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Good people,
feast your eyes on my fair merchandise!
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Look well, for these goods are no trifles!
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-Will it cure gout?
-It'll stiffen your stick!
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Come here, little girl!
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Where can women relieve themselves?
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The jakes?
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The what? The jakes? Aye, the jakes.
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The jakes!
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For two pence, I'll take them there.
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We overindulged in plums and grapes!
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Quick, or I'll go in my drawers!
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Me too!
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I doubt you see much theater here.
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No, Madame. We're too poor.
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Is church your only entertainment?
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That, and nature.
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Is this it?
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Yes, Madame.
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Pull your skirts up high
or they'll get mucky.
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I'll guard the door.
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Move over, pissant!
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-No! I paid my penny!
-I'll tell the priest!
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What a good little girl!
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Don't we get to see their titties?
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Gorgibus! Push it the other way!
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We'll never be ready in time!
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What do you want?
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Food, Molière!
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I could eat an ox, couldn't you?
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We have to get the stage up.
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Are you never hungry?
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God help me!
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You should try some.
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What are we doing in this rathole?
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Don't blame me.
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What do you mean?
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It's what comes
from your love of playing tragedy.
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Is staging old Corneille's work a sin?
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Speaking of Corneille...
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Was I really that bad?
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Not bad, but wide of the mark.
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The apples that hit me were not!
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-You overact.
-And you don't?
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No more than you.
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We'll give these folk
something less subtle.
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"The Jealous Lout"?
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I could do a speech from "Le Cid"
or "Nicomède".
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-No!
-Why not?
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All the gold on earth would not suffice
to buy this secret beyond price!
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I'll ask her to come to Paris.
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I saw her first!
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Go ahead.
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Quiet!
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Wait your turn!
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-Make way, old man.
-You mean me?
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Let me salute the graceful artist.
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I am her father, Giacomo da Gorla.
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Who is with her? A cousin?
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What are you suggesting?
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That you should stand aside, Giacomo!
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I advise you to listen.
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-Mind your business!
-Mind this!
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Peace, gentlemen.
I suggest something else - the theater!
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The Illustrious Theater! Come.
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You dance divinely.
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Pray wait your turn
and settle up with my father.
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I settled him already.
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He fell at my feet.
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Will you come to Paris?
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Hush! You're distracting me.
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I'm stiff with admiration.
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Please control your tongue, Monsieur!
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I'm only saying you should act.
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What do you think I'm doing?
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You're dancing.
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Quiet! I'm losing my faculties!
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So tell me,
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what "acting" would I do with you?
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We are the Illustrious Theater company,
led by my humble self.
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Damn short for the price, I say!
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Are you the man they call "Molière"?
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Sadly, no.
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I'm only René Du Parc, alias Gros-René,
his leading comic actor.
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Did Mother tell you acting's my dream?
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I saw it in your eyes.
Your mother wrote your destiny in them.
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Are you a mind reader
to know my heart so well?
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I want to marry you!
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You don't mince words!
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The truest words
come straight from the heart.
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What can I say?
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Say yes.
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Join the Illustrious Theater,
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and Paris will kneel before you.
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Consent! Molière's waiting and I'm hungry.
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Is this an act or is your love sincere?
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Do I look as if I'm lying?
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Meet Marquise, my fiancée!
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-Where's Molière?
-Gone to get the priest.
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Marquise is joining us. She's an actress.
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Meet Armande, Madeleine, Genevieve...
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That's him! The fat one!
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The vile seducer! Destroyer of families!
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Butcher of honest men!
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Marry them at once, Father,
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or he'll refuse to perform
in "The Jealous Lout"!
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Give me back my daughter!
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Give him his bride!
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Are you trying to quarter me?
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Hands off!
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Father! Let's go to it!
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Wait!
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You need the father's consent!
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He's right!
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What says the girl?
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I'll marry him if I can give up dancing,
vertically and horizontally.
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On with the wedding!
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She's my daughter!
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I detest cold food. It gives me gas.
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Whoa, Father!
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Giving up a daughter is a big decision.
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I'm going to do it right,
though it makes you fart all night.
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Is it the "giving" that irks you?
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No more than you, Monsieur.
When you "give" a performance,
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don't you count the profit?
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I offer her my heart, a career in Paris!
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For 100 pounds in gold...
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her parents could be consoled.
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What ails the player?
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'Tis more than his life's wages!
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'Tis God's will! My daughter is priceless.
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-Twenty!
-Prithee?
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Twenty-five!
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-Sixty!
-Sixty, so be it!
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Twenty-seven!
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-Speak up!
-Twenty-eight!
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Thirty! Aye, thirty!
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Not a penny less, for that odd fellow
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is my friend, my brother and my son.
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Thank you.
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Accept!
Or before the priest has done digesting
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he'll bury you and marry me
at the same time!
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Thirty!
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Father, please.
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Marry them, quick!
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René Du Parc,
do you take Marquise Thérèse Gorla
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to be your wedded wife
for better or for worse,
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till death do you part?
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I do.
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Marquise Thérèse Gorla,
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do you take this man to be your husband?
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I do.
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What do you give her?
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My word.
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Very well. Amen.
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Acting with Molière!
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Any mother would be proud.
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Thank you, mother!
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Begone, father!
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And now, we give you "The Jealous Lout"!
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"Gadzooks, my dear!
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What a tun of flesh your father is!
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How dense his wit, how dark his soul!"
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"I blush for him. I can barely believe
that I am his daughter!
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One day Fate will reveal
that I'm of nobler birth."
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"I believe it.
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You have that look about you.
I fancy I do, too."
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Let's start again. "Gadzooks, my dear!
What a tun of flesh..."
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Tales of love!
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Of jealousy!
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You will see the Great Turk!
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I'll sell my wife to the Turk
for the agreed sum.
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Selling too cheap is a sin
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for one so skilled as you
at turning pence into pounds!
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Lucille will be mine, and cuckold's horns
will adorn her little man's head!
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Good-bye, Babooshi.
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Good-bye, my lord Gabba-dabba...
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Zounds!
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That scoundrel will get his just deserts!
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I'll sell that ugly old wench
he calls his wife!
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Unless! Unless...
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I sell the rogue himself
for ogling my lovely Lucille!
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He wants to "horn" me
but I'll "horn" him first!
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Here's his housemaid.
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Well?
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Speak!
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Go on...
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Speak!
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Did your mistress not send
a message for me?
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Do I have to guess it?
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Must I tear it from your throat?
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Lucille has nothing to tell me.
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My lords, she has nothing to say!
She has nothing to say!
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Perhaps I should dance it instead!
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Speak up! We can't hear a thing!
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She's...
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I don't know!
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Armande! Quick!
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There you are!
I was wondering where you'd gone.
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My master has two maids,
one deaf and one dumb.
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He sends one or the other
to his mistresses' husbands.
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One or the other?
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Aye!
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If a cuckold wants to protest,
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he sends him the deaf one.
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But if he wants to tell a husband
that he's cuckolding him,
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he sends this one - the mute!
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For, as he says, nobody likes
to be told of his own misfortune.
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Hurry, hurry, my sugars!
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Dear brother, consider the facts.
Your plight is due to your acts.
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Though your woes be ever so great,
none will take pity on your state.
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This affair is much to my liking.
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Its moral is very striking!
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A born cuckold, if ever there was one!
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By hellish ruse I am undone
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yet even Satan himself, methinks,
is no more fiendish
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than this minx!
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The best of them are full of deceit...
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the doom of every man they meet.
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I abjure their sex henceforth.
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Let Satan take them
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for what they're worth!
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Come to my house. You too, good sire.
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Tomorrow we'll try to calm his ire.
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If you have a werewolf spouse,
send him for lessons at our house!
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Marquise, Marquise! Listen!
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Keep them awake until we're ready.
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Take that off!
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Remember, Versailles awaits us.
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A chocolate, my dear?
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-They're killingly divine.
-No, thank you.
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-What's she doing?
-Upstaging us!
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The sweet is upstaging the meat!
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Does anyone know that beauty's name?
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Have you suddenly acquired
a taste for women?
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Fear not, my dear. I'm merely curious.
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Do you know her, Racine?
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No, Milady, but I expect Lully does.
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-Marquise Du Parc.
-Molière's mistress?
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Presumably.
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And Corneille's?
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He wrote her a sonnet.
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At his age, it's all he can do for her.
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She is Gros-René's wife.
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This angel, wedded to that tub?
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They say the fellow is descended
from Hannibal's elephant.
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Is he from Carthage?
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I said the elephant,
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not Hannibal.
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If that is a joke, Lully,
try putting it to music.
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Musician though I am,
permit me to spell it out.
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The elephant and husband both have
big bodies and long appendages!
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I don't care for your Italian sauce,
Monsieur Lully.
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Neither does Monsieur Racine.
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Shall we go
to Prince de Conti's dinner party?
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I dared not suggest it.
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You're ripe enough to eat.
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You're tickling me, Monsieur Lully!
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I'm fingering your luscious fruit.
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Milord?
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00:22:49,789 --> 00:22:52,625
-Did you enjoy the play?
-Very much.
261
00:22:52,709 --> 00:22:55,044
How I laughed! So did Milady.
262
00:22:55,795 --> 00:22:57,839
By Gad, I liked you!
263
00:22:58,256 --> 00:23:04,095
All my friends will tell you how rarely
I succumb to the charms of your gender.
264
00:23:04,846 --> 00:23:07,765
May I introduce the other players?
265
00:23:07,849 --> 00:23:12,145
No need.
I know them already. Ancient history.
266
00:23:13,479 --> 00:23:15,523
I have an idea.
267
00:23:15,607 --> 00:23:17,025
Monsieur Lully?
268
00:23:26,117 --> 00:23:27,660
For the King's birthday,
269
00:23:27,744 --> 00:23:32,290
I wish you to compose a play
with dances and pleasing words,
270
00:23:32,373 --> 00:23:36,210
in which His Majesty
may admire the youthful grace
271
00:23:36,294 --> 00:23:38,129
of Mademoiselle Du Parc.
272
00:23:42,216 --> 00:23:44,135
I'll get down to it at once.
273
00:23:47,430 --> 00:23:52,018
We all know how my brother loves to dance!
274
00:23:53,186 --> 00:23:55,772
When is His Majesty's birthday?
275
00:23:55,855 --> 00:23:57,440
One week hence. Why?
276
00:24:02,278 --> 00:24:06,324
"Lord, which dark star shone at my birth...
277
00:24:08,159 --> 00:24:11,579
that bores harass me
for all they are worth?"
278
00:24:16,250 --> 00:24:19,963
"That bores harass me...
279
00:24:20,797 --> 00:24:22,966
for all they are worth.
280
00:24:25,718 --> 00:24:27,470
A new one is born each day..."
281
00:24:27,553 --> 00:24:29,138
Go to the devil!
282
00:24:29,973 --> 00:24:32,934
"But no bores compare...
283
00:24:33,476 --> 00:24:37,772
with those of today." Is "bores" a word?
284
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:41,150
Of course! Everybody says it.
285
00:24:42,151 --> 00:24:43,319
I'll come back.
286
00:24:43,403 --> 00:24:46,322
Come in, now you're here.
What do you want?
287
00:24:46,406 --> 00:24:47,949
I'm so unhappy.
288
00:24:48,032 --> 00:24:51,369
-Is René a bad husband?
-No, far from it.
289
00:24:51,452 --> 00:24:54,330
-Are you unhappy in Paris?
-Far from it.
290
00:24:54,414 --> 00:24:56,332
You're pregnant, then.
291
00:24:56,416 --> 00:24:58,751
Far from it. I bleed each month.
292
00:24:58,835 --> 00:25:03,006
"Far from it." Is that all you can say?
293
00:25:03,089 --> 00:25:04,132
Far from it.
294
00:25:04,590 --> 00:25:06,342
I want to be an actress.
295
00:25:08,428 --> 00:25:10,888
Play dumb again, you mean?
296
00:25:11,848 --> 00:25:14,726
I didn't give up everything
just to go on dancing.
297
00:25:17,228 --> 00:25:20,565
But here you'll dance to please the King!
298
00:25:21,441 --> 00:25:23,860
-I don't care.
-The chance of a lifetime!
299
00:25:24,652 --> 00:25:26,988
I want to learn to act.
300
00:25:27,071 --> 00:25:30,241
Then go and act with Gros-René.
