1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:02:26,474 --> 00:02:30,391 (speaking in foreign language) 4 00:03:35,380 --> 00:03:37,630 (clanging) 5 00:03:42,941 --> 00:03:45,691 (liquid pouring) 6 00:05:38,924 --> 00:05:42,841 (speaking in foreign language) 7 00:05:45,571 --> 00:05:49,488 (speaking in foreign language) 8 00:05:56,136 --> 00:05:57,553 - [Servant] Amen. 9 00:06:05,383 --> 00:06:07,860 (speaking in foreign language) 10 00:06:07,860 --> 00:06:08,710 - [Servant] Amen. 11 00:06:12,796 --> 00:06:16,713 (speaking in foreign language) 12 00:07:19,062 --> 00:07:21,729 (bells ringing) 13 00:07:23,217 --> 00:07:27,134 (speaking in foreign language) 14 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,450 - This creature, innocent perhaps, 15 00:08:36,450 --> 00:08:39,179 is, however, treated like a criminal, 16 00:08:39,179 --> 00:08:42,039 whilst all about me all is prosperity. 17 00:08:42,039 --> 00:08:45,283 I who am soiled with crimes and horrors. 18 00:08:58,860 --> 00:09:02,640 - Alas, Monsieur, I am a poor orphan not yet 14-years-old 19 00:09:02,640 --> 00:09:03,820 and I have already become familiar 20 00:09:03,820 --> 00:09:06,510 with every nuance of misfortune. 21 00:09:06,510 --> 00:09:08,350 I implore your commiseration, 22 00:09:08,350 --> 00:09:10,033 have pity upon me, I beseech you. 23 00:09:16,350 --> 00:09:20,010 - The services of a child like yourself 24 00:09:20,010 --> 00:09:24,200 are of no great use in a household. 25 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:27,630 You have neither the age nor the appearance 26 00:09:27,630 --> 00:09:31,300 for the kind of place you are seeking. 27 00:09:31,300 --> 00:09:35,300 You would be better advised in devoting yourself 28 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:37,460 to giving men pleasure, 29 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:41,470 to occupy yourself with discovering a man 30 00:09:41,470 --> 00:09:44,493 who may consent to take care of you. 31 00:09:45,460 --> 00:09:50,460 The virtue whereof you make such a conspicuous display 32 00:09:50,830 --> 00:09:53,453 is worthless in this world. 33 00:09:54,500 --> 00:09:58,130 In vain will you genuflect before its altars, 34 00:09:58,130 --> 00:10:02,303 its ridiculous incense will nourish you not at all. 35 00:10:03,980 --> 00:10:05,633 Here on this earth. 36 00:10:21,520 --> 00:10:24,280 - Odious man, may the Heaven you have so grievously offended 37 00:10:24,280 --> 00:10:26,350 some day punish your execrable heartlessness 38 00:10:26,350 --> 00:10:27,473 as it merits to be. 39 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:30,950 You are worthy neither of the riches 40 00:10:30,950 --> 00:10:32,260 you have put to such vile use, 41 00:10:32,260 --> 00:10:33,580 nor of the very air you breathe 42 00:10:33,580 --> 00:10:35,783 in a world you defile with your barbarities. 43 00:11:21,040 --> 00:11:22,373 Madame, have pity. 44 00:11:24,650 --> 00:11:26,223 - Yes, yes pity. 45 00:11:27,485 --> 00:11:30,443 One need only have pity and one starves to death. 46 00:11:42,902 --> 00:11:45,580 - [Dubourg] Thank Desroches, for it is as a favor to her 47 00:11:45,580 --> 00:11:48,430 I intend to show you an instant's kindness. 48 00:11:48,430 --> 00:11:50,610 You must surely be aware how little you deserve it 49 00:11:50,610 --> 00:11:52,903 after your performance yesterday. 50 00:12:11,620 --> 00:12:13,630 - [Man] Perform your duty, Sirrah. 51 00:12:13,630 --> 00:12:16,780 This wretch has stolen from me a diamond 52 00:12:16,780 --> 00:12:18,043 worth a thousand crowns, 53 00:12:19,034 --> 00:12:22,276 you will find it in her chamber or upon her person, 54 00:12:22,276 --> 00:12:23,943 the fact is certain. 55 00:13:28,041 --> 00:13:30,624 (door closing) 56 00:13:41,251 --> 00:13:43,418 (banging) 57 00:13:57,700 --> 00:14:00,250 - Between seven and eight the Conciergerie will catch fire, 58 00:14:00,250 --> 00:14:01,150 I have seen to it. 59 00:14:02,180 --> 00:14:05,840 There's no question about it, many people will be burned. 60 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:07,701 It doesn't matter, Therese. 61 00:14:07,701 --> 00:14:08,853 The fate of others is nothing to us 62 00:14:08,853 --> 00:14:10,653 when our own lives are at stake. 63 00:14:11,526 --> 00:14:14,700 Well, we're going to escape from this place, 64 00:14:14,700 --> 00:14:15,900 of that you can be sure. 65 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:19,400 Four men, my confederates, will join us, 66 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,260 and I guarantee you you shall be free. 67 00:14:44,469 --> 00:14:45,919 There you are, Therese, free. 68 00:14:46,786 --> 00:14:49,373 You may now choose the sort of life you wish, 69 00:14:49,373 --> 00:14:51,520 but were I to have any advice to offer you, 70 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:54,211 it would be to renounce the practice of virtue 71 00:14:54,211 --> 00:14:57,373 which, as you have noticed, is the courting of disaster. 72 00:14:58,620 --> 00:15:00,470 Therese, you're young and attractive, 73 00:15:00,470 --> 00:15:04,110 heed me, and in two years I'll have led you to a fortune. 74 00:15:04,110 --> 00:15:05,450 But don't suppose I'll guide you 75 00:15:05,450 --> 00:15:07,193 along the paths of virtue. 76 00:15:08,550 --> 00:15:09,787 When one wants to get on, my dear girl, 77 00:15:09,787 --> 00:15:11,313 one must stop at nothing. 78 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:16,190 Decide, then, we have no security in this cottage, 79 00:15:16,190 --> 00:15:17,890 we've got to leave in a few hours. 80 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,050 - Oh Madame, I am greatly indebted to you, 81 00:15:21,050 --> 00:15:23,920 and am far from wishing to disown my obligation. 82 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:25,453 You saved my life. 83 00:15:26,370 --> 00:15:28,450 In my view, 'tis frightful the thing was achieved 84 00:15:28,450 --> 00:15:29,967 through a crime and, believe me, 85 00:15:29,967 --> 00:15:32,260 had I been the one charged to commit it, 86 00:15:32,260 --> 00:15:33,840 I should have preferred a thousand deaths 87 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,740 to the anguish of participating in it. 88 00:15:37,020 --> 00:15:38,640 I am aware of all the dangers I risk 89 00:15:38,640 --> 00:15:40,700 in trusting myself to the honest sentiments 90 00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:43,080 which will always remain in my heart, 91 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,480 but whatever be the thorns of virtue, Madame, 92 00:15:45,480 --> 00:15:47,650 I prefer them unhesitatingly and always 93 00:15:47,650 --> 00:15:50,400 to the perilous favors which are crime's accompaniment. 