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What did Sartine tell you?
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He didn't tell me anything because I didn't see her... An officer burst into
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my house and gave me this letter, asking me to give it to you.
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Here… Oh! Look ! a baphomet: it is
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an evil figure in the image of the Devil that the Knights
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of the Temple were supposed to worship in their secret chapters...
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I didn't know you were an occultist Bourdeau
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There are many
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things that you don't know Sir... This way Sir, on the floor above...
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Note that the dust which covers the floor establishes without doubt that no one
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has accessed this room recently... "you will take care to count the sixth
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sheet of the parquet floor to the right of the axis from the chimney”… one, two, three, four, five…
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I definitely don't like riddles or being told to take care of my work.
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“you will introduce some flat hook likely to activate the mechanism…”
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Be careful Bourdeau
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It’s
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because my physique is not adapted to the narrowness of the place
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Handkerchief, Bourdeau!
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We would bet that she will come back to us...
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I don't know where from, my great friend, I don't know from where... Do not doubt it, young Sibyl: you are coming back
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from the astral, where the commerce of the Unknown Masters, abolishing vulgar time,
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provides the adept with the sure knowledge of what will be, just as of what will have been...
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It is enough: see in what state the poor thing is... She is cold and trembling in all her
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limbs... Send for my people, I intend to take her home in a moment…
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Ah! Nicholas! I came as soon as possible,
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I left it to Bourdeau to close the operations and write up the report...
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His Majesty's service knows neither the hours nor the days... I guarantee
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that the importance of the mission entrusted to you will explain your delay...
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A mission which was inflicted on me by the King, in fact.
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Damn... And without betraying the secrecy to which you are obviously bound,
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what was it about? To solve a sixty-year-old enigma
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which, obviously, could hardly wait any longer... That of
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the disappearance of a certain Master Dumas... One of your former colleagues, in fact...
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More than ancient indeed... The disappearance of Prosecutor Dumas had caused a great stir at
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the dawn of the century, long before it became the subject of a legend...
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Legend that, keen on mysteries, His Majesty likes to tell stories, certain evenings, to those around him
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in front of the fire... But tell the story, sir, because here you are undoubtedly in the best position...
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There you have it: the neighborhood claimed that Maître Dumas was visited every Friday
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at three o'clock, and this until the day of his disappearance, by a man in a black coat,
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mounted on a black mule looking just as frightening as his rider...
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And then?
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And then, precisely sixty years ago,
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after a last interview with what appeared to be the Devil in person,
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Master Dumas disappeared without anyone having ever found the
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slightest trace of him... Evaporated ... As if drawn to the depths of hell by some diabolical power...
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So how then, modern Theseus, did you manage to unravel the skein...
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Without the slightest merit: His majesty had made me keep a plan.. . A very detailed plan,
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and thanks to which it was easy for me to find your companion
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reduced to the state of a mummy on his armchair, lurking in a secret cabinet under his house...
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Thank you, Lady Catherine... hmmmm!
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And where did the King get this plan from? The case now being closed,
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I admit that I don't care much about it... One detail,
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however... Does this mean anything to you? I found it overturned in front of him...
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The image which adorns its side is the insignia of the Rosicrucian... No wonder
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: Dumas was considered an alchemist, and Master... Grand Master in his order...
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The Rose Cross…. Well my friends, now that midnight is full,
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let's drink so that we can be too!!! Saint Germain !
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One of our secrets has been revealed... The tomb of one of our Grand Masters
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desecrated... You know the punishment reserved for those who betray...
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Awake, Nicholas, and
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quickly gather your wits …Catherine, what is worth to me!?
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We're waiting for you downstairs, in a cab, and we seem to have an air of
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great discontent... Discontent?
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Fury would be fairer...Come on, Nicolas! I
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almost waited, Commissioner!
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And I don't like waiting!
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Your voice denotes a certain anger and portends some
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admonition... Please, if it would please you if your agitation were only less loud!!
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The tone is up to me personally and please me to shout in your ear. My functions,
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as well as the authority I hold over you, give me the obligation... and even the duty!
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You are dissipating, Nicolas... You are dissipating... And your dissipation
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embarrasses me... Yes, yes...
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Hey! Read… You still have until Versailles to get to grips with it, as well as the
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adjacent elements that I saw fit to add to the file, so that we do not appear
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stupid in the eyes of the King! As for now, allow me to end a night cut short by your fault...
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His Majesty intends to speak alone with the Marquis de Ranreuil...
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You will therefore have to make an antechamber with the Duke of Choiseul, who, as a precaution,
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had wished to participate him also at the interview…
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The Duke of Choiseul? Fichtre: must the species really be important!!!
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She is so in the eyes of the King, which is enough for her to be so in the eyes of all...
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Mr. Duke...
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It is inconceivable that the King is allowed to remain alone with such a man,
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when he does not go out never except surrounded by his guards, as if everything were filled with assassins...
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Monsieur le Marquis, His majesty begs you at this moment...
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Monsieur de Ranreuil, I am grateful to you in advance for the promptness,
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the thoroughness as well as of the accuracy of your operations...
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It was only a question of observing and not of investigating...
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It doesn't matter, Mr. Marquis... It doesn't matter... Can we at least
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now affirm that the mystery of the disappearance of Maître Dumas is now over?
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We definitely can. Bravo, my friend, bravo…
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How did you do it, tell me to foresee the place and draw up the exact plan for me?
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Sire, the thing is simple: either the magistrates and police officers, who searched for
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the trace of the prosecutor Dumas, were bribed by people interested in ensuring that this trace
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remained ignored... Or they only possessed very little of the knowledge necessary
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for their daily work ... Incapable or corrupt, the choice seems very narrow...
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Certainly, certainly... And as for the rider? Was it
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really the Devil who came to visit? Sire, may Your Majesty become a Rosicrucian
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and I will hasten to lift the last veil which covers this mystery... But, as for now, it is
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impossible for me to answer the question, because in doing so, I would expose myself to the more serious dangers...
