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The Cigarette

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Directed by: Germaine Dulac Camera operator: Louis Chaix

The mummy of an ancient Egyptian princess

famous for her love affairs finds her place

among the rare pieces of the Museum of Oriental Art

Pierre Guérande (Mr. SIGNORET) the famous member

of the Academy of Literature Curator of the Museum of Oriental Art

Love for antique art didn't keep Pierre Guérande from getting married

- in spite of his age to a young, beautiful and very modern woman:

Denise Guérande: Miss Andrée Brabant Dressed by Margaine-Lacroix

“This is the necklace of an Egyptian princess!”

“The princess who wore it was frivolous!”

“It's impossible to have fun with you!”

Pierre Guérande officially welcomes the Egyptian Princess.

“Learning his spouse's betrayals the elderly Prince wanted to die,

knowing at his age he could no longer think

to regain or keep the heart of the too young princess...”

Arriving late: Irène de TRAMONT, Denise's close friend

(Miss Geneviève Williams) and Maurice HERBERT (Mr. Raucourt)

a young man who made a career out of dancing and golfing.

“...determined to die without the courage to kill himself,

he mixed a subtle poison into a pastry cooked by his slaves,

in order to be unexpectedly overtaken by death...”

“One day a slave offered the prince the poisoned cake.

Death came to forever alleviate the too old monarch's suffering and jealousy

He was unwise to love. Here is the frivolous princess' mummy who caused this drama.”

“Denise, may I introduce you to Mr. Maurice Herbert.”

A tea-tango party at Madame de Tramont's house

“Admit you didn't like me when Mrs. de Tramont introduced us the other day?”

“I didn't know you were dancing tango so well and were a golf champion.”

“Tomorrow, I'll pick you up for your first golf lesson.”

“I'm coming to take Mrs. de Guérande to the golf course to meet Mrs. de Tramont.”

The first lesson.

Denise chases modern pleasures as Pierre Guérande, obsessed with antiquities, wanders .

"Mrs. TRAMONT apologizes to Mrs.Guérande She is unable to come to the club today.”

"I was twenty years old and the only thing on my mind was work."

Socialite Wedding: Mr. Pierre Guérande and Miss Denise Aumont celebrate their wedding.

"Forty-eight years old. For the first time I had truly loved.

A street urchin might have said on my wedding day:

To marry such a young lady! For sure, he wants to be cuckolded!”

Pierre decided to meet his wife at the club.

"You are so pretty !"

"Please, be quiet."

“You didn't expect to see me? You didn't!”

“Would you allow me one more game of golf?”

"My Dear Guérande, tell me the romantic story of your museum's mummy,

all of Paris is talking about it..."

"Well ! Here it is! An old Egyptian prince fell for a young girl he then married.

What happened is what always happens when an old man decides to get married... "

Pretending to work, Pierre moved the sarcophagus to his office

to study the mummy's clothes and jewelry.

“Her coquetry led to the death of a great Prince; is it what scares you?”

“You told me Mrs. de Tramont would be at the golf club this afternoon.”

“That's a lie, you wanted to be alone with Maurice Herbert.”

“My poor friend, I'm young, I need to have fun.

Your nose is always in a book so I can't depend on you to satisfy me...

On top of that you're getting jealous !... “

My sweetheart My sister you met just moved into a studio in Paris;

she asked me to invite some of my friends to a house-

warming party in her bachelor flat. We're waiting for you. Irène.

“I'm going to run some errands. I'm not taking the car”

Denise changes her plans: before running errands decides to go to Irène's party.

The home of Irène's sister.

“It's delightful to be like a bachelor without servant”

This house doesn't belong to any of Denise's friends.

“I will admit the guests.”

She arranged to meet this Herbert in a clandestine flat.

What's the use of struggling against such youth.

The Egyptian prince who mixed poison into cakes

in order to free himself from a married life without happiness

is reminiscent of the death of a Persian monarch several centuries later.

This prince who also had no doubts about his wife's betrayals

didn't want to upset the frivolous peacefulness of the woman he loved.

Like the Egyptian monarch whose story I told,

he understood his advanced age only inspired feelings of peaceful tenderness;

in order to neither suffer nor cause suffering, he decided to kill himself.

He poured a subtle poison into one of a hundred hookah he smoked successively.

One day a slave brought him the 75th hookah meant to cause his death.

He found his release in a flavored puff. These types of suicides in remote times...

My Dear Denise,

I've obtained indisputable proof of your guilty feelings for Maurice Herbert.

I love you too much to torment you with my jealousy and despair,

I also love you too much to turn a blind eye to your coquetries.

My mature age cannot hope regaining your youth.

A poisoned cigarette smoked one day at random will release me.

I would die while forgiving you if we went past the point of no return;

it's not because of you but because I'm fifty years old.

“Are you sick?”

“No; while you were away, I took amber and cyprus

from your bathroom's closet in order to flavor a few cigarettes.”

“I have already forbidden you to smoke.”

“The cigarettes had no flavor. My small bottles were empty,

how did Pierre manage to add flavor to them? On the other hand this phial...”

“Pierre, I forgot to tell you security is waiting for you at the museum.

Something very serious happened to a display cabinet.”

“Doctor? I would like you to come see my husband.

Don't tell him I called you, I'm so worried.

He is anxious... This evening? Wonderful...”

“A display cabinet? Not at all, everything is in order...”

“No doubt she made up this story to call her accomplice while I was away.

I was bothering her.”

“You are too overworked, my dear Guérande, always in your books.

As a doctor and a friend, I prescribe open-air life to you.”

:“He's sharp and young as ever but his nervous system is tired. This is nothing. ”

In spite of Denise's tenderness, Pierre continued his fatal resolution

and cigarettes diminished in the box.

“I don't want you to work anymore.”

“No darling, don't go back into the house. We'll spend the day driving around.

Would you like some cigarettes? I'll get some from the box. ”

“Life is so enjoyable, isn't it Pierre?”

“Denise is always close, she surrounds me.

It might have been a minor flirtation. I am the one she loves.”

To: Mrs. Pierre Guérande Art Museum, Paris

With the very best memories Maurice Herbert

“I was really stupid.

Maurice Herbert is travelling. Everything is explained!”

“And now, there is no longer any doubt.”

For Denise To be opened after my death.

“You're so absent-minded, look what you're doing.”

“Throw away that cigarette, it's poisoned.”

“I want to kill myself because you love Maurice Herbert.”

“Pierre, believe me, Maurice Herbert has never been more than a friend.

What a beautiful fairy tale.

People will say. . .They wanted to die together because they loved each other so much!...”

“I didn't know you loved me that much. So...?”

“I loved you so much I didn't want to let you die and the cigarette is not poisoned!”

“Pierre, I swear I have always been faithful to you; Maurice Herbert has

only been a friend to me. I love you because you're intelligent and young

“It doesn't matter, I know what it says.”

“Remember the day I saw a small syringe on your desk

and you told me: I've been flavoring some cigarettes.”

“Because the bottles were empty and the poison vial opened, it seemed

you tried bad injections to stimulate your weakened nervous system.”

I made up the story of the display cabinet to distract you so I could call the doctor.”

“But Denise, I saw you and Herbert enter a house I don't know!!...”

“Irène's sister rented a studio. We had a housewarming party that day !... ”

THE END