94 00:15:51,570 --> 00:15:53,670 There are religious principles within me which, 95 00:15:53,670 --> 00:15:55,721 may it please Heaven, will never desert me. 96 00:15:55,721 --> 00:15:59,028 If Providence renders difficult my career in life, 97 00:15:59,028 --> 00:16:03,563 'tis in order to compensate me in a better world. 98 00:16:13,740 --> 00:16:15,390 - Those are absurd doctrines 99 00:16:15,390 --> 00:16:17,953 which will have you on the dung heap in no time, my girl. 100 00:16:18,900 --> 00:16:22,050 Believe me, forget God's justice, 101 00:16:22,050 --> 00:16:25,140 His future punishments and rewards, 102 00:16:25,140 --> 00:16:26,350 the lot of those platitudes 103 00:16:26,350 --> 00:16:29,430 will lead us nowhere but to death from starvation. 104 00:16:29,430 --> 00:16:32,740 O Therese, the callousness of the Rich 105 00:16:32,740 --> 00:16:36,420 legitimates the bad conduct of the Poor. 106 00:16:36,420 --> 00:16:38,765 Let them open their purse to our needs, 107 00:16:38,765 --> 00:16:40,670 let humaneness reign in their hearts 108 00:16:40,670 --> 00:16:42,743 and virtues will take place in ours. 109 00:16:43,690 --> 00:16:47,170 But as long as our misfortune, our patient endurance of it, 110 00:16:47,170 --> 00:16:48,950 our good faith, our abjection's 111 00:16:48,950 --> 00:16:51,560 serve only to double the weight of our chains, 112 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:53,450 our crimes will be their doing, 113 00:16:53,450 --> 00:16:55,850 and we'll be fools indeed to abstain from them. 114 00:16:55,850 --> 00:16:57,590 When they can lessen your yoke 115 00:16:57,590 --> 00:16:59,903 wherewith their cruelty bears us down. 116 00:17:00,760 --> 00:17:04,200 Nature has caused us all to be equals born, Therese. 117 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,609 If fate is pleased to upset 118 00:17:05,609 --> 00:17:07,970 the primary scheme of the general law, 119 00:17:07,970 --> 00:17:11,170 then it is up to us to correct its caprices 120 00:17:11,170 --> 00:17:12,520 and through our skill to repair 121 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,563 the usurpations of the strongest. 122 00:17:15,990 --> 00:17:18,520 I love to hear these rich ones, 123 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:21,619 these titled ones, these magistrates and these priests, 124 00:17:21,619 --> 00:17:24,666 I love to see them preach virtue to us. 125 00:17:24,666 --> 00:17:28,530 It is not very difficult to forswear theft 126 00:17:28,530 --> 00:17:31,530 when one has three or four times what one needs to live. 127 00:17:31,530 --> 00:17:33,810 It is not very necessary to plot murder 128 00:17:33,810 --> 00:17:36,620 when one is surrounded by adulators and thralls 129 00:17:36,620 --> 00:17:38,810 unto whom one's will is law, 130 00:17:38,810 --> 00:17:42,550 nor is it very hard to be temperate and sober 131 00:17:42,550 --> 00:17:44,650 when one has the most succulent dainties 132 00:17:44,650 --> 00:17:46,940 constantly within one's reach. 133 00:17:46,940 --> 00:17:49,200 They can well contrive to be sincere 134 00:17:49,200 --> 00:17:52,183 when there's never any apparent advantage in falsehood. 135 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,820 But we, Therese, we whom the barbaric Providence 136 00:17:56,820 --> 00:17:58,920 you are mad enough to idolize, 137 00:17:58,920 --> 00:18:02,000 has condemned to slink in the dust of humiliation 138 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,134 as doth the serpent in grass, 139 00:18:04,134 --> 00:18:08,220 we who are beheld with disdain only because we are poor, 140 00:18:08,220 --> 00:18:10,310 who are tyrannized because we are weak. 141 00:18:10,310 --> 00:18:12,415 We, who must quench our thirst with gall 142 00:18:12,415 --> 00:18:15,837 and who, wherever we go, tread on the thistle always, 143 00:18:15,837 --> 00:18:18,850 you would have us shun crime 144 00:18:18,850 --> 00:18:22,316 when its hand alone can open up unto us the door to life, 145 00:18:22,316 --> 00:18:24,880 maintain us in it, 146 00:18:24,880 --> 00:18:28,433 and is our only protection when our life is threatened. 147 00:18:29,400 --> 00:18:32,290 You would have it that, degraded and in perpetual abjection, 148 00:18:32,290 --> 00:18:34,040 while this class dominating 149 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,740 has unto itself all the blessings of fortune, 150 00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:39,970 we reserve for ourselves naught but pain, 151 00:18:39,970 --> 00:18:42,400 beatings, suffering, nothing but want and tears, 152 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:43,683 brandings and the gibbet. 153 00:18:44,950 --> 00:18:47,003 No, no, no, Therese, no. 154 00:18:48,150 --> 00:18:50,120 Either this Providence you reverence 155 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:52,550 is made only for our scorn, 156 00:18:52,550 --> 00:18:54,580 or the world we see about us 157 00:18:54,580 --> 00:18:56,853 is not at all what Providence would have it. 158 00:18:58,260 --> 00:19:01,480 Become better acquainted with your Providence, my child, 159 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:03,950 and be convinced that as soon as it places us 160 00:19:03,950 --> 00:19:07,385 in a situation where evil becomes necessary, 161 00:19:07,385 --> 00:19:11,040 and while at the same time it leaves us the possibility 162 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,860 of doing it, 163 00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:15,910 this evil harmonizes quite as well with its decrees 164 00:19:15,910 --> 00:19:16,970 as does good, 165 00:19:16,970 --> 00:19:20,543 and Providence gains as much by the one as by the other. 166 00:19:21,570 --> 00:19:26,100 The state in which she has created us is equality. 167 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:27,200 - [Man] An instant. 168 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,290 - He who disturbs is no more guilty 169 00:19:29,290 --> 00:19:31,860 than he who seeks to re-establish the balance. 170 00:19:31,860 --> 00:19:34,640 Both act in accordance with received impulses, 171 00:19:34,640 --> 00:19:38,383 both have to obey those impulses and enjoy them. 172 00:19:46,610 --> 00:19:48,773 By God, here's an unhappy little one. 173 00:19:50,020 --> 00:19:51,620 What, you shudder before the obligation 174 00:19:51,620 --> 00:19:54,113 to serve four fine big boys one after another? 175 00:19:55,900 --> 00:19:58,510 Listen to me, my sway over these dear lads 176 00:19:58,510 --> 00:20:01,200 is sufficiently great for me to gain a reprieve for you 177 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:04,020 on condition that you can prove yourself worthy. 