301
00:25:30,700 --> 00:25:33,494
He'll train you. Go! I have work to do.
302
00:25:39,042 --> 00:25:44,130
Madeleine, Catherine, all the girls,
even the cook, say how much they owe you.
303
00:25:45,256 --> 00:25:46,340
Really?
304
00:25:49,302 --> 00:25:50,303
They said that?
305
00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:53,931
-That you perform so well...
-What else?
306
00:25:54,015 --> 00:25:57,643
First,
the audience must be comfortably seated.
307
00:26:02,356 --> 00:26:05,026
Then the lights must go down...
308
00:26:05,109 --> 00:26:07,236
and then, finally...
309
00:26:09,906 --> 00:26:11,365
the curtain rises...
310
00:26:13,493 --> 00:26:14,911
and we enter...
311
00:26:15,787 --> 00:26:18,206
the crux of the matter.
312
00:26:33,846 --> 00:26:35,890
The seashell opens...
313
00:26:37,016 --> 00:26:40,103
To see, in this fair place,
314
00:26:40,186 --> 00:26:43,064
the greatest king of the globe...
315
00:26:43,523 --> 00:26:50,029
Mortals,
I have come to you from my forest abode.
316
00:26:50,113 --> 00:26:51,614
Music, maestro!
317
00:26:52,740 --> 00:26:55,993
Meanwhile the naiads, satyr, centaur...
318
00:26:56,077 --> 00:26:59,080
Armande! Come on, please!
319
00:26:59,622 --> 00:27:01,124
There. Good.
320
00:27:01,207 --> 00:27:03,000
Madeleine, go upstage!
321
00:27:04,168 --> 00:27:05,545
Bores, begone!
322
00:27:05,628 --> 00:27:10,383
Or if you must stay,
let it be only to brighten his day.
323
00:27:14,971 --> 00:27:16,681
This is no time to dawdle!
324
00:27:16,764 --> 00:27:18,766
Eraste! Enter!
325
00:27:18,850 --> 00:27:23,146
What dark star shone at my birth,
that bores harass me...
326
00:27:23,229 --> 00:27:24,897
We're not there yet.
327
00:27:25,314 --> 00:27:26,858
Get changed!
328
00:27:26,941 --> 00:27:30,194
Marie! Her costume!
329
00:27:30,611 --> 00:27:32,572
Keep it going!
330
00:27:32,655 --> 00:27:33,990
Where's my part?
331
00:27:40,955 --> 00:27:42,456
You're the Forest Queen.
332
00:27:44,208 --> 00:27:45,710
Don't I say anything?
333
00:27:49,130 --> 00:27:50,673
You dance.
334
00:27:51,132 --> 00:27:52,842
You said I would act.
335
00:27:53,801 --> 00:27:56,262
-Don't blame me.
-What do you mean?
336
00:27:58,055 --> 00:28:01,058
Last night I was trying
to work on your speech.
337
00:28:01,142 --> 00:28:04,103
You kept me from writing all night long.
338
00:28:04,562 --> 00:28:06,355
Braggart!
339
00:28:07,481 --> 00:28:12,195
You fell asleep
before the action had barely begun.
340
00:28:12,695 --> 00:28:15,072
I've no time to prattle. Get changed.
341
00:28:15,948 --> 00:28:17,617
Only fishwives prattle!
342
00:28:18,826 --> 00:28:22,455
Lully will rehearse with you.
I'm busy with the prologue.
343
00:28:22,538 --> 00:28:24,498
From the beginning!
344
00:28:28,586 --> 00:28:30,504
I will not dance.
345
00:28:38,971 --> 00:28:40,556
Women!
346
00:29:01,744 --> 00:29:03,246
Pretty!
347
00:29:08,125 --> 00:29:10,253
Alas, I fear I drew a blank.
348
00:29:46,038 --> 00:29:47,498
Allow me.
349
00:29:50,668 --> 00:29:51,711
To do what?
350
00:29:51,794 --> 00:29:56,632
Offer you my hand and knee
to help you jump off the wall.
351
00:29:57,466 --> 00:29:59,510
Isn't that what you want?
352
00:30:00,177 --> 00:30:01,971
Take courage!
353
00:30:02,722 --> 00:30:06,726
Go on, jump! The pond is deep,
and you will drown, I swear.
354
00:30:20,823 --> 00:30:22,825
What do you want with me?
355
00:30:22,908 --> 00:30:25,036
I saw you dance the other night.
356
00:30:26,078 --> 00:30:27,872
Exactly.
357
00:30:28,247 --> 00:30:29,957
I am like you.
358
00:30:30,041 --> 00:30:31,459
You're a dancer?
359
00:30:33,377 --> 00:30:35,254
Like you, I need my talent...
360
00:30:36,881 --> 00:30:40,343
for I have no title, no family, no income.
361
00:30:41,385 --> 00:30:43,763
I am all that I have.
362
00:30:45,306 --> 00:30:48,434
It's no use complaining
that life is unfair.
363
00:30:48,517 --> 00:30:51,395
God created the poor and the rich,
364
00:30:51,479 --> 00:30:55,149
nobles and serfs, kings and slaves.
365
00:30:55,232 --> 00:30:56,984
Then I have no hope.
366
00:30:57,068 --> 00:30:58,694
You have!
367
00:31:00,404 --> 00:31:04,450
Just learn to smile
and be what people want you to be.
368
00:31:08,662 --> 00:31:11,207
Look at me. I have no choice.
369
00:31:11,290 --> 00:31:14,168
I dance in the hands of the mighty
370
00:31:14,251 --> 00:31:19,507
as you will dance for the King tonight
and bask in his radiance.
371
00:31:21,258 --> 00:31:23,010
Who are you, Monsieur?
372
00:31:40,694 --> 00:31:42,655
Why worry about a mere extra?
373
00:31:42,738 --> 00:31:44,281
They'll quarter me!
374
00:31:44,365 --> 00:31:46,033
I warned you.
375
00:31:47,868 --> 00:31:49,787
I've got it! Look!
376
00:31:49,870 --> 00:31:51,705
-I have the step!
-No you don't.
377
00:31:55,126 --> 00:31:56,669
If she dances, I won't play!
378
00:31:56,752 --> 00:31:57,795
Not you too!
379
00:32:01,924 --> 00:32:04,885
I've searched the gardens.
I can't find her.
380
00:32:04,969 --> 00:32:06,887
Couldn't you grant her wish?
381
00:32:06,971 --> 00:32:09,306
She angered me.
382
00:32:10,975 --> 00:32:14,145
You promised her.
Vows made in bed should be kept.
383
00:32:16,522 --> 00:32:18,566
You're telling me?
384
00:32:18,649 --> 00:32:23,696
Sleep with Marquise, but don't hurt her,
or you'll have me to reckon with.
385
00:32:24,738 --> 00:32:27,158
You dare to threaten me?
386
00:32:34,623 --> 00:32:37,418
You'll have us clapped in irons!
387
00:32:38,711 --> 00:32:43,007
I have only one thing to say.
I will act or die.
388
00:32:44,175 --> 00:32:48,012
I solemnly swear that you will act
but just for today, dance!
389
00:32:48,095 --> 00:32:50,097
Look out! The King!
390
00:32:50,514 --> 00:32:51,807
I am doomed!
391
00:32:54,185 --> 00:32:55,352
Marie! My costume!
392
00:32:56,979 --> 00:32:59,315
Go, go!
393
00:33:24,006 --> 00:33:25,716
It will be all right.
394
00:33:28,135 --> 00:33:30,471
Molière! I'm waiting.
395
00:33:33,349 --> 00:33:34,850
Music, maestro!
396
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,572
We're on! Let's go!
397
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:52,868
You're fine like that.
398
00:35:09,528 --> 00:35:11,155
We're saved.
399
00:35:12,615 --> 00:35:14,158
I'm afraid not, Monsieur.
400
00:35:14,241 --> 00:35:15,784
Don't bother me!
401
00:35:15,868 --> 00:35:17,870
You were in such haste...
402
00:35:18,787 --> 00:35:21,707
I didn't have time to put these on her.
403
00:35:24,543 --> 00:35:27,421
She's to do a cartwheel before the King!
404
00:35:43,270 --> 00:35:45,356
May as well go hang yourself.
405
00:36:36,031 --> 00:36:37,074
Your Majesty?
406
00:36:37,157 --> 00:36:39,243
Come here, Molière.
407
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,913
You have pleased us beyond measure.
408
00:36:45,416 --> 00:36:47,418
Where fools and prigs
409
00:36:47,501 --> 00:36:51,422
see only fantasy and make-believe,
410
00:36:51,505 --> 00:36:54,883
you have shown us that the theater
411
00:36:54,967 --> 00:36:57,886
is the fountainhead of life itself.
412
00:37:16,780 --> 00:37:18,657
Law is the art of good justice.
413
00:37:18,741 --> 00:37:20,242
I see good, but I do evil.
414
00:38:07,289 --> 00:38:09,333
Where is Mansart?
415
00:38:12,127 --> 00:38:15,714
Must I wait a century
before Versailles is finished?
416
00:38:16,715 --> 00:38:18,383
The frost, Your Majesty.
417
00:38:19,551 --> 00:38:22,095
It ruined all the plaster.
418
00:38:22,179 --> 00:38:24,306
Why wasn't it done last summer?
419
00:38:24,389 --> 00:38:26,600
-We were not ready.
-I am!
420
00:38:28,352 --> 00:38:30,521
Don't try my patience.
421
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:37,027
Molière! Come forward.
422
00:38:39,446 --> 00:38:40,489
Your Majesty?
423
00:38:42,157 --> 00:38:45,619
You must give up "Tartuffe",
this new play you're writing.
424
00:38:47,204 --> 00:38:50,791
I am informed it would offend the Church.
425
00:38:51,250 --> 00:38:52,543
But Your Majesty!
426
00:38:52,626 --> 00:38:56,547
When we read it to you, didn't you laugh
at the pious hypocrites I mock?
427
00:38:58,966 --> 00:39:03,345
True, but now the sun has gone in.
You must abandon it.
428
00:39:04,471 --> 00:39:07,975
Let me show Your Majesty the whole play,
just once.
429
00:39:08,851 --> 00:39:12,688
My duty is to the State.
It must not be upset by that play.
430
00:39:12,771 --> 00:39:18,068
Think up something new that will please
both the clergy and my court.
431
00:39:19,027 --> 00:39:22,322
Something new, Your Majesty? But how?
432
00:39:22,406 --> 00:39:26,827
Plays do not write themselves,
and we open in two days.
433
00:39:26,910 --> 00:39:28,996
Two days is short, I grant.
434
00:39:29,079 --> 00:39:31,665
God himself took six to make the world!
435
00:39:37,337 --> 00:39:39,214
Your Majesty,
436
00:39:39,298 --> 00:39:41,842
we could set "Tartuffe" in England.
437
00:39:41,925 --> 00:39:44,344
And start a war against me?
438
00:39:44,970 --> 00:39:46,889
Or in the colonies?
439
00:39:47,347 --> 00:39:51,310
No, no. No niggers and savages here!
440
00:39:51,393 --> 00:39:55,439
We could alter it to mock the Protestants,
couldn't we, Father?
441
00:39:55,939 --> 00:39:57,190
We'll see.
442
00:39:59,359 --> 00:40:02,237
Milady speaks highly of Monsieur Racine.
443
00:40:02,321 --> 00:40:05,157
You'll oblige me by staging his new play.
444
00:40:05,699 --> 00:40:07,618
"The Thebans", I believe.
445
00:40:08,827 --> 00:40:10,287
Is it a comedy?
446
00:40:11,496 --> 00:40:15,083
I don't know.
You'll see. I'll leave all that to you.
447
00:40:15,167 --> 00:40:18,295
Besides, with you,
we never know whether to laugh or cry.
448
00:40:24,718 --> 00:40:28,430
Good grief!
Would the King have us take the veil?
449
00:40:34,895 --> 00:40:38,023
If he wants.
A hanged man doesn't choose his rope.
450
00:40:40,067 --> 00:40:42,235
Having to act a play by a novice!
451
00:40:51,745 --> 00:40:52,955
Friends!
452
00:40:54,414 --> 00:40:57,918
This is Monsieur Racine,
author of "The Thebans"...
453
00:40:58,001 --> 00:40:59,002
Mind your head.
