 1780 02:26:20,459 --> 02:26:22,499 with his confessor, 1781 02:26:22,709 --> 02:26:26,749 on January 21, 1793! 1782 02:26:26,959 --> 02:26:30,374 We've already included it in our machine to view the new world. 1783 02:26:31,375 --> 02:26:34,583 Come see Louis XVI. 1784 02:26:34,750 --> 02:26:37,958 There's the head of the King of France, 1785 02:26:38,125 --> 02:26:41,458 falling into the basket, sliced by the guillotine. 1786 02:26:41,625 --> 02:26:45,124 Step right up! Bring your children! 1787 02:26:45,334 --> 02:26:48,708 See the great moments of history with your own eyes. 1788 02:26:50,500 --> 02:26:51,708 Don't push! 1789 02:26:51,875 --> 02:26:56,458 Come see the history of the world in moving pictures. 1790 02:26:56,709 --> 02:27:01,333 Reality becomes fantasy, fantasy becomes reality. 1791 02:27:01,500 --> 02:27:04,499 In this magic box, I'll show you a new world. 1792 02:27:05,209 --> 02:27:07,208 With its distances and perspectives. 1793 02:27:07,375 --> 02:27:08,499 One sou per person. 1794 02:27:08,625 --> 02:27:10,708 What you'll see is beautiful... 1795 02:27:10,875 --> 02:27:13,333 Folks, in this machine we have... 1796 02:27:13,500 --> 02:27:17,249 Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne wrote in 1792 1797 02:27:17,375 --> 02:27:20,124 these words that are in the 2nd part of Chapter 17 1798 02:27:20,250 --> 02:27:21,749 of the Revolutionary Nights: 1799 02:27:21,875 --> 02:27:25,124 ""All those ideas exhausted me. 1800 02:27:25,584 --> 02:27:29,749 "For relief I plunged into the centuries that followed. 1801 02:27:30,125 --> 02:27:34,874 "I saw the people of 1992 reading our history. 1802 02:27:35,084 --> 02:27:38,249 "I strained to hear them and I heard. 1803 02:27:38,625 --> 02:27:42,083 "The harshness of their judgment terrified me. 1804 02:27:42,500 --> 02:27:46,208 "Some claimed we lacked humanity, 1805 02:27:47,125 --> 02:27:52,083 "whereas those with extreme views, as in my day, approved." 1806 02:27:53,875 --> 02:27:56,999 All Europe, apparently, 1807 02:27:57,209 --> 02:28:01,499 had a new government, united and at peace. 1808 02:28:02,000 --> 02:28:07,624 But I saw in the pages of history the terrible jolts it had endured. 1809 02:28:09,375 --> 02:28:14,499 I thought I heard the readers saying to each other: 1810 02:28:15,875 --> 02:28:20,124 " 'We're so glad we didn't live in those terrible times 1811 02:28:20,250 --> 02:28:23,124 " 'when human life was valueless.' 1812 02:28:23,250 --> 02:28:25,499 "Once the pain is over, 1813 02:28:25,709 --> 02:28:28,624 "if you didn't die of it, it becomes a joy, 1814 02:28:28,834 --> 02:28:31,499 "and one needs such jolts 1815 02:28:31,625 --> 02:28:34,583 "to appreciate the price of tranquility. 1816 02:28:34,750 --> 02:28:38,708 "As you need an illness to appreciate good health. 1817 02:28:39,334 --> 02:28:42,749 "What fine reasoning", exclaimed a visionary, 1818 02:28:42,875 --> 02:28:45,874 "You're no different than people 200 years ago. 1819 02:28:46,084 --> 02:28:49,749 "You're made of the same organic molecules. 1820 02:28:49,959 --> 02:28:51,583 "Now you're at peace, 1821 02:28:51,750 --> 02:28:55,249 "because those molecules are weary of war. 1822 02:28:55,375 --> 02:28:58,458 "But beware. After a little rest, 1823 02:28:58,625 --> 02:29:02,874 "you'll feel strong again, and I'm afraid 1824 02:29:03,584 --> 02:29:05,374 "you'll go back to it." 1825 02:31:06,375 --> 02:31:08,499 Subtitles: A. Whitelaw 1826 02:31:08,709 --> 02:31:10,874 Subtitled by TVS - TITRA FILM 138467