178 00:20:04,020 --> 00:20:05,520 - Alas, Madame, what must I do? 179 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,300 Command me, I am ready. 180 00:20:07,300 --> 00:20:10,680 - Join us, throw in your lot with us, 181 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,813 commit the same deeds, without show of the least repugnance. 182 00:20:14,660 --> 00:20:17,520 Either that, or I cannot save you from the rest. 183 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:19,310 - I will go everywhere with you, Madame, 184 00:20:19,310 --> 00:20:21,280 everywhere, I promise. 185 00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,000 Shield me from the fury of these men 186 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:25,910 and I shall never leave your side while I live. 187 00:20:25,910 --> 00:20:28,300 - Children, this girl is one of the company, 188 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:29,533 I'm taking her into it. 189 00:20:30,770 --> 00:20:33,023 I want you to do her no ill. 190 00:20:37,270 --> 00:20:39,120 Don't put her stomach off the m'tier 191 00:20:40,300 --> 00:20:41,963 during her first days in it. 192 00:20:44,620 --> 00:20:47,203 You see how useful her age and face can be to us. 193 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:50,350 Let's employ them to our advantage 194 00:20:50,350 --> 00:20:54,937 rather than sacrifice them to our pleasures. 195 00:21:17,502 --> 00:21:18,380 - [Man] Dear friend, the wasting of the seed 196 00:21:18,380 --> 00:21:20,170 destined to perpetuate the human species, 197 00:21:20,170 --> 00:21:22,160 is the only crime which can exist, 198 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,220 such is the hypothesis. 199 00:21:24,220 --> 00:21:25,800 According to it, this seed is put in us 200 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:28,246 for the sole purpose of reproduction, 201 00:21:28,246 --> 00:21:29,910 and if that were true I would grant you that diverting it 202 00:21:29,910 --> 00:21:31,440 is an offense. 203 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,470 But once it is demonstrated that her situating 204 00:21:33,470 --> 00:21:35,490 this semen in our loins is by no means enough 205 00:21:35,490 --> 00:21:37,300 to warrant supposing that Nature's purpose 206 00:21:37,300 --> 00:21:39,370 is to have all of it employed for reproduction, 207 00:21:39,370 --> 00:21:41,710 what then does it matter, whether it be spilled in one place 208 00:21:41,710 --> 00:21:42,543 or in another? 209 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,810 Does the man who diverts it perform a greater evil 210 00:21:45,810 --> 00:21:48,655 than Nature who does not employ all of it? 211 00:21:48,655 --> 00:21:50,790 Now, do not those natural losses, 212 00:21:50,790 --> 00:21:52,140 which we can imitate if we please, 213 00:21:52,140 --> 00:21:54,680 occur in an abundance of instances? 214 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,510 Our very ability to provoke them, firstly, 215 00:21:56,510 --> 00:21:58,630 is an initial proof that they do not offend Nature 216 00:21:58,630 --> 00:21:59,603 in the slightest. 217 00:22:02,910 --> 00:22:03,793 - [Man] Quite so. 218 00:22:04,750 --> 00:22:06,450 It would be contrary to all the equity 219 00:22:06,450 --> 00:22:09,120 and profound wisdom we everywhere recognize in her laws 220 00:22:09,120 --> 00:22:11,420 for them to permit what might affront her. 221 00:22:11,420 --> 00:22:13,070 Secondly, those losses occur 222 00:22:13,070 --> 00:22:15,460 a hundred hundred million times every day, 223 00:22:15,460 --> 00:22:17,800 and she instigates them herself. 224 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:19,189 Nocturnal pollutions, 225 00:22:19,189 --> 00:22:20,920 the inutility of semen during the periods 226 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:22,060 of woman's pregnancy, 227 00:22:22,060 --> 00:22:23,890 are they not authorized by her laws, 228 00:22:23,890 --> 00:22:25,490 enjoined by them, 229 00:22:25,490 --> 00:22:27,810 and do they not prove that, very little concerned 230 00:22:27,810 --> 00:22:29,450 for what may result from this liquid 231 00:22:29,450 --> 00:22:31,950 which we so foolishly attach a disproportionate value, 232 00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:34,300 she permits us its waste with the same indifference 233 00:22:34,300 --> 00:22:36,919 she herself causes it every day to be wasted. 234 00:22:36,919 --> 00:22:39,480 She tolerates reproduction, yes, 235 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:41,300 but much is wanting to prove reproduction 236 00:22:41,300 --> 00:22:42,700 is one of her intentions, 237 00:22:42,700 --> 00:22:45,500 she lets us go ahead with our reproducing to be sure, 238 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:47,450 but it being no more to her advantage 239 00:22:47,450 --> 00:22:49,020 than our abstaining therefrom, 240 00:22:49,020 --> 00:22:51,327 the choice we happen to make is as one to her. 241 00:22:57,348 --> 00:23:00,098 (birds chirping) 242 00:23:49,293 --> 00:23:51,343 - Why, Monsieur, do you oppose my flight? 243 00:23:56,980 --> 00:23:58,797 - Because, Therese, we have got you. 244 00:23:59,959 --> 00:24:02,209 And the stronger is always the better reason. 245 00:24:08,410 --> 00:24:10,747 La Fontaine made the remark ages ago. 246 00:24:21,250 --> 00:24:26,250 All men are born isolated, envious, cruel and despotic, 247 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,370 wishing to have everything and surrender nothing, 248 00:24:31,370 --> 00:24:34,070 incessantly struggling either to maintain their rights 249 00:24:34,070 --> 00:24:36,050 or achieve their ambition, 250 00:24:36,050 --> 00:24:38,179 the legislator comes up and says to them, 251 00:24:38,179 --> 00:24:40,213 Cease thus to fight. 252 00:24:41,630 --> 00:24:45,213 If each were to retreat a little, calm would be restored. 253 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,230 I find no fault with the position implicit in the agreement, 254 00:24:51,230 --> 00:24:53,910 but I maintain that two species of individuals 255 00:24:53,910 --> 00:24:57,023 should not and cannot submit to it, ever. 256 00:24:58,860 --> 00:25:01,470 Those who feel they are the stronger 257 00:25:01,470 --> 00:25:04,340 have no need to give up anything in order to be happy, 258 00:25:04,340 --> 00:25:07,060 and those who find themselves the weaker 259 00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:09,670 also find themselves giving up infinitely more 260 00:25:09,670 --> 00:25:11,070 than what is assured them. 261 00:25:12,690 --> 00:25:14,880 However, society is only composed 262 00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,233 only of weak persons and strong. 