454
00:40:59,086 --> 00:41:02,297
...which the King
has kindly asked me to stage.
455
00:41:07,010 --> 00:41:08,428
A tragedy?
456
00:41:10,347 --> 00:41:12,224
Is that a question or a rebuke?
457
00:41:13,225 --> 00:41:15,268
Just wondering.
458
00:41:16,186 --> 00:41:18,105
It's a tragedy.
459
00:41:18,563 --> 00:41:21,566
Then it's a rebuke, but not to you.
460
00:41:23,610 --> 00:41:24,820
A rebuke to whom?
461
00:41:24,903 --> 00:41:26,405
Molière.
462
00:41:26,947 --> 00:41:30,492
By trying to help you
he's not helping you or us.
463
00:41:30,575 --> 00:41:34,121
He'll have us back
playing muddy villages again.
464
00:41:35,622 --> 00:41:39,960
You know that none of us here
are capable of playing tragedy.
465
00:41:40,043 --> 00:41:42,254
It's a good play, René.
466
00:41:44,089 --> 00:41:45,966
Our business is laughter.
467
00:41:46,049 --> 00:41:50,595
I'm afraid this tragedy will become
a farce in our clumsy hands
468
00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:53,640
and a windfall for baked-apple vendors.
469
00:41:58,395 --> 00:42:01,356
Is there a part for me in your play?
470
00:42:03,150 --> 00:42:05,819
I would delight
to hear you speak my words.
471
00:42:08,655 --> 00:42:10,866
Are you not forewarned against me?
472
00:42:10,949 --> 00:42:13,160
On what grounds?
473
00:42:14,786 --> 00:42:17,164
I've never played a tragic role.
474
00:42:22,377 --> 00:42:23,920
Pardon my presumption, but...
475
00:42:24,796 --> 00:42:26,339
I believe you have.
476
00:42:27,257 --> 00:42:29,176
Ladies, gentlemen.
477
00:42:46,151 --> 00:42:50,405
Charles, you'll be Polynice.
Not my ideal brother, but still...
478
00:42:50,489 --> 00:42:52,240
Gorgibus,
479
00:42:52,324 --> 00:42:55,452
you'll play Eteocle,
the old king of Thebes.
480
00:42:55,535 --> 00:42:58,914
Given his age,
I don't see who else can do it.
481
00:42:58,997 --> 00:43:01,083
Now... Brécourt
482
00:43:01,166 --> 00:43:04,544
will be Hemon,
son of Creon and Antigone's lover.
483
00:43:10,133 --> 00:43:12,094
As for the ladies...
484
00:43:15,013 --> 00:43:17,140
Madeleine will play Jocaste,
485
00:43:17,933 --> 00:43:20,852
Genevieve plays Olympe,
Jocaste's confidante
486
00:43:20,936 --> 00:43:22,896
and Catherine is Antigone.
487
00:43:22,979 --> 00:43:24,272
All right?
488
00:43:25,565 --> 00:43:29,444
Ridiculous! Antigone's role
is much subtler than Jocaste's.
489
00:43:29,528 --> 00:43:31,571
I've always played the hardest parts.
490
00:43:32,697 --> 00:43:36,993
Madeleine, even in olden days
mothers were born before their daughters.
491
00:43:37,828 --> 00:43:40,288
We'll have Marquise as Antigone next!
492
00:43:41,414 --> 00:43:43,291
And why not?
493
00:43:43,375 --> 00:43:46,253
I've read the play. Antigone is for me.
494
00:43:47,254 --> 00:43:49,965
I'm the right age. I have the looks.
495
00:43:51,174 --> 00:43:53,593
Madeleine could easily be my mother.
496
00:43:53,677 --> 00:43:56,930
You'd make a good servant
without even acting
497
00:43:57,013 --> 00:43:59,182
and Genevieve can be the maid.
498
00:43:59,266 --> 00:44:02,018
I'll play your lover but not your partner!
499
00:44:02,102 --> 00:44:04,688
Don't worry, Brécourt.
You'll never be either.
500
00:44:05,522 --> 00:44:08,483
To be my lover, you'd have
to bend it double for thickness
501
00:44:08,567 --> 00:44:12,737
and as for partners,
I'd rather act with that wooden chair.
502
00:44:14,614 --> 00:44:16,366
Then I give up!
503
00:44:16,449 --> 00:44:18,952
Let René try his luck. She's his wife.
504
00:44:22,789 --> 00:44:25,125
You want me to play the mother?
505
00:44:25,208 --> 00:44:26,626
Why not?
506
00:44:26,710 --> 00:44:27,878
And me the servant?
507
00:44:27,961 --> 00:44:30,714
And I'm to empty buckets!
508
00:44:31,464 --> 00:44:34,676
Agreed! Now shall we begin?
509
00:44:36,636 --> 00:44:38,597
After I kill you!
510
00:44:53,486 --> 00:44:57,449
Enough, women!
Do you keep your brains between your legs?
511
00:44:58,909 --> 00:45:01,703
I am a mother, Creon.
512
00:45:02,120 --> 00:45:08,251
His brother has my heart
but I love the King in no lesser part.
513
00:45:09,169 --> 00:45:13,506
Craven courtiers may hate him but I,
514
00:45:13,590 --> 00:45:17,761
as a mother, cannot my instincts belie.
515
00:45:18,261 --> 00:45:20,972
Your interests with ours run true.
516
00:45:21,806 --> 00:45:25,018
The King's foes
are not all hostile to you.
517
00:45:25,435 --> 00:45:27,437
Creon, you're a father
518
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:29,564
and of those foes, one...
519
00:45:33,652 --> 00:45:38,740
Creon,
you're a father and of those foes, one...
520
00:45:38,823 --> 00:45:39,658
Creon,
521
00:45:40,367 --> 00:45:42,577
you're a father and of those foes, one
522
00:45:42,661 --> 00:45:45,413
perhaps you imagine to be your son.
523
00:45:45,497 --> 00:45:49,459
We all know how valiantly
Hemon serves Polynice.
524
00:45:54,631 --> 00:45:59,552
I know it, madam, and I do him justice.
525
00:45:59,636 --> 00:46:03,348
I grant that he is no common man
526
00:46:03,431 --> 00:46:07,602
and I hate him uncommonly
as none other can.
527
00:46:08,436 --> 00:46:10,063
I wish, in my anger
528
00:46:10,146 --> 00:46:11,898
righteous and true
529
00:46:11,982 --> 00:46:15,610
that as my son hates me,
all should hate him too!
530
00:46:21,283 --> 00:46:23,535
The play isn't over yet!
531
00:46:24,869 --> 00:46:26,371
She'll kill you.
532
00:46:26,454 --> 00:46:28,081
I was only helping her.
533
00:46:28,164 --> 00:46:29,958
Don't act so naive.
534
00:46:34,254 --> 00:46:37,632
Get rid of Marquise or I quit!
535
00:46:37,716 --> 00:46:40,552
I'll tear her apart and save us time!
536
00:46:47,309 --> 00:46:49,728
Where's she hiding?
537
00:46:49,811 --> 00:46:52,939
I'll rip her tongue out!
538
00:46:54,858 --> 00:46:58,111
She's hiding! Curse the little trollop!
539
00:46:58,194 --> 00:47:00,780
She's not here. Follow me!
540
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:09,581
I want to hear your heart flutter
as lightly as an eyelash.
541
00:47:10,665 --> 00:47:13,501
It must come, not from here but from here!
542
00:47:14,502 --> 00:47:16,129
Repeat after me:
543
00:47:16,212 --> 00:47:21,343
"Hemon, see how love o'ercomes me.
I cannot live except for thee."
544
00:47:21,426 --> 00:47:22,886
Let go of me first.
545
00:47:22,969 --> 00:47:24,596
-Go on!
-I refuse!
546
00:47:24,679 --> 00:47:27,557
Say it! The other day, by the pond,
547
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:30,810
your heart needed no prompting to speak.
548
00:47:35,565 --> 00:47:37,025
"Hemon,
549
00:47:37,108 --> 00:47:39,694
see how love o'ercomes me.
550
00:47:39,778 --> 00:47:42,155
I cannot live...
551
00:47:43,698 --> 00:47:45,909
except for thee."
552
00:47:45,992 --> 00:47:49,204
Don't explain the words. Suffer them!
553
00:47:52,332 --> 00:47:53,541
"Yes...
554
00:47:54,834 --> 00:47:57,712
love, you hold my fleeing soul.
555
00:47:59,005 --> 00:48:01,758
I hear the voice of my vanquisher.
556
00:48:03,301 --> 00:48:05,970
My heart has lost all hope,
557
00:48:06,763 --> 00:48:11,017
yet you are alive, and bid me also live."
558
00:48:54,310 --> 00:48:56,146
I am among friends here.
559
00:48:56,229 --> 00:48:58,231
Come.
560
00:49:11,411 --> 00:49:14,372
Monsieur Racine almost became a lawyer.
561
00:49:14,456 --> 00:49:16,416
I'd gladly file suit with him!
562
00:49:16,499 --> 00:49:19,419
Mademoiselle de Ruy! Restrain yourself.
563
00:49:19,502 --> 00:49:21,963
You are here at my request.
564
00:49:22,046 --> 00:49:24,883
Milord wages a war of courtesies
565
00:49:24,966 --> 00:49:29,304
while I marshal an army of damsels
to serve the King.
566
00:49:31,806 --> 00:49:35,477
-Do you take me for La Fontaine?
-Why?
567
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:38,313
I feel like a fox in a henhouse.
568
00:49:38,396 --> 00:49:41,191
Beware lest the hens devour you!
569
00:49:45,862 --> 00:49:48,740
I want to see you here often.
570
00:49:48,823 --> 00:49:53,745
In the royal theater, the best scenes
are often played in the wings.
571
00:49:54,162 --> 00:49:57,624
How ugly she is
with her big mouth and small eyes.
572
00:49:57,707 --> 00:49:59,959
And thick-witted, with such a low brow.
573
00:50:00,043 --> 00:50:02,253
Doesn't she smell of the farmyard?
574
00:50:02,337 --> 00:50:04,881
She stinks of vulgarity, in any case.
575
00:50:04,964 --> 00:50:08,176
Apparently she showed her backside
to the King!
576
00:50:08,259 --> 00:50:09,511
How appalling!
577
00:50:12,639 --> 00:50:15,892
Allow me to introduce
Widow Catherine Deshayes,
578
00:50:15,975 --> 00:50:19,854
an expert in powders of dispatch,
579
00:50:19,938 --> 00:50:23,107
lethal brews,
needles and other instruments,
580
00:50:23,191 --> 00:50:24,567
devil-worship...
581
00:50:24,651 --> 00:50:25,985
Is that a condemnation?
582
00:50:26,069 --> 00:50:28,613
No, it's my vocation.
583
00:50:28,696 --> 00:50:30,865
-All without risk?
-I guarantee it.
584
00:50:30,949 --> 00:50:33,952
The best shield against poison
is to have your own poisoner.
585
00:50:36,120 --> 00:50:37,956
Follow me, Monsieur.
586
00:50:39,207 --> 00:50:40,959
My name's Elizabeth.
587
00:50:41,042 --> 00:50:43,503
-A game of backgammon?
-No thank you.
588
00:50:43,586 --> 00:50:45,463
What will you give us?
589
00:50:45,547 --> 00:50:47,924
A few lines from "Andromaque".
590
00:50:53,721 --> 00:50:55,181
"Do you seek me, Madame?
591
00:50:55,265 --> 00:50:57,767
May I cherish the hope?"
592
00:50:57,850 --> 00:51:00,228
She's mad to show her to the Queen!
593
00:51:01,020 --> 00:51:04,983
"Judging by their alarm, the Greeks..."
594
00:51:05,066 --> 00:51:06,568
Ladies, the Queen!
595
00:51:42,270 --> 00:51:44,272
Who is this new person?
596
00:51:44,355 --> 00:51:47,400
Mademoiselle Du Parc, at your service.
597
00:51:48,818 --> 00:51:51,654
So you are the one the King told me about.
598
00:51:58,745 --> 00:52:01,164
Now I understand why
599
00:52:01,247 --> 00:52:05,335
he graced me with his attentions
twice last night.
600
00:52:05,918 --> 00:52:09,839
You were upon his mind
while he was upon me.
601
00:52:35,239 --> 00:52:36,866
Serves her right.
602
00:52:41,371 --> 00:52:42,622
Your Majesty.
