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Note that the title character of �mile Beaufort
is Prime Minister, not President of France.
The title of Prime Minister, at the time of
the 4th Republic, was "Pr�sident du Conseil"
often shortened to "Le Pr�sident".
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We're here standing before
the Prime Minister of Britain.
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Prime Minister,
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will you be lunching
at the Foreign Affairs ministry?
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Naturally.
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What will you be doing
in the meantime?
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The Prime Minister planned to pay visit
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of a quite private nature.
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I'm going to see a friend,
a very old friend.
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Excuse me, gentlemen.
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Dear Merryl...delighted to see you!
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Is this visit personal or political?
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Personal. They ruled the world
for 30 years.
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That creates ties!
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They must have 150 years
between them!
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If the Englishman is there, it's
to ask the old guy to come back!
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- Why?
- To break deadlocks.
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We're in deadlock.
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Anyway, it'd really bug the Russians.
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The Russians couldn't give a damn.
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- Beaufort has always been a leftie.
- There are lefties and lefties!
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If they're shut up together in there,
they must have things to discuss.
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- What things?
- Missiles, sputniks...
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Atom bombs...all that stuff.
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First you've got to have a sheep's head
and some offal.
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That's very important.
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Now...the crayfish go along
very slowly...
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and as soon as they have the meat...
up then with the net.
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In Devonshire...our crayfish...are much larger
than the ones you have here.
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Well, but their flavour is less delicate.
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In the river down there I catch over
20lb of them between 5 and 7 o'clock.
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Well, well, well!
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No movement, eh?
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- Thanks.
- Hey! Take a look over here.
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That's it...thank you.
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Something was supposed
to have happened today.
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Yeah....
They'll photograph anything.
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Did you realise you might have
your picture on page 1?
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I've given our names
to the journalists.
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- Maybe they'll quote us?
- No, it's always the same rule...
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Not surprising...
They only want big names.
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Do you remember that?
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Let me see...19...
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Let's forget it!
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I've bought a farm of sorts,
in Devonshire.
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Going to retire in another year.
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Oh yes...this time the matter's settled!
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I'm going to play golf at last...
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without anyone reproaching me
for playing.
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Well, but they won't let you go,
and they'll be right, too.
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Definitely the privilege
of old age.
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I can't hear a single thing...
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...that annoys or upsets me.
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If I remember...20 years ago...you were
alredy afflicted with this painful infirmity.
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-Good morning, Doctor.
- Good morning.
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- There's a lot happening today!
- A bit too much!
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- How's my illustrious patient today?
- He slept well.
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Had he had his glass
of warm water?
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Oh yes...
But he didn't want to take it!
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- Good morning Miss Milleran.
- Good morning, Doctor.
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- How are the memoirs coming along?
- They're coming along.
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They'll upset a lot of people.
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Mr Beaufort's counting on it.
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it gave me great pleasure
for me to see you.
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It really has....a very great pleasure
for me also, I assure you.
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Please give my kindest regards
to your lady wife.
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Thank you. I shall also ask you
to give your most respectful greetings
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to her gracious Mandreset.
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I was about to beg you, too.
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Isn't this a beautiful piece?
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A very pretty object, Mr. Pr�sident.
But you, a great pacifist...
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You surprise me!
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That's because you don't know me.
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I'm a strange mixture of anarchist
and conservative...
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In proportions yet to be determined!
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- Well, good fishing, �mile!
- Thanks, Merryl.
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- Hey!...There they are!
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No, no, no. Get back!
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Now all we have to do
is clean up.
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Good morning, doctor.
Still coming in through the kitchen?
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- But...
- I saw you.
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- I came through there just to...
- To get some news...
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...like everybody else.
It's a mania.
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If my cook gives out news
about my health...
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why not give her your hash recipe?
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One favor deserves another.
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It's an honour for Saint-Mesmain
to receive the British prime minister!
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The mayor won't be happy.
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If he'd been told about it,
he would have organised something.
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I wonder if he gets jabbed in the backside, too.
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The mayor's in very good shape.
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I was talking about Sir Merryl,
because...
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after all, he's only got
2 or 3 years on me.
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Oh, well...!
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We all finish up the same way!
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Humiliating, don't you think?
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Don't you care?
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Not at all! I assure you,
Mr Beaufort, that...
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But if you don't care...
What must excite you is
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...you tell yourself:
"This old gent whose backside I jab...
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"already has his name
in the history books.
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"He'll have an avenue named after him
in every city in France.
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Like Cl�menceau, or poor old Jaur�s."
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Sound good to you, to have
an avenue name after you?
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- "Doctor Fumet Ave."
- Yes!
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But not for you, Mr Beaufort?
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I suppose it might happen.
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- No problems last night?
- None.
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- No...
- No arm pains.
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No respiratory problems...
No anxiety.
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And might I add that I peed
quite normally..
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- Good, good...that's very good.
- So there you are.
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- What is it?
- 10-7.
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So...see you tomorrow, Mr Beaufort.
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See you tomorrow.
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Oh...While you're there...
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I'd rather not have lunch
before 1 o'clock.
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As you're going through the kitchen,
please tell Gabrielle.
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Their meeting lasted
about twenty minutes.
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Now he's with the doctor.
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Yes, boss...a very good night.
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What's that?
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Ah! His blood pressure?
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I still don't know.
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10.7.
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No, it's nothing. It was just Mr Beaufort
saying good morning..
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This morning he refused to drink
his warm water.
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If I get anything out of the doctor
when he comes down, I'll call you.
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Otherwise...
talk to you tomorrow.
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Ah! Milleran! The small talk's out of the way,
so I'm all yours..
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- Good morning, Mr Beaufort.
- Good morning.
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Didn't you find that Sir Merryl
has aged?
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You hadn't seen him
for quite a while.
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Oldies and babies change quickly.
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Doesn't bother me...
You see me every day.
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Fine...let's get on with it.
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You don't want to take a rest?
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Rest is for the young.
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They've a lifetime left.
I haven't.
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Where did we get up to, yesterday?
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Government doesn't happen
without enmity.
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Every man of power should be instilled
with this maxim,
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which, by an odd paradox,
exemplifies the concept of public good.
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Good. Now...new chapter heading...
:
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The Difficult Years.
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- Ready?
- Right.
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I believe I have been
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one of the most hated men
of his age.
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For a long time that hurt me deeply,
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but today I wear the fact with pride.
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I am republican through and through.
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Nevertheless...
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in the course of 40 years
of political life,
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I had the privilege
of being treated
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as an oriental despot
by the socialists,
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as a Moscow thug,
by the far right,
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as a Wall St lackey
by the trade unions,
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and as a counterfeiter,
by the big banks.
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So much for my opponents.
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As for my friends...
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Friends don't enjoy being faithful...
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they feel it detracts
from their persona.
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So my friends were happy to accuse me
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of being ambitious and uncompromising...
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two qualities which I lay claim to.
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Actually, I have always been
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extremely ambitious for the destiny
of my country.
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And uncompromising in the ways of achieving it.
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Any article in a foreign newspaper
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unfavourable to France
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has always affected me much more
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than the fall of one of my ministers.
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Excuse me sir, it's 12 o'clock.
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It is 12 noon. This is Europe-Flash,
presented by Paul Pelletier.
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Despite the conference being held
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at the EEC,
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the situation in France is the main topic
of current events..
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Today is in fact the 10th day
of the ministerial crisis.
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Whereas mister Robert Lacroix,
outgoing prime minister,
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is still handling current business,
it seems that the full-blown crisis
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caused by the fall of his ministry,
has not been solved.
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Yesterday we reported that
Mr Louis-Michel Blanc
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was approached by the President
to form the new cabinet.
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At 10 o'clock this morning,
Mr Blanc came back to the chief of state
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with a negative response,
following the Socialists' refusal to join.
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Well, well!
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The President has resumed consultations
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and approached Mr Chabrier,
minister in the outgoing government.
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Mr Chabrier's chances would seem slim,
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as he would encounter
the same obstacles with the Socialists.
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That's why much mention
has been made since this morning,
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of an individual who has
not yet been in power...
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who may be able to form
a coalition cabinet
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bringing together a majority
on a minimum program...
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Namely, Mr. Philippe Chalamont,
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convenor of a group
of independent republicans.
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Still in France...
at 10.30 this morning,
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Sir Merryl Lloyd,
the British Prime Minister,
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paid a visit to former prime minister
�mile Beaufort
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at his retreat at La Verdi�re.
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Turn it off.
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The cortege arrived at
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What? What's the matter?
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Whether I smoke now or after lunch,
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it doesn't change my ration.
What difference does it make??
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- I didn't say anything.
- But you were about to.
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Why don't you smoke, Milleran?
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It's enjoyable.
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Alright, then...let's continue.
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In the aftermath of the riots,
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and after the dissolution
of the fascist leagues,
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I kept my faithful opponents
on the left,
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and from then on, only had
enemies on the right.
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But backing me, I still had
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the force which, in the end,
governs parliament:
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public opinion.
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I only had to lose its support
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to lose my popularity.
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This happened overnight.
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Put a sub-heading:
"The Devaluation."
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Order being restored,
I asked full powers
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and obtained them.
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But except for dictators and imbecile...
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"order" is not an end in itself.
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"Order" doesn't prevent the number
of unemployed rising...
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Nor the railway deficit increasing...
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Nor bankruptcies multiplying.
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Scarcely had I been given full powers,
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as everyone said...
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in quotes...
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'What's he going to do about it?'
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It's an established French tradition
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to confer a mandate on someone
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and then contest
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their right to use it.
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Now it was necessary to choose,
and to choose quickly,
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between the protection of capital,
and that of labour.
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It was necessary to choose
between the past and the future.
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I chose the future.
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That meant only one possibility...
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that of a massive devaluation.
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And that had to occur
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quite unexpectedly
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to prevent speculation...
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To prevent speculation.
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Are you tired of dictating
Mr. Beaumont?
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No. I'm thinking about
what I can't say.
248
00:21:33,468 --> 00:21:36,160
It's exquisite. Don't you think?
249
00:21:36,160 --> 00:21:39,905
Wagner is unbearable or sublime...
depending on your taste...
250
00:21:40,030 --> 00:21:42,322
But certainly not exquisite.
251
00:21:53,284 --> 00:21:55,618
I feel like a cigarette.
How about you?
252
00:21:55,784 --> 00:21:57,785
You know I haven't smoked
in ten years.
253
00:21:57,952 --> 00:21:59,994
You can pretend.
254
00:22:11,164 --> 00:22:13,373
It seems one isn't allowed
to find Wagner exquisite.
255
00:22:13,539 --> 00:22:15,873
Who may one find exquisite?
256
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:17,957
Mozart. Or Tino Rossi.
257
00:22:25,001 --> 00:22:29,669
Antoine, do you have any intention
of being part of a future ministry?
258
00:22:29,877 --> 00:22:31,544
That's it? We devalue?
259
00:22:31,669 --> 00:22:34,764
Yes. Are you against it?
260
00:22:34,795 --> 00:22:36,837
What difference would it make?
261
00:22:37,046 --> 00:22:39,046
None. But it would annoy me.
262
00:22:39,255 --> 00:22:42,339
Unfortunately, we don't have
an alternative.
263
00:22:42,506 --> 00:22:45,298
- Unfortunately not.
- Nice evening!
264
00:22:47,424 --> 00:22:52,092
Given the nervousness of the Stock Exchange,
to call a meeting of the Bank of France
265
00:22:52,258 --> 00:22:57,051
and the Finance Council,
would be taken as a signal.
266
00:22:57,260 --> 00:23:00,844
I better get back to my theatre date.
Call me, Chalamont.
267
00:23:01,386 --> 00:23:03,178
We shouldn't complain.
268
00:23:03,387 --> 00:23:07,263
A joint suicide with touches of Wagner
is a fine ending.
269
00:23:08,513 --> 00:23:10,013
I owe you that much!
270
00:23:10,472 --> 00:23:12,847
Go out in a blaze of glory.
271
00:23:23,767 --> 00:23:28,252
Have the governor
of the Bank of France join us.
272
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:47,605
Governor...sir!
273
00:24:14,807 --> 00:24:16,699
Magnificent evening, don't you think,
Prime Minister?
274
00:24:16,990 --> 00:24:18,782
Magnificent.
275
00:24:18,949 --> 00:24:21,899
Yes. Magnificent.
276
00:24:23,034 --> 00:24:24,117
Well...
277
00:24:25,201 --> 00:24:27,035
I understand.
278
00:24:31,619 --> 00:24:32,953
So...?
279
00:24:33,161 --> 00:24:36,304
What will the date be
for announcing devaluation?
280
00:24:36,304 --> 00:24:38,371
I will have to be a Saturday or Sunday.
281
00:24:38,538 --> 00:24:40,642
While the stock exchange is closed.
282
00:24:40,872 --> 00:24:42,998
Good. So we'll make it a Monday.
283
00:24:43,164 --> 00:24:45,290
- Why?
- Because it's obvious,
284
00:24:45,498 --> 00:24:48,166
everyone will be assuming
the same as the finance minister.
285
00:24:48,332 --> 00:24:52,292
So, weekend's calm...Monday morning
everyone breathes a sigh of relief.
286
00:24:52,542 --> 00:24:56,418
That evening, after the exchange closes,
all is revealed.
287
00:24:57,210 --> 00:24:59,737
Machiavelli would feel right at home.
288
00:25:00,127 --> 00:25:02,983
My dear chap, I'm quite aware
that this devaluation
289
00:25:02,983 --> 00:25:07,365
will hit self-funded people.
But it's in the national interest.
290
00:25:07,365 --> 00:25:11,214
But...I do not want speculators
to profit from it.
291
00:25:11,422 --> 00:25:14,942
The national interest does not fit
with breach of trust.
292
00:25:15,632 --> 00:25:18,357
How much will the franc
be devalued by?
293
00:25:18,357 --> 00:25:21,057
You know my position...33%.
294
00:25:21,057 --> 00:25:23,773
I don't agree, and you know
my reasoning.