263 00:25:18,290 --> 00:25:21,840 Well, if the pact must perforce displease 264 00:25:21,840 --> 00:25:23,930 both weak and strong, 265 00:25:23,930 --> 00:25:26,070 there is great cause to suppose 266 00:25:26,070 --> 00:25:28,130 that it will fail to suit society, 267 00:25:28,130 --> 00:25:31,410 and the previously existing state of warfare 268 00:25:31,410 --> 00:25:34,020 must seem infinitely preferable, 269 00:25:34,020 --> 00:25:36,800 since it permitted everyone the free exercise 270 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:38,610 of his strength and his industry, 271 00:25:38,610 --> 00:25:40,940 whereof he would discover himself deprived 272 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:43,660 by a society's unjust pact 273 00:25:43,660 --> 00:25:45,220 that takes too much from the one 274 00:25:45,220 --> 00:25:47,653 and never accords enough to the other. 275 00:25:49,580 --> 00:25:53,260 Hence, the truly intelligent person 276 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:55,130 is he who, indifferent to the risk 277 00:25:55,130 --> 00:25:56,270 of renewing the state of war 278 00:25:56,270 --> 00:25:58,870 that existed prior to the agreement, 279 00:25:58,870 --> 00:26:03,200 lashes out in irrevocable violation of that agreement, 280 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,380 violates it as much and often as he is able, 281 00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:11,000 full certain that what he will gain from these ruptures 282 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,990 will always be more than what he would lose 283 00:26:12,990 --> 00:26:15,500 if he happens to be a member of the weaker class, 284 00:26:15,500 --> 00:26:17,900 for such he was when he respected the agreement. 285 00:26:18,940 --> 00:26:22,860 By breaking it he may become one of the stronger, 286 00:26:22,860 --> 00:26:24,700 and if the laws return him to the class 287 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:27,110 from whence he wished to return, 288 00:26:27,110 --> 00:26:29,810 the worst that can befall him is the loss of his life, 289 00:26:31,190 --> 00:26:34,000 which is a misfortune infinitely less great 290 00:26:34,000 --> 00:26:37,193 than that of existing in wretchedness and opprobrium. 291 00:26:38,910 --> 00:26:42,863 Hence, there are two positions available to us. 292 00:26:44,540 --> 00:26:46,933 Either crime, which renders us happy, 293 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:51,163 or the noose, which stops us from being unhappy. 294 00:26:53,980 --> 00:26:58,240 I ask if there can be any doubt, pretty Therese, 295 00:26:59,740 --> 00:27:02,090 and where will your little mind find an argument 296 00:27:02,090 --> 00:27:03,997 able to combat that one? 297 00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,053 - Softly, my friends. 298 00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,330 It was not for the sake of their purses 299 00:29:21,330 --> 00:29:23,850 that I exhorted you not to spare those travelers, 300 00:29:23,850 --> 00:29:26,760 it was solely in the interests of our security. 301 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:28,350 The law's to be blamed for these crimes, 302 00:29:28,350 --> 00:29:30,130 the fault's not ours. 303 00:29:30,130 --> 00:29:31,930 So long as thieves are hanged like murderers, 304 00:29:31,930 --> 00:29:34,630 thefts shall never be committed without assassination. 305 00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,620 The two misdeeds are punished equally. 306 00:29:37,620 --> 00:29:39,190 Why then abstain from the second 307 00:29:39,190 --> 00:29:40,740 when it may cover up the first? 308 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,650 One must never appraise values 309 00:29:43,650 --> 00:29:45,583 save in terms of our own interest. 310 00:29:46,950 --> 00:29:48,600 And what makes you suppose, furthermore, 311 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,403 that two hundred louis are not worth three killings? 312 00:29:52,620 --> 00:29:54,607 The cessation of the victims' existences 313 00:29:54,607 --> 00:29:58,060 is as nothing compared to the continuation of ours, 314 00:29:58,060 --> 00:29:59,480 not a mite does it matter to us 315 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:02,820 whether any individual is alive or in the grave. 316 00:30:02,820 --> 00:30:05,860 Consequently, if one of the two cases involves 317 00:30:05,860 --> 00:30:07,790 what in the smallest way affects our welfare, 318 00:30:07,790 --> 00:30:09,480 we must, with perfect unremorse, 319 00:30:09,480 --> 00:30:11,180 settle the thing in our own favor. 320 00:30:12,046 --> 00:30:13,750 For in a completely indifferent matter we should, 321 00:30:13,750 --> 00:30:16,150 if we have any wits and are master of the situation, 322 00:30:16,150 --> 00:30:19,093 undoubtedly act so as to turn it to the profitable side, 323 00:30:20,090 --> 00:30:24,163 completely indifferent to whatever may befall our adversary. 324 00:30:25,614 --> 00:30:29,950 For there is no rational commensuration 325 00:30:29,950 --> 00:30:32,350 between what affects us and what affects others. 326 00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,163 The first touches us physically, 327 00:30:37,060 --> 00:30:38,730 the other only touches us morally, 328 00:30:38,730 --> 00:30:41,130 and moral feelings are made to deceive, 329 00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:44,083 none but physical sensations are authentic. 330 00:30:45,690 --> 00:30:48,660 Thus, not only do two hundred louis 331 00:30:48,660 --> 00:30:50,050 suffice for three killings, 332 00:30:50,050 --> 00:30:53,003 but even 30 centimes would have sufficed, 333 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:56,570 for those 30 centimes would have procured for us 334 00:30:56,570 --> 00:30:58,800 a satisfaction which, although light, 335 00:30:58,800 --> 00:31:00,622 must necessarily affect us 336 00:31:00,622 --> 00:31:03,823 to a much more lively degree than would three men murdered, 337 00:31:04,660 --> 00:31:06,470 who are nothing to us, 338 00:31:06,470 --> 00:31:09,870 and by the wrongs done whom we are not in the least touched, 339 00:31:09,870 --> 00:31:11,823 no, not even scratched. 340 00:31:14,270 --> 00:31:18,720 Our organic feebleness, careless thinking, 341 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,190 the accursed prejudices in which we were brought up, 342 00:31:21,190 --> 00:31:23,191 the vain terrors of religion and law, 343 00:31:23,191 --> 00:31:25,830 those are what hamper idiots 344 00:31:25,830 --> 00:31:27,890 and confound their criminal careers, 345 00:31:27,890 --> 00:31:31,113 those are what prevent them from arriving at greatness. 