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I understand clearly, my friend, and did not dream of embarrassing you... Now that the verifications
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carried out have made it possible to establish your revelations on the throne of truth, I have a mission to
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entrust to you... It thought that among your vast abilities, you have that of making
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pearls grow and giving them the most beautiful water... Would you also be capable of restoring its shine
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to a dying pearl? Without the slightest doubt...
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Come!... Come too, Mr. Marquis, because I hear that you too will lend a hand!
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Madam, I present to you Monsieur le Comte de Saint Germain…
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I know who Monsieur de Saint Germain is…
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Madame du Hausset warned me that there was a lot of talk about him.
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He is said to be very keen on divinatory sciences and occult practices... He is considered immortal
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and is said to have dined one evening at the table of King François the First... We also know
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that he claims to have first-hand many spicy anecdotes on certain
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illustrious characters of ancient times, starting with Our Lord Jesus Christ himself...
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Madam, when you know, you must also know how to let it be said!
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Monsieur de Gontraut... The Tear of Warsaw...
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My dad, the King of Poland, gave it to me on my wedding day...
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This jewel had been in his family since the family was born...
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Its shine darkened... Wouldn't say is it not that it is gradually dying out?
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It indeed seems to have lost a lot of its shine...
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Would you be able to remedy this? Certainly... However, you will have to
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entrust it to me for a while... Well, do for the best,
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my friend, do for the best...
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I am also not unaware of who you are, Monsieur de... de...
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...De Ranreuil.
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...Ranreuil... I know that the King greatly enjoys the story of your exploits,
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and it is not indifferent to me that you ensure the safety of this operation,
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which nevertheless seems to me to be very much like enchantment...
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Enchantment, enchantment, candied in religion, what the hell does the Queen know
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about enchantments? What we
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all know: that they vanish in the morning... ... Just like the vapors of drunkenness...
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At my request, His Majesty granted me a laboratory in the basement so that I
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could he indulges in certain alchemical experiments about which he intends to be kept the greatest
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secret. Your authority therefore ends where my competence begins… Servant, Mr. Marquis!!
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Stay here! Here ! on sentry and don't move until you are relieved!
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Finally… I almost waited too!!!
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Servant, Monsieur le Marquis...
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I have a mission for you, which requires you to disguise yourself as
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a shadow... to follow in the footsteps of someone named Count de St Germain...
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St Germain... Monsieur de Ranreuil! Monsieur
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de Ranreuil!! Don't deny: you abandoned me!! You abandoned me, Nicolas, and above all,
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do not deny me the secret promised to His Majesty, I know everything about the Warsaw Tear.
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The Duke of Choiseul tried to warn the King... The Queen herself did not fail to
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show her reluctance to the monarch... As for me, I tried in vain to oppose the faint
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glimmers of reason to the brilliant chimeras of the illusion... Nothing
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has happened... His Majesty has become infatuated with this so-called Saint Germain...
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What opinion do you yourself have of him? My education among the good Jesuit fathers
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inclines me to consider opinions as other kinds of chimeras... What I suspect is
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that the providential discovery of the mummy of Master Dumas, under the guidance of Saint Germain,
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is way for him to assert himself in the eyes of the King and thus gain his trust...
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What you don't know is that this matter must be considered seriously... The Tear would carry within
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it a terrible and cruel curse... A terrible and cruel curse?
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Nicolas, that’s enough!!! Stop playing the child… It’s about the King!!
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The so-called Saint Germain is a very mysterious being, as are the origins
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of his prodigious fortune, composed essentially of sumptuous jewels...
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We know, however, that he gets his credit from the King, from the Pompadour herself,
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who presented it to him... And everyone knows that His Majesty cannot refuse anything to his dear friend...
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Which makes the guy difficult to handle...
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Yes...very.
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And this very strange Dumas affair, this solution so quickly discovered...
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Discovery, or invented? This very explicit plan,
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which seems to be the handwriting of Saint Germain himself, the underground chamber,
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the remains of Master Dumas, finally... All this makes me fear some deception...
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I fear it too...
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Do you believe in curses, Bourdeau? Hardly more than ghosts, werewolf stories
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, or this paper money with which this good Mr. Law intended to clean up the finances
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of the Kingdom and ensure its prosperity... One moment, please...
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Please, I
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come back...
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The man who is occupying you is within the walls... Shortly after midday, a very fine-
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looking carriage came to pick him up from Versailles and took him into Paris along the road to Meudon...
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Was he carrying something luggage for him?
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A simple cedar box, which he nevertheless seemed to hold very preciously...
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Do we know where he is now?
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He visits a lady,
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also very beautiful, in an old house on Rue des Saints Pères...
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The lady is called Clotilde de Clairvois, and seems to be staying there permanently.
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Gambling debt, debt of honor... Neither you nor me Let's not miss it, right?
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However, I would still need your self-sacrifice, Madam...
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You know well, Sir, that your follower is yours, body and soul... Ask,
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ask and you will receive immediately...
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Beforehand, it is important that you answer me with the greatest frankness and the most
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perfect honesty, just as if you were to appear at this moment before the creator...
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Can you take the oath, Madam, that you are still a virgin?
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So my young friend, you are not eating? You don't drink either?
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The responsibility does not lie with Catherine,
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nor with the qualities of your cellar... Nor, for that matter, with the excesses of libations last night...
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Which caused me to have a bitter attack of gout this morning and this evening to be reduced to a
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very clear infusion of medicinal sage for all viaticum... No, I see clearly, Nicolas that you are
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very dark inside, and as if constrained... What do you know about the Tear of Warsaw?
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Nothing more than what the legend claims... If the pearl were to die,
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it would drag down the descendants of the one who holds it...
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Would the pearl be in bad shape?
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If we believe the Queen, yes... The Count of Saint Germain seems to share her opinion...
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The Count of Saint Germain... Fichtre... God preserve Royalty!!
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What more can you tell me?
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a sect of enlightened people who are agitating in the shadows... But
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perhaps it would be more profitable for you to question
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your superior on this subject, Monsieur de Sartine...