295
00:25:23,773 --> 00:25:25,051
Your reasoning, my dear fellow..
296
00:25:25,218 --> 00:25:29,760
Hold on!... Henri, Antoine doesn't know
your Chevreuse house.
297
00:25:29,969 --> 00:25:33,762
I'm especially sorry that
you don't know it either.
298
00:25:33,928 --> 00:25:37,179
Let's kill two birds with one stone.
Tomorrow...lunch at your place.
299
00:25:37,346 --> 00:25:39,263
-Delighted!
- Men only.
300
00:25:40,305 --> 00:25:42,972
- For God's sake...my wife will...
- She still enjoy the horses?
301
00:25:43,139 --> 00:25:44,056
Yes.
302
00:25:44,265 --> 00:25:46,883
Tomorrow she can
have my box at Auteuil.
303
00:25:46,918 --> 00:25:48,724
Excuse me, Prime Minister.
304
00:25:48,891 --> 00:25:51,223
What time for this conspiracy?
305
00:25:51,223 --> 00:25:52,892
It's already well in hand.
306
00:25:53,059 --> 00:25:55,268
Let's say...11am?
307
00:25:55,434 --> 00:25:58,505
Prime Minister! The music's finishing.
308
00:27:27,210 --> 00:27:28,377
Prime Minister...
309
00:27:28,585 --> 00:27:31,345
I wish to thank you on behalf
of all my colleagues.
310
00:27:31,345 --> 00:27:32,560
For...?
311
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,920
For presiding over this gala,
celebrating the media...
312
00:27:35,087 --> 00:27:36,962
and honouring it with your presence.
313
00:27:37,088 --> 00:27:39,120
The honour is all mine.
314
00:27:39,120 --> 00:27:42,584
You know my friend Mulsten,
head of 'Paris-France'?
315
00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:45,978
That paper has a lot of readers
who support me...
316
00:27:45,978 --> 00:27:47,739
but also a lot
who attack me.
317
00:27:47,739 --> 00:27:49,869
�lisabeth Chalamont.
318
00:27:49,869 --> 00:27:51,383
I'm one of your husband's
greatest admirers, madam.
319
00:27:51,550 --> 00:27:53,384
Prime Minister, may I...?
320
00:27:54,967 --> 00:27:57,135
That Mrs Chalamont's
quite something...eh?
321
00:27:57,260 --> 00:27:59,739
He's got all the luck, that bastard.
322
00:27:59,739 --> 00:28:01,428
Son-in-law to the Volard bank
323
00:28:01,428 --> 00:28:03,958
and Beaufort's head of cabinet at 38.
324
00:28:03,993 --> 00:28:05,377
But he's nothing special!
325
00:28:05,377 --> 00:28:08,468
Well! I didn't expect
to meet you here.
326
00:28:08,138 --> 00:28:09,723
Good evening.
327
00:28:09,723 --> 00:28:13,723
Henri told me of your invitation to Auteuil.
How nice of you...I shall take it.
328
00:28:13,931 --> 00:28:16,057
My dear Odette, I knew
you would like it.
329
00:28:16,265 --> 00:28:19,987
And apart from running the country,
that is my first concern.
330
00:28:22,809 --> 00:28:25,809
You always gave me the impression
�mile was a bit of a peasant.
331
00:28:26,018 --> 00:28:28,852
Like a peasant perhaps,
but far from stupid.
332
00:28:37,354 --> 00:28:40,480
I admit not knowing
this place was a sin!
333
00:28:40,689 --> 00:28:42,647
You also have a country house?
334
00:28:42,814 --> 00:28:46,148
No comparison...
but it's a house I'll hang onto.
335
00:28:46,315 --> 00:28:49,794
My great grandfather and my father
were farmers there...
336
00:28:49,794 --> 00:28:53,596
And my father
was the country doctor.
337
00:28:53,631 --> 00:28:57,829
- So I'll be retiring there.
- You...retiring!
338
00:28:57,829 --> 00:29:00,504
Don't give us that...
You're too hungry for accolades.
339
00:29:00,504 --> 00:29:02,486
When you're too old
to be Consul...
340
00:29:02,653 --> 00:29:06,904
you'll be ambassador to Mongolia
rather than be out of things.
341
00:29:07,071 --> 00:29:09,155
Antoine...you're an idiot.
342
00:29:12,531 --> 00:29:15,156
Obviously, it's extremely disagreeable
343
00:29:15,323 --> 00:29:17,699
to announce a devaluation of 30%,
344
00:29:17,907 --> 00:29:22,325
when at 18%, we might just
hang on to a majority.
345
00:29:22,492 --> 00:29:24,201
But I don't like half-measures.
346
00:29:24,409 --> 00:29:25,784
Whatever...We'll have enemies
347
00:29:25,951 --> 00:29:28,910
whether it's 18 or 30...
348
00:29:28,910 --> 00:29:32,128
We could compromise around 22%.
349
00:29:32,128 --> 00:29:34,340
The franc would be 6 to the dollar.
350
00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:37,409
We'd thus avoid some...
How can I put it?...
351
00:29:37,409 --> 00:29:41,662
Retaliation on the part of some
of our friends and neighbours.
352
00:29:41,662 --> 00:29:44,319
- What do you think, Philippe?
- I can't allow myself to say.
353
00:29:44,354 --> 00:29:45,781
I'm allowing you.
354
00:29:46,332 --> 00:29:48,624
The finance minister's conception
355
00:29:48,791 --> 00:29:52,458
seems to me based on the gold reserve
and exchange rates.
356
00:29:52,667 --> 00:29:56,335
The governor's is based on
the volume of exports.
357
00:29:56,501 --> 00:29:57,543
And yours?
358
00:29:57,710 --> 00:30:00,086
Around about that
of Mr Lauzet-Duchet.
359
00:30:00,252 --> 00:30:02,086
- 22%?
- Yes.
360
00:30:02,253 --> 00:30:06,569
Good. Well, write the decree
on that basis.
361
00:30:06,569 --> 00:30:09,130
- Aren't I being accommodating?
- You're like my wife.
362
00:30:09,338 --> 00:30:11,714
You agree when you're getting
what you want.
363
00:30:11,881 --> 00:30:14,006
You'll have to excuse me.
There are things I have to do.
364
00:30:14,173 --> 00:30:16,632
- I'll get my briefcase.
- While I think of it...
365
00:30:16,799 --> 00:30:19,341
Find me an opening ceremony
for tomorrow morning.
366
00:30:19,508 --> 00:30:22,133
Before 11.
My speech will have to finish
367
00:30:22,300 --> 00:30:25,343
before the stock exchange opens.
That'll reassure them.
368
00:30:25,509 --> 00:30:28,885
There is an operating theatre
to be opened at the Cochin hospital.
369
00:30:29,052 --> 00:30:31,428
You wouldn't have anything outdoors?
370
00:30:31,594 --> 00:30:33,595
Well...yes. But it's in Marseilles.
371
00:30:33,762 --> 00:30:36,415
OK then...we'll take the operating theatre.
372
00:30:41,805 --> 00:30:46,086
Good man, that. He has a remarkable
understanding of the financial gymnastics.
373
00:30:46,121 --> 00:30:49,308
He's well-trained. Don't forget
he's �tienne Volard's son-in-law.
374
00:30:49,474 --> 00:30:51,391
Yes. I know...
High-finance Protestants
375
00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,934
who are not exactly backward
in their arithmetic.
376
00:30:55,101 --> 00:30:58,352
- What time is it?
- Just on 6.
377
00:30:58,518 --> 00:31:00,102
We didn't waste any time,
did we?
378
00:31:00,269 --> 00:31:02,728
Maybe we could fit in
a game of bowls?
379
00:31:02,895 --> 00:31:05,312
You've got a set of bowls,
and you didn't tell us?
380
00:31:05,479 --> 00:31:09,037
Look out!
Watch what you're doing!
381
00:31:10,605 --> 00:31:12,689
We've got it!
We've got it good and proper!
382
00:31:12,897 --> 00:31:15,648
That's it! Measure it! Hold on.
383
00:31:17,149 --> 00:31:20,483
Watch your feet! Bowls can only
be played by hand!
384
00:31:20,650 --> 00:31:23,109
Excuse me...no!..!
It's a common situation!
385
00:31:23,317 --> 00:31:25,818
How can you cheat at playing
when you're supposed to be so honest?
386
00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:28,987
That's why I play.
It gets it out of my system!
387
00:32:10,789 --> 00:32:12,164
Good morning, Prime Minister.
388
00:32:12,372 --> 00:32:16,332
We have the most modern
operating theatre in Europe.
389
00:32:16,498 --> 00:32:18,463
Seriously, I'm proud of it.
390
00:32:18,498 --> 00:32:21,125
- What sort of reactions?
- Positive, but surprised.
391
00:32:21,291 --> 00:32:24,751
The health minister had already
forwarded his speech to the press.
392
00:32:24,917 --> 00:32:27,210
So I've just made
one more enemy.
393
00:32:27,376 --> 00:32:29,127
- Have they arrived?
- They're waiting for you.
394
00:32:29,335 --> 00:32:31,669
Including the health minister.
395
00:32:39,963 --> 00:32:42,214
Hold the line please.
Mr Lauzet-Duchet.
396
00:32:43,256 --> 00:32:44,506
Thanks.
397
00:32:46,173 --> 00:32:47,215
Yes!
398
00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:48,716
Himself.
399
00:32:49,716 --> 00:32:51,175
Just a moment.
400
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:55,551
I'm listening.
401
00:32:55,718 --> 00:32:57,093
Yes...I'm alone.
402
00:32:57,552 --> 00:32:59,510
I'm sorry to have to ask you
this question...
403
00:32:59,677 --> 00:33:03,220
but have you mentioned the decision
taken yesterday to anyone at all?
404
00:33:04,762 --> 00:33:06,387
I don't know anything for certain, but...
405
00:33:06,554 --> 00:33:08,888
I've been advised of
some disturbing movements
406
00:33:09,055 --> 00:33:10,847
on the Zurich exchange.
407
00:33:11,014 --> 00:33:15,348
Stock worth 300 million is to be
dumped on the market at opening.
408
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:17,432
Whose?...That's all I know.
409
00:33:19,558 --> 00:33:22,517
Yes...I hope that it's just
a coincidence.
410
00:33:23,642 --> 00:33:26,572
I'll be kept informed
Where will I contact you?
411
00:33:26,935 --> 00:33:28,935
I won't budge from my office here.
412
00:33:29,102 --> 00:33:30,519
Thanks.
413
00:33:48,649 --> 00:33:51,483
Gentlemen...your attention,
if you please!
414
00:33:51,733 --> 00:33:53,859
Why should we spend a lot of time
discussing a measure
415
00:33:54,026 --> 00:33:56,234
which is so obviously required?
416
00:33:56,401 --> 00:33:59,319
We discuss it, because that's
what we're here for.
417
00:33:59,485 --> 00:34:02,320
This plan can have an impact
on the army budget.
418
00:34:02,528 --> 00:34:05,320
- I'd like to say something about it.
- Of course.
419
00:34:05,570 --> 00:34:08,571
- And you aren't alone.
- I don't need to tell you, gentlemen
420
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:11,614
that some of the major nations
of the world,
421
00:34:11,822 --> 00:34:15,698
Britain, America,
Japan, Sweden, Austria,
422
00:34:15,823 --> 00:34:17,365
have devalued their currency.
423
00:34:18,866 --> 00:34:20,616
Previous governments
424
00:34:20,783 --> 00:34:23,159
have driven this country
into economic paralysis,
425
00:34:23,367 --> 00:34:26,201
under the pretext of following
the economic orthodoxy
426
00:34:26,368 --> 00:34:30,661
to which the financial world adheres.
- Sometimes with good reason.
427
00:34:30,827 --> 00:34:34,620
Why don't we trust control
of our finances to the financiers?
428
00:34:34,745 --> 00:34:37,538
The trouble is that their interests
429
00:34:37,704 --> 00:34:40,163
rarely coincide with those of the country.
430
00:34:40,538 --> 00:34:42,414
What does that prove?
431
00:34:42,581 --> 00:34:45,331
It proves that an intelligent man
can still talk nonsense.
432
00:34:46,332 --> 00:34:47,415
In that case...
433
00:34:47,874 --> 00:34:50,916
Factories and steelworks are dying.
It's serious,
434
00:34:51,083 --> 00:34:53,209
when the skies are blue
above our industries.
435
00:34:54,167 --> 00:34:57,918
We're neither in the House
nor the inaugural session here,
436
00:34:58,127 --> 00:35:00,336
but in the room at the back of the shop.
On our own.
437
00:35:00,502 --> 00:35:03,753
So, let's keep it simple.
Let's talk big bucks.
438
00:35:04,754 --> 00:35:08,046
We're not running a grocer's shop,
so don't let's talk like grocers.
439
00:35:08,254 --> 00:35:11,047
Instead of 'big bucks',
let's get back to monetary rate,
440
00:35:11,255 --> 00:35:14,715
and instead of 'back-of-the-shop',
remember we're in the PM's HQ.
441
00:35:14,881 --> 00:35:17,549
- Can't do anyone any harm.
- As you wish.
442
00:35:17,757 --> 00:35:22,258
And...according to you, how much
would the monetary rate fall by?
443
00:35:35,554 --> 00:35:38,430
I was voted back in my electorate,
swearing to my constituents
444
00:35:38,596 --> 00:35:41,347
that as long as I was there,
there'd be no devaluation.
445
00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:43,014
I'll need time to consider it.
446
00:35:43,973 --> 00:35:48,474
Some of you have been opposed
to this measure and have told me so.
447
00:35:48,641 --> 00:35:53,441
If you feel you should quit the government,
I would understand and respect your decision.
448
00:35:53,476 --> 00:35:54,642
But I didn't say that!
449
00:35:54,809 --> 00:35:57,268
I wasn't implying
that you'd said it.
450
00:36:08,896 --> 00:36:10,772
Have him come into my office.