346 00:31:34,750 --> 00:31:37,810 Every strong and healthy individual, 347 00:31:37,810 --> 00:31:39,980 endowed with a fully active mind, 348 00:31:39,980 --> 00:31:42,249 who preferring himself to others, as he must, 349 00:31:42,249 --> 00:31:45,270 will know how to weigh their interests 350 00:31:45,270 --> 00:31:47,580 in the balance against his own, 351 00:31:47,580 --> 00:31:50,543 will laugh God and mankind to the devil, 352 00:31:51,540 --> 00:31:52,843 will mock at the law, 353 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,170 fully aware that it is to himself 354 00:31:56,170 --> 00:31:57,480 that he must be faithful, 355 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,983 by himself all must be judged, 356 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,240 will sense that the vastest multitude of wrongs 357 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,200 committed on others cannot offset 358 00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,260 the least pleasure lost to himself, 359 00:32:10,260 --> 00:32:13,770 nor be as important as his smallest enjoyment 360 00:32:13,770 --> 00:32:17,440 purchased by an unheard-of host of villainies. 361 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:25,240 Joy pleases him, it is in him, it is his own, 362 00:32:26,590 --> 00:32:30,423 crime's effect touches him not, is exterior to him. 363 00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:36,120 Well, I ask you, 364 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,380 what thinking man will not prefer 365 00:32:38,380 --> 00:32:40,347 what causes his delectation 366 00:32:40,347 --> 00:32:42,263 to what is alien to him? 367 00:32:44,210 --> 00:32:47,470 And who will not commit to those deeds 368 00:32:47,470 --> 00:32:50,123 whereof he experiences nothing unpleasant, 369 00:32:52,230 --> 00:32:56,203 in order to obtain what moves him most agreeably? 370 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:03,913 - Friend, you understand, don't you, 371 00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:08,773 that after having robbed you, we cannot leave you alive. 372 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:12,510 - Oh Monsieur, I beseech you not to present me 373 00:33:12,510 --> 00:33:15,530 the horrible spectacle, upon my reception into your band, 374 00:33:15,530 --> 00:33:17,759 of this poor man's death. 375 00:33:17,759 --> 00:33:21,530 Allow him to live, do not refuse this first request 376 00:33:21,530 --> 00:33:22,393 I ask of you. 377 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:25,410 The name Monsieur has just given himself 378 00:33:25,410 --> 00:33:27,477 causes me to believe we are nearly related. 379 00:33:27,477 --> 00:33:29,749 Be not astonished, Monsieur, 380 00:33:29,749 --> 00:33:32,460 be not at all surprised to find a kinsman 381 00:33:32,460 --> 00:33:33,943 in these circumstances. 382 00:33:34,790 --> 00:33:36,323 I will explain it all to you. 383 00:33:37,330 --> 00:33:38,470 In the light of this, Monsieur, 384 00:33:38,470 --> 00:33:41,180 grant me the unlucky creature's life. 385 00:33:41,180 --> 00:33:43,230 I will show my gratitude for the favor 386 00:33:43,230 --> 00:33:44,610 by the completest devotion 387 00:33:44,610 --> 00:33:47,940 to all that will be able to serve your interests. 388 00:33:47,940 --> 00:33:50,180 - You know upon what conditions I can accord you 389 00:33:50,180 --> 00:33:52,380 what you ask, Therese. 390 00:33:52,380 --> 00:33:54,143 You know what I demand from you. 391 00:33:55,340 --> 00:33:58,203 - Ah, very well, Monsieur, I will do everything. 392 00:34:08,179 --> 00:34:09,053 - Let him live. 393 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,973 But he has got to join us, that last clause is crucial. 394 00:34:14,090 --> 00:34:16,469 I can do nothing if he refuses to comply with it, 395 00:34:16,469 --> 00:34:18,373 my comrades would be against me. 396 00:38:25,825 --> 00:38:28,575 (birds chirping) 397 00:42:19,770 --> 00:42:21,610 - Oh, Madame, I have no idea what that man 398 00:42:21,610 --> 00:42:22,960 afterward said or did. 399 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:25,250 The state I was in when I returned to my senses 400 00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:26,550 advised me only too well 401 00:42:26,550 --> 00:42:28,350 to what point I had been his victim. 402 00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:31,860 It was darkest night when I awoke. 403 00:42:31,860 --> 00:42:35,150 I was at the foot of a tree, away from any road, 404 00:42:35,150 --> 00:42:37,323 injured, bleeding, dishonored. 405 00:42:38,510 --> 00:42:40,540 Such had been the reward for all I had just done 406 00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:42,510 for the unlucky man, 407 00:42:42,510 --> 00:42:45,250 and carrying infamy to its ultimate degree, 408 00:42:45,250 --> 00:42:48,586 the wretch, after having done to me all he had wished, 409 00:42:48,586 --> 00:42:50,700 after having abused me in every manner, 410 00:42:50,700 --> 00:42:52,920 even in that which most outrages Nature, 411 00:42:52,920 --> 00:42:55,357 had taken my purse 412 00:42:55,357 --> 00:42:58,703 containing the same money I had so generously offered him. 413 00:43:00,720 --> 00:43:02,340 He had torn my clothing, 414 00:43:02,340 --> 00:43:05,070 most of it lay in shreds and ribbons about me. 415 00:43:05,070 --> 00:43:06,830 I was virtually naked, 416 00:43:06,830 --> 00:43:10,123 and several parts of my body were lacerated, clawed. 417 00:43:11,490 --> 00:43:14,210 You may appreciate my situation. 418 00:43:14,210 --> 00:43:16,490 There in the depths of the night, without resources, 419 00:43:16,490 --> 00:43:18,840 without honor, without hope, 420 00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:20,313 exposed to every peril. 421 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:23,760 I wished to put an end to my days. 422 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:25,270 Had a weapon been presented to me, 423 00:43:25,270 --> 00:43:26,450 I would have laid hands on it 424 00:43:26,450 --> 00:43:28,540 and abridged this unhappy life, 425 00:43:28,540 --> 00:43:30,023 full only of plagues for me. 426 00:43:31,670 --> 00:43:35,210 The monster, what did I do to him, I asked myself, 427 00:43:35,210 --> 00:43:37,823 to have deserved such cruel treatment at his hands? 428 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,340 I save his life, restore his fortune to him, 429 00:43:42,340 --> 00:43:44,320 he snatches away what is most dear to me. 430 00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:46,433 A savage beast would have been less cruel. 