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Monsieur de Sartine? I hardly see myself questioning Monsieur de Sartine...
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Nicolas, we are waiting for you...
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Let the dead woman be tied up, taking great care to cut and leave the
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cord which is strangling her around her neck... I intend for the body to be immediately transferred to Basse-Geôle,
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where the regulatory operations will be carried out. I affirm that the poor girl could not have committed homicide...
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If the young lady from Clairvois did not commit homicide,
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it is therefore because we will have wanted to end his life...
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There is no room for doubt, Sir... And for what reason, please?
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It's because they wanted to silence her...
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And what did she know that seemed
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so formidable that they would kill her? It was not so much what she knew, but
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what she saw, that put her in great danger... I feel you are a man of honor... I beg you to
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believe that I can confide nothing more to you, Mr. … However, someone can,
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in many ways, lead your approach into the light of truth…
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Hold on, and take great care of it, it could be that the pattern that adorns its
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side is the Ariadne's thread of 'a skein that I exhaust myself in vain to untangle...
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Do not be offended Sir, but the lady to whom I am taking you conceals,
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beneath the edges of a notorious eccentricity, a depth of inexhaustible goodness, which, combined with a
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naivety that borders on the abyss, making it a dream prey in the eyes of charlatans of all kinds...
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What is happening, Madam? Nothing... It only seemed to me...
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Something unspeakable happened in your living room... Our
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poor Clotilde died and I urge you to confide what you know...
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But I don't know anything, my friend... I don't know anything!
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I could force you, Madam...
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You could not force me to do anything at all,
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young impertinent... Only my late husband, the Marquis de la Rochefoucauld, could have claimed it,
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although during his lifetime he never thought of it and since neither then, for that matter…
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Since then? I must tell you
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that our friend maintains a regular and, so to speak, carnal relationship with the deceased,
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although it does not extend to procreation! Mean: you are making fun of me, because I cannot
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answer... You know well, however, that what happens in our ceremonies is
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covered by the seal of secrecy and that the promise made binds you, just as well as myself...
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The promise made to whom, Madam?
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to Monsieur le Comte…
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Which Count, Madam?
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Monsieur the Count of Saint Germain... I doubt that you are capable of
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competing with a spirit of that kind, Sir...
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It is enough, my friend: come back to earth...
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This man has you under his thumb... He haunts you just as he does haunted our poor Clotilde
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Come out, Madam and do not reappear in my eyes…
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… Not content with squandering your fortune, he will bring about your death.
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My death concerns me, as does my fortune... Come out, Madam.
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Come, Sir, come, the hour is getting closer and I would not mind if you took me back...
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Your largesse, Monseigneur, in exchange for a moment of abandonment...
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Off, girl, don't you see that I am here ?
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What does it matter, Madam, I practice the goat just as much as the goat…
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Which you have the scent, marauder… Thank heaven that I did not bleed you…
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Disappear from my sight, whore…
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Here, Sir, the address from my hotel,
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it would be nice for me if tomorrow evening you came to visit me...
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Just now, as we were leaving the young lady of Clairvois,
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a vision seemed to have troubled your mind... Who could it have been? , Madam...
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Allow me to postpone the revelation, Sir, because I could be
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mistaken... Who lives?
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The next generation, sir, the next generation...
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It's not too early... Too early,
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too late, what does it matter? The boor saw nothing but fire...
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Never has a task been easier... Nor more lucrative...
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Baron, you have all my admiration.
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The crime is proven, Sir... However, it presents a
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particular character, which led us to draw on the research of a man of the art,
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Mr. Antoine Louis, perpetual secretary of the Royal Academy of
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Surgery, whose experience and knowledge on matters of hanging are all authoritative...
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Observe this mark... Observe carefully the angle, which shows that
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of the hanging: it is oblique and goes upwards, indicating the vertical...
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Also note that the bruise is bloodless,
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which means that it occurred after death...
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Now observe this thin and deep bloody furrow, the link by sinking,
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has previously bruised the flesh, but in a manner, so to speak, perpendicular
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to the axis of the neck...
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The unfortunate woman was strangled with a shoelace, before it was
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deemed appropriate to hang her poor lifeless body...
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And why then?
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No doubt to add to the horror of death, the infamous treatment
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reserved for the bodies of those who committed suicide, and who were paraded naked
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through the streets on a rack as punishment...
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A-t Do we have any idea of the murder weapon?
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Come with me…. A leather lace, similar to this one...
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The examination proves that the length, solidity and thickness match, but that it cannot
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be the latter... The reason, please?
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Because this one, I discovered girding the loins of Master Dumas, during the examination of his mummy…
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A “tabar”… A sort of link, a ritual object that certain Sufist followers of Arabia carry
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around the size, in order to separate what is in the spirit from what is in the body...
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A ritual object... Perhaps some expert can help us?
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What is this sudden incursion worth to me, Mr. Commissioner?
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I am seized of a flagrant crime, Sir...
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Great good to you... A crime of which this
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kind of lace was the instrument... And in which seems to be involved, in a
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capacity that I do not know, Monsieur de Saint Germain... Very well ... I bet that you intend to continue,
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with this natural impetuosity, this lack of restraint, which I cannot blame you for,
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as long as it pleases me... So what do you expect from me?
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The express commission of your hand to have to carry out any search,
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seizure and arrests necessary for the manifestation of the truth,
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and this, without regard to the position or the quality of the accused...
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As you go, Nicolas …And first of all,
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questioning of whom, my friend? Jeanne de la Rochefoucauld,
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Marquise d'Urfé, Sir. Have you lost your
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mind? The Marquise d'Urfé, there is no question of it for a single moment, young bittern...
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Secondly, and as I hardly like to venture out blindly,
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I hear that you would be kind enough to enlighten me on what the Rosicrucian is
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It is enough, Nicolas, it is enough… You have nothing to hear… You are only my creature
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and nothing prevents me from immediately putting an end to your functions… YES!