451
00:36:11,814 --> 00:36:14,356
Gentlemen, you'll have to
excuse me for a minute.
452
00:36:32,069 --> 00:36:33,987
I guess you realise why I'm here...
453
00:36:34,112 --> 00:36:36,446
I guess I do. So?
454
00:36:36,571 --> 00:36:38,446
I'm here about Zurich.
455
00:36:38,571 --> 00:36:40,864
It wasn't coincidence.
456
00:36:41,030 --> 00:36:42,697
But a leak.
457
00:36:42,864 --> 00:36:46,832
And it's not a matter of 300 million,
but 3 billion.
458
00:36:49,533 --> 00:36:52,367
Very soon Paris will get wind of it
and there'll be panic.
459
00:36:54,784 --> 00:36:57,243
There's only one solution...
460
00:36:57,410 --> 00:37:01,177
Stop the operation before
it turns into a catastrophe.
461
00:37:02,692 --> 00:37:06,834
The decree has been promulgated.
It will be in the official gazette tonight.
462
00:37:06,869 --> 00:37:09,080
Paris has to stay calm...
and hold prices.
463
00:37:09,246 --> 00:37:13,539
The Banque de France can make it happen.
That's up to you.
464
00:37:14,373 --> 00:37:18,707
If it was up to anyone else,
what would I be doing here?
465
00:37:19,124 --> 00:37:20,916
Thank you, Henri.
466
00:37:21,917 --> 00:37:24,584
Those bastards that cost France 3 billion...
467
00:37:24,751 --> 00:37:27,460
They'll be paying in billions.
That I promise you!
468
00:37:30,836 --> 00:37:33,086
Oh...I almost forgot...
469
00:37:33,253 --> 00:37:37,713
The stockbrokers in Zurich
received their orders from the Lieuven Group.
470
00:37:58,177 --> 00:38:01,219
So? No resignations?
Everyone wants to stay a minister?
471
00:38:01,428 --> 00:38:04,262
I ask permission
to reserve my response.
472
00:38:04,428 --> 00:38:05,887
I need time to consult
my colleagues.
473
00:38:06,054 --> 00:38:08,805
So consult your conscience...
you'll save time.
474
00:38:09,013 --> 00:38:12,347
Any discussion was unnecessary,
since everyone agrees.
475
00:38:12,597 --> 00:38:14,890
- You're pushing it a bit fast!
- I'm in a hurry.
476
00:38:15,056 --> 00:38:17,390
It is now 3.30
This cabinet meeting is closed.
477
00:38:18,099 --> 00:38:20,308
If you don't mind me asking,
what was the point of it?
478
00:38:20,475 --> 00:38:22,392
It will have allowed me to reconfirm
479
00:38:22,558 --> 00:38:25,726
that electoral concerns and personal problems
480
00:38:25,934 --> 00:38:28,227
are secondary to the national interest.
481
00:38:28,393 --> 00:38:31,644
Of that, I have never had any doubt.
Thank you, gentlemen.
482
00:38:55,026 --> 00:38:57,902
Chalamont, will you come in for a moment, please?
483
00:39:08,905 --> 00:39:10,363
Prime Minister.
484
00:39:12,072 --> 00:39:15,323
That's it. Everything is in order.
You were very effective.
485
00:39:15,490 --> 00:39:19,070
I did what I could. Working with you
is such a pleasure!
486
00:39:19,070 --> 00:39:21,999
Thanks. But you should aim higher.
487
00:39:21,999 --> 00:39:26,390
I'm sure you'll be a deputy one day,
even a minister.
488
00:39:26,493 --> 00:39:29,244
Maybe even prime minister.
489
00:39:29,410 --> 00:39:31,953
- Prime Minister!
- None of us lives forever.
490
00:39:32,119 --> 00:39:33,411
We all need to be replaced.
491
00:39:33,578 --> 00:39:36,996
And you have all the attributes
to become a prime minister.
492
00:39:37,163 --> 00:39:38,371
I'm very touched.
493
00:39:38,580 --> 00:39:42,164
So much the better. Wait...sit down.
I've a letter to dictate to you.
494
00:39:46,540 --> 00:39:48,999
Take my armchair...
You'll be more comfortable.
495
00:39:57,752 --> 00:39:59,419
Good. Now write...
496
00:40:01,919 --> 00:40:03,628
I, the undersigned,
497
00:40:04,670 --> 00:40:06,504
Philippe Chalamont,
498
00:40:08,046 --> 00:40:12,631
cabinet secretary to
the prime minister,
499
00:40:14,131 --> 00:40:15,673
acknowledge
500
00:40:16,757 --> 00:40:20,341
that I have passed on
to my father-in-law,
501
00:40:20,550 --> 00:40:23,884
the banker �tienne Volard,
502
00:40:24,051 --> 00:40:27,635
associated with the Lieuven Group,
503
00:40:27,843 --> 00:40:29,802
information...
504
00:40:29,803 --> 00:40:30,803
Prime Minister, I...
505
00:40:31,011 --> 00:40:32,595
What...'Prime Minister'?
506
00:40:32,761 --> 00:40:34,804
Aren't you Philippe Chalamont?
507
00:40:34,929 --> 00:40:37,748
Isn't �tienne Volard your father-in-law?
So...write!
508
00:40:37,929 --> 00:40:39,680
I, the undersigned, Philippe Chalamont,
509
00:40:39,847 --> 00:40:43,306
acknowledge that I have passed on
to my father-in-law,
510
00:40:43,473 --> 00:40:47,765
the banker �tienne Volard,
associated with the Lieuven Group,
511
00:40:47,932 --> 00:40:51,975
information concerning
the devaluation of the franc.
512
00:40:52,183 --> 00:40:53,517
That is not true, sir!
513
00:40:54,517 --> 00:40:56,976
Listen to me, Chalamont.
514
00:40:57,143 --> 00:41:01,186
Thanks to the Volard-Lieuven group,
the country has lost 3 billion francs.
515
00:41:01,353 --> 00:41:06,104
And the Bank of France is going to have to act
as a corrupt unofficial broker.
516
00:41:06,271 --> 00:41:09,355
The leak must have come from someone
who was at Chevreuse.
517
00:41:09,521 --> 00:41:11,314
So I have either to remove
the governor,
518
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,606
or prosecute the finance minister.
One or the other.
519
00:41:15,815 --> 00:41:17,690
So let me bring them to justice.
520
00:41:18,524 --> 00:41:20,858
You have delusions of grandeur,
my boy.
521
00:41:21,025 --> 00:41:24,901
Do you think that France
can afford a financial scandal?
522
00:41:25,067 --> 00:41:28,360
The 2 years of prison you'd get,
like a common thief...
523
00:41:28,527 --> 00:41:31,403
would do nothing to remedy
the injury to the nation.
524
00:41:32,528 --> 00:41:35,070
I swear you that I only mentioned it
to my wife.
525
00:41:35,404 --> 00:41:37,988
No one says anything to their wife,
when they marry into a bank!
526
00:41:38,154 --> 00:41:41,114
Good luck has its price.
That can be dearest of all.
527
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,448
At first I took you for a rat.
528
00:41:43,614 --> 00:41:45,782
But you're basically
an honest man.
529
00:41:45,948 --> 00:41:48,241
You've just paid back the dowry.
530
00:41:48,407 --> 00:41:50,533
Your stepfather can be proud of you.
531
00:41:50,700 --> 00:41:52,117
Write.
532
00:41:55,451 --> 00:41:56,701
Write.
533
00:41:57,868 --> 00:41:59,410
Information
534
00:42:00,619 --> 00:42:02,911
which has been used
535
00:42:04,328 --> 00:42:07,037
for speculations
536
00:42:08,996 --> 00:42:11,872
amounting to almost 3 billion francs.
537
00:42:18,249 --> 00:42:20,333
Sign and date it.
538
00:42:28,960 --> 00:42:32,336
- What will you do with this letter?
- Keep it.
539
00:42:35,795 --> 00:42:38,129
There will be no change
in our relations
540
00:42:38,296 --> 00:42:41,310
until the day I decide
to throw you out.
541
00:42:42,047 --> 00:42:44,881
You won't be hard up.
You have enough to live on.
542
00:42:45,006 --> 00:42:45,882
I swear to you...
543
00:42:46,048 --> 00:42:49,362
That you won't tell your wife?
I believe you.
544
00:43:00,136 --> 00:43:02,344
Write, Milleran...
545
00:43:02,511 --> 00:43:06,429
Putting the interests of the nation
above sordid self-interest
546
00:43:07,679 --> 00:43:11,097
and Assembly shenanigans,
547
00:43:11,264 --> 00:43:16,223
in a generous impulse,
to which I pay tribute today,
548
00:43:17,349 --> 00:43:21,600
the cabinet meeting
agreed to the devaluation
549
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:24,726
unanimously.
550
00:43:26,810 --> 00:43:29,935
Some of the opposition press
551
00:43:30,102 --> 00:43:35,270
enjoyed asserting
that I'd received money from Germany.
552
00:43:35,437 --> 00:43:40,147
Others were more inclined to say
it was English money.
553
00:43:41,189 --> 00:43:45,857
All of them, however,
were in total agreement
554
00:43:46,023 --> 00:43:48,899
that I'd stashed the money
in Switzerland.
555
00:43:49,941 --> 00:43:54,901
So all on my own I had formed
556
00:43:55,067 --> 00:43:58,485
a veritable corporation of treason.
557
00:44:00,194 --> 00:44:03,486
One has to accept democracy
as it is.
558
00:44:04,528 --> 00:44:08,905
Democracy, as a great politician
once said...
559
00:44:09,071 --> 00:44:11,739
was the worst sort of government,
560
00:44:11,905 --> 00:44:14,865
excluding of course,
561
00:44:15,031 --> 00:44:16,532
all the others.
562
00:44:17,532 --> 00:44:18,741
Yes!
563
00:44:20,199 --> 00:44:21,325
Lunch is served.
564
00:44:21,950 --> 00:44:26,368
Given what the doctor allows me,
just say "the table's been set".
565
00:44:26,535 --> 00:44:28,660
Go ahead, Milleran.
I'll join you.
566
00:45:16,507 --> 00:45:19,841
At the same time there,
as we have seen it is quite warm.
567
00:45:20,049 --> 00:45:22,467
Moving on to today�s
political news
568
00:45:22,633 --> 00:45:27,760
where we learn that at 11 this morning,
Sir Merryl Lloyd,
569
00:45:27,927 --> 00:45:30,719
here to participate
in preliminary discussions,
570
00:45:30,927 --> 00:45:33,220
with the EEC, paid a visit
571
00:45:34,053 --> 00:45:37,763
and one of a private nature,
with former Prime Minister Beaufort,
572
00:45:37,929 --> 00:45:39,972
in his retreat at Saint-Mesmain
573
00:45:40,138 --> 00:45:44,931
where the former prime minister,
wrongly known for misanthropy,
574
00:45:45,140 --> 00:45:48,766
made a warm welcome,
575
00:45:48,932 --> 00:45:53,678
to him who was for more than 30 years
his most uncompromising opponent.
576
00:45:53,678 --> 00:45:56,059
�mile Beaufort's verbal
sparring matches,
577
00:45:56,226 --> 00:45:59,185
with Sir Merryl Lloyd,
are indeed long forgotten.
578
00:45:59,352 --> 00:46:01,519
They are a thing of the past.
579
00:46:01,686 --> 00:46:03,561
One could say, part of history,
580
00:46:03,728 --> 00:46:07,021
as these images remind us.
581
00:46:09,230 --> 00:46:12,564
No lamb for you, Mr Beaufort.
582
00:46:41,905 --> 00:46:45,281
It is amazing the number of yogurts
there are in this house.
583
00:46:45,490 --> 00:46:47,699
- Everybody's eating them, sir.
- Why?
584
00:46:49,199 --> 00:46:52,083
I don't know...
To be like you, maybe.
585
00:46:52,617 --> 00:46:57,006
You're wrong there...I hate it.
It's baby-food.
586
00:47:09,246 --> 00:47:11,622
What is it?
What do you want?
587
00:47:11,789 --> 00:47:14,498
Sir...
if it wouldn't be too much trouble..
588
00:47:14,665 --> 00:47:16,165
I'd like to have my afternoon off.
589
00:47:16,332 --> 00:47:18,457
Again? What for?
590
00:47:18,624 --> 00:47:21,000
- My grandmother's sick.
- That's alright then.
591
00:47:21,166 --> 00:47:25,209
It's good of you to worry about
your grandmother.
592
00:47:25,376 --> 00:47:27,126
Take the afternoon...off you go.
593
00:47:30,461 --> 00:47:33,586
She's a lying little pants-chaser...
and you let her get away with it.
594
00:47:33,753 --> 00:47:35,920
I let her get away with it...
595
00:47:36,087 --> 00:47:37,921
She's the only young thing
in this place.
596
00:47:38,129 --> 00:47:40,130
You don't believe her stories do you?
597
00:47:40,338 --> 00:47:43,756
No. But she displays
a sensitive imagination.
598
00:47:44,881 --> 00:47:46,173
She displays a lot of nerve.
599
00:47:46,757 --> 00:47:49,299
No, it would have taken nerve
for her to say:
600
00:47:49,466 --> 00:47:53,438
"Sir, I'd like to have the afternoon off
so I can go and get laid."
601
00:47:55,176 --> 00:47:58,593
What? You talk about nerve...
That's nerve.
602
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,428
...Chalamont, who heads
the Independent Republicans.
603
00:48:02,595 --> 00:48:05,845
At 10.30 Mr Chalamont left the palace...
604
00:48:06,012 --> 00:48:09,722
where we cross to L�on Zitrone.
605
00:48:09,888 --> 00:48:14,806
I'm here at the �lys�e Palace, where
the president received Mr Chalamont.