603
00:52:51,464 --> 00:52:53,091
Would you have us jailed?
604
00:52:53,174 --> 00:52:55,593
They were sizing me up like a heifer!
605
00:52:56,386 --> 00:52:59,806
Are you going to spend your life
waiting for a role?
606
00:52:59,889 --> 00:53:04,060
Are you going to spend yours
currying favor with Milady?
607
00:53:04,143 --> 00:53:07,438
Milady and her court
appreciate good poetry.
608
00:53:07,522 --> 00:53:11,901
Poetry? Is that a Parisian word
for leading the bull to the cow?
609
00:53:15,947 --> 00:53:19,033
I have no talent, only charms. Look at me.
610
00:53:19,659 --> 00:53:21,828
Don't be so childish!
611
00:53:22,328 --> 00:53:24,831
Come to my house tomorrow.
612
00:53:25,707 --> 00:53:27,250
Your house?
613
00:53:28,376 --> 00:53:30,044
We'll rehearse.
614
00:53:32,547 --> 00:53:36,259
Don't forget.
Your Andromaque is a widow but I'm not.
615
00:54:02,034 --> 00:54:04,203
I haven't slept.
616
00:54:04,287 --> 00:54:05,913
Nor have I.
617
00:54:05,997 --> 00:54:07,457
Come in.
618
00:54:13,504 --> 00:54:15,339
Pardon my state of dress.
619
00:54:15,882 --> 00:54:17,300
Come.
620
00:54:22,597 --> 00:54:24,849
Come in, sit down.
621
00:54:27,310 --> 00:54:29,645
Have you finished your play?
622
00:54:29,729 --> 00:54:31,355
Not yet.
623
00:54:33,649 --> 00:54:35,151
I'm not sure it's worth it.
624
00:54:38,654 --> 00:54:42,241
One moment I read my words
and they seem like pearls.
625
00:54:42,325 --> 00:54:46,287
The next, I feel that not even
swine would swallow them.
626
00:54:47,830 --> 00:54:51,334
I'm no good at words.
I had too little schooling
627
00:54:51,417 --> 00:54:54,462
but I trust you and commit myself to you...
628
00:54:55,505 --> 00:54:56,881
by instinct.
629
00:55:09,018 --> 00:55:12,104
"Ah! Stay, my lord. What would you do?
630
00:55:12,188 --> 00:55:15,483
If you yield up the son,
yield up the mother too."
631
00:55:15,566 --> 00:55:18,402
"Phoenix will vouch that I gave my word."
632
00:55:19,987 --> 00:55:23,407
"What shall I say? What words are my lot?
633
00:55:23,950 --> 00:55:27,161
Source of my woes,
prince who knows them not,
634
00:55:27,245 --> 00:55:30,456
Sire,
see the state to which you reduce me..."
635
00:55:34,585 --> 00:55:35,837
I didn't write that.
636
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,673
You didn't? It sprang to my lips.
637
00:55:39,590 --> 00:55:41,092
You'd rewrite my play?
638
00:55:41,175 --> 00:55:43,803
Her words are mine, her voice is yours.
639
00:55:43,886 --> 00:55:47,557
It's out of the question.
I won't allow it.
640
00:55:48,766 --> 00:55:50,977
Molière could teach you humility.
641
00:55:51,060 --> 00:55:53,104
A pox on Molière!
642
00:55:53,980 --> 00:55:58,609
Gros-René has often invented lines
on stage, which Molière kept
643
00:55:58,693 --> 00:56:02,238
as a precious token of their friendship.
644
00:56:03,781 --> 00:56:06,075
Is that how I should take your lines?
645
00:56:06,158 --> 00:56:10,162
"Sire, what shall I say?"
646
00:56:11,163 --> 00:56:12,957
That you are mine alone.
647
00:56:13,040 --> 00:56:16,210
"Source of my woes,
prince who knows them not..."
648
00:56:16,294 --> 00:56:20,673
I know everything. I'd die for you.
649
00:56:22,758 --> 00:56:25,386
"See the state to which you reduce me."
650
00:56:25,887 --> 00:56:28,431
No, not yet.
651
00:56:28,514 --> 00:56:30,391
Don't refuse. You have no right.
652
00:56:31,893 --> 00:56:35,229
Finish the play and I will be yours.
653
00:56:36,105 --> 00:56:39,150
Don't torture me. I love you.
654
00:56:39,233 --> 00:56:42,570
I love you too.
But I wouldn't want our embraces
655
00:56:42,653 --> 00:56:45,740
to leave your page as white as a bedsheet.
656
00:56:59,420 --> 00:57:01,255
What ails you, dearest?
657
00:57:01,339 --> 00:57:04,091
A pain that gnaws at my heart.
658
00:57:04,175 --> 00:57:06,302
Am I the cause?
659
00:57:06,385 --> 00:57:07,595
No, my love.
660
00:57:07,678 --> 00:57:11,599
I don't mind what you do or who with
as long as you love me.
661
00:57:11,682 --> 00:57:14,185
Nothing will come between us.
662
00:57:18,314 --> 00:57:20,441
Not even Monsieur Racine?
663
00:57:23,736 --> 00:57:25,529
Won't you answer?
664
00:57:25,988 --> 00:57:27,865
I'm afraid.
665
00:57:28,407 --> 00:57:29,825
Of him?
666
00:57:29,909 --> 00:57:31,786
I'm afraid of myself.
667
00:57:32,370 --> 00:57:34,163
Do you love him?
668
00:57:35,665 --> 00:57:40,503
"I am no ogre on the prowl
ever returning home to growl!
669
00:57:40,586 --> 00:57:44,548
Nor an arrant, brutal fool
who seeks his wife to rule!"
670
00:57:46,592 --> 00:57:48,094
I love you, my giant.
671
00:57:48,177 --> 00:57:51,931
No man is half the man you are,
in heart, soul or body.
672
00:57:52,014 --> 00:57:54,350
Ah, my wench!
673
00:58:01,357 --> 00:58:03,776
"... As my son hates me..."
674
00:58:07,488 --> 00:58:09,865
Lean back! That's it.
675
00:58:12,159 --> 00:58:15,121
"... All should hate him too!"
676
00:58:15,204 --> 00:58:17,373
Stop this at once!
677
00:58:20,918 --> 00:58:23,254
Are you drunk to interrupt us thus?
678
00:58:23,337 --> 00:58:26,590
Molière, I put no dancing in my "Thebans"!
679
00:58:26,674 --> 00:58:27,550
Use your buffoon
680
00:58:27,633 --> 00:58:30,928
to weigh down your farces,
not my tragedies!
681
00:58:31,012 --> 00:58:34,473
Your "Thebans"
made barely a pound last week.
682
00:58:34,557 --> 00:58:38,144
You should thank René and Marquise
for doubling the take.
683
00:58:38,227 --> 00:58:41,647
You too, no doubt,
for penning a popular version!
684
00:58:42,523 --> 00:58:46,819
Yes, Monsieur!
When Molière plays, people applaud.
685
00:58:46,902 --> 00:58:49,280
With Racine, they yawn and get bored!
686
00:58:49,363 --> 00:58:54,535
More likely you're afraid
the King will think me better than you.
687
00:58:54,618 --> 00:58:57,163
Ambition blinds you, young man!
688
00:58:57,246 --> 00:58:59,248
I'm trying to save your tragedy.
689
00:58:59,331 --> 00:59:02,043
Again! 7, 8... 1!
690
00:59:02,126 --> 00:59:06,297
Save it? By debasing my verse
and Marquise's talent?
691
00:59:06,380 --> 00:59:09,467
Do you judge an actress's talent
by her hips
692
00:59:09,550 --> 00:59:12,219
and the way she thrusts them at you?
693
00:59:13,095 --> 00:59:16,432
You don't deserve my play. I take it back.
694
00:59:16,807 --> 00:59:19,310
And I throw it back!
695
00:59:19,393 --> 00:59:21,479
I vomit it back at you!
696
00:59:32,531 --> 00:59:35,159
I've come to lay Andromaque in your hands...
697
00:59:36,827 --> 00:59:38,162
and my soul at your feet.
698
00:59:39,747 --> 00:59:42,083
The ink is still wet.
699
00:59:42,166 --> 00:59:44,502
I've waited so long for this!
700
00:59:44,585 --> 00:59:46,670
Floridor is ready to stage it.
701
00:59:49,799 --> 00:59:51,175
Is the part still mine?
702
00:59:52,551 --> 00:59:54,220
Is the baby yours?
703
00:59:54,720 --> 01:00:00,309
No, Molière and Armande's. She's thrilled.
Duc de Créqui is to be godfather!
704
01:00:01,143 --> 01:00:03,437
-Will you be godmother?
-Not me.
705
01:00:03,521 --> 01:00:05,481
Princesse d'Orléans, no less!
706
01:00:06,148 --> 01:00:07,691
By Jove!
707
01:00:08,609 --> 01:00:11,362
I added some orange water
to help him sleep.
708
01:00:18,786 --> 01:00:22,581
Go on, be off!
If Molière sees you, he'll kill you.
709
01:00:41,392 --> 01:00:42,518
I am Molière's man.
710
01:00:42,601 --> 01:00:44,270
I won't desert him.
711
01:00:44,353 --> 01:00:47,064
-You're too loyal.
-You're ungrateful.
712
01:00:47,148 --> 01:00:51,944
I owe him nothing.
To him I'm just a dancer, a mistress.
713
01:00:52,027 --> 01:00:54,488
He only takes. He never gives.
714
01:00:57,825 --> 01:00:59,160
And me?
715
01:00:59,243 --> 01:01:02,663
What would I do in "Andromaque",
supposing I broke my word?
716
01:01:03,038 --> 01:01:05,291
-Pyrrhus.
-Don't make fun of me.
717
01:01:05,374 --> 01:01:08,627
-It's a big part.
-Whoever wants it can have it.
718
01:01:08,711 --> 01:01:12,464
-Won't you even read it?
-I do no big parts, only fat ones.
719
01:01:21,140 --> 01:01:23,392
Rehearsals start tomorrow.
720
01:01:23,475 --> 01:01:25,227
If all goes well,
721
01:01:25,311 --> 01:01:29,356
in three weeks, the King
and all of Paris will applaud you.
722
01:01:29,440 --> 01:01:31,525
All France will know your name.
723
01:01:31,609 --> 01:01:33,736
Yours, you mean.
724
01:01:33,819 --> 01:01:35,571
The same thing, as you will be mine.
725
01:01:42,453 --> 01:01:44,663
The candlelight bothers me.
726
01:01:50,377 --> 01:01:51,420
Is that better?
727
01:01:55,090 --> 01:01:57,218
I can't leave Molière.
728
01:01:59,345 --> 01:02:00,262
I'll talk to the King.
729
01:02:00,346 --> 01:02:03,057
It's not Molière. It's Gros-René.
730
01:02:04,141 --> 01:02:05,935
Where does he come into it?
731
01:02:07,061 --> 01:02:09,063
He's my husband, remember.
732
01:02:09,146 --> 01:02:11,315
Since when do husbands interfere?
733
01:02:13,359 --> 01:02:17,238
You offered me Andromaque.
Now take me, as I promised.
734
01:02:19,073 --> 01:02:20,866
Get dressed.
735
01:02:21,742 --> 01:02:24,328
Have you lost your mind?
736
01:02:24,411 --> 01:02:27,539
No, it's saving me
from the lures of my senses.
737
01:02:36,173 --> 01:02:38,300
You'll be mine when you're Andromaque.
738
01:02:38,384 --> 01:02:41,387
I'll burn my play
before I give her to another.
739
01:02:41,470 --> 01:02:42,680
I love you.
740
01:02:43,097 --> 01:02:44,181
I'll wait.
741
01:03:14,169 --> 01:03:15,796
Are you praying, Madame?
742
01:03:17,214 --> 01:03:18,757
I'm pissing.
743
01:03:19,258 --> 01:03:21,093
In church?
744
01:03:21,927 --> 01:03:25,848
You're almost an hour late
and charity inspires me
745
01:03:25,931 --> 01:03:29,685
to share what God so generously
put in my bladder.
746
01:03:34,857 --> 01:03:37,901
The problem is the lady loves her husband.
747
01:03:40,863 --> 01:03:45,534
The delicate problem you mentioned
is actually child's play.