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I fear, Sir, that as far as resigning me is concerned,
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you don't have to wait a little longer...
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Strange, Sir, that you pay so little attention to this theft...
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Because, knowing your prodigious ability
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to confuse criminals and the quality of your Police,
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I bet that the thing will be promptly elucidated, its authors identified and the jewel recovered...
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Your confidence honors me... However,
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it would not be indifferent to me to know the circumstances of the misdeed...
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Yesterday, shortly after noon, a carriage came to pick me up at the postern, to take me to Paris,
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where I spent the afternoon, as well as part of the night... Returning in the morning, I opened with
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the key that Mr. Count de la Borde had given me during the installation of my laboratory...
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The body of a man lying down blocked my way... I had to
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step over it... I immediately went to the chest, where I had locked the pearl,
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tight in its case... I opened it... The box remained, but not its contents...
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No trace of break-in? No trace, in fact...
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This is why I suspect some subterfuge, a sort of maneuver,
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intended to embarrass me in the mission entrusted to me by His Majesty...
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A maneuver that an unfortunate sentry would have paid for with his life ...You are joking, Sir...
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You know it well, Sir, that I have, at court, a number of devious and powerful enemies,
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all very quick to harm me, and who are not repelled by crime, in order to achieve this...
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Would this include the crime of homicide? Like the one committed in cold blood on the person of
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the young lady Clotilde de Clairvois for example? The young lady from Clairvois? So where and when?
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This very night, at his home on Rue des Saint-Pères, shortly after you
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visited it at length... I will have to ask you to follow me, Sir, in order to take you to the Châtelet...
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To present you before the Magistrate of King, in the person of Mr. Lieutenant General
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of Police, Antoine de Sartine... Monsieur de Sartine... so be it.
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They remained for a long time, and on several occasions, I seemed to hear loud bursts
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of voices... And then the accused left, free as air, not without the fact that
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Monsieur de Sartine had previously would have made him ask for a cab... You don't seem surprised, Nicolas...
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I agree... It's because this stroke of brilliance, above all, I expected to push both of them
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to their limits ... Proceed, Mr. Commissioner... Proceed,
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with only the weapons of your reason and those of your usual skills...
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Do not expect any letters rogatory from me, nor any means of exception...
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At least, the Count of Saint Germain will have you Does he make any revelation
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which tends to exonerate him? Exculpate him of what? Because finally,
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the question is that until now we cannot accuse him of anything, except that of existing,
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which is not enough... Continue, continue... I would never have believed him capable
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of such an incursion since it's a question of continuing, let's continue...
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We cannot deny at least that she displays a great air of contentment...
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which often brings a very substantial gain
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at the pharaoh's table! Are you playing pharaoh, Bourdeau?
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I used to play it... I don't play it anymore... Aahhh! You
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are rare, Mr. Commissioner! Are you handing me over?
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Lady Scarlett, the talented Lady Paulet...
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My mistress had to hasten to her lands in Auxerre,
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where she is in mourning... It is a great shame, indeed...
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This absence could, however, be the opportunity for us to become friends - because
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we could be friends, couldn't we? As a man and a woman can be,
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when nothing conspires to make war against each other... Besides,
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your voluptuous charms incline more towards abandonment than to wrath...
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Damn! What do you have to ask so seriously
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that you adorn yourself for a moment with some sudden gallantry?
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A theft, committed last night at Versailles,
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to the detriment of the Queen... A pearl of great beauty...
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A case which required information, means and accomplices...
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So you, who know nothing about the world of crime, would you have heard something?
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If by chance you learn anything...
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I will be sure to let you know... I now have an appointment at which he
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It would be unbecoming for me to escape! I might be late.
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I'm going home!
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Madam wasn't expecting you anymore, Sir... Shhhh... Let me surprise her
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... Is she there?
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What is worth to me, Nicolas? The ambition that I do not
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conceal, to combine business with pleasure...
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I sense that in fact you do not intend to conceal anything... Your ambition honors me, Mr. Commissioner... But perhaps beforehand
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it would be worth- It's better to do what's useful... Later, Madam, later... Have you noticed, Nicolas, that you treat me like a fool?
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Would you consider complaining about it, Madam? Strange, Sir, this sudden mark
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of attachment on your part... Usually, victory as soon as it is conquered and reconquered,
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you hardly linger on the battlefield...
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It's because I have a favor to ask you, Madame
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And what can you ask of me that you have not already obtained...
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That you return to the appearance of your former practices... I need you,
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Madam, in a mission which requires so much boldness and know-how what veracity...
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And where is this happening?
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In the Gardens of Versailles, at the Petit Trianon...
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You have drawn the broad outlines, now tell me the details...
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The detail implies that if it is possible you will become stinking and that you
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will become considerably ugly, which will hardly be difficult...
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My master intends for you to give him the object...
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Has your Master granted you the agreed sum? ...Good...
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Your Master is an imbecile... and you are imprudent...
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Come, Sir, your friend Sanson wishes to speak to you immediately...
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Did you sleep well Bourdeau? Yes, very good, thank you!
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I know very well that comparison is not right... However..., the guard, Nicolas, who was brought to me
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from Versailles in the morning... Note the wounds on his back... Three very close wounds, carried
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by a blade, which perhaps that of a dagger... And now, look... Follow me now...
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Three wounds identical in every way, and a final wound that is undoubtedly fatal... In
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each case, the assassin wanted to touch the heart and succeeded without incident...
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Notice the angle... In our two cases the thrusting blows
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came from below... The two victims are not colossi,
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we can therefore deduce that their common assassin is small...
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could they have anything else in common,
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besides that of their assassin? Where does this one come from?
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From the Place de l'Arsenal, last night the men of the watch snatched him from the hands of the looters...
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He was not wearing any piece of clothing that would allow him to be identified... I can only
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tell you that it is a question of a well-kept and well-fed man, whose hands show that he was
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not accustomed to daunting tasks... So you are new? Would you not know that here,
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as in the world, we do not do as we please?
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I don't know anything, and just ask to make my ball...