431 00:43:48,070 --> 00:43:49,830 O man, thus are you when you heed nothing 432 00:43:49,830 --> 00:43:51,380 but your passions. 433 00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:53,230 Tigers that dwell in the wildest jungles 434 00:43:53,230 --> 00:43:55,260 would quail before such ignominies. 435 00:44:04,958 --> 00:44:06,375 - [Man] Monsieur. 436 00:44:16,815 --> 00:44:18,350 - [Woman] Your candor and naivete do not permit me 437 00:44:18,350 --> 00:44:19,793 to think you untruthful. 438 00:44:20,630 --> 00:44:22,890 I will inquire after no other information 439 00:44:22,890 --> 00:44:25,520 save what will authorize me to believe 440 00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,193 you are really the daughter of the man you indicate. 441 00:44:29,110 --> 00:44:31,420 As for the du Harpin affair, 442 00:44:31,420 --> 00:44:33,820 I will assume responsibility for settling it 443 00:44:33,820 --> 00:44:36,780 with two visits paid to the Chancellor. 444 00:44:36,780 --> 00:44:39,350 We have but to prove your innocence to him. 445 00:44:39,350 --> 00:44:41,990 All the charges leveled against you will crumble 446 00:44:41,990 --> 00:44:43,083 and be withdrawn. 447 00:45:21,305 --> 00:45:23,888 (lively music) 448 00:45:34,917 --> 00:45:37,670 - [Man] All religions start from a false premise, Therese. 449 00:45:37,670 --> 00:45:40,680 Each supposes as necessary the worship of a Creator, 450 00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:42,323 but that creator never existed. 451 00:45:44,810 --> 00:45:46,510 In this connection, put yourself in mind 452 00:45:46,510 --> 00:45:49,150 of the sound precepts of that certain Coeur-de-fer 453 00:45:49,150 --> 00:45:52,660 who, you told me, used to labor over your mind as I do. 454 00:45:52,660 --> 00:45:55,810 If all Nature's productions are the resultant effects 455 00:45:55,810 --> 00:45:58,230 of the laws whereof she is a captive, 456 00:45:58,230 --> 00:46:00,800 if her perpetual action and reaction 457 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,750 suppose the motion necessary to her essence, 458 00:46:03,750 --> 00:46:05,440 what becomes of the sovereign master 459 00:46:05,440 --> 00:46:07,940 fools gratuitously give her? 460 00:46:07,940 --> 00:46:09,650 That is what your sagacious instructor 461 00:46:09,650 --> 00:46:10,800 said to you, dear girl. 462 00:46:12,210 --> 00:46:14,710 What, then, are religions if not the restraint 463 00:46:14,710 --> 00:46:16,590 wherewith the tyranny of the mightier 464 00:46:16,590 --> 00:46:18,223 sought to enslave the weaker? 465 00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,180 Motivated by that design, 466 00:46:21,180 --> 00:46:24,696 he dared say to him that a God had forged the irons 467 00:46:24,696 --> 00:46:27,690 with which cruelty manacled him, 468 00:46:27,690 --> 00:46:29,980 and the latter, bestialized by his misery, 469 00:46:29,980 --> 00:46:33,380 indistinctly believed everything the former wished. 470 00:46:33,380 --> 00:46:37,390 Can religions, born of these rogueries, merit respect? 471 00:46:37,390 --> 00:46:38,620 Is there one of them, Therese, 472 00:46:38,620 --> 00:46:41,903 which does not bear the stamp of imposture and stupidity? 473 00:46:43,000 --> 00:46:45,110 What do I descry in them all? 474 00:46:45,110 --> 00:46:47,800 Mysteries which cause reason to shudder, 475 00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:50,040 dogmas which outrage Nature, 476 00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,960 grotesque ceremonies which simply inspire derision 477 00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,043 and disgust. 478 00:46:55,210 --> 00:46:57,209 But if amongst them all there were one 479 00:46:57,209 --> 00:46:59,797 which most particularly deserves our scorn and hatred, 480 00:46:59,797 --> 00:47:01,780 O Therese, is it not that barbaric law of the Christianity 481 00:47:01,780 --> 00:47:03,910 into which both of us were born? 482 00:47:03,910 --> 00:47:06,180 Is there any more odious? 483 00:47:06,180 --> 00:47:09,483 One which so spurs both the heart and mind to revolt? 484 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,050 How is it that rational men 485 00:47:12,050 --> 00:47:13,810 are still able to lend any credence 486 00:47:13,810 --> 00:47:17,100 to the obscure mutterings, to the alleged miracles 487 00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,500 of that appalling cult's vile originator? 488 00:47:20,500 --> 00:47:22,720 Has there ever existed a rowdy scoundrel 489 00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:26,070 more worthy of public indignation! 490 00:47:26,070 --> 00:47:27,860 What is he but a leprous Jew 491 00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:29,670 who, born of a slut and a soldier 492 00:47:29,670 --> 00:47:31,440 in the world's meanest stews, 493 00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:34,290 dared fob himself off for the spokesman of him who, 494 00:47:34,290 --> 00:47:36,750 they say, created the universe. 495 00:47:36,750 --> 00:47:38,330 With such lofty pretensions, 496 00:47:38,330 --> 00:47:39,590 you will have to admit, Therese, 497 00:47:39,590 --> 00:47:41,640 at least a few credentials are necessary. 498 00:47:42,880 --> 00:47:46,760 But what are those of this ridiculous Ambassador? 499 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:49,510 What is he going to do to prove his mission? 500 00:47:49,510 --> 00:47:52,230 Is the earth's face going to be changed? 501 00:47:52,230 --> 00:47:55,160 Are the plagues which beset it going to be annihilated? 502 00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:56,763 Is the sun going to shine upon it by night 503 00:47:56,763 --> 00:47:58,253 as well as by day? 504 00:47:59,330 --> 00:48:01,790 Vices will soil it no more? 505 00:48:01,790 --> 00:48:04,770 Are we going to see happiness reign at last? 506 00:48:04,770 --> 00:48:06,410 Not at all. 507 00:48:06,410 --> 00:48:10,820 It is through hocus-pocus, antic capers, and puns 508 00:48:10,820 --> 00:48:14,470 that God's envoy announces himself to the world. 509 00:48:14,470 --> 00:48:17,640 It is in the elegant society of manual laborers, 510 00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:19,500 artisans, and streetwalkers 511 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:22,283 that Heaven's minister comes to manifest his grandeur. 