748
01:03:47,036 --> 01:03:49,496
I have some chocolates here.
749
01:03:49,580 --> 01:03:52,750
If they don't work I'll make more,
free of charge,
750
01:03:52,833 --> 01:03:55,753
until your wishes are fulfilled.
751
01:04:02,843 --> 01:04:04,136
And if they work?
752
01:04:04,219 --> 01:04:06,555
You pay me a share of your royalties.
753
01:04:06,638 --> 01:04:10,934
I'm told you'll soon be greater
than Corneille and Molière combined.
754
01:04:30,871 --> 01:04:32,623
I despaired of seeing you.
755
01:04:33,582 --> 01:04:35,709
I've been thinking since that night.
756
01:04:38,045 --> 01:04:39,963
What is that?
757
01:04:40,923 --> 01:04:42,257
Some chocolates.
758
01:04:43,801 --> 01:04:47,513
Let Milady and her maids enjoy them.
You can't bribe me.
759
01:04:47,596 --> 01:04:50,265
-They're not for you.
-Not for me?
760
01:04:51,725 --> 01:04:53,352
They're for Gros-René.
761
01:04:56,188 --> 01:04:58,732
You think you can buy him with sweets?
762
01:04:59,650 --> 01:05:03,904
No. I hoped to present my respects
and say with this modest gift
763
01:05:03,987 --> 01:05:07,533
how much I admire his loyalty to Molière.
764
01:05:07,616 --> 01:05:09,159
Never mind Andromaque.
765
01:05:09,243 --> 01:05:14,081
It's not every day that a playwright
can salute an actor's honesty.
766
01:05:14,164 --> 01:05:15,999
Molière should stage it.
767
01:05:17,876 --> 01:05:21,547
Floridor only wants money.
Molière squanders it,
768
01:05:21,630 --> 01:05:25,175
but beneath his mask
he knows about the agonies of love.
769
01:05:28,095 --> 01:05:29,388
May I see Gros-René?
770
01:05:29,471 --> 01:05:31,932
Alas, no. He took ill last night.
771
01:05:34,268 --> 01:05:36,186
He's very sick.
772
01:05:36,270 --> 01:05:38,313
Does it happen often?
773
01:05:38,397 --> 01:05:40,107
Never before, thank God.
774
01:05:41,316 --> 01:05:42,943
Did he overeat?
775
01:05:43,026 --> 01:05:44,903
He won't even touch food.
776
01:05:47,781 --> 01:05:48,949
Give me those.
777
01:05:57,583 --> 01:05:59,710
I want to talk to you alone.
778
01:06:18,479 --> 01:06:20,898
You love Marquise, don't you?
779
01:06:24,151 --> 01:06:25,694
I cannot...
780
01:06:26,945 --> 01:06:29,031
"I cannot"?
781
01:06:29,114 --> 01:06:33,327
Three meager syllables.
One quarter of a hexameter.
782
01:06:34,411 --> 01:06:37,289
Make it up to a third. Do you love her?
783
01:06:38,957 --> 01:06:40,542
Yes.
784
01:06:47,966 --> 01:06:50,469
Then I entrust her to you.
785
01:06:50,552 --> 01:06:54,473
But first,
swear to me you'll never do her wrong.
786
01:06:54,890 --> 01:06:56,517
Never.
787
01:06:56,600 --> 01:06:58,560
She is so fragile.
788
01:07:00,145 --> 01:07:01,146
She will love you.
789
01:07:02,898 --> 01:07:05,025
She denies it, but she will.
790
01:07:06,193 --> 01:07:08,570
Don't hurt her. Swear it.
791
01:07:09,488 --> 01:07:11,031
Swear it!
792
01:07:14,076 --> 01:07:15,410
I swear.
793
01:07:20,624 --> 01:07:22,501
Let us scrutinize
794
01:07:23,210 --> 01:07:26,630
the humors first, before we proceed
795
01:07:26,713 --> 01:07:31,260
to take the measure of the hard and soft.
796
01:07:34,012 --> 01:07:38,475
I agree we should apply
our noses to the task.
797
01:07:48,735 --> 01:07:52,489
But not our fingers.
I suggest we let blood.
798
01:07:54,157 --> 01:07:57,744
Then let us apply leeches
to the prominent parts.
799
01:07:57,828 --> 01:07:58,870
I'm dying!
800
01:07:58,954 --> 01:08:00,956
Indeed, Monsieur.
801
01:08:02,082 --> 01:08:05,711
Leeches, glasses, incisions,
802
01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:08,213
ten liters of enema...
803
01:08:08,714 --> 01:08:10,340
I'm dying.
804
01:08:11,883 --> 01:08:13,218
Gros-René...
805
01:08:13,302 --> 01:08:15,429
Call a doctor, quick!
806
01:08:23,645 --> 01:08:25,105
-I'm dying.
-No.
807
01:08:25,188 --> 01:08:27,399
No, my love. Don't die.
808
01:08:28,066 --> 01:08:29,985
Don't do that to me.
809
01:08:33,238 --> 01:08:34,948
Don't leave me.
810
01:08:46,835 --> 01:08:48,503
He's dead.
811
01:08:55,886 --> 01:08:58,847
Speak up! We can't hear you!
812
01:08:58,930 --> 01:09:01,141
He says he's dead!
813
01:09:07,731 --> 01:09:10,275
Medicine killed him!
814
01:09:26,166 --> 01:09:28,335
Out! Get out of my room.
815
01:09:28,418 --> 01:09:31,046
Molière has set aside a role for you.
816
01:09:31,129 --> 01:09:33,924
What kind of role would he give me?
817
01:09:34,007 --> 01:09:36,218
He's never believed in me.
818
01:09:37,052 --> 01:09:39,888
Racine declares you'll be Andromaque.
819
01:09:39,971 --> 01:09:44,267
He says it to console me.
Even if I wanted to, I couldn't.
820
01:09:44,351 --> 01:09:45,852
Why not?
821
01:09:45,936 --> 01:09:48,271
I'm tied to Molière's company.
822
01:09:48,355 --> 01:09:50,857
Racine has obtained your release.
823
01:09:50,941 --> 01:09:53,360
The role of Andromaque awaits you!
824
01:09:53,443 --> 01:09:55,946
So much kindness, all for nothing.
825
01:09:56,488 --> 01:09:58,031
Bestir yourself, Madame...
826
01:10:00,867 --> 01:10:03,370
before you're dried up and unwanted.
827
01:10:04,538 --> 01:10:05,622
And forget René?
828
01:10:06,748 --> 01:10:07,749
Not forget him...
829
01:10:08,875 --> 01:10:10,919
just replace him.
830
01:10:12,546 --> 01:10:14,548
You have a heart of stone.
831
01:10:14,631 --> 01:10:18,552
If I were begged, as you are,
I'd know where to find love.
832
01:10:20,220 --> 01:10:24,266
Go on! What are you waiting for?
Take the role yourself!
833
01:10:31,732 --> 01:10:34,067
Whether your grief is real or feigned...
834
01:10:35,485 --> 01:10:38,655
it won't bring Gros-René back to life.
835
01:10:38,739 --> 01:10:41,825
Do it for him, if not for yourself.
836
01:10:41,908 --> 01:10:42,951
For him?
837
01:10:43,034 --> 01:10:46,663
To be sure!
Whenever Marquise appears on stage
838
01:10:46,747 --> 01:10:49,458
the name of Du Parc will be applauded.
839
01:10:55,964 --> 01:10:58,592
How I love you for thinking of that!
840
01:11:01,261 --> 01:11:04,473
Stay, my lord! What would you do?
841
01:11:04,973 --> 01:11:08,226
If you yield up the son,
yield up the mother too.
842
01:11:08,310 --> 01:11:11,062
Just now, you vowed me such amity...
843
01:11:11,146 --> 01:11:14,149
No, no, no! For pity's sake, Marquise!
844
01:11:14,232 --> 01:11:18,779
We're not on the Pont Neuf,
playing to the vulgar masses.
845
01:11:19,362 --> 01:11:22,657
Give it style, forsooth! Grandeur!
846
01:11:22,741 --> 01:11:24,159
Art!
847
01:11:25,035 --> 01:11:26,912
Let's go on.
848
01:11:26,995 --> 01:11:30,874
Lord! Can I not now appeal to your pity?
849
01:11:31,249 --> 01:11:33,668
Is he doomed? Will my plea be unheard?
850
01:11:33,752 --> 01:11:37,339
Phoenix will vouch that I gave my word.
851
01:11:38,340 --> 01:11:41,551
You, who once braved every peril for me...
852
01:11:41,635 --> 01:11:43,261
Then I was blind.
853
01:11:43,970 --> 01:11:46,139
Now I can see.
854
01:11:46,223 --> 01:11:49,684
You could have saved him from his fate,
855
01:11:49,768 --> 01:11:53,146
had you but asked. Now 'tis too late.
856
01:11:54,189 --> 01:11:55,607
The die is cast.
857
01:11:56,942 --> 01:11:58,610
My lord,
858
01:11:59,319 --> 01:12:01,613
you heard how I sighed
859
01:12:01,696 --> 01:12:04,699
for fear that my request would be denied.
860
01:12:06,952 --> 01:12:09,329
One question, Marquise.
861
01:12:10,205 --> 01:12:12,833
Is this how you plan to act?
862
01:12:12,916 --> 01:12:14,084
Yes. Why?
863
01:12:16,753 --> 01:12:19,214
Perhaps I misread you. Forgive me.
864
01:12:19,297 --> 01:12:22,759
Is this poetry
or a woman's words scribbled in haste?
865
01:12:22,843 --> 01:12:24,594
You are jesting.
866
01:12:24,678 --> 01:12:28,473
No, just wondering.
Are we to play for the mob?
867
01:12:28,557 --> 01:12:31,935
Play it so the Court
will hail and adore us.
868
01:12:32,769 --> 01:12:34,980
If Marquise plays it her way
869
01:12:35,063 --> 01:12:38,191
they won't hail and adore us,
they'll ignore us.
870
01:12:38,275 --> 01:12:41,611
Can't you tell great Floridor,
as you told me,
871
01:12:41,695 --> 01:12:44,281
"Don't act the words, suffer them"?
872
01:12:44,781 --> 01:12:49,202
For heaven's sake,
let Monsieur Floridor act as he sees fit.
873
01:12:49,286 --> 01:12:51,121
He's not fit, he's deaf
874
01:12:51,204 --> 01:12:54,624
so he shouts and sprays me with spittle!
875
01:12:55,458 --> 01:12:59,462
Crowned heads have been content,
in the heat of the moment,
876
01:12:59,546 --> 01:13:01,590
to bathe in my glory.
877
01:13:05,844 --> 01:13:09,014
Count your blessings.
You'll act for the King
878
01:13:09,097 --> 01:13:11,224
with the greatest thespian alive.
879
01:13:11,308 --> 01:13:15,478
You ridiculed Molière for less
when we played your "Thebans".
880
01:13:16,229 --> 01:13:18,106
Molière is a mere comedian.
881
01:13:18,189 --> 01:13:22,152
Here, Madame, we are performing tragedy.
882
01:13:22,235 --> 01:13:27,282
Floridor is right.
I bow to his wisdom and so should you.
883
01:13:27,365 --> 01:13:30,535
You shouldn't betray yourself
to win favor.
884
01:13:30,619 --> 01:13:34,039
Do as he says.
If you can't respect him, do it for me.
885
01:13:34,831 --> 01:13:39,169
It's not easy to die of love
for a senile, impotent old fogy!
886
01:13:40,378 --> 01:13:41,630
Do you mean me?
887
01:13:42,923 --> 01:13:44,466
He admits it!
888
01:13:44,549 --> 01:13:48,678
I'm glad to see you still possess
a grain of mental lucidity.
889
01:13:49,596 --> 01:13:55,101
Enough to perceive that your mouth
is better at taking than giving!
890
01:14:00,273 --> 01:14:01,149
She's mad.
891
01:14:14,704 --> 01:14:17,165
Monsieur Racine, it's past noon.
892
01:14:18,166 --> 01:14:19,834
Come in.
893
01:14:21,419 --> 01:14:25,590
-Take it away. We're not hungry.
-You've had nothing for two days.
894
01:14:25,674 --> 01:14:27,592
I'm starving!
895
01:14:36,101 --> 01:14:37,936
I can hear your heart.
896
01:14:38,019 --> 01:14:39,396
What is it saying?