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Make your ball: as you go! You still have to be approved and pay your dues...
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It would be nice to see that I pay anyone...
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Take her! Could it be from these hermetic motives that you
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expect some revelation, Nicolas? No point...
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It is curious that nothing else was discovered during the
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search of the young lady from Clairvois... It is because, in the strict sense, I did not
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search there... You were in a great hurry and the body had to be transported...
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Excuse me? I did a simple overview.
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An overview?!
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Here it is ! Well, my dear…
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Did you think that our police force is not as good as that of the King? You are new, I am told... Did you not know
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that you first had to go through me... And that before you were allowed to practice,
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you had to demonstrate your abilities? Only they, after having exhausted your charms,
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will be able to decide whether or not you should stay... Mine... Mine,
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you others... Don't force me, Owl...
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Nicolas! Nicolas!....Ahhh Sir... Not seeing you come back,
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I took the liberty of coming
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to join you... What happened? I think we will have tried
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to prevent me from finding this… Bourdeau handkerchief!
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Thank you Sir… Read, Bourdeau.
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The Rose Cross... And a Templar ring...
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She was a very cruel mistress, and who had me beaten because I
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can no longer work... The practice is very repelled by this kind of ornament...
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Who got it from? -you? With a nasty blow
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of a dagger from a creature that I had believed to be worldly, and whose gangster I had teased...
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Did you see, then, where the couple was heading?
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Yes...The two of them went towards the Canal, where I saw them from a distance conversing with a
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sentry... Then all three of them disappeared into a mezzanine...
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Are you sure of what you're doing? I'm sure of it... There
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weren't many people left in the aisles and this pair couldn't have
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been missed... I only collected this shot and this handful of ugly monkey money...
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I have to get to Paris, make yourself beautiful without delay, you're in the
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game... Do you know where I can find a frame? At the King's Stables... The path is familiar to me,
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not so much for the horses as for those who ride them...
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The young lady Clotilde de Clairvois would be the granddaughter of Master Dumas,
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the thing is instructive... And there the plan of the
435
00:58:54,519 --> 00:59:02,039
residence of Master Dumas, the crypt... The Count of Saint Germain knew
436
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the young lady of Clairvois... The young lady of Clairvois, undoubtedly by inheritance, knew the
437
00:59:08,159 --> 00:59:13,519
Dumas house... He will have been informed by her: the deception is exposed, we have it the proof...
438
00:59:13,519 --> 00:59:18,960
The deception, I understand, but the crime? Why would Saint Germain have killed the very person
439
00:59:18,960 --> 00:59:25,320
who assisted him in his deceptions? I don't know, but it won't be long
440
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:26,039
before I learn something...
441
00:59:26,679 --> 00:59:30,219
Now, sir? You don't think about it, you look like a dead person...
442
00:59:30,219 --> 00:59:57,000
But in fact, I'm definitely counting on it! Prompt and terrible decadence,
443
00:59:57,000 --> 01:00:02,159
Madam, of which you offer the pitiful spectacle... We knew you to be a cock in dough,
444
01:00:02,159 --> 01:00:07,599
we find you stained with the mire into which the cruelty of destiny seems to have thrown you...
445
01:00:07,599 --> 01:00:12,199
You seem to know a lot... Everything that my mistress knows, I know it too,
446
01:00:12,199 --> 01:00:17,439
as befits a person capable of assisting her in everything... The cruelty of fate or that
447
01:00:17,440 --> 01:00:24,599
of a man? Would our friend Nicolas have stopped providing for your maintenance...
448
01:00:24,599 --> 01:00:26,319
He never provided for it...
449
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:32,600
It doesn't matter... At least you could have, your disgrace consummated,
450
01:00:32,599 --> 01:00:36,960
turned towards this house... Madam would then not have missed you find a job in
451
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:49,159
his establishment... A job commensurate with your quality... Now, alas, in your state...
452
01:00:49,159 --> 01:00:55,920
I don't need a job: mine is enough...
453
01:00:56,840 --> 01:01:05,840
So the Owl is dead? What are you expecting from me ?
454
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,400
What are you expecting from me ?
455
01:01:08,400 --> 01:01:13,039
That you facilitate my introduction to Madame d'Urfé by occupying the butler,
456
01:01:13,039 --> 01:01:22,800
and by me... and after you had previously announced to her the news of my death...
457
01:01:22,800 --> 01:01:26,320
Clearly, Sir, you are a man full of resources, and nothing seems to
458
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:39,559
stop... The stratagem is picturesque! It's true that your condition brings some
459
01:01:39,559 --> 01:01:53,759
element of plausibility to it... Don't move
460
01:01:53,760 --> 01:02:00,720
, the suffering could only get worse... A decoction of grass from
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01:02:00,719 --> 01:02:09,559
my governess's province. Leave your collar undone, so that we can
462
01:02:09,559 --> 01:02:23,599
smear you with verisimilitude!!! Is it really them?
463
01:02:23,599 --> 01:02:25,839
Without any possible doubt...
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01:02:26,719 --> 01:02:32,759
It now remains to know where they are staying... For that, all we have to do is ask: they are
465
01:02:32,760 --> 01:02:55,840
both of my practices...they call themselves Baron and Baroness D'Héricourt.
466
01:03:44,559 --> 01:03:46,360
So my friend was telling the truth...
467
01:03:46,360 --> 01:03:55,880
You don't seem outraged by my appearance, Madam...
468
01:03:55,880 --> 01:04:00,079
It's because the trade in ghosts is familiar to me,
469
01:04:00,079 --> 01:04:07,559
and there is less to fear from your species than from that of the living...
470
01:04:07,559 --> 01:04:11,279
What should I do? Did you not tell me about the
471
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:17,480
death of Mademoiselle de Clairvois? She saw everything, Mr. Spirit...
472
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:22,760
Could this be what caused her death? Why not ask him?