606
00:48:14,973 --> 00:48:17,682
who is still simply
Mr Philippe Chalamont,
607
00:48:17,849 --> 00:48:22,475
since despite all the people
we have seen
608
00:48:22,642 --> 00:48:25,643
since the start of the ministerial crisis,
Mr Chalamont
609
00:48:25,809 --> 00:48:30,061
is still the only one who hasn't been
prime minister.
610
00:48:30,227 --> 00:48:34,478
When he arrived, approximately
three quarters of an hour ago
611
00:48:34,645 --> 00:48:36,937
Mr Chalamont did not think
it necessary
612
00:48:37,146 --> 00:48:40,772
to give us the exact reasons
for his visit.
613
00:48:40,980 --> 00:48:43,481
But he's coming out now,
and I'll ask him...
614
00:48:43,648 --> 00:48:46,732
Mr Chalamont, if I may...
a moment please gentlemen...
615
00:48:46,899 --> 00:48:50,608
We're on TV
Mr Chalamont, has the President
616
00:48:50,775 --> 00:48:53,900
given you the position
of prime minister?
617
00:48:54,067 --> 00:48:57,443
The President of France
did me that honour of consulting me
618
00:48:57,610 --> 00:48:59,110
about the new government.
619
00:48:59,944 --> 00:49:03,153
As I said, to certain of your colleagues,
620
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,362
it can only be a broad cabinet
of national unity.
621
00:49:06,529 --> 00:49:08,946
It remains for me to consult
with my colleagues.
622
00:49:09,155 --> 00:49:12,156
Think you can give
an affirmative answer soon?
623
00:49:12,364 --> 00:49:15,448
Please look towards the cameras.
624
00:49:15,615 --> 00:49:19,491
I'd like to give the President an answer
by tomorrow morning.
625
00:49:20,324 --> 00:49:24,576
Every hour that passes creates
an additional risk for the government.
626
00:49:25,368 --> 00:49:28,493
- A risk, most of all, for France.
- Thank you very much, Mr Chalamont.
627
00:49:28,660 --> 00:49:31,202
So, ladies and gentlemen,
we'll stay here...
628
00:49:31,369 --> 00:49:34,495
We'll repeat this
in our later editions.
629
00:49:34,662 --> 00:49:39,038
For now, I'll hand you back...
Over to you, Claude Darget.
630
00:49:39,496 --> 00:49:40,955
Thank you. As we saw,
631
00:49:41,164 --> 00:49:44,081
Mr Chalamont is rather optimistic
632
00:49:44,248 --> 00:49:47,582
and we can reasonably hope
that soon...
633
00:50:00,752 --> 00:50:03,878
Are you taking your walk, Mr Beaufort?
634
00:50:04,087 --> 00:50:06,837
- Oh...No.
- That's what I thought.
635
00:50:12,881 --> 00:50:14,298
It's the crazy guy.
636
00:50:15,340 --> 00:50:17,007
Xavier Taupin ?
637
00:50:17,132 --> 00:50:19,799
Hello? Yes, yes...I'm listening.
638
00:50:19,966 --> 00:50:21,050
But I...
639
00:50:22,133 --> 00:50:25,384
I won't fail to pass on the message..
you can count on me.
640
00:50:25,551 --> 00:50:28,843
Mr Taupin is seriously ill.
But he wants to tell you...
641
00:50:29,010 --> 00:50:31,511
That I'll croak before him?
I've been hearing that for 20 years.
642
00:50:31,678 --> 00:50:35,220
- What's up with him this time?
- It seems to be serious.
643
00:50:36,637 --> 00:50:40,222
Good. Well, all things considered,
let's go for a drive!
644
00:50:46,140 --> 00:50:48,766
You take off more time to eat
every day!
645
00:50:48,932 --> 00:50:52,267
- Oh, it's alright, I had a game of billiards.
- It's not warm out here, you know.
646
00:50:54,976 --> 00:50:57,977
Hey! It's OK.
I've got the afternoon off.
647
00:50:58,143 --> 00:51:00,102
Well...some good news at last!
648
00:51:00,269 --> 00:51:03,145
Well, if anyone needs me
I'll be at 27.
649
00:51:03,270 --> 00:51:04,687
OK.
650
00:51:36,654 --> 00:51:38,530
Where might she be off to?
651
00:51:38,655 --> 00:51:40,113
To see her grandmother
652
00:51:55,409 --> 00:51:56,660
Good day, Augustin.
653
00:51:57,868 --> 00:51:59,660
How are you, �mile?
654
00:52:00,202 --> 00:52:04,412
Fine. What yield
are you aiming for this year?
655
00:52:04,578 --> 00:52:08,204
Oh...yield...can't really say...
656
00:52:08,371 --> 00:52:11,830
It'll be low,
the price you get...you have...
657
00:52:14,581 --> 00:52:17,165
The price you get, you don't have
enough to pay for fertilizer.
658
00:52:17,332 --> 00:52:21,000
It's ruled by the thugs
who set the price of beet...
659
00:52:21,166 --> 00:52:24,959
and who probably damn well
grow radishes themselves!
660
00:52:25,126 --> 00:52:28,293
Listen...
You know what I really think?
661
00:52:28,460 --> 00:52:31,503
Deputies should all be tossed
into the Seine!
662
00:52:31,794 --> 00:52:34,337
Don't worry, they can swim.
663
00:52:34,503 --> 00:52:37,171
Politics is a profession for hooligans.
664
00:52:37,338 --> 00:52:38,630
Well...thanks very much!
665
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:42,297
Oh, I don't mean you...
You know that!
666
00:52:42,464 --> 00:52:44,506
You're one of us...
It's not the same.
667
00:52:44,673 --> 00:52:47,340
You were born with
our culture inside you.
668
00:52:47,882 --> 00:52:51,967
That's why they never gave me
the ministry of agriculture.
669
00:52:52,133 --> 00:52:54,967
Why I would've refused anyway...
so I wouldn't've had to fight with you!
670
00:52:55,134 --> 00:52:56,760
You're a good guy! Thanks.
671
00:52:57,135 --> 00:53:02,873
Who do you think'll be the next hooligan
to run the government?
672
00:53:02,873 --> 00:53:07,221
- See you, Augustin.
- Goodbye, �mile.
673
00:53:07,388 --> 00:53:09,596
- See you, Fran�ois.
- Cheers.
674
00:54:51,166 --> 00:54:55,376
Excuse me Mrs Taupin.
What is it? Is Xavier unwell?
675
00:54:55,543 --> 00:54:59,919
It's terrible, Mr Beaufort.
You can't imagine how it was last night.
676
00:55:00,127 --> 00:55:01,753
What's wrong with him, exactly?
677
00:55:01,961 --> 00:55:04,170
What do you care what I have?
678
00:55:04,378 --> 00:55:07,046
They're going to operate.
I'll get better.
679
00:55:07,212 --> 00:55:09,005
I'll be there at your funeral.
680
00:55:09,213 --> 00:55:12,047
Yes...of course you will!
681
00:55:27,843 --> 00:55:31,094
Poor old Taupin ! You know he was
a General Council member?
682
00:55:31,219 --> 00:55:33,178
He didn't amount to much.
683
00:55:33,303 --> 00:55:34,970
No, not very much.
684
00:55:40,555 --> 00:55:43,598
I knew him in 4th year
at �vreux high school.
685
00:55:43,848 --> 00:55:47,474
I remember something he said
that's often come back to me...
686
00:55:47,682 --> 00:55:51,391
"If you're a brother,
you'll give me a hand."
687
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:54,017
Well, I found him 40 years later.
688
00:55:54,184 --> 00:55:55,851
He hadn't changed.
689
00:56:05,562 --> 00:56:08,597
- You told him I was here?
- Yes sir.
690
00:56:08,597 --> 00:56:11,564
But I doubt the prime minister
can receive you this evening.
691
00:56:11,730 --> 00:56:13,898
He has a session in the Chamber
at 5pm.
692
00:56:26,401 --> 00:56:30,486
Oh...Prime Minister...
There's a Xavier Taupin,
693
00:56:30,652 --> 00:56:32,778
a council member
from Eure D�partement,
694
00:56:32,986 --> 00:56:36,446
who's asked to see you
several times. He's waiting.
695
00:56:36,612 --> 00:56:39,280
Tell him I won't be able
to see him.
696
00:56:44,073 --> 00:56:46,865
So �mile, the sacred one!
You refuse to see me?
697
00:56:47,074 --> 00:56:49,074
You take yourself
for Grand Vizier?
698
00:56:49,282 --> 00:56:51,408
You're free to make
an appointment.
699
00:56:51,616 --> 00:56:54,075
- What? Don't you recognise me?
- Yes!
700
00:56:54,284 --> 00:56:55,993
- But you don't address me as a pal?
- No.
701
00:56:56,201 --> 00:56:58,493
I assure you, I won't
waste your time.
702
00:56:58,660 --> 00:57:00,661
I know it's precious.
703
00:57:03,286 --> 00:57:06,579
I know how it is...coming...going...
always on the run.
704
00:57:06,787 --> 00:57:10,580
It was easier when we were young.
You remember high school at �vreux?
705
00:57:10,747 --> 00:57:12,331
They were good times.
706
00:57:12,539 --> 00:57:14,831
You've certainly made it since then!
707
00:57:15,415 --> 00:57:18,874
Me too for that matter.
If you accept my status
708
00:57:19,041 --> 00:57:23,417
being on a general council...
And in your own district!
709
00:57:23,584 --> 00:57:26,084
I know. So?
710
00:57:26,251 --> 00:57:29,210
So... well...
I need a small favour.
711
00:57:29,419 --> 00:57:32,336
For someone like you it would be
less than nothing.
712
00:57:32,545 --> 00:57:34,920
There'll be an adjudication next month
713
00:57:35,129 --> 00:57:37,838
for the port of Bordeaux...
Where, coincidentally
714
00:57:38,046 --> 00:57:41,797
my brother-in-law is managing
an important construction project
715
00:57:42,005 --> 00:57:45,423
which I'm associated with...
to a very small degree.
716
00:57:45,631 --> 00:57:48,049
- No.
- What do you mean...no?
717
00:57:48,216 --> 00:57:50,800
You're asking me to intervene
718
00:57:51,008 --> 00:57:54,717
to help a business that you're
associated with.
719
00:57:54,884 --> 00:57:56,676
To which I say no.
That's it.
720
00:57:56,885 --> 00:57:59,885
I just need a bit of help.
You can do anything!
721
00:58:00,094 --> 00:58:04,053
The very reason I can't allow myself to.
Now, excuse me.
722
00:58:12,972 --> 00:58:13,931
The Bourbon palace!
723
00:58:14,681 --> 00:58:19,141
The proposed customs union
presented by the government
724
00:58:19,349 --> 00:58:24,059
risks reducing French farmers
to poverty.
725
00:58:24,726 --> 00:58:29,185
What good will a European federation contribute
726
00:58:29,352 --> 00:58:31,061
to our economy?
727
00:58:31,227 --> 00:58:33,978
Cereal crops? We have them.
728
00:58:34,770 --> 00:58:37,979
Wine? We export it.
729
00:58:38,104 --> 00:58:40,897
We have sufficient livestock
730
00:58:41,105 --> 00:58:44,523
to satisfy the greater part
of our consumption.
731
00:58:44,731 --> 00:58:49,899
What can we expect from those
European countries,
732
00:58:50,108 --> 00:58:53,317
unable to stand on their own feet?
733
00:58:53,484 --> 00:58:57,110
New partners could only create
734
00:58:57,276 --> 00:59:00,986
that which Prime Minister Beaufort
calls emulation,
735
00:59:01,111 --> 00:59:04,487
and which I call confusion.
736
00:59:04,695 --> 00:59:07,529
The Europe that the government
is proposing to us
737
00:59:07,696 --> 00:59:12,837
is just a disguised form of assistance
to countries with weak economies.
738
00:59:13,557 --> 00:59:16,863
What shall we gain from it? Nothing!
739
00:59:16,990 --> 00:59:18,532
What shall we lose from it? Everything!
740
00:59:21,950 --> 00:59:24,885
But it's easy to discern
741
00:59:24,885 --> 00:59:27,136
the hidden purpose
of the enterprise.
742
00:59:27,136 --> 00:59:30,077
Prime Minister Beaufort,
743
00:59:30,244 --> 00:59:34,412
making France the leader
of a united Europe,
744
00:59:34,662 --> 00:59:38,204
is probably only thinking of
an enhanced presidency.
745
00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:48,082
So, my dear, did you come to watch
the execution?
746
00:59:48,332 --> 00:59:50,515
I can't understand why Beaufort
747
00:59:50,515 --> 00:59:53,084
hasn't put your husband in his ministry.
748
00:59:53,250 --> 00:59:56,084
Philippe has devoted himself to him.
749
00:59:56,251 --> 00:59:59,252
Ingratitude...
Jealousy, too, perhaps.
750
00:59:59,419 --> 01:00:00,794
We shall not sacrifice
751
01:00:01,002 --> 01:00:05,462
the security of all
to the interests of one.
752
01:00:05,670 --> 01:00:09,296
He's really pushing it today.
He's even worse than usual.
753
01:00:09,463 --> 01:00:12,464
As nobody's listening to him,
it's just a curtain-raiser.
754
01:00:12,631 --> 01:00:14,506
The tenors are still in the wings.
755
01:00:14,673 --> 01:00:17,061
Listen boys, I can give you the score.
756
01:00:17,132 --> 01:00:21,050
300 against...120 for...
and about 120 abstentions.
757
01:00:22,092 --> 01:00:25,801
They'll torpedo the only sensible thing
to happen since the war.
758
01:00:26,009 --> 01:00:28,677
Yes, gentlemen. I repeat...
759
01:00:28,843 --> 01:00:32,886
Our agriculture is the fruit
of many generations
760
01:00:33,011 --> 01:00:36,929
of labour, effort and dedication.
761
01:00:38,138 --> 01:00:42,764
Tillage and pasture are
the nurturing breasts of France...
762
01:00:42,931 --> 01:00:47,515
that France who will not become
the cash cow for Europe.