897
01:14:39,479 --> 01:14:40,647
It's saying
898
01:14:41,356 --> 01:14:43,483
I love you...
899
01:14:44,859 --> 01:14:46,903
and you love me.
900
01:14:46,987 --> 01:14:48,613
Be quiet.
901
01:14:49,948 --> 01:14:51,616
Isn't it saying that?
902
01:14:51,700 --> 01:14:53,118
Yes, but...
903
01:14:54,869 --> 01:14:56,413
-But what?
-I'm hot.
904
01:14:58,415 --> 01:14:59,916
You're lying.
905
01:15:01,001 --> 01:15:03,628
Didn't we swear to share everything?
906
01:15:04,129 --> 01:15:06,423
To keep no secrets from each other?
907
01:15:06,965 --> 01:15:08,925
I don't want to hurt you.
908
01:15:10,427 --> 01:15:13,763
Who can hurt a dead man?
You have slain me.
909
01:15:16,349 --> 01:15:19,269
You may have mastered
the secrets of the soul
910
01:15:20,186 --> 01:15:24,024
but women have depths
that you have yet to fathom.
911
01:15:24,733 --> 01:15:26,234
Such as?
912
01:15:26,985 --> 01:15:29,821
You make love
the way Molière acts tragedy.
913
01:15:29,904 --> 01:15:32,615
You raise your voice, puff up the lines,
914
01:15:32,699 --> 01:15:36,953
recite when you should speak
and run when you should walk.
915
01:15:37,037 --> 01:15:38,496
You excite me.
916
01:15:38,580 --> 01:15:41,332
The way tragedy excites Molière.
917
01:15:42,792 --> 01:15:46,171
You have to control yourself
or it's no good.
918
01:15:46,254 --> 01:15:49,090
-You have no right.
-I have every right.
919
01:15:50,091 --> 01:15:51,760
I love you.
920
01:16:03,980 --> 01:16:07,692
Hurry! The King has arrived.
Get into your costume!
921
01:16:07,776 --> 01:16:11,738
I have the trots! Stage fright!
I'm too excited.
922
01:16:15,366 --> 01:16:18,078
I'm sorry. Go and pay your respects.
923
01:16:18,161 --> 01:16:19,829
We can't keep him waiting.
924
01:16:21,289 --> 01:16:25,293
I'm not like him.
I can't perform on a toilet seat.
925
01:16:27,045 --> 01:16:28,755
You're killing me.
926
01:16:29,380 --> 01:16:31,257
Who's this? Who's this?
927
01:16:31,341 --> 01:16:32,675
Who can it be?
928
01:16:33,676 --> 01:16:35,470
It's my Finance Minister!
929
01:16:35,553 --> 01:16:38,348
No, you're much softer than him.
930
01:16:39,099 --> 01:16:40,975
What's this you're giving me?
931
01:16:45,688 --> 01:16:47,774
My, what a surprise!
932
01:16:50,443 --> 01:16:53,530
We can start in a moment, Your Majesty.
933
01:16:54,114 --> 01:16:57,200
These damsels were saying
their charms surpass
934
01:16:57,283 --> 01:16:59,869
those of Du Parc,
who keeps us stewing here.
935
01:16:59,953 --> 01:17:01,621
On slow coals!
936
01:17:01,996 --> 01:17:05,458
Mademoiselle De Ruy
was claiming that her bosom
937
01:17:05,834 --> 01:17:11,506
is so much fuller than Du Parc's,
my armies could maneuver in it.
938
01:17:12,173 --> 01:17:13,508
I agree, Majesty.
939
01:17:15,844 --> 01:17:19,722
Madame de Renéville
was vaunting her legs and thighs,
940
01:17:19,806 --> 01:17:22,976
which all of Versailles would not tire.
941
01:17:23,059 --> 01:17:24,060
I don't deny it.
942
01:17:29,983 --> 01:17:33,153
Show us the way to the spring
where I love to bathe.
943
01:17:36,531 --> 01:17:38,283
It's so soft!
944
01:17:40,451 --> 01:17:46,457
Admit that they all surpass
the grace and beauty of your Du Parc,
945
01:17:46,541 --> 01:17:48,543
who's beginning to exhaust my patience.
946
01:17:48,626 --> 01:17:50,378
I do, Your Majesty.
947
01:17:50,461 --> 01:17:51,880
You see?
948
01:17:53,882 --> 01:17:59,554
You are, ladies, without a doubt
the crest on His Majesty's coat of arms.
949
01:17:59,637 --> 01:18:01,014
Nevertheless,
950
01:18:01,097 --> 01:18:05,059
though you bend over backwards
to equal Miss Du Parc,
951
01:18:05,143 --> 01:18:07,645
you will only be pale imitations.
952
01:18:08,104 --> 01:18:12,275
If your eyes contained a quarter
of what lies in hers,
953
01:18:12,358 --> 01:18:17,280
would you need to flaunt
your bosoms and bottoms thus?
954
01:18:21,784 --> 01:18:24,746
"Flaunt your bosoms and bottoms"!
955
01:18:26,039 --> 01:18:30,335
Racine, among my army of flatterers
you are beyond doubt
956
01:18:30,418 --> 01:18:32,378
the field marshal.
957
01:18:37,842 --> 01:18:39,093
We're ready, Majesty.
958
01:18:39,177 --> 01:18:40,720
What luck!
959
01:18:40,803 --> 01:18:44,474
Du Parc has the grace
to be just one hour late!
960
01:18:58,571 --> 01:19:02,617
Let my son admire
those who gave him birth.
961
01:19:02,700 --> 01:19:06,037
Encourage him to imitate their worth.
962
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:09,916
Tell him about the feats
which won them fame
963
01:19:09,999 --> 01:19:13,795
for noble deeds outweigh a noble name.
964
01:19:13,878 --> 01:19:16,923
Remind him each day
of the virtues of his father...
965
01:19:19,092 --> 01:19:21,177
and, now and then...
966
01:19:24,430 --> 01:19:27,100
remind him of his mother.
967
01:19:29,852 --> 01:19:34,482
Urge him not to avenge our fate.
He'll have a master on whom to wait.
968
01:19:35,275 --> 01:19:38,111
Let him not boast
of the blood in his veins,
969
01:19:38,695 --> 01:19:42,782
though of great Hector
'tis all that remains...
970
01:19:45,743 --> 01:19:47,829
and for those remains
971
01:19:48,579 --> 01:19:50,915
I myself, in one day,
972
01:19:51,332 --> 01:19:54,168
my blood, my hate and my love gave away.
973
01:19:57,463 --> 01:19:58,715
Do not come with me
974
01:19:58,798 --> 01:20:02,176
if your heart fears
that it cannot contain its tears.
975
01:20:04,470 --> 01:20:06,055
Someone is coming.
976
01:20:06,764 --> 01:20:09,183
Dry your eyes, and do not forget
977
01:20:09,934 --> 01:20:12,937
Andromaque's fate depends on you yet.
978
01:20:17,066 --> 01:20:18,985
It is Hermione.
979
01:20:19,652 --> 01:20:21,112
Come.
980
01:20:23,448 --> 01:20:25,742
Let us flee her wrath.
981
01:20:46,137 --> 01:20:48,097
Rise, Madame.
982
01:20:50,808 --> 01:20:53,436
Take your triumph standing up.
983
01:21:31,724 --> 01:21:34,102
Well done!
984
01:21:35,061 --> 01:21:36,979
You made me weep!
985
01:21:38,314 --> 01:21:40,858
I feel I've met my match.
986
01:21:40,942 --> 01:21:43,653
You have! She has age on her side.
987
01:21:44,737 --> 01:21:48,032
Look at my hands.
They're red from clapping!
988
01:21:49,492 --> 01:21:51,661
I'm so happy for you!
989
01:21:52,495 --> 01:21:53,830
Marvelous!
990
01:22:04,340 --> 01:22:05,675
Didn't I tell you?
991
01:22:15,685 --> 01:22:18,729
What can I say, except that I was wrong?
992
01:22:19,689 --> 01:22:21,357
You liked my performance?
993
01:22:26,279 --> 01:22:30,158
I never dreamed that tragedy
could be acted so naturally.
994
01:22:30,241 --> 01:22:33,870
But you set out the rules
in "Les Précieuses"!
995
01:22:55,433 --> 01:22:58,394
The King just spoke to me
about you-know-what.
996
01:22:58,478 --> 01:23:00,605
May I hope?
997
01:23:00,688 --> 01:23:03,065
Have I ever failed you?
998
01:23:03,149 --> 01:23:05,109
Never, Milady.
999
01:23:38,351 --> 01:23:41,437
I remember when I first saw you dance.
1000
01:23:41,521 --> 01:23:43,523
I remember too.
1001
01:23:44,065 --> 01:23:46,776
-The air was raw.
-I caught a cold.
1002
01:23:46,859 --> 01:23:49,111
Did my rays not warm you up?
1003
01:23:49,195 --> 01:23:54,450
Alas, Majesty, the sun lights the world
but its touch burns the moon.
1004
01:24:04,252 --> 01:24:07,004
Are you so bold as to refuse me?
1005
01:24:07,088 --> 01:24:10,424
I've become even cheekier
since we first met.
1006
01:24:11,133 --> 01:24:14,262
Milady and Racine
seem to share every secret.
1007
01:24:39,161 --> 01:24:41,831
Why are you moving everything out?
1008
01:24:44,542 --> 01:24:46,627
Who sent you bullies here?
1009
01:24:46,711 --> 01:24:48,963
It's been seized - by me!
1010
01:24:50,047 --> 01:24:52,008
You slimy toad!
1011
01:24:59,140 --> 01:25:01,726
The creditors have seized the theater.
1012
01:25:04,937 --> 01:25:07,189
Quick, while he's not looking!
1013
01:25:07,273 --> 01:25:09,150
-Where's Molière?
-At the White Sheep.
1014
01:25:19,827 --> 01:25:22,913
Friends! Here comes an angel.
1015
01:25:24,332 --> 01:25:27,168
Heaven sent her to us. Come, my lovely.
1016
01:25:27,251 --> 01:25:29,837
-Give him a drink.
-No!
1017
01:25:31,714 --> 01:25:34,008
The King won't let the dogs eat you.
1018
01:25:34,842 --> 01:25:36,302
The King can't help me.
1019
01:25:36,385 --> 01:25:37,887
Appeal to him.
1020
01:25:37,970 --> 01:25:40,222
What for, Marquise?
1021
01:25:40,973 --> 01:25:44,393
To save your theater, your troupe,
your life.
1022
01:25:46,479 --> 01:25:48,064
You're such a child.
1023
01:25:48,147 --> 01:25:51,442
The King must humor the Church,
I must humor him,
1024
01:25:51,525 --> 01:25:53,277
you must humor Floridor.
1025
01:25:54,153 --> 01:25:56,155
Come drown with us, Molière.
1026
01:25:56,238 --> 01:25:58,157
Well said. Come on, Lully.
1027
01:25:58,240 --> 01:25:59,659
Let's go.
1028
01:26:09,669 --> 01:26:12,588
What can we do? Art, literature, theater...
1029
01:26:12,672 --> 01:26:16,300
It's all just empty, hollow vanity.
1030
01:26:16,384 --> 01:26:19,178
My soul is sad.
My life's sad. This wine's sad!
1031
01:26:19,261 --> 01:26:20,888
Hush!
1032
01:26:21,597 --> 01:26:22,723
I'm still here.
1033
01:26:23,724 --> 01:26:25,726
That's true. You're here.
1034
01:26:25,810 --> 01:26:30,439
Madeleine's here too,
holding the strings of my empty purse.
1035
01:26:31,107 --> 01:26:33,526
And Catherine, Genevieve
1036
01:26:34,276 --> 01:26:36,904
and Armande, my little Armande...
1037
01:26:36,987 --> 01:26:39,490
Only women? You're doomed!
1038
01:26:41,867 --> 01:26:46,247
Women are more help
than drunken, smelly old composers.
1039
01:26:46,330 --> 01:26:49,041
Smelly old composers live forever!
1040
01:26:49,125 --> 01:26:51,961
No woman ever composed music...
1041
01:26:53,295 --> 01:26:56,090
or wrote for the theater.
1042
01:26:59,468 --> 01:27:01,053
"I'm still here."
1043
01:27:04,056 --> 01:27:06,892
"I'm here for you!"