512 00:48:23,190 --> 00:48:25,880 It is by drunken carousing with these, 513 00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:28,500 bedding with those, that God's friend, 514 00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:31,370 God himself, comes to bend the toughened sinner 515 00:48:31,370 --> 00:48:33,010 to his laws. 516 00:48:33,010 --> 00:48:35,300 It is by inventing nothing for his farces 517 00:48:35,300 --> 00:48:37,500 but what can satisfy either his lewdness 518 00:48:37,500 --> 00:48:39,340 or his gourmand's guts 519 00:48:39,340 --> 00:48:42,600 that the knavish fellow demonstrates his mission. 520 00:48:42,600 --> 00:48:45,040 However all that may be, he makes his fortune, 521 00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,070 a few beef-witted satellites gravitate toward the villain, 522 00:48:48,070 --> 00:48:49,440 a sect is formed. 523 00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:53,230 This crowd's dogmas manage to seduce some Jews. 524 00:48:53,230 --> 00:48:54,670 Slaves of the Roman power, 525 00:48:54,670 --> 00:48:56,580 they joyfully embrace a religion which, 526 00:48:56,580 --> 00:48:57,840 ridding them of their shackles, 527 00:48:57,840 --> 00:49:01,170 makes them subject to none but a metaphysical tyranny. 528 00:49:01,170 --> 00:49:03,000 Their motives become evident, 529 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:05,350 their indocility unveils itself, 530 00:49:05,350 --> 00:49:07,030 the seditious louts are arrested, 531 00:49:07,030 --> 00:49:08,550 their captain perishes, 532 00:49:08,550 --> 00:49:10,340 but of a death doubtless much too merciful 533 00:49:10,340 --> 00:49:12,290 for his species of crime, 534 00:49:12,290 --> 00:49:15,180 and through an unpardonable lapse of intelligence, 535 00:49:15,180 --> 00:49:17,170 this uncouth boor's disciples 536 00:49:17,170 --> 00:49:19,610 are allowed to disperse instead of being slaughtered 537 00:49:19,610 --> 00:49:21,563 cheek to jowl with their leader. 538 00:49:22,470 --> 00:49:26,430 Fanaticism gets minds in its grip, women shriek, 539 00:49:26,430 --> 00:49:29,110 fools scrape and scuffle, 540 00:49:29,110 --> 00:49:30,760 imbeciles believe, and lo! 541 00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,450 The most contemptible of beings, 542 00:49:32,450 --> 00:49:35,320 the most maladroit quacksalver, 543 00:49:35,320 --> 00:49:38,450 the clumsiest impostor ever to have made his entrance, 544 00:49:38,450 --> 00:49:40,630 there he is, behold, God, 545 00:49:40,630 --> 00:49:44,550 there's God's little boy, his papa's peer. 546 00:49:44,550 --> 00:49:47,300 And now all his dreams are consecrated, 547 00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:50,260 and now all his epigrams are become dogmas. 548 00:49:50,260 --> 00:49:53,210 And all his blunders mysteries. 549 00:49:53,210 --> 00:49:55,840 His fabulous father's breast opens to receive him 550 00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,842 and that Creator, once upon a time simple, 551 00:49:57,842 --> 00:50:02,800 of sudden becomes compound, triple, 552 00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:06,190 to humor his son, this lad so worthy of his greatness, 553 00:50:06,190 --> 00:50:09,260 but does that sacred God stick at that? 554 00:50:09,260 --> 00:50:11,100 No, surely not, his celestial might 555 00:50:11,100 --> 00:50:13,683 is going to bestow many another and greater favor. 556 00:50:17,830 --> 00:50:20,570 At the beck and call of a priest, of, that is to say, 557 00:50:20,570 --> 00:50:22,670 an odd fellow foul with lies, 558 00:50:22,670 --> 00:50:24,810 the great God is going to abase himself 559 00:50:24,810 --> 00:50:27,880 to the point of descending 10 or 12 million times 560 00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,230 every morning in a morsel of wheat paste. 561 00:50:30,230 --> 00:50:33,560 This the faithful devour and assimilate, 562 00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:36,610 and God Almighty is lugged to the bottom of their intestines 563 00:50:36,610 --> 00:50:38,210 where he is speedily transmuted 564 00:50:38,210 --> 00:50:40,380 into the vilest excrement, 565 00:50:40,380 --> 00:50:44,380 and all that for the satisfaction of the tender son, 566 00:50:44,380 --> 00:50:46,930 odious inventor of this monstrous impiety 567 00:50:46,930 --> 00:50:49,433 which had its beginnings in a cabaret supper. 568 00:51:12,110 --> 00:51:13,083 - My hand! 569 00:51:14,420 --> 00:51:17,593 Have you been able, Monsieur, to conceive such projects? 570 00:51:18,690 --> 00:51:21,080 No, dispose of my life if you must, 571 00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,040 but imagine not you will ever obtain from me 572 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,910 the horror you propose. 573 00:51:24,910 --> 00:51:26,133 - Hear me, Therese. 574 00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:29,350 I indeed foresaw your distaste for the idea, 575 00:51:29,350 --> 00:51:31,270 but, as you have wit and verve, 576 00:51:31,270 --> 00:51:32,630 I flattered myself with the belief 577 00:51:32,630 --> 00:51:34,920 I could vanquish your feelings 578 00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:37,190 could prove to you that this crime, 579 00:51:37,190 --> 00:51:40,230 which seems to you of such enormity, is, at bottom, 580 00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:41,963 a very banal affair. 581 00:51:45,310 --> 00:51:47,270 Two misdeeds present themselves 582 00:51:47,270 --> 00:51:49,273 to your not very philosophic scrutiny. 583 00:51:50,390 --> 00:51:54,140 The destruction of a creature bearing a resemblance to us, 584 00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:56,910 and the evil with which this crime 585 00:51:56,910 --> 00:51:58,930 is augmented when the said creature 586 00:51:58,930 --> 00:52:00,473 is one of our near kinsmen. 587 00:52:02,170 --> 00:52:04,930 With regard to the crime of destroying one's fellow, 588 00:52:04,930 --> 00:52:07,943 be persuaded, dear girl, it is purely hallucinatory. 589 00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:11,380 Man has not been accorded the power to destroy, 590 00:52:11,380 --> 00:52:15,520 he has at best the capacity to alter forms, 591 00:52:15,520 --> 00:52:17,773 but lacks that required to annihilate them. 592 00:52:18,750 --> 00:52:22,530 Well, every form is of equal worth in Nature's view, 593 00:52:22,530 --> 00:52:24,880 nothing is lost in the immense melting pot 594 00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:26,790 where variations are wrought. 