763
01:01:00,686 --> 01:01:03,436
And he was nominated
for the censorship board!
764
01:01:03,603 --> 01:01:06,020
- Thank God, he was blackballed.
- Who by?
765
01:01:06,187 --> 01:01:08,730
By all those who can
read and write.
766
01:01:10,605 --> 01:01:12,856
Mr Philippe Chalamont now has the floor.
767
01:01:32,569 --> 01:01:37,362
Gentlemen, I think we've now reached
the heart of the real debate
768
01:01:37,529 --> 01:01:40,905
about a problem that has preoccupied
the government for months...
769
01:01:41,114 --> 01:01:45,031
and the prime minister especially, for years...
770
01:01:45,198 --> 01:01:47,990
the idea of a united European community.
771
01:01:49,032 --> 01:01:50,783
I'm going to formulate
some serious reservations.
772
01:01:50,950 --> 01:01:51,615
We know them all!
773
01:01:51,615 --> 01:01:53,660
I hasten to add...
774
01:01:53,660 --> 01:01:59,045
that the problems are not as
straightforward as some people think.
775
01:02:00,827 --> 01:02:03,703
Before formulating these reservations...
776
01:02:03,870 --> 01:02:06,537
allow me to pay tribute to the government
777
01:02:06,704 --> 01:02:08,955
for its successes
in recent months,
778
01:02:09,163 --> 01:02:12,247
from both the economic
and social points of view.
779
01:02:12,414 --> 01:02:16,248
Moreover, whatever the opposition
780
01:02:16,457 --> 01:02:19,624
that I shall be forced to express
about the federation proposal,
781
01:02:19,791 --> 01:02:23,750
and especially about
the customs union...
782
01:02:23,917 --> 01:02:27,960
I shall never call in question
the lofty sentiments
783
01:02:28,127 --> 01:02:30,752
enthusiastically expressed
by the prime minister.
784
01:02:39,755 --> 01:02:42,297
He's more moderate than I thought.
785
01:02:42,506 --> 01:02:45,756
If he's starting off quietly,
it means he might go for broke.
786
01:02:46,632 --> 01:02:48,049
It's been said often before, but
787
01:02:48,216 --> 01:02:51,383
the idea of a federated Europe
is certainly a noble one.
788
01:02:51,716 --> 01:02:53,884
Noble...but utopian.
789
01:02:54,050 --> 01:02:57,343
The removal of customs barriers,
free trade...
790
01:02:57,551 --> 01:03:00,427
are all formulas which
look good on paper
791
01:03:00,594 --> 01:03:04,427
but which will create permanent challenges
to economic calculations.
792
01:03:05,304 --> 01:03:09,388
Will the length of the European metre
become variable?
793
01:03:09,596 --> 01:03:14,264
Will a ton of European coal
be double in volume?
794
01:03:14,431 --> 01:03:19,307
Will France be more powerful
and prosperous?
795
01:03:19,474 --> 01:03:22,308
The removal of customs barriers
796
01:03:22,475 --> 01:03:25,851
which the government
now invites us to vote on
797
01:03:26,018 --> 01:03:27,435
has long been used by smugglers.
798
01:03:27,601 --> 01:03:30,561
But is that sufficient reason
to adopt it?
799
01:03:31,853 --> 01:03:36,062
- He's talking rubbish.
- That's the prerogative of the opposition.
800
01:03:36,312 --> 01:03:38,855
Mr Prime Minister, when you took power...
801
01:03:39,230 --> 01:03:41,230
No, Mr Chalamont ! No!
802
01:03:41,397 --> 01:03:45,356
- Mr Prime Minister...
- I haven't taken power.
803
01:03:45,523 --> 01:03:48,774
I was offered it by the President.
I didn't take it from anyone else.
804
01:03:48,899 --> 01:03:50,983
If you don't want power,
you refuse it, Mr Beaufort!
805
01:03:51,150 --> 01:03:55,536
- One could happily live in obscurity.
- Something you'd know a lot about!
806
01:03:57,902 --> 01:04:01,069
- Mr Chalamont has the floor.
- When we were called
807
01:04:01,236 --> 01:04:05,070
to vote for the nomination, we believed
we were sealing a contract
808
01:04:05,279 --> 01:04:07,196
between the government
and the Assembly.
809
01:04:07,362 --> 01:04:09,863
But this contract was not fulfilled.
810
01:04:10,030 --> 01:04:14,615
The customs proposal has appeared
like a rabbit out of a hat.
811
01:04:14,781 --> 01:04:19,199
The Assembly did not know about
the preparatory work. Why?
812
01:04:19,408 --> 01:04:21,950
Because the Prime Minister
is quite aware
813
01:04:22,158 --> 01:04:24,784
he is leading the country
on a political adventure.
814
01:04:24,951 --> 01:04:26,910
All with the best of intentions. Certainly.
815
01:04:27,076 --> 01:04:30,244
By taking us back to the failed pacifist dreams
of Geneva and Locarno.
816
01:04:30,411 --> 01:04:33,536
Capitulations which led France
into this impasse.
817
01:04:34,662 --> 01:04:37,199
The worst situations can
always be justified by words.
818
01:04:37,199 --> 01:04:41,122
The Prime Minister will find them.
819
01:04:41,289 --> 01:04:43,372
His eloquence is beyond
further praise..
820
01:04:43,539 --> 01:04:45,170
For my part, I prefer figures.
821
01:04:45,170 --> 01:04:48,624
Their language is severe,
sometimes daunting...but clear.
822
01:04:48,791 --> 01:04:52,083
Now, if we examine the figures...
823
01:04:52,250 --> 01:04:55,459
we see the comeback of our currency
from the 1st of January...
824
01:05:24,551 --> 01:05:27,927
Mr Chalamont has called for an indictment.
825
01:05:28,093 --> 01:05:31,094
The head of the Independent
Republicans seems to want
826
01:05:31,302 --> 01:05:34,428
the government to call for
a vote of confidence.
827
01:05:34,595 --> 01:05:36,554
Everything suggests
that he will succeed.
828
01:05:36,721 --> 01:05:39,930
In this hypothesis, what will be
the outcome of the ballot?
829
01:05:40,138 --> 01:05:42,389
Those for the status quo
want revenge...
830
01:05:42,556 --> 01:05:45,056
and it's believed they'll take
advantage of this opportunity.
831
01:05:46,598 --> 01:05:51,016
The figures show more than
economic fluctuations.
832
01:05:52,350 --> 01:05:56,810
They are sometimes recorded in letters of blood
in the history of the nation.
833
01:05:56,976 --> 01:05:59,060
But I want to say,
loud and clear...
834
01:05:59,227 --> 01:06:02,302
that it was not consent to
the surrender of national power
835
01:06:02,302 --> 01:06:05,691
that the heroes of our deadliest wars
gave their lives.
836
01:06:05,979 --> 01:06:08,188
It was not for a Europe
without frontiers
837
01:06:08,354 --> 01:06:11,022
that 1.5 million Frenchmen fell.
838
01:06:20,441 --> 01:06:24,835
But less my intentions are misunderstood...
839
01:06:24,835 --> 01:06:28,068
I remain convinced that
the fall of this government
840
01:06:28,235 --> 01:06:30,236
would plunge the country
into a new crisis
841
01:06:30,444 --> 01:06:32,611
that can only weaken us.
842
01:06:32,820 --> 01:06:34,778
I hope, most intensely...
843
01:06:34,945 --> 01:06:37,154
that Mr. Beaufort can continue
844
01:06:37,321 --> 01:06:39,155
his work of national recovery.
845
01:06:39,988 --> 01:06:43,864
It is in this spirit that
I beg you, Prime Minister...
846
01:06:43,989 --> 01:06:45,948
to cancel your project...
847
01:06:46,157 --> 01:06:49,282
and so allow us to give you
our vote of confidence.
848
01:06:58,618 --> 01:07:02,036
Really...your husband has
done everything to save him.
849
01:07:10,163 --> 01:07:12,664
The Prime Minister has the floor.
850
01:07:14,831 --> 01:07:16,040
Gentlemen...
851
01:07:17,207 --> 01:07:21,500
Mr Chalamont spoke movingly
of the victims of war.
852
01:07:22,583 --> 01:07:26,043
I join all the more gladly in this tribute
853
01:07:26,334 --> 01:07:30,044
that involves some who were
among my best of friends.
854
01:07:30,252 --> 01:07:33,295
At the time of Verdun,
Mr Chalamont was 10 years old.
855
01:07:33,503 --> 01:07:35,129
So he's entitled to talk about it.
856
01:07:38,588 --> 01:07:40,422
Being present at the theatre of operations,
857
01:07:40,588 --> 01:07:43,172
I cannot claim the same objectivity.
858
01:07:43,422 --> 01:07:47,715
You have a bad overview when
you're too close to the action.
859
01:07:47,882 --> 01:07:51,591
Mr Chalamont talks
of 1.5 million dead
860
01:07:51,758 --> 01:07:54,634
Personally, I can name
only a handful...
861
01:07:50,420 --> 01:07:56,760
all of whom fell close by me.
862
01:08:08,471 --> 01:08:10,513
I am ashamed, gentlemen.
863
01:08:10,722 --> 01:08:15,306
But I wanted to show that
I can also get the dead vote.
864
01:08:15,515 --> 01:08:18,641
It is totally despicable to do this,
I assure you.
865
01:08:18,849 --> 01:08:21,683
I have a complete file too...
300 pages.
866
01:08:21,892 --> 01:08:25,392
300 pages of statistics and balance sheets
prepared for you.
867
01:08:26,434 --> 01:08:29,560
but after listening to Mr Chalamont,
I've noticed
868
01:08:29,769 --> 01:08:33,353
That the language of figures has
this in common with that of flowers...
869
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:35,145
We make them say
what we want.
870
01:08:35,354 --> 01:08:37,521
Figures speak, but never shout.
871
01:08:37,729 --> 01:08:41,064
That is why they do not stop
Mr Chalamont's friends from falling sleep.
872
01:08:41,272 --> 01:08:44,981
I prefer the language of human beings.
I understand it better.
873
01:08:46,148 --> 01:08:50,024
During all these years of collective madness
and self-destruction,
874
01:08:50,233 --> 01:08:52,900
I think I've seen everything
a man can see.
875
01:08:53,067 --> 01:08:56,735
Roads filled with refugees.
Children fighting wars.
876
01:08:56,943 --> 01:09:00,736
Victor and vanquished reconciled
in cemeteries...
877
01:09:00,902 --> 01:09:05,017
their status raised to that
of a tourist attraction.
878
01:09:06,112 --> 01:09:09,363
When peace returned,
I visited some mines.
879
01:09:09,530 --> 01:09:13,781
I saw police charging strikers...
as well as the unemployed.
880
01:09:13,989 --> 01:09:16,157
I've seen the wealth
of some places...
881
01:09:16,365 --> 01:09:19,449
...and the incredible poverty
of others.
882
01:09:19,699 --> 01:09:24,284
And during all those years,
I never stopped thinking about Europe.
883
01:09:25,284 --> 01:09:30,457
Mr Chalamont spent some of his life
in a bank...where he thought about it too.
884
01:09:30,457 --> 01:09:34,162
We are not necessarily talking about
the same Europe.
885
01:09:34,537 --> 01:09:36,287
First of all we think about France!
886
01:09:36,496 --> 01:09:40,497
You're not the only one
who thinks of Europe. We do too!
887
01:09:41,414 --> 01:09:43,789
Everybody's talking about Europe.
888
01:09:43,998 --> 01:09:46,915
Because of that, we've stopped
listening to each other.
889
01:09:47,124 --> 01:09:49,749
It's opposed on essential principles.
890
01:09:50,166 --> 01:09:53,417
Why do you think the government
is being asked
891
01:09:53,584 --> 01:09:56,126
to cancel the customs agreement?
892
01:09:56,334 --> 01:09:59,335
Because it is an affront
to national sovereignty?
893
01:09:59,544 --> 01:10:02,878
No. Not at all. It's simply because
another plan is ready.
894
01:10:03,253 --> 01:10:04,128
Not true!
895
01:10:04,545 --> 01:10:07,254
A plan that will be presented
by the next government.
896
01:10:07,462 --> 01:10:09,546
I wish to interrupt you!
897
01:10:09,796 --> 01:10:13,714
No! I can tell you the principles
of this plan.
898
01:10:13,881 --> 01:10:16,173
Horizontal and vertical trusts...
899
01:10:16,382 --> 01:10:19,424
and pressure groups that keep
under their control
900
01:10:19,633 --> 01:10:22,883
the output of labour...
and the workers themselves.
901
01:10:23,092 --> 01:10:26,093
You won't be asked to support
a ministry, any more...
902
01:10:26,259 --> 01:10:29,344
but to support a gigantic
board of directors.
903
01:10:44,139 --> 01:10:47,432
Gentlemen...quiet please.
The Prime Minister has the floor.
904
01:10:51,308 --> 01:10:56,476
If this Assembly were conscious of its role,
it would refuse a Europe
905
01:10:56,643 --> 01:10:59,519
run by Big Steel and Big Oil.
906
01:10:59,685 --> 01:11:03,853
This Europe has the peculiarity
of wanting to be situated overseas.
907
01:11:04,020 --> 01:11:06,729
That is to say, anywhere
but in Europe.
908
01:11:06,937 --> 01:11:11,147
I know these Europeans
who fancy themselves explorers!
909
01:11:11,355 --> 01:11:14,398
The France of 1889 had a
civilizing mission to fulfil.
910
01:11:14,648 --> 01:11:16,232
And a lot of money
to be made out of it.
911
01:11:16,398 --> 01:11:17,982
There were places available.
912
01:11:18,149 --> 01:11:22,733
France had to occupy them
to find opportunities.
913
01:11:22,858 --> 01:11:24,317
A testing ground for weapons.
914
01:11:24,776 --> 01:11:28,235
"And an excellent training ground for our soldiers."
I know how it goes.
915
01:11:28,402 --> 01:11:32,736
I found the mission questionable,
and the profit laughable.