473
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:28,440
She doesn't know, Madam. What I know is that shortly after
474
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:35,360
his departure with Madame De Créquy we made music and that as we were leaving, a
475
01:04:35,360 --> 01:04:41,720
quarrel of rare violence opposed the Count of Saint Germain and Monsieur the Chevalier d’Aumont…
476
01:04:41,719 --> 01:04:45,000
The Chevalier d’Aumont? The Knight of Aumont
477
01:04:45,000 --> 01:04:51,440
does not hide the fact of being one of the most eminent dignitaries of the Order of the Temple...
478
01:04:51,440 --> 01:05:03,679
His acquaintance with Monsieur de Saint Germain... They are the complement of each other... The Count
479
01:05:03,679 --> 01:05:08,759
is the amiable face of the 'Order, while the Chevalier d'Aumont is its
480
01:05:08,760 --> 01:05:17,560
shadow... One takes pleasure in showing off, while the other focuses on punishing...
481
01:05:17,559 --> 01:05:22,480
The reason for their quarrel, please? It was about the Mademoiselle de
482
01:05:22,480 --> 01:05:30,119
Clairvois and a secret that she would have revealed...
483
01:05:30,119 --> 01:05:34,279
Do you know where we can find this d'Aumont, Madame?
484
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:47,400
three times a week he attends mass in the Saint Eustache Church...
485
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:52,900
I urge you not to try to follow me, Madam...
486
01:05:52,900 --> 01:06:25,000
Do not fear anything, Mr. Spirit... A meticulous report was kept
487
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:29,199
of the divination sessions. We will have to endeavor to unravel
488
01:06:29,199 --> 01:06:37,799
the mystery. You will first carry out the most meticulous research in order to know
489
01:06:37,800 --> 01:06:45,480
who is hiding behind the identity of a certain Chevalier d'Aumont...
490
01:06:45,480 --> 01:06:49,226
Too bad: you nevertheless had a very convincing death...
491
01:06:49,226 --> 01:06:55,519
It is enough that I convinced you...
492
01:07:07,519 --> 01:07:09,000
How could you ?
493
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:17,360
This is because I had been provided with the keys, as well as a very satisfactory description of the place...
494
01:07:17,360 --> 01:07:25,519
You don't seem troubled... Nor worried either...
495
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:35,320
So, someone had led your hand... With great imprudence , I agree...
496
01:07:35,320 --> 01:07:43,680
And you have not found your account there... Not to the point that I intend to find it with you...
497
01:07:43,679 --> 01:07:50,000
You are said to be rich in prodigious jewels, which even arouse the jealousy of the King...
498
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:55,440
For having searched here, I know they are not there...
499
01:07:56,039 --> 01:08:03,559
Your most beautiful diamonds, Sir, against the pearl...
500
01:08:03,559 --> 01:08:07,599
Otherwise? I fear that some
501
01:08:07,599 --> 01:08:16,960
sharp blade will prematurely interrupt the course of your immortality... I am not a monster,
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01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:25,439
Mr. Count, so I will leave you until tomorrow to let me know your decision...
503
01:09:26,920 --> 01:09:31,640
Mr. Commissioner, two creatures of the most repulsive appearance have presented themselves
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01:09:31,640 --> 01:09:33,631
and claim to meet you on the spot...
505
01:09:33,631 --> 01:09:39,240
Well, bring in...
506
01:09:39,239 --> 01:09:42,880
The fact is that their smell, alone, discourages all commerce...
507
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:52,279
They are downstairs, Sir, in the dungeon, where the most enraged by both, also causes a lot of noise...
508
01:09:52,279 --> 01:10:07,588
Nicolas! Nicholas! Nicholas! Nicholas! The Floch! The Floch! The Floch! The Floch! Le Floch
509
01:10:07,588 --> 01:10:21,119
Open this door for me! Are you a fly?
510
01:10:21,119 --> 01:10:26,319
A fly, yes, and of the worst kind... To
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01:10:26,920 --> 01:10:32,079
achieve your goals, I had to commit homicide, Sir... Do you know what homicide means,
512
01:10:32,079 --> 01:10:43,457
when you hold a life against yourself and you have to put an end to it? ? Leave it, I have no need of
513
01:10:43,457 --> 01:10:51,420
your compassion... Don't you want to know right away what you wanted to learn?
514
01:10:51,420 --> 01:10:56,239
Madam !
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01:11:06,159 --> 01:11:27,015
Wait for me ! Madam ! I'm with them...
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01:11:27,015 --> 01:11:30,679
Let me go, you're hurting me!!
517
01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:40,960
I had the feeling that you were ignoring me, Nicolas, these last few days... You would have been very wrong...
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01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:48,480
See... See that I'm not hiding anything from you... Monsieur de Choiseul!!!
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01:11:48,479 --> 01:12:00,559
Yes, Monsieur de Choiseul, come to confess to us... A stupidity... A great stupidity, but is it not
520
01:12:00,560 --> 01:12:07,039
precisely the characteristic of great minds to commit great stupidities?
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01:12:07,039 --> 01:12:09,880
With the intention of embarrassing the Count of Saint Germain,
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01:12:09,880 --> 01:12:16,760
whom he loathes and whose mission he knew, Monsieur de Choiseul saw fit to have
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01:12:16,760 --> 01:12:25,480
the pearl stolen by two people in whom he had complete confidence...
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01:12:25,479 --> 01:12:31,000
Very misplaced confidence, I I agree, and which I bet will serve as a lesson to me...
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01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:36,000
Because, when it was time to return the pearl for the agreed sum,
526
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:41,640
the thieves failed and the emissary did not reappear...
527
01:12:41,640 --> 01:12:45,079
Was the meeting supposed to have taken place? place near the
528
01:12:45,079 --> 01:12:48,600
Place de l’Arsenal? Soothsayer, you too,
529
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:57,760
or just well informed? Indeed: not far from the Pont Marie, as was agreed...
530
01:12:57,760 --> 01:13:00,039
As for the emissary, it is very likely that
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01:13:00,039 --> 01:13:09,840
the unfortunate man is now in Basse-Geôle, reduced to the state of corpse...