1044
01:27:12,148 --> 01:27:16,318
If only Gros-René were here
to give me courage and make me laugh!
1045
01:27:17,445 --> 01:27:22,199
I can tell jokes and play the fool
if it keeps you from drinking.
1046
01:27:22,283 --> 01:27:24,034
I love you, Marquise.
1047
01:27:26,412 --> 01:27:28,831
You haven't let me down.
1048
01:27:28,914 --> 01:27:30,958
That's why I love you.
1049
01:27:32,626 --> 01:27:34,920
Do you want to drown with me?
1050
01:27:35,004 --> 01:27:35,838
Do you?
1051
01:27:37,339 --> 01:27:38,632
Let's go.
1052
01:27:40,676 --> 01:27:42,094
What about Racine?
1053
01:27:43,554 --> 01:27:45,139
He surrounds me with old men.
1054
01:27:48,350 --> 01:27:50,644
He deserted me for Floridor.
1055
01:27:51,187 --> 01:27:53,147
He'll desert you too.
1056
01:27:53,230 --> 01:27:56,275
He's a natural born deserter.
1057
01:27:57,109 --> 01:28:01,322
Aha! You're more jealous
than the ogres in your plays.
1058
01:28:01,405 --> 01:28:03,115
Let's do a play for René.
1059
01:28:03,199 --> 01:28:06,494
-Let's jump in the Seine.
-Let's ask the King.
1060
01:28:06,577 --> 01:28:08,537
Let's die first and talk later.
1061
01:28:12,333 --> 01:28:14,001
What do you say, angel?
1062
01:28:14,084 --> 01:28:16,378
I say you're our best author.
1063
01:28:25,971 --> 01:28:28,974
Italians can't take French wine!
1064
01:28:38,359 --> 01:28:43,030
Begging the King for favors
is not a part I like to play.
1065
01:28:43,405 --> 01:28:45,783
The Ottoman Ambassador!
1066
01:28:50,037 --> 01:28:51,413
You have no appointment.
1067
01:28:51,497 --> 01:28:53,582
Please stand aside.
1068
01:28:53,666 --> 01:28:55,668
Do you know this man?
1069
01:28:55,751 --> 01:28:58,712
To say I do not
would be to insult the theater.
1070
01:29:00,297 --> 01:29:03,342
Please ask the King
to give him an audience.
1071
01:29:03,425 --> 01:29:06,428
I'm afraid he is already giving audience.
1072
01:29:11,016 --> 01:29:13,102
They say you have balls, Monsieur.
1073
01:29:14,603 --> 01:29:17,982
Prove it by letting me in,
and I'll let you in
1074
01:29:18,065 --> 01:29:21,277
somewhere else, whenever you please.
1075
01:29:22,987 --> 01:29:23,988
Will you really?
1076
01:29:44,091 --> 01:29:48,470
I beg you to buy back Molière's theater
from his creditors.
1077
01:29:49,388 --> 01:29:50,973
Madame, you irritate me.
1078
01:29:51,056 --> 01:29:54,018
Are you aping Andromaque
or just being insolent?
1079
01:29:54,977 --> 01:29:57,062
Andromaque is a woman, not an idea.
1080
01:29:57,146 --> 01:30:00,065
She isn't brave on stage and weak in life.
1081
01:30:00,149 --> 01:30:04,111
Is it her bravery that incites you
to nag poor Floridor,
1082
01:30:04,194 --> 01:30:06,488
whom my grandfather so admired?
1083
01:30:06,572 --> 01:30:10,534
Your grandfather was young then
and Floridor already old.
1084
01:30:16,916 --> 01:30:20,753
Your sarcasm, Madame,
amuses us most highly.
1085
01:30:20,836 --> 01:30:23,297
Let the merriment continue.
1086
01:30:24,840 --> 01:30:26,091
Our dear Racine...
1087
01:30:28,552 --> 01:30:32,139
You can't imagine
what he was willing to do for you.
1088
01:30:32,222 --> 01:30:35,267
I know what he's willing to give up.
1089
01:30:35,351 --> 01:30:39,647
Poisoning Du Parc to make you a widow
held no fear for him.
1090
01:30:40,356 --> 01:30:41,982
Majesty! I never dreamed...
1091
01:30:42,066 --> 01:30:46,904
I hear that you signed away
a third of your income
1092
01:30:46,987 --> 01:30:51,492
to a woman notorious for dealing
in lethal chocolates.
1093
01:31:01,210 --> 01:31:03,837
Your Majesty, it's a malicious rumor.
1094
01:31:03,921 --> 01:31:08,550
It's true, Racine writes tragedies
which poison my life
1095
01:31:08,634 --> 01:31:09,635
but Gros-René -
1096
01:31:09,718 --> 01:31:13,180
forgive me, Marquise -
was a tolerant husband.
1097
01:31:13,847 --> 01:31:17,726
Majesty,
I admit I sometimes wished René dead,
1098
01:31:18,644 --> 01:31:22,231
but what lover would not
kill for his beloved?
1099
01:31:26,944 --> 01:31:31,365
He loves her. She loves him.
They are thwarted...
1100
01:31:31,448 --> 01:31:32,950
so he draws his sword
1101
01:31:33,033 --> 01:31:36,203
and slays the bore who stands in his way.
1102
01:31:36,286 --> 01:31:37,204
You see?
1103
01:31:37,287 --> 01:31:40,457
It sounds more like Corneille than Racine.
1104
01:31:40,541 --> 01:31:45,129
Tragedy writers kill many people,
but only on paper.
1105
01:31:45,212 --> 01:31:49,174
Your generosity and mettle
will always endear you to us.
1106
01:31:50,801 --> 01:31:52,177
I thank Your Majesty.
1107
01:31:54,304 --> 01:31:56,890
As for you, Racine... Step forward.
1108
01:32:07,526 --> 01:32:11,196
Kindly desist from signing
anything but your plays.
1109
01:33:01,497 --> 01:33:04,875
Why are you crying?
Didn't we triumph tonight?
1110
01:33:09,588 --> 01:33:12,132
It's nothing, Madame.
1111
01:33:12,883 --> 01:33:14,635
Look at me.
1112
01:33:15,511 --> 01:33:19,598
Repeat after me: patati, patata.
1113
01:33:20,224 --> 01:33:21,517
I'm too miserable.
1114
01:33:21,600 --> 01:33:23,060
Go on, say it.
1115
01:33:27,106 --> 01:33:29,274
There! You're smiling.
1116
01:33:30,150 --> 01:33:32,986
Now tell me what's wrong. Blow your nose.
1117
01:33:36,448 --> 01:33:38,909
You act so convincingly.
1118
01:33:39,952 --> 01:33:42,037
Is that why you're crying?
1119
01:33:44,414 --> 01:33:47,209
I wish I could act like you!
1120
01:33:48,919 --> 01:33:51,713
Say a line from Andromaque. Any line.
1121
01:33:51,797 --> 01:33:53,549
I don't know any.
1122
01:33:54,424 --> 01:33:56,301
Why are you lying?
1123
01:34:00,097 --> 01:34:03,267
"Although the Greeks may remonstrate,
1124
01:34:03,350 --> 01:34:06,145
you are still mistress of your fate."
1125
01:34:08,355 --> 01:34:10,440
First, stand up.
1126
01:34:10,524 --> 01:34:14,403
Don't breathe from here. From here! Go on!
1127
01:34:16,196 --> 01:34:19,324
Although the Greeks may remonstrate,
1128
01:34:19,408 --> 01:34:21,410
you are still mistress of your fate.
1129
01:34:21,493 --> 01:34:23,036
Again!
1130
01:34:29,710 --> 01:34:32,504
Look into my eyes. Pretend I'm your lover.
1131
01:34:33,422 --> 01:34:35,299
I'm a virgin.
1132
01:34:37,050 --> 01:34:38,719
Use your imagination.
1133
01:34:50,689 --> 01:34:53,192
I want to feel your stomach swell
1134
01:34:53,275 --> 01:34:56,320
and your heart burst from your breast!
1135
01:35:01,575 --> 01:35:03,035
Suffer it!
1136
01:35:03,118 --> 01:35:06,038
Or I'll tan your rump
until my palms are raw.
1137
01:35:06,121 --> 01:35:07,122
Go on!
1138
01:35:12,586 --> 01:35:14,963
"Although the Greeks may remonstrate,
1139
01:35:15,047 --> 01:35:17,925
you are still mistress of your fate."
1140
01:35:18,008 --> 01:35:21,261
"Alas, see now what your words have done.
1141
01:35:21,762 --> 01:35:24,473
I have no choice but to doom my son."
1142
01:35:24,556 --> 01:35:28,310
"Madame,
with your husband you have kept faith.
1143
01:35:28,393 --> 01:35:31,230
Do not let too much virtue lead to death.
1144
01:35:31,313 --> 01:35:34,274
He would have urged you to be mild."
1145
01:35:37,653 --> 01:35:39,446
See? Acting is easy.
1146
01:35:39,905 --> 01:35:42,616
You just have to die on stage every night.
1147
01:35:44,534 --> 01:35:46,912
Good. Now help me dress.
1148
01:36:19,653 --> 01:36:21,280
Were you waiting for me?
1149
01:36:21,697 --> 01:36:23,490
Congratulate me!
1150
01:36:24,741 --> 01:36:27,494
I'm to be the King's historian!
1151
01:36:27,577 --> 01:36:29,538
I wish you luck.
1152
01:36:30,038 --> 01:36:32,374
Is that all you can say?
1153
01:36:32,457 --> 01:36:35,377
I'm going to lie down for a while.
1154
01:37:04,323 --> 01:37:06,700
-What's the matter?
-Nothing.
1155
01:37:07,451 --> 01:37:11,079
I'm worried.
I was nowhere near my best last night.
1156
01:37:11,163 --> 01:37:13,332
Nonsense! The whole audience wept.
1157
01:37:13,415 --> 01:37:16,209
Tonight we play at the King's command.
1158
01:37:16,293 --> 01:37:17,502
If I'm strong enough.
1159
01:37:17,586 --> 01:37:20,589
Hush! Like last night, you'll be splendid.
1160
01:37:20,672 --> 01:37:21,506
Let's go.
1161
01:37:22,257 --> 01:37:23,884
I've had enough.
1162
01:37:23,967 --> 01:37:26,511
-Walk out on the King?
-I feel sick.
1163
01:37:26,595 --> 01:37:27,846
Marquise, please!
1164
01:37:27,929 --> 01:37:30,223
If ever I can't perform,
1165
01:37:31,016 --> 01:37:32,726
swear you won't replace me.
1166
01:37:33,435 --> 01:37:37,105
How often must I tell you?
Only you can be Andromaque.
1167
01:37:42,778 --> 01:37:44,404
Mansart!
1168
01:37:47,407 --> 01:37:51,078
Lift our spirits.
Will we soon be in Versailles?
1169
01:37:51,161 --> 01:37:55,957
If Your Majesty would ask Milord
not to fire his musket at my scaffolding,
1170
01:37:56,041 --> 01:37:57,584
you could move in by Christmas.
1171
01:37:58,251 --> 01:38:03,298
He has maimed two of my workers
and blinded another to amuse his friends.
1172
01:38:03,382 --> 01:38:07,219
How irksome.
I assure you it won't happen again.
1173
01:38:07,302 --> 01:38:08,804
I thank Your Majesty.
1174
01:38:08,887 --> 01:38:12,224
As of tomorrow,
Milord will take musketry lessons.
1175
01:38:12,599 --> 01:38:16,311
It is unworthy of a prince
to miss his mark.
1176
01:38:28,949 --> 01:38:31,451
Racine! Step forward.
1177
01:38:38,834 --> 01:38:42,337
Hold this and summon Miss Du Parc.
1178
01:38:42,754 --> 01:38:46,466
I will show her a sight
as rare as the one she showed us.
1179
01:38:46,550 --> 01:38:48,260
Here she comes, Sire.
1180
01:38:50,554 --> 01:38:54,391
Can you imagine?
My doctors have told me to take a bath!
1181
01:38:54,474 --> 01:38:56,393
A bath? How horrible!
1182
01:38:56,476 --> 01:38:58,562
I know. Some years ago
1183
01:38:58,645 --> 01:39:02,023
I had a very strict tutor
who inflicted one on me.
1184
01:39:02,107 --> 01:39:05,735
To mark the event,
I have penned a short poem.