916
01:11:32,903 --> 01:11:35,987
Except, of course, for some
businessmen in search of fortune...
917
01:11:36,154 --> 01:11:38,863
and some missionaries
needing someone to convert.
918
01:11:39,030 --> 01:11:42,989
Now, I understand that the liabilities
of these companies
919
01:11:43,156 --> 01:11:44,531
cannot frighten an Assembly
920
01:11:44,698 --> 01:11:47,949
where political parties
are only a front for business interests!
921
01:12:06,621 --> 01:12:08,538
He's crazy! He's committing suicide!
922
01:12:08,705 --> 01:12:10,288
No...just saying goodbye.
923
01:12:14,456 --> 01:12:17,207
Mr Chairman!
924
01:12:17,374 --> 01:12:19,666
Mr Chairman,
925
01:12:19,833 --> 01:12:22,375
I demand that the slanderous insinuations
926
01:12:22,542 --> 01:12:25,834
that the Prime Minister just made
927
01:12:26,001 --> 01:12:28,127
not be recorded in the official record!
928
01:12:28,293 --> 01:12:29,460
Bravo !
929
01:12:32,461 --> 01:12:35,535
- That would seem difficult...
- I was expecting this protest.
930
01:12:36,504 --> 01:12:39,015
And I'm not surprised
it came from you, Mr Jussieu.
931
01:12:39,015 --> 01:12:41,630
You are legal counsel
for the Kr�ner steelworks.
932
01:12:42,130 --> 01:12:44,298
- That isn't a reproach.
- You're too kind.
933
01:12:44,506 --> 01:12:47,632
I do reproach you though for having
been elected on a leftist platform...
934
01:12:47,799 --> 01:12:50,925
yet only support projects
of interest to business.
935
01:12:51,341 --> 01:12:53,925
It's leftist business!
936
01:12:54,134 --> 01:12:58,427
There are also fish that fly...
but they don't make up the majority!
937
01:13:05,220 --> 01:13:08,721
I mentioned business interest just now.
938
01:13:08,888 --> 01:13:12,472
May I make a roll call
for this assembly?
939
01:13:12,639 --> 01:13:16,057
We will even make it
in alphabetically.
940
01:13:17,890 --> 01:13:22,975
Gaston Abelin, managing director of
Omnium Mining of Senegal...
941
01:13:23,142 --> 01:13:25,392
of Ivory Coast Coal...
942
01:13:25,559 --> 01:13:29,560
of the Franco-African Electricity
and Industry Company.
943
01:13:29,727 --> 01:13:33,520
Jean Adrian, authorized agent of Isard-Lebret Bank,
944
01:13:33,686 --> 01:13:37,146
General Manager of
Foundries & Forges of Picardy...
945
01:13:37,312 --> 01:13:40,897
founder of La Li�geoise Insurance.
946
01:13:41,063 --> 01:13:45,856
Mr Fran�ois Ambert. He merely chairs
Legrand Refineries...
947
01:13:46,023 --> 01:13:49,274
which are connected to the trust
that controls Voguel,
948
01:13:49,482 --> 01:13:52,025
25 subsidiaries and affiliates.
- Mr Chairman...
949
01:13:52,192 --> 01:13:54,484
my name is Aimard...a, i.
950
01:13:54,651 --> 01:13:57,651
I'm chairman of no trust, nor do I
administer any company.
951
01:13:59,485 --> 01:14:00,736
Actually....
952
01:14:00,902 --> 01:14:03,987
Mr Aimard is general counsel
of Anglo-French Oil.
953
01:14:04,153 --> 01:14:08,196
He does not receive dividends.
He collects fees.
954
01:14:08,780 --> 01:14:12,531
Mr Chairman...do we have to
sit through a complete list?
955
01:14:13,031 --> 01:14:16,490
Mr Vanimont, thank you.
You're insignificance was screening you
956
01:14:16,657 --> 01:14:20,074
and I have just the question to ask you:
how do you reconcile
957
01:14:20,241 --> 01:14:23,117
your function as a
Catholic Democrat
958
01:14:23,284 --> 01:14:25,826
with your profession as a lawyer
for a large Israeli bank?
959
01:14:26,409 --> 01:14:27,826
What's wrong with that?
960
01:14:28,993 --> 01:14:30,202
Nothing to be ashamed of.
961
01:14:31,411 --> 01:14:34,370
Just a slight contradiction
in terms.
962
01:14:34,537 --> 01:14:37,287
Finally...since it doesn't appear...
963
01:14:37,829 --> 01:14:41,705
I'm sure it does not appear either
for similar reasons...
964
01:14:41,872 --> 01:14:46,040
for Mr Audran of Hauteville...
defending, with talent moreover,
965
01:14:46,207 --> 01:14:49,124
the disarmament cause.
And whose family has manufactured
966
01:14:49,291 --> 01:14:53,083
world-famous weapons for generations
967
01:14:53,334 --> 01:14:57,168
Hauteville has nothing to learn
from you, Mr Beaufort.
968
01:14:57,335 --> 01:14:59,669
Rather, they could teach you
something.
969
01:15:01,753 --> 01:15:06,600
I'm sure they could. Producing people
who can switch from pacifist to armourer...
970
01:15:06,600 --> 01:15:09,387
...I could learn a lot.
971
01:15:13,131 --> 01:15:15,090
Mr Alexandre Beauvais,
972
01:15:15,423 --> 01:15:18,132
Chairman and Managing Director
of Abdel-Salim Phosphates.
973
01:15:18,591 --> 01:15:22,842
Mr. Beauvais is modest. He could
get elected in any one of 5 d�partements...
974
01:15:23,008 --> 01:15:26,093
as head of the most important
of our provincial newspapers.
975
01:15:26,593 --> 01:15:30,344
I've been dying to hear this one day.
This is good.
976
01:15:31,386 --> 01:15:33,761
I could kiss him!
977
01:15:33,928 --> 01:15:35,095
You leaving?
978
01:15:35,262 --> 01:15:37,679
Sorry for not coming
to the cemetery.
979
01:15:37,846 --> 01:15:39,471
Mr Jean Calvi.
980
01:15:39,638 --> 01:15:42,722
Director and shareholder
in the International General Bank.
981
01:15:48,140 --> 01:15:51,475
Gilbert! Quick...call the press-room.
We're changing the headline.
982
01:15:51,641 --> 01:15:53,684
"The king is dead, long live the king"
sounds good.
983
01:15:53,850 --> 01:15:57,435
When it's about the government,
it's most important to seem up-to-date.
984
01:15:57,601 --> 01:16:01,311
We'll title it: "Brilliant speech
by Chalamont." Off you go!
985
01:16:14,148 --> 01:16:16,440
Mr Antoine Villemonble,
986
01:16:16,607 --> 01:16:19,566
Director of Zeugmann Mills
987
01:16:19,733 --> 01:16:23,484
and Vice Chairman of
the French Society of Silk Weavers.
988
01:16:23,650 --> 01:16:27,568
Finally, Mr Zigler,
last on the list...
989
01:16:27,735 --> 01:16:29,985
and would be the poor relation...
990
01:16:30,152 --> 01:16:35,362
if his wife didn't own a third
of the Sao Paolo markets.
991
01:16:41,822 --> 01:16:44,281
I ask to be excused...
992
01:16:45,656 --> 01:16:50,116
In reading through this roll I realised
the folly of my undertaking.
993
01:16:50,283 --> 01:16:53,700
In presenting this project,
I was not just asking for your vote.
994
01:16:53,867 --> 01:16:56,743
I was asking you to forget
what you are.
995
01:16:56,910 --> 01:16:59,327
A moment of optimism.
996
01:16:59,494 --> 01:17:04,203
This is probably the optimism
that Mr Chalamont alluded to...
997
01:17:04,412 --> 01:17:08,413
By evoking my good feelings
and forgotten dreams.
998
01:17:09,621 --> 01:17:12,039
Politics should be a vocation...
999
01:17:12,789 --> 01:17:14,331
and it certainly is...
1000
01:17:14,498 --> 01:17:17,249
But for the vast majority
it is a profession.
1001
01:17:17,415 --> 01:17:19,708
A profession which is not as satisfying
as we would like it to be...
1002
01:17:19,874 --> 01:17:22,250
and requires large capital outlays.
1003
01:17:22,417 --> 01:17:24,792
An election campaign
is expensive.
1004
01:17:24,959 --> 01:17:29,460
But for some companies, this is an investment
that can be amortised over 4 years...
1005
01:17:29,627 --> 01:17:33,336
If the prot�g� makes it
to be prime minister...
1006
01:17:33,503 --> 01:17:36,254
they might lose control of their investment.
1007
01:17:36,421 --> 01:17:40,672
Financiers in the past bought mines
all over Africa.
1008
01:17:40,880 --> 01:17:43,714
Today, they understand
the need to reign here in the Assembly.
1009
01:17:43,839 --> 01:17:45,506
rather than in Oubangui...
1010
01:17:45,715 --> 01:17:48,090
and to manufacture a deputy
is less expensive
1011
01:17:48,257 --> 01:17:50,341
than compensating some negro king.
1012
01:18:04,637 --> 01:18:08,221
You see, gentlemen? Finally, we have
agreed about one thing.
1013
01:18:08,388 --> 01:18:11,805
At least I'll leave with the esteem
of my opponents.
1014
01:18:12,014 --> 01:18:15,015
And now let me conclude.
1015
01:18:15,181 --> 01:18:18,140
You're going to create, together with
Mr Chalamont's friends...
1016
01:18:18,307 --> 01:18:21,266
a Europe based on luck
rather than on work.
1017
01:18:21,433 --> 01:18:24,309
A Europe of heavy industry
being against peace.
1018
01:18:24,476 --> 01:18:27,601
Well, you'll be making this Europe
without me. I leave you to it!
1019
01:18:28,018 --> 01:18:29,727
The Prime Minister sticks to his plan.
1020
01:18:29,935 --> 01:18:32,811
The majority refuses to support it.
1021
01:18:32,978 --> 01:18:37,479
So he will stand down.
He was already prepared for that.
1022
01:18:37,688 --> 01:18:40,688
I shall simply add...
for a few of you...
1023
01:18:40,897 --> 01:18:43,147
Rejoice! Celebrate your victory!
1024
01:18:43,397 --> 01:18:45,523
You'll never have to listen
to me again.
1025
01:18:45,982 --> 01:18:48,857
And you'll no longer have to
walk behind me...
1026
01:18:48,982 --> 01:18:51,233
until the day of my funeral.
1027
01:18:51,441 --> 01:18:55,109
A state funeral that
you'll vote for unanimously.
1028
01:18:55,317 --> 01:18:58,152
And for which I thank you
in advance.
1029
01:19:29,452 --> 01:19:32,578
Fran�ois, old chap...
we're going home.
1030
01:19:45,581 --> 01:19:48,916
I often wonder what made you
decide to stick with me.
1031
01:19:49,082 --> 01:19:52,208
What would there've been for me
to do in Paris...without you?
1032
01:19:52,333 --> 01:19:54,209
I would've had to stay
with my sister,
1033
01:19:54,417 --> 01:19:57,626
Ch�tillon Ave...
Two rooms...on the courtyard.
1034
01:19:57,751 --> 01:19:59,210
If you can call it
a courtyard!
1035
01:19:59,377 --> 01:20:03,086
When I'd been used to
that courtyard when you were PM!
1036
01:20:03,253 --> 01:20:05,003
or at the �lys�e palace.
1037
01:20:05,170 --> 01:20:07,713
So you came with me
for my garden.
1038
01:20:17,674 --> 01:20:20,549
Tell me, Fran�ois,
what'll you do when I die?
1039
01:20:21,758 --> 01:20:23,967
I'll tell you...
You'll be a museum attendant.
1040
01:20:25,051 --> 01:20:27,718
La Verdi�re will become
a sort of junk shop
1041
01:20:27,801 --> 01:20:30,761
that you'll show to the tourists.
1042
01:20:30,927 --> 01:20:34,262
You'll show them my desk...
1043
01:20:34,428 --> 01:20:37,221
my cane...my hat...
1044
01:20:37,387 --> 01:20:40,305
The fountain pen with which
I signed the Treaty of Geneva.
1045
01:20:40,555 --> 01:20:44,014
They'll keep filching it, so you'll have to
keep replacing it.
1046
01:20:44,181 --> 01:20:47,640
But of a Sunday you could make...
1047
01:20:48,516 --> 01:20:50,850
1,500 to 2,000 in tips.
1048
01:20:51,850 --> 01:20:53,100
Tell me you'll consider it
1049
01:20:53,267 --> 01:20:55,392
No rush...but think about it.
1050
01:20:55,559 --> 01:20:58,143
I did think about it at first...
1051
01:20:58,268 --> 01:21:00,144
when we settled here.
1052
01:21:00,310 --> 01:21:04,478
And then I had my pneumonia
and I said to myself...
1053
01:21:04,687 --> 01:21:08,188
"You're waiting for your boss's death.
The heavens are punishing you."
1054
01:21:08,396 --> 01:21:12,314
- Evil thoughts...
- ...come to the able-bodied as well.
1055
01:21:14,564 --> 01:21:16,982
Excuse me, Mr Beaufort.
It's Gaston.
1056
01:21:17,148 --> 01:21:19,816
- The crook.
- The guide.
1057
01:21:19,983 --> 01:21:22,483
Well...I guess.
1058
01:21:43,031 --> 01:21:45,198
- You still here?
- We all have to make a living!
1059
01:21:45,365 --> 01:21:48,324
I'm no public servant.
G'day, Fran�ois.
1060
01:21:48,532 --> 01:21:50,908
- Every other day, now? You're pushing it!
- What do mean?
1061
01:21:51,116 --> 01:21:53,450
I came to see if the ex-PM
would accept visitors.
1062
01:21:53,659 --> 01:21:57,410
- Is it no? - It is no.
- Thanks, Fran�ois.
1063
01:21:59,577 --> 01:22:02,078
- What's he hit them for?