532
01:13:09,840 --> 01:13:13,760
Monsieur de Choiseul is worth ten thousand louis...
533
01:13:13,760 --> 01:13:21,159
What does money matter, when it costs you nothing... What does money matter, in view of the discredit,
534
01:13:21,159 --> 01:13:25,519
if this affair were to become known? Her Majesty warned,
535
01:13:25,520 --> 01:13:30,640
the Pompadour alerted… I will soon see myself in very bad trouble!
536
01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:33,240
Monsieur the Duke of Choiseul therefore intends for this
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01:13:33,239 --> 01:13:37,519
unfortunate affair to reach its conclusion as quickly as possible... To do this,
538
01:13:37,520 --> 01:13:45,000
he did not hesitate to inform us of the identity of his two... Of his two associates...
539
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:50,840
The baron and the baroness d'Héricourt... Fichtre, the thing is already known...
540
01:13:50,840 --> 01:13:52,920
People whose names not only do I know,
541
01:13:52,920 --> 01:13:57,319
but whose refuge I have recently learned...
542
01:13:57,319 --> 01:14:03,639
Well, what are you waiting for Nicolas, what are you waiting for for yourself hasten ?
543
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:07,160
Without pretending to overstep the instructions of Mr. de Sartine,
544
01:14:07,159 --> 01:14:11,720
the recovered object, it would be good for you to ensure, Mr. Commissioner,
545
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:26,039
that the looters remain completely silent... I'm counting on you, aren't I?
546
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:39,039
There is no doubt that a quick comparison will indicate that this blade will have slain the royal guard as well
547
01:15:39,039 --> 01:15:47,600
as the emissary of Monsieur de Choiseul... On this side, things become clearer: it is only a question
548
01:15:47,600 --> 01:15:55,920
of simple brigandry, carried out by common law criminals... On the other hand, on this side the
549
01:15:57,680 --> 01:16:03,208
mystery remains!
550
01:16:03,207 --> 01:16:03,799
Dead, you say? Dead, and from the same instrument
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01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:08,680
that almost cost me my life...
552
01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,800
At least this announcement dispels the fears of the inconsistent Monsieur
553
01:16:11,800 --> 01:16:16,199
de Choiseul... Thus the thieves will have been robbed...
554
01:16:16,199 --> 01:16:20,479
Everything suggests it... Often ,
555
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:24,872
to resolve a case that is slipping away, is it good to go back to the origins...
556
01:16:24,872 --> 01:16:28,679
Isn't the case already resolved? And without, moreover, introducing
557
01:16:28,680 --> 01:16:31,320
the slightest element of mystery, nor the smallest element of hermeticism?
558
01:16:31,319 --> 01:16:46,880
No sir... The origin of the case is precisely to be found in hermeticism,
559
01:16:46,880 --> 01:16:54,840
Mr. Lieutenant General of Police, what do you know about a certain
560
01:16:56,399 --> 01:17:14,279
Chevalier d'Aumont? As for the Chevalier d'Aumont, no one is
561
01:17:14,279 --> 01:17:24,840
better placed to inform you than Monsieur de Saint Germain himself...
562
01:17:29,359 --> 01:17:34,719
It's not me you were expecting, Monsieur... It's not you, in fact...
563
01:17:34,720 --> 01:17:46,920
Those you were waiting for will not come... What did you intend to do with such a treasure?
564
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:51,720
Buy back the pearl...
565
01:17:51,720 --> 01:17:57,560
This thwarts my reasoning... Why buy it back, and at such a price?
566
01:17:57,560 --> 01:18:05,880
No matter the price... It is about my fame, Sir, as well as the fate of royalty...
567
01:18:05,880 --> 01:18:12,400
Neither reason can convince me... You will have to speak,
568
01:18:12,399 --> 01:18:17,920
Mr. Count, and without looking refuge behind any quality whatsoever,
569
01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:20,720
including that of the Rosicrucian…
570
01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:25,520
A letter of cachet!! Shortly before the assassination of the
571
01:18:25,520 --> 01:18:32,640
Mademoiselle de Clairvois, we know that you visited her... Why?
572
01:18:32,640 --> 01:18:35,600
It was a question of taking a little of his blood,
573
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:39,680
intended for the decoction so as to revive the tear...
574
01:18:39,680 --> 01:18:43,039
I cannot recommend enough to you not to put forward false reasons...
575
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:49,880
I tell you the truth: it had to be the blood of a virgin and the fact is common in
576
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:52,480
alchemical operations... Just one thing,
577
01:18:52,479 --> 01:18:59,799
sir... What about thieves? They are dead. In the same way that
578
01:18:59,800 --> 01:19:12,480
Mademoiselle de Clairvois was murdered... In the same way that they almost ended my life...
579
01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:24,719
Quickly, sir, quickly, come: we must reach Paris...
580
01:19:35,359 --> 01:19:43,920
You others, stay nearby, for me , I must go and advise.
581
01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:46,600
The pearl is in the hands of the Chevalier d'Aumont,
582
01:19:46,600 --> 01:19:48,880
and I know what use he intends to make of it...
583
01:19:48,880 --> 01:19:50,159
What is it?
584
01:19:50,159 --> 01:19:53,559
He intends to destroy it with fire, in a ritual manner,
585
01:19:53,560 --> 01:19:59,000
in order to set in motion the curse attached to it...
586
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:05,720
Tell us for what reason, please?
587
01:20:05,720 --> 01:20:09,760
How far should my revelations extend, Sir?
588
01:20:09,760 --> 01:20:21,600
Until the moment when I judge it appropriate to interrupt them...
589
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:26,960
The Chevalier d'Aumont claims to belong to the ancient Order of the Temple... He claims to be descended
590
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:31,800
from a Chevalier d'Aumont, charged by the last Grand Master of the Templars ,
591
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:37,000
shortly before he went to the stake, to avenge the fall of his Order, destroyed on
592
01:20:37,000 --> 01:20:41,960
the instructions of King Philip the Fair... The Rosicrucian, in all this...