1185
01:39:07,404 --> 01:39:10,907
Would you comfort me by reciting it
as I take the plunge?
1186
01:39:10,991 --> 01:39:12,492
If it pleases Your Majesty.
1187
01:39:19,499 --> 01:39:22,210
Is it a King's duty to sacrifice himself?
1188
01:39:22,294 --> 01:39:24,045
It is, Your Majesty.
1189
01:39:24,129 --> 01:39:29,092
Gentlemen, I commit myself to you
for the glory of science
1190
01:39:29,176 --> 01:39:31,803
at the risk of my life!
1191
01:39:47,277 --> 01:39:49,237
Have you ever taken a bath?
1192
01:39:49,321 --> 01:39:53,992
No, but your example
may encourage me to try one.
1193
01:40:01,833 --> 01:40:06,630
"How lovely it is to see
the grace and beauty of this mere
1194
01:40:06,713 --> 01:40:11,927
as, cradled in a bed held dear,
its gentle tides flow sleepily."
1195
01:40:12,010 --> 01:40:14,679
Forgive me, but I hear you poorly!
1196
01:40:18,433 --> 01:40:21,061
How lovely it is to see
1197
01:40:21,144 --> 01:40:24,606
the grace and beauty of this mere...
1198
01:40:24,689 --> 01:40:29,694
Your water cure is softening my ears.
I can't hear a thing!
1199
01:40:31,780 --> 01:40:34,032
Some wine will clear my voice.
1200
01:40:34,115 --> 01:40:35,784
I beg your pardon?
1201
01:41:04,521 --> 01:41:08,024
Is this close enough
or shall I send for your ear-trumpet?
1202
01:41:09,359 --> 01:41:12,070
"O Eyes! Let us draw nearer
1203
01:41:12,779 --> 01:41:17,200
to the peerless chimera
displayed in this glassy pool.
1204
01:41:17,617 --> 01:41:20,954
Let us admire the beauty and might
1205
01:41:21,037 --> 01:41:23,415
with which its waters clear and cool
1206
01:41:23,498 --> 01:41:28,211
enchant and beguile our senses and sight."
1207
01:41:30,380 --> 01:41:32,757
Wicked man, making you catch your death!
1208
01:41:32,841 --> 01:41:36,970
My back is burning,
my lungs and throat are on fire,
1209
01:41:37,053 --> 01:41:39,139
my nose is dripping, my ears ache...
1210
01:41:39,222 --> 01:41:40,432
By God!
1211
01:41:40,515 --> 01:41:43,643
I'll have to act
through my asshole tonight.
1212
01:41:46,104 --> 01:41:48,273
It's time you got deflowered.
1213
01:41:48,356 --> 01:41:51,901
-How can you act if words offend you?
-You're delirious.
1214
01:41:51,985 --> 01:41:52,944
More cups
1215
01:41:53,028 --> 01:41:55,655
-and don't lecture me.
-I'm cupping.
1216
01:41:55,739 --> 01:41:58,617
-Do you want leeches too?
-No!
1217
01:41:58,700 --> 01:42:01,745
-I hate those creatures.
-I adore them.
1218
01:42:01,828 --> 01:42:04,998
I'd love to see them
purge you of your meanness.
1219
01:42:05,457 --> 01:42:09,461
Mean? Me? Because I mock your cherry?
1220
01:42:09,544 --> 01:42:12,797
Look to your health
instead of corrupting me.
1221
01:42:14,215 --> 01:42:16,176
Take them off. I have to go.
1222
01:42:16,259 --> 01:42:17,719
So soon?
1223
01:42:21,222 --> 01:42:22,682
Look.
1224
01:42:23,308 --> 01:42:25,143
Look at my eyes.
1225
01:42:26,186 --> 01:42:28,772
Don't they seem to glow with rapture
1226
01:42:28,855 --> 01:42:31,483
like the eyes of a tortured martyr?
1227
01:42:31,566 --> 01:42:32,651
They do.
1228
01:42:33,693 --> 01:42:38,657
Quick! Before I recover
and their feverish glow goes out.
1229
01:42:41,451 --> 01:42:43,912
Hurry up and dress me.
1230
01:42:43,995 --> 01:42:46,623
You know you shouldn't go on.
1231
01:42:46,706 --> 01:42:48,583
Of course I know.
1232
01:42:49,709 --> 01:42:53,546
How I wish I could be like you!
1233
01:42:55,715 --> 01:42:58,009
Madame,
1234
01:42:58,093 --> 01:43:03,223
judging by their alarm, the Greeks
will soon give you fresh cause to weep.
1235
01:43:03,306 --> 01:43:05,558
What urgency provokes their fright?
1236
01:43:05,642 --> 01:43:08,937
Has some poor Trojan made good his flight?
1237
01:43:30,333 --> 01:43:33,086
Why be stubborn? Unleash your tongue!
1238
01:43:33,169 --> 01:43:36,089
-He swore to yield my son.
-'Tis not yet done!
1239
01:43:38,049 --> 01:43:40,635
Whether I weep or not, he dies.
1240
01:43:40,719 --> 01:43:43,805
Does she not even deign to turn her eyes?
1241
01:43:43,888 --> 01:43:45,724
What pride!
1242
01:43:45,807 --> 01:43:48,268
I'm only fueling his rage.
1243
01:43:49,060 --> 01:43:50,854
Let us away.
1244
01:44:03,658 --> 01:44:05,535
Is there no stand-in?
1245
01:44:05,618 --> 01:44:08,663
No-one stands in for Marquise. Who could?
1246
01:44:08,747 --> 01:44:09,998
I know her role!
1247
01:44:10,081 --> 01:44:13,460
I've recited it backstage every night,
1248
01:44:13,543 --> 01:44:16,588
matching the movements of my lips to hers,
1249
01:44:16,671 --> 01:44:19,883
following her steps, copying her gestures
1250
01:44:19,966 --> 01:44:24,304
until I don't even know
who's acting - her or me.
1251
01:44:25,597 --> 01:44:27,807
Put on the dress.
1252
01:44:27,891 --> 01:44:29,809
I'll tell them we'll go on.
1253
01:44:29,893 --> 01:44:31,478
I won't allow it!
1254
01:44:33,271 --> 01:44:37,776
Molière's through with you.
If I go bankrupt, you're finished.
1255
01:44:37,859 --> 01:44:38,902
You have no right.
1256
01:44:38,985 --> 01:44:43,239
Marquise will be well tomorrow.
She told me to step in.
1257
01:44:49,245 --> 01:44:50,955
Put on the costume.
1258
01:44:53,124 --> 01:44:57,587
Madame, judging from their alarm,
the Greeks
1259
01:44:57,670 --> 01:45:00,381
will soon give you fresh cause to weep.
1260
01:45:00,465 --> 01:45:03,635
What urgency has caused their fright?
1261
01:45:03,718 --> 01:45:06,888
Has some poor Trojan made good his flight?
1262
01:45:18,775 --> 01:45:21,611
They fear not that he'll avenge his father
1263
01:45:22,362 --> 01:45:25,532
but that he'll dry the tears
of his mother.
1264
01:45:27,492 --> 01:45:30,662
With him,
no spouse or father would I need.
1265
01:45:32,247 --> 01:45:34,374
Yet I must lose all,
1266
01:45:34,457 --> 01:45:37,085
and always by your deed.
1267
01:46:06,322 --> 01:46:09,075
Be still. You have a fever.
1268
01:46:14,330 --> 01:46:16,040
Where am I?
1269
01:46:17,375 --> 01:46:19,586
At home, look.
1270
01:46:20,753 --> 01:46:23,131
How long have I been here?
1271
01:46:25,008 --> 01:46:26,217
Three days.
1272
01:46:33,391 --> 01:46:35,268
Where is Racine?
1273
01:46:37,395 --> 01:46:40,189
Shall I warm you some broth
with a little hot wine?
1274
01:46:43,985 --> 01:46:46,321
Has the play been stopped?
1275
01:46:47,989 --> 01:46:49,824
No, why?
1276
01:46:54,746 --> 01:46:57,665
They can't do "Andromaque" without me.
1277
01:47:02,128 --> 01:47:04,172
Marie is standing in for you.
1278
01:47:04,631 --> 01:47:08,551
Marie?
That pup who still sucks at my breast?
1279
01:47:08,927 --> 01:47:10,428
She has made progress.
1280
01:47:10,511 --> 01:47:12,931
Racine won't let her.
1281
01:47:13,014 --> 01:47:15,266
And yet he does.
1282
01:47:16,684 --> 01:47:18,561
I don't believe it.
1283
01:47:19,437 --> 01:47:20,980
She's a child.
1284
01:47:21,064 --> 01:47:23,316
There are no children.
1285
01:47:25,610 --> 01:47:28,446
She might tempt him
for three or four days...
1286
01:47:28,988 --> 01:47:31,449
The fourth day is almost over.
1287
01:47:38,039 --> 01:47:39,791
What does the King say?
1288
01:47:42,502 --> 01:47:45,004
He has somewhat deserted us.
1289
01:47:47,173 --> 01:47:49,842
We're actors to the end, you said.
1290
01:47:49,926 --> 01:47:53,638
Did I? I refute it. If not, I dispute it.
1291
01:47:56,432 --> 01:47:58,017
Don't go.
1292
01:48:05,608 --> 01:48:06,901
Don't forget me.
1293
01:48:53,197 --> 01:48:56,659
Remember how Pyrrhus, with eyes of fire,
1294
01:48:57,201 --> 01:49:00,246
made of our palaces a funeral pyre,
1295
01:49:00,747 --> 01:49:04,459
trampling my brothers' corpses on his way,
1296
01:49:04,542 --> 01:49:08,212
dripping with blood,
urging his men to slay!
1297
01:49:08,296 --> 01:49:10,798
Hear how the victors yelled!
1298
01:49:11,424 --> 01:49:13,259
Hear how the victims cried
1299
01:49:13,342 --> 01:49:16,846
as, choked by smoke and gored by sword,
they died.
1300
01:49:19,098 --> 01:49:22,060
Picture Andromaque amid the bloody strife.
1301
01:49:23,394 --> 01:49:26,731
That is how Pyrrhus came into my life.
1302
01:50:56,404 --> 01:50:59,490
Tragedy actors suffer a terrible fate.
1303
01:50:59,574 --> 01:51:04,620
They are born at the start of Act One
and die at the end of Act Five.
1304
01:51:06,455 --> 01:51:10,334
In the meantime, what must they do?
Suffer, suffer...
1305
01:51:11,460 --> 01:51:13,004
suffer.
1306
01:51:14,380 --> 01:51:16,757
So they flee the stage because...
1307
01:51:17,425 --> 01:51:19,760
they are afraid of all this suffering.
1308
01:51:21,804 --> 01:51:24,932
But then they see
there's nowhere else for them...
1309
01:51:26,684 --> 01:51:29,437
nowhere else than the stage...
1310
01:51:30,730 --> 01:51:33,149
for them to live out their suffering,
1311
01:51:33,524 --> 01:51:34,650
their anguish,
1312
01:51:35,610 --> 01:51:37,403
their tragedy.
1313
01:51:40,740 --> 01:51:44,911
One day, you will understand
that to act is to agree to die.
1314
01:51:56,964 --> 01:51:58,758
Did I say my lines well?
1315
01:51:59,717 --> 01:52:02,762
Very well but hush, now.
1316
01:52:03,387 --> 01:52:05,973
You replaced me too soon.
1317
01:52:06,057 --> 01:52:08,643
She acts a role. I acted my life.
1318
01:52:08,726 --> 01:52:10,811
Why did you do this?
1319
01:52:11,604 --> 01:52:13,898
A pregnant woman's whim.
1320
01:52:15,274 --> 01:52:16,901
You're pregnant?
1321
01:52:16,984 --> 01:52:18,945
Four months.
1322
01:52:21,656 --> 01:52:23,658
Why didn't you tell me?
1323
01:52:26,869 --> 01:52:29,455
I didn't want you to replace me.
1324
01:52:31,666 --> 01:52:33,834
Hush, hush.
1325
01:52:34,252 --> 01:52:35,795
I love you.
1326
01:52:42,176 --> 01:52:43,678
Look.
1327
01:52:44,428 --> 01:52:47,348
I'm dying happy in your arms.
1328
01:52:48,766 --> 01:52:50,476
Kiss me.
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