- 1,000.
1064
01:22:04,620 --> 01:22:07,287
-You haven't been walking too much, have you?
- No.
1065
01:22:07,496 --> 01:22:09,601
The doctor said no more than an hour.
1066
01:22:09,601 --> 01:22:11,830
- You must be tired.
- Yes.
1067
01:22:12,039 --> 01:22:14,289
And I'm going to smoke
a whole cigarette.
1068
01:22:14,456 --> 01:22:18,374
Call the hospital. I want Taupin
to have a private room.
1069
01:22:23,417 --> 01:22:26,709
Hello? �vreux Hospital, please.
1070
01:22:42,964 --> 01:22:45,923
... Avenue Foch, in front of
Mr Chalamont's mansion.
1071
01:22:46,090 --> 01:22:48,841
He, who well-informed circles
consider
1072
01:22:48,966 --> 01:22:50,674
as the next Prime Minister,
1073
01:22:50,841 --> 01:22:53,842
is just leaving his home
and about to get into his car.
1074
01:22:54,009 --> 01:22:57,468
A word Prime Minister...I think it
appropriate to call you that...
1075
01:22:57,635 --> 01:23:01,052
- Not yet, sir...not yet.
- Do you want to make a declaration?
1076
01:23:01,177 --> 01:23:03,095
Well...I...
1077
01:23:03,261 --> 01:23:06,679
I think a declaration
would be premature.
1078
01:23:06,846 --> 01:23:11,055
I had an meeting at 5 pm
with several friends in my faction...
1079
01:23:11,180 --> 01:23:12,639
and indeed...
1080
01:23:14,056 --> 01:23:16,140
Milleran!
1081
01:23:16,640 --> 01:23:18,641
- Milleran!
- There must be a power failure!
1082
01:23:18,807 --> 01:23:21,475
- I can see that!
- Probably just a local one.
1083
01:23:21,683 --> 01:23:23,975
- Come with me to the car.
- It's pouring out there!
1084
01:23:24,142 --> 01:23:26,476
- Find a blanket.
- Mr Beaufort...
1085
01:23:26,601 --> 01:23:28,477
Do as I say.
1086
01:23:29,018 --> 01:23:30,644
Come on.
1087
01:24:08,529 --> 01:24:11,614
You've been paying some visits
this afternoon, Prime Minister.
1088
01:24:11,780 --> 01:24:15,073
- Have they been fruitful?
- They've been encouraging.
1089
01:24:15,240 --> 01:24:19,532
The former ministers have given
their acceptance in principle.
1090
01:24:19,699 --> 01:24:23,950
I expect to be able to give
a definitive reply early tomorrow.
1091
01:24:24,117 --> 01:24:27,493
- So you're confident of success?
- I will be using tonight to ensure it.
1092
01:24:27,660 --> 01:24:31,994
Thank you. You've been listening to
an interview with Mr Phillipe Chalamont.
1093
01:24:50,166 --> 01:24:52,292
- You're soaking....Very clever of you!
1094
01:24:52,458 --> 01:24:54,626
- Do you want a hot toddy?
- Yes.
1095
01:24:54,792 --> 01:24:58,752
- Stay there, Miss...I'll get it.
- Milleran! Call the hospital.
1096
01:25:09,046 --> 01:25:13,714
Hello...this is 34...
I want �vreux Hospital.
1097
01:25:20,299 --> 01:25:22,467
Hello...�vreux Hospital?
1098
01:25:22,633 --> 01:25:25,551
This is ex-Prime Minister Beaufort's
secretary.
1099
01:25:25,718 --> 01:25:30,052
I'm enquiring about Mr Taupin,
who was admitted today.
1100
01:25:32,886 --> 01:25:34,595
Ah...
1101
01:25:34,762 --> 01:25:36,262
Good.
1102
01:25:36,429 --> 01:25:38,013
Thank you very much.
1103
01:25:44,681 --> 01:25:47,057
He's in theatre.
1104
01:25:48,140 --> 01:25:49,933
Thanks Milleran.
1105
01:25:50,099 --> 01:25:53,100
You should go up to bed
and take you toddy with you.
1106
01:25:53,267 --> 01:25:55,768
No, I'm expecting a visit
this evening.
1107
01:27:31,794 --> 01:27:34,295
You can stop looking, Milleran...
I have it in my pocket.
1108
01:27:38,296 --> 01:27:40,422
Who got you to do this?
1109
01:27:46,548 --> 01:27:50,174
Please forgive me Mr Beaufort...
I didn't want to do it!
1110
01:27:50,383 --> 01:27:53,050
No tears...please!
I can't stand that.
1111
01:27:53,259 --> 01:27:55,176
Now get up,
and stop being silly.
1112
01:27:55,342 --> 01:27:56,801
I didn't want to...
1113
01:27:57,010 --> 01:28:00,427
I'm asking you...who set you up for this?
1114
01:28:03,511 --> 01:28:05,929
Mr Delomieux, of the Special Branch.
1115
01:28:06,137 --> 01:28:09,846
- Since when?
- I don't know...
1116
01:28:10,013 --> 01:28:11,972
About 2 years.
1117
01:28:12,180 --> 01:28:14,806
On a day off, I had to go to �vreux.
1118
01:28:15,015 --> 01:28:17,223
Two men were waiting for me
at the station.
1119
01:28:17,432 --> 01:28:20,099
Superintendant Delomieux
and another.
1120
01:28:20,308 --> 01:28:22,308
The Superintendant said
he was on a mission,
1121
01:28:23,600 --> 01:28:26,893
that was on behalf of the government,
that required me...
1122
01:28:27,101 --> 01:28:28,810
- To betray your boss.
- No...
1123
01:28:29,018 --> 01:28:32,436
- How would you put it then?
- I wasn't to take anything from you.
1124
01:28:32,644 --> 01:28:36,188
Not steal anything.
Just find out where ...
1125
01:28:36,188 --> 01:28:40,494
certain documents
were to be found.
1126
01:28:41,605 --> 01:28:44,231
He even said that so long as
Mr Beaufort has these papers,
1127
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:47,065
the government had nothing
to worry about.
1128
01:28:47,274 --> 01:28:49,858
I just wanted to know
where they were.
1129
01:28:50,066 --> 01:28:52,192
So I could give them
to the police after...
1130
01:28:52,358 --> 01:28:53,942
After my death.
1131
01:28:55,026 --> 01:28:56,151
Yes.
1132
01:29:01,819 --> 01:29:04,320
You never thought that
the author of this letter
1133
01:29:04,487 --> 01:29:06,779
might come to power some day?
1134
01:29:06,987 --> 01:29:10,322
And on that day, this letter would become
a means of...
1135
01:29:10,530 --> 01:29:15,115
Let's avoid the word blackmail...
Shall we say, a means of pressure...
1136
01:29:15,281 --> 01:29:16,615
And it never occurred to you
1137
01:29:16,823 --> 01:29:20,824
that Superintendant Delomieux aspired
to become head of Special Branch?
1138
01:29:21,033 --> 01:29:22,786
Or Chief of Police?
1139
01:29:23,409 --> 01:29:24,534
No.
1140
01:29:31,161 --> 01:29:33,495
- Are you going to get rid of me?
- I should.
1141
01:29:33,703 --> 01:29:37,412
Because if there's one thing worse
than betrayal, it's stupidity.
1142
01:29:37,621 --> 01:29:39,580
You're not told to steal from me
while I'm alive...
1143
01:29:39,746 --> 01:29:41,497
because they didn't dare.
1144
01:29:41,705 --> 01:29:43,706
But it was to be a posthumous theft.
1145
01:29:43,914 --> 01:29:46,260
Superintendant Delomieux assured me
that it was in the interest of...
1146
01:29:46,260 --> 01:29:50,124
of our nation! What else?!
1147
01:29:50,333 --> 01:29:53,625
Never forget, Milleran, that when
dirty deeds are done...
1148
01:29:53,834 --> 01:29:56,418
they're always being done
to save the nation.
1149
01:29:56,626 --> 01:30:00,294
Behind every thief you'll often find
a Chief of Police.
1150
01:30:18,465 --> 01:30:21,175
So!...This is forgotten.
The matter is closed.
1151
01:30:21,383 --> 01:30:23,592
I'll make you another toddy.
This one's cold.
1152
01:30:23,800 --> 01:30:26,486
No. Leave me alone...and don't come in
unless I call for you.
1153
01:31:07,076 --> 01:31:09,146
Come in, Chalamont.
1154
01:31:14,106 --> 01:31:16,065
Good evening, Mr Beaufort.
1155
01:31:22,483 --> 01:31:24,192
I believe you're expecting me?
1156
01:31:25,442 --> 01:31:27,776
I've been expecting you for 20 years.
1157
01:31:36,195 --> 01:31:37,904
What you looking at?
1158
01:31:38,113 --> 01:31:42,030
All this. I never thought I'd be
revisiting this house...this office.
1159
01:31:42,197 --> 01:31:43,906
It's strange.
1160
01:31:44,114 --> 01:31:46,865
I was expecting to feel some sort
of embarrassment...of shame.
1161
01:31:47,032 --> 01:31:48,866
Or at least, discomfort.
1162
01:31:49,032 --> 01:31:51,200
You really do think too much of yourself.
1163
01:31:51,366 --> 01:31:52,575
Maybe I do.
1164
01:31:52,783 --> 01:31:55,993
But in the end, I like that feeling.
It's quite pleasant.
1165
01:31:56,159 --> 01:31:57,660
Take a seat.
1166
01:32:01,369 --> 01:32:04,703
For a moment I thought that
you'd refuse to see me.
1167
01:32:04,870 --> 01:32:06,162
Do you still hate me?
1168
01:32:07,454 --> 01:32:10,163
Oh...as you know, I'm 73.
1169
01:32:10,413 --> 01:32:11,789
That doesn't stop me having feelings.
1170
01:32:13,331 --> 01:32:15,831
But they're somewhat limited.
At my age you're living on hold.
1171
01:32:16,040 --> 01:32:19,124
You can still walk, eat...hate...
1172
01:32:19,332 --> 01:32:21,666
so long as you
do them all carefully.
1173
01:32:21,875 --> 01:32:24,000
You've hardly changed.
1174
01:32:24,209 --> 01:32:26,584
Whiter hair.
Maybe a little more stomach.
1175
01:32:26,751 --> 01:32:28,793
But still...
What about me?
1176
01:32:30,419 --> 01:32:33,211
You don't hold any surprises.
1177
01:32:33,420 --> 01:32:35,420
I've often seen you on TV.
1178
01:32:35,629 --> 01:32:39,880
You were brilliant. Anyway,
it's only fair to give you back
1179
01:32:40,088 --> 01:32:44,048
the thing you most desire.
Something that you would never do.
1180
01:32:45,131 --> 01:32:47,799
I also saw and heard you
this morning...
1181
01:32:47,965 --> 01:32:51,341
Then you sounded more evasive.
1182
01:32:52,508 --> 01:32:54,717
It concerned, I believe,
the answer you'd be giving
1183
01:32:54,884 --> 01:32:57,551
to the President, tomorrow morning.
1184
01:32:57,760 --> 01:33:01,136
You would've saved time by
giving it right away.
1185
01:33:01,386 --> 01:33:03,970
Provided it was in the negative,
don't you mean?
1186
01:33:04,178 --> 01:33:06,262
And you pretend that
your hatred is diminished?
1187
01:33:06,470 --> 01:33:08,721
Your sentiments
haven't changed at all.
1188
01:33:08,930 --> 01:33:12,472
What hasn't changed is my concept
of a head of government.
1189
01:33:12,639 --> 01:33:15,390
That concept will never change.
1190
01:33:15,598 --> 01:33:19,016
- I do admire you.
- You don't need to say that.
1191
01:33:19,224 --> 01:33:21,891
Yes, I do admire you.
Because my concept of myself
1192
01:33:22,100 --> 01:33:23,934
has changed a lot.
1193
01:33:24,184 --> 01:33:26,476
I often came into conflict with
your attitude towards power.
1194
01:33:28,185 --> 01:33:29,935
But today I understand it.
1195
01:33:32,519 --> 01:33:34,937
Your way of behaving towards me
seemed terrible at the time...
1196
01:33:35,103 --> 01:33:37,104
but today, I would do the same.
1197
01:33:40,605 --> 01:33:44,148
You see, if growth
doesn't stop early,
1198
01:33:44,398 --> 01:33:46,523
a man never really ceases
to develop.
1199
01:33:48,357 --> 01:33:50,483
Something I have long refused
to understand,
1200
01:33:50,691 --> 01:33:54,067
but which seems to me today
to be a basic truth.
1201
01:33:54,275 --> 01:33:57,651
is that with a certain degree of success,
of course,
1202
01:33:57,860 --> 01:34:00,694
a statesman ignores his pride
1203
01:34:00,902 --> 01:34:03,486
together with personal interest
to become...
1204
01:34:03,653 --> 01:34:05,779
a hostage to the common good.
1205
01:34:07,279 --> 01:34:09,238
When did you make this discovery?
1206
01:34:09,405 --> 01:34:11,197
When?
1207
01:34:12,239 --> 01:34:15,448
At my first election...or maybe
my appointment to the Monetary Board.
1208
01:34:15,781 --> 01:34:19,157
I'm not sure...
But my conviction is absolute.
1209
01:34:26,159 --> 01:34:28,660
May I ask you something?
1210
01:34:31,119 --> 01:34:33,370
Do you see another
head of government
1211
01:34:33,578 --> 01:34:35,829
who would make
my candidacy pointless??
1212
01:34:38,538 --> 01:34:40,247
No.
1213
01:34:40,872 --> 01:34:42,622
Is there a party more capable
than mine
1214
01:34:42,831 --> 01:34:44,664
to resolve the crisis?
1215
01:34:46,373 --> 01:34:47,915
No.
1216
01:34:49,416 --> 01:34:53,292
Do you think I'd be
the most capable of anyone
1217
01:34:53,542 --> 01:34:55,209
to resolve the union problems
1218
01:34:55,417 --> 01:34:57,876
and avoid the threatened
general strike?