593
01:20:41,960 --> 01:20:44,560
Sir, I request the highest discretion
594
01:20:44,560 --> 01:20:51,240
I respond from Commissioner le Floch as well as from myself.
595
01:20:51,239 --> 01:21:00,039
It is a secret order, born in the 17th Century and keen on alchemy... Its followers aim to
596
01:21:00,039 --> 01:21:06,920
promote humanity, through the intellectual and moral development of its members, numbering
597
01:21:06,920 --> 01:21:14,000
of which it is well known that I appear... and there are a certain number of
598
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:24,880
competing and sometimes antagonistic chapels... This is how others, arguing for their
599
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:30,400
real quality as Rosicrucians, tend to pursue goals of Vengeance by
600
01:21:30,399 --> 01:21:36,879
not hesitating to use the same violence that was used against their Order...
601
01:21:36,880 --> 01:21:38,960
Yes!
602
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:47,239
I have a message for Commissioner Le Floch
603
01:21:47,239 --> 01:21:53,079
As a Master Freemason, you were not unaware of all this, were you...
604
01:21:53,079 --> 01:21:56,680
Not much, in truth... The Chevalier d'Aumont has just been
605
01:21:56,680 --> 01:22:24,520
seen not far from Rue de l'Hirondelle entering through a low door decorated with a strange figure.
606
01:22:30,239 --> 01:22:44,235
“Revenge… Vengeance… Vengeance…”
607
01:22:44,235 --> 01:22:54,439
“Revenge… Vengeance… Vengeance…” My brothers, the temple will be avenged! Vengeance, revenge, revenge
608
01:22:55,680 --> 01:23:04,600
D'Aumont!
609
01:23:05,720 --> 01:23:08,880
You, miserable traitor...
610
01:23:08,880 --> 01:23:21,560
Give...
611
01:23:21,560 --> 01:23:35,960
In the name of the Holy Cross, give... The Temple is dead, Knight, and you know it well...
612
01:23:35,960 --> 01:24:19,399
So, may Royalty also perish... To me, my brothers!
613
01:24:19,399 --> 01:24:24,319
Give up, Chevalier... Give up...
614
01:24:54,520 --> 01:24:58,680
It
615
01:25:42,119 --> 01:25:45,569
's over, d'Aumont...
616
01:25:45,569 --> 01:25:54,239
Not quite yet...
617
01:26:02,680 --> 01:26:07,480
The tear of Warsaw is saved, Mr. Commissioner, all that remains
618
01:26:07,479 --> 01:26:21,399
is to revive its shine... No longer remains, in indeed...
619
01:26:21,399 --> 01:26:24,599
After we had removed the bodies from the room that you know,
620
01:26:24,600 --> 01:26:29,440
I carried out careful observations... On the ground,
621
01:26:29,439 --> 01:26:35,519
among the extinguished embers and the ashes of the crucible, I found this... Which looks like
622
01:26:35,520 --> 01:26:48,280
strong to the remains of a pearl which would have been half consumed... What do you say, Sir?
623
01:26:48,279 --> 01:26:55,960
A substitution made by Saint Germain... The pearl would then be dead, vengeance
624
01:26:55,960 --> 01:27:04,000
initiated... The fall of the inscribed monarchy... I do not believe in curses, however,
625
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:11,600
there is no point in telling anyone about them... Likewise, for these leaflets,
626
01:27:11,600 --> 01:27:21,320
which relates in detail very disastrous visions of the deceased young lady of Clairvois... Madame
627
01:27:21,319 --> 01:27:28,880
d'Urfé complains confusedly that a specter stole them from her... Naturally,
628
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:36,760
your positive mind would know nothing about specters, Mr. Commissioner...
629
01:27:36,760 --> 01:27:43,360
It would not serve to person, that the content could spread...
630
01:27:43,359 --> 01:27:54,119
I feel bad winds rising... Some,
631
01:27:55,399 --> 01:28:03,559
not the least of which is Monsieur Voltaire, speak in less and less veiled words,
632
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:19,760
of a revolution that others call of their wishes... for the moment, there is no need
633
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:24,119
to unnecessarily worry the King, before whom we must now appear...
634
01:28:26,000 --> 01:28:32,000
So, my friend, have you achieved your goals... The pearl has regained its unparalleled brilliance...
635
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:33,760
Doubt it- you, Majesty?
636
01:28:33,760 --> 01:28:38,880
Not at all, my friend, not at all... Madame la Reine would have liked to be there,
637
01:28:38,880 --> 01:28:44,039
in order to show you her gratitude, but she is at the bedside of the Dauphin, who
638
01:28:44,039 --> 01:28:54,039
has seized a fever, which is greatly worrying the doctors... You will be careful to hand over this box to the Queen...
639
01:28:55,880 --> 01:29:04,039
I bet that in these moments, the Tear will be of precious help to her...
640
01:29:04,039 --> 01:29:09,239
Mr. Marquis, I am grateful to you for having provided assistance that you have given to
641
01:29:09,239 --> 01:29:14,199
Mr. the Count of Saint Germain... I wish also that one evening,
642
01:29:14,199 --> 01:29:19,720
you appeared at one of the dinners given by the Pompadour... The story of your exploits is
643
01:29:19,720 --> 01:29:25,720
always very entertaining, especially when it is not obscured by the veil of secrecy...
644
01:29:25,720 --> 01:29:30,800
A secret that Monsieur de Sartine, with the laudable intention of sparing His King, often
645
01:29:30,800 --> 01:29:39,239
with discernment, but sometimes without measure, extends over everything he claims not to have to reveal...
646
01:29:39,239 --> 01:29:49,880
See you soon, Monsieur de Ranreuil, see you soon... My friend, I intend to confide to you , behind the back
647
01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:57,359
of this good Choiseul, an important diplomatic mission to the Queen of Austria...
648
01:29:57,359 --> 01:30:02,000
A diplomatic mission... Behind the back of Choiseul... Clearly,
649
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:24,260
Nicolas, Her Majesty is incorrigible!!!
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