1219
01:34:58,043 --> 01:34:59,085
Yes.
1220
01:35:00,419 --> 01:35:03,170
Would you say I had the technique, the experience
1221
01:35:03,378 --> 01:35:05,295
in fact...the stature...
of a statesman?
1222
01:35:07,087 --> 01:35:08,754
Yes.
1223
01:35:10,880 --> 01:35:15,006
So, in that case, are you going
to lift your veto? Do I have your OK to...
1224
01:35:15,215 --> 01:35:18,049
To become Prime Minister?
1225
01:35:18,215 --> 01:35:21,258
It's been 20 years since
I first said no to you.
1226
01:35:21,383 --> 01:35:22,842
I invited you this evening
1227
01:35:23,050 --> 01:35:25,843
for the pleasure of saying it
one last time.
1228
01:35:27,260 --> 01:35:30,260
But, now...
1229
01:35:31,302 --> 01:35:33,386
I really don't know
any more.
1230
01:35:35,137 --> 01:35:38,679
- Are you unwell?
- No, no, no. It's nothing.
1231
01:35:38,846 --> 01:35:42,139
I'm not used to staying up late.
I'm sorry, it's ludicrous.
1232
01:35:42,305 --> 01:35:44,556
Wait here a moment.
1233
01:35:55,101 --> 01:35:56,226
My pills!
1234
01:35:56,434 --> 01:35:59,810
- Mr Beaufort, that's not sensible.
- Don't bug me! Give them to me!
1235
01:36:06,646 --> 01:36:07,979
Thanks.
1236
01:36:30,152 --> 01:36:33,361
Hello? Doctor Fumet? I'm sorry
to disturb you at this hour...
1237
01:36:33,528 --> 01:36:35,904
Would you be able
to come over tight away?
1238
01:36:37,321 --> 01:36:39,113
No, I'll explain later.
1239
01:36:39,321 --> 01:36:42,334
And please come via the kitchen.
Thank you.
1240
01:36:59,452 --> 01:37:01,494
Are you feeling better?
I was getting worried.
1241
01:37:01,661 --> 01:37:03,370
It's my fault.
I'm sorry.
1242
01:37:03,536 --> 01:37:05,954
- So your program...
- Just take it easy.
1243
01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:07,746
I'll soon have an eternity
to do that..
1244
01:37:07,954 --> 01:37:11,372
In the meantime, let me decide
what matters and what doesn't.
1245
01:37:11,497 --> 01:37:12,455
Now...your program.
1246
01:37:14,373 --> 01:37:17,707
It's more or less
the Beaufort program.
1247
01:37:17,874 --> 01:37:21,750
The expansion of our economy
thanks to the overseas markets...
1248
01:37:21,916 --> 01:37:25,584
...the first stage being a customs union.
1249
01:37:25,751 --> 01:37:29,627
Yes...It's the plan which my friends and I
once torpedoed.
1250
01:37:29,794 --> 01:37:33,420
At that time, we saw Europe
as essentially a fiction.
1251
01:37:34,212 --> 01:37:35,795
We didn't appreciate it was becoming
1252
01:37:35,962 --> 01:37:38,129
an economic reality.
1253
01:37:40,297 --> 01:37:42,339
You were 15 years
ahead of your time.
1254
01:37:42,505 --> 01:37:44,714
Let's suppose there are two or three ideas.
1255
01:37:44,881 --> 01:37:47,215
But the financial situation
has changed.
1256
01:37:47,340 --> 01:37:49,132
You are on the eve of inflation.
1257
01:37:49,299 --> 01:37:51,550
-We'll be taking measures.
- Such as?
1258
01:37:52,133 --> 01:37:54,717
I shall consult you
when the time comes...
1259
01:37:54,884 --> 01:37:58,510
But I am convinced that a devaluation
is imperative.
1260
01:37:58,677 --> 01:38:00,385
Unless you have another solution?
1261
01:38:01,803 --> 01:38:03,553
Why me?
1262
01:38:03,720 --> 01:38:07,429
I'm counting on governing with
your support, as well as your agreement.
1263
01:38:08,513 --> 01:38:11,305
I would like my prime ministership
to be the start of
1264
01:38:11,472 --> 01:38:13,264
a new era of cooperation.
1265
01:38:13,931 --> 01:38:15,306
Secret...but complete.
1266
01:38:17,557 --> 01:38:19,224
What you've been saying
is quite flattering.
1267
01:38:19,391 --> 01:38:21,725
- Oh...please...
- No...it is.
1268
01:38:21,891 --> 01:38:24,380
For various reasons,
I took you to be a bastard.
1269
01:38:24,380 --> 01:38:28,352
I am pleased that there again,
I was 15 years ahead.
1270
01:38:30,144 --> 01:38:33,103
And to think that
you almost had me!
1271
01:38:33,270 --> 01:38:36,562
You're very smart, Chalamont...
Most bastards are.
1272
01:38:36,729 --> 01:38:39,965
You know you can buy a man
with money or a medal.
1273
01:38:39,965 --> 01:38:42,935
But with me
you tried vanity.
1274
01:38:42,981 --> 01:38:45,315
What you just did
is despicable.
1275
01:38:45,481 --> 01:38:47,982
I would like you to please explain.
1276
01:38:48,190 --> 01:38:50,649
Yours is the worst cowardice...
that of the spirit.
1277
01:38:50,816 --> 01:38:54,025
That's why I shall never
let you take power...
1278
01:38:54,192 --> 01:38:58,277
A load of garbage in power...
without any convictions.
1279
01:38:58,443 --> 01:39:00,194
I wouldn't be the first.
1280
01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:03,028
Do you know why I made you
write that letter?
1281
01:39:03,278 --> 01:39:05,278
Of course I know.
1282
01:39:06,987 --> 01:39:08,404
For revenge.
1283
01:39:09,613 --> 01:39:11,072
To humiliate me.
1284
01:39:11,238 --> 01:39:13,406
No. To protect the country I love!.
1285
01:39:13,572 --> 01:39:17,157
So why were you just saying
I was a possible leader?
1286
01:39:17,323 --> 01:39:20,908
- At least no worse than anyone else.
- No worse than anyone else!
1287
01:39:21,075 --> 01:39:23,367
You think of yourself
before your country.
1288
01:39:23,534 --> 01:39:25,117
This is what you want for France...
1289
01:39:25,242 --> 01:39:27,660
"A man who's no worse
than anyone else."
1290
01:39:27,826 --> 01:39:29,952
With that sort of ambition,
you could open a bazaar!...
1291
01:39:30,077 --> 01:39:32,411
But not govern a nation!
1292
01:39:36,245 --> 01:39:40,038
And if I said I didn't care a damn about
the letter...and carried on regardless?
1293
01:39:40,205 --> 01:39:42,997
All the papers would have a copy
within 24 hours.
1294
01:39:45,706 --> 01:39:46,707
Would they publish it?
1295
01:39:47,123 --> 01:39:49,082
No...but they'd know it existed.
1296
01:39:49,249 --> 01:39:52,333
And that's the same thing.
You know that well.
1297
01:39:52,500 --> 01:39:56,001
While I'm alive, you'll
never be Prime Minister.
1298
01:39:57,543 --> 01:39:59,669
Nor when I'm dead,
for that matter.
1299
01:40:00,752 --> 01:40:02,003
Get the hell out of here.
1300
01:40:02,711 --> 01:40:05,920
Run along to the President. Say you're
withdrawing. Make up some story.
1301
01:40:06,087 --> 01:40:07,879
Off you go...quick!
1302
01:40:10,338 --> 01:40:11,797
Let me take one last look
1303
01:40:11,964 --> 01:40:14,464
at this guardian of French grandeur.
1304
01:40:14,631 --> 01:40:18,215
You talk about ambition. Do you know
who you'd have to lead the government?
1305
01:40:18,424 --> 01:40:20,549
A Bergelon, a Marcel Ferchoux...
Some moron!
1306
01:40:20,674 --> 01:40:22,425
But like you want them...honest!
1307
01:40:22,550 --> 01:40:24,926
Well, that's the way
it will always be.
1308
01:40:25,092 --> 01:40:29,385
But they must have served,
before you know if they're honest.
1309
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:35,455
"Chalamont sounded out
to form a new government"
1310
01:40:48,099 --> 01:40:49,974
Hello, yes?
1311
01:40:50,141 --> 01:40:51,475
Yes?
1312
01:40:55,017 --> 01:40:57,101
Yes, Professor.
1313
01:40:59,352 --> 01:41:00,560
Good.
1314
01:41:01,769 --> 01:41:04,186
Thanks for calling, Professor.
1315
01:41:07,687 --> 01:41:10,563
- Taupin died?
- Yes.
1316
01:41:10,730 --> 01:41:12,147
During the operation.
1317
01:41:14,939 --> 01:41:18,357
Good. I'm going to bed.
Tell Dr Fumet to do the same.
1318
01:41:25,526 --> 01:41:28,485
So what's happening? I've drive 40K...
is he dying or not?
1319
01:41:28,652 --> 01:41:31,277
I don't know anything.
I was sleeping last night.
1320
01:41:31,444 --> 01:41:33,611
My pal let Paris know.
1321
01:41:35,278 --> 01:41:36,320
This is a good sign.
1322
01:41:38,738 --> 01:41:40,155
Good morning, gentlemen.
1323
01:41:41,113 --> 01:41:43,281
Ah ! Good morning, inspector.
1324
01:41:43,447 --> 01:41:46,990
I heard Mr Beaufort was ill.
Nothing serious, I hope.
1325
01:42:01,369 --> 01:42:03,620
Goodness!...Already at work, Milleran?
1326
01:42:03,828 --> 01:42:06,954
The mail, Mr Beaufort...
and the papers.
1327
01:42:18,624 --> 01:42:20,791
Anything else?
1328
01:42:20,958 --> 01:42:22,792
Three begging letters.
1329
01:42:22,958 --> 01:42:25,918
A student from Oslo doing a thesis
on eloquence...
1330
01:42:26,084 --> 01:42:29,002
and wants to know if he can get a copy
of some of your speeches.
1331
01:42:29,168 --> 01:42:30,752
A retired postman
1332
01:42:30,919 --> 01:42:35,045
who'd like you to buy him a house
near Bergerac.
1333
01:42:35,212 --> 01:42:38,171
And the usual women's magazine,
1334
01:42:38,338 --> 01:42:40,338
doing a survey of women
1335
01:42:40,505 --> 01:42:43,797
in the lives of famous men,
questionnaire attached.
1336
01:42:43,964 --> 01:42:46,548
"Are you married?
How many times? Who with?"
1337
01:42:46,715 --> 01:42:51,425
"Has your wife helped you?
Are politicians faithful?"
1338
01:42:51,591 --> 01:42:53,258
Into the bin. As usual.
1339
01:42:53,425 --> 01:42:56,801
No.
For once we'll reply.
1340
01:42:57,843 --> 01:42:59,260
Write:
1341
01:43:00,219 --> 01:43:02,928
To the Editor in chief,
1342
01:43:04,011 --> 01:43:07,221
At the risk of disappointing you,
1343
01:43:07,387 --> 01:43:09,055
I must inform you
1344
01:43:10,555 --> 01:43:14,181
that my love life was extremely short.
1345
01:43:15,390 --> 01:43:20,599
As a widower for ten years after an idyllic marriage,
1346
01:43:21,975 --> 01:43:26,101
it never occurred to me to remarry.
1347
01:43:27,143 --> 01:43:30,727
During the thirty years that followed,
1348
01:43:30,894 --> 01:43:33,145
I only had one mistress,
1349
01:43:33,311 --> 01:43:34,770
France.
1350
01:43:35,812 --> 01:43:37,771
For leisure,
1351
01:43:37,938 --> 01:43:40,063
I took myself
1352
01:43:41,105 --> 01:43:44,814
to brothels and subsidized theatres.
1353
01:43:48,649 --> 01:43:49,774
We can't send that!?
1354
01:43:51,191 --> 01:43:53,775
Yes...and enclose a photo.
1355
01:43:56,526 --> 01:44:01,277
Hey...send the one at that gala
1356
01:44:01,444 --> 01:44:04,528
with Doumergue and the Dolly Sisters.
1357
01:44:14,198 --> 01:44:15,948
Good morning, Fran�ois !
1358
01:44:16,115 --> 01:44:19,491
Good morning, Mr Beaufort.
How are you feeling?
1359
01:44:19,657 --> 01:44:23,617
- Perfectly OK!
- Great...that makes me very happy.
1360
01:44:23,784 --> 01:44:26,951
How about taking a spin down to Augustin's?
We can order some seed!
1361
01:44:27,118 --> 01:44:29,077
- Why not?
- Hey!
1362
01:44:29,243 --> 01:44:31,661
We've got the man in black.
1363
01:44:33,495 --> 01:44:36,579
Good morning Mr Beaufort.
How are you faring?
1364
01:44:36,746 --> 01:44:39,788
Admirably.
You're a bit ahead of yourself, Father.
1365
01:44:39,955 --> 01:44:41,455
Go back where you belong...
1366
01:44:41,664 --> 01:44:44,623
I'll die without forgiveness
and without warning you!
1367
01:44:44,956 --> 01:44:48,249
Why do you have to talk that way?
Aren't we friends?
1368
01:44:48,457 --> 01:44:52,792
Come on... Hop in beside me.
I'll drop you home.
1369
01:44:52,958 --> 01:44:54,417
Every anti-Semite has his Jew.
1370
01:44:54,584 --> 01:44:57,668
So a non-believer can have a priest!
Right?
1371
01:44:57,835 --> 01:45:00,002
- Please do!
- Excuse me.
1372
01:45:13,881 --> 01:45:16,632
How's your health, Mr Beaufort?
1373
01:45:16,840 --> 01:45:20,466
Well, I've decided it will
see me through today.
1374
01:45:37,747 --> 01:45:41,412
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