595 00:52:26,790 --> 00:52:28,963 All the material masses which fall into it 596 00:52:28,963 --> 00:52:33,070 spring incessantly forth in other shapes, 597 00:52:33,070 --> 00:52:35,650 and whatsoever be our interventions in this process, 598 00:52:35,650 --> 00:52:37,550 not one of them, needless to say, 599 00:52:37,550 --> 00:52:40,713 outrages her, not one is capable of offending her. 600 00:52:41,790 --> 00:52:44,113 Our depredations revive her power, 601 00:52:45,270 --> 00:52:49,490 they stimulate her energy, but not one attenuates her, 602 00:52:49,490 --> 00:52:52,483 she is neither impeded nor thwarted by any. 603 00:52:54,410 --> 00:52:58,570 Why, what difference does it make to her creative hand 604 00:52:58,570 --> 00:53:01,600 if this mass of flesh today wearing the conformation 605 00:53:01,600 --> 00:53:04,870 of a bipedal individual is reproduced tomorrow 606 00:53:04,870 --> 00:53:07,403 in the guise of a handful of centipedes? 607 00:53:08,720 --> 00:53:10,680 Dare one say that the construction 608 00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:11,970 of this two-legged animal 609 00:53:11,970 --> 00:53:14,020 costs her any more than that of an earthworm, 610 00:53:14,020 --> 00:53:15,500 and that she should take a greater interest 611 00:53:15,500 --> 00:53:17,613 in the one than in the other? 612 00:53:18,870 --> 00:53:21,110 If then the degree of attachment, 613 00:53:21,110 --> 00:53:23,870 or rather of indifference, is the same, 614 00:53:23,870 --> 00:53:26,800 what can it be to her if, by one man's sword, 615 00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,330 another man is transspeciated into a fly 616 00:53:29,330 --> 00:53:30,713 or a blade of grass? 617 00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,320 When they will have convinced me 618 00:53:35,320 --> 00:53:37,483 of the sublimity of our species, 619 00:53:38,430 --> 00:53:39,753 when they will have demonstrated to me 620 00:53:39,753 --> 00:53:42,400 that it is really so important to Nature, 621 00:53:42,400 --> 00:53:44,760 that her laws are necessarily violated 622 00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:46,290 by this transmutation, 623 00:53:46,290 --> 00:53:48,990 then I will be able to believe that murder is a crime, 624 00:53:50,240 --> 00:53:53,300 but when the most thoughtful and sober study 625 00:53:53,300 --> 00:53:56,086 has proven to me that everything that vegetates 626 00:53:56,086 --> 00:53:59,300 upon this globe is of equal value in her eyes, 627 00:53:59,300 --> 00:54:00,773 I shall never concede 628 00:54:00,773 --> 00:54:03,120 that the alteration of one of these creatures 629 00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:05,855 into a thousand others can in any sense 630 00:54:05,855 --> 00:54:10,173 upset her intentions or sort ill with her desires. 631 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:14,420 I say to myself, 632 00:54:14,420 --> 00:54:18,380 all men, all animals, all plants growing, feeding, 633 00:54:18,380 --> 00:54:21,450 destroying and reproducing themselves by the same means, 634 00:54:21,450 --> 00:54:23,480 never undergoing a real death, 635 00:54:23,480 --> 00:54:26,720 but a simple variation in what modifies them all, 636 00:54:26,720 --> 00:54:28,930 I say, appearing today in one form 637 00:54:28,930 --> 00:54:32,480 and several years or hours later in another, 638 00:54:32,480 --> 00:54:36,679 all may, at the will of the being who wishes to move them, 639 00:54:36,679 --> 00:54:41,679 change a thousand thousand times in a single day, 640 00:54:41,740 --> 00:54:43,320 without one of Nature's directives 641 00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:45,363 being affected for one instant. 642 00:54:46,610 --> 00:54:48,050 What do I say? 643 00:54:48,050 --> 00:54:51,310 Without this transmuter having done anything but good, 644 00:54:51,310 --> 00:54:53,900 since, by dismantling the individuals 645 00:54:53,900 --> 00:54:57,440 whose basic components again become necessary to Nature, 646 00:54:57,440 --> 00:54:59,010 he does naught by this action, 647 00:54:59,010 --> 00:55:01,380 improperly qualified as criminal, 648 00:55:01,380 --> 00:55:03,410 but render her the creative energy 649 00:55:03,410 --> 00:55:06,580 of which she is necessarily deprived by him who, 650 00:55:06,580 --> 00:55:08,810 through brutish indifference, 651 00:55:08,810 --> 00:55:13,530 dares not undertake any shuffling, as it were, of the pack. 652 00:56:33,432 --> 00:56:37,060 O Therese, it is man's pride alone 653 00:56:37,060 --> 00:56:38,573 erects murder as a crime. 654 00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,200 This vain creature, imagining himself 655 00:56:42,200 --> 00:56:44,560 to be the most sublime of the globe's inhabitants, 656 00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,350 its most essential, takes his departure 657 00:56:47,350 --> 00:56:48,970 from this false premise 658 00:56:48,970 --> 00:56:51,170 in order to affirm that the deed 659 00:56:51,170 --> 00:56:54,780 which results in his undoing can be nothing but an infamy, 660 00:56:54,780 --> 00:56:58,590 but his vanity, his lunacy alter the laws of Nature 661 00:56:58,590 --> 00:56:59,713 not one jot. 662 00:57:00,850 --> 00:57:03,620 No person exists who in the depths of his heart 663 00:57:03,620 --> 00:57:05,160 does not feel the most vehement desire 664 00:57:05,160 --> 00:57:08,000 to be rid of those by whom he is hampered, 665 00:57:08,000 --> 00:57:12,523 troubled, or whose death will be of some advantage to him. 666 00:57:14,390 --> 00:57:17,764 And do you suppose that the difference between this desire 667 00:57:17,764 --> 00:57:21,223 and its effect is very great? 668 00:57:22,940 --> 00:57:25,770 Now, if these impressions come to us from Nature, 669 00:57:25,770 --> 00:57:28,093 can it be presumed they irritate her? 670 00:57:29,250 --> 00:57:31,873 Would she inspire in us what cause her downfall? 671 00:57:34,020 --> 00:57:35,143 Ah, be at ease. 672 00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:41,460 Dear girl, we experience nothing that does not serve her. 673 00:57:41,460 --> 00:57:43,170 All the impulses she puts in us 674 00:57:43,170 --> 00:57:45,163 are the agents of her decrees. 675 00:57:46,140 --> 00:57:48,680 Man's passions are but the means she employs 676 00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:50,223 to attain her ends. 677 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,060 If she stands in need of more individuals, 678 00:57:53,060 --> 00:57:56,210 she inspires lust in us and behold there are creations. 679 00:57:56,210 --> 00:57:58,650 When destructions become necessary to her, 680 00:57:58,650 --> 00:58:01,884 she inspires vengeance, avarice, 681 00:58:01,884 --> 00:58:06,884 lechery, ambition into our hearts and lo! 682 00:58:07,030 --> 00:58:08,820 You have murders. 683 00:58:08,820 --> 00:58:12,720 But she has not ceased to labor in her own behalf, 684 00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:15,320 and whatever we do, there can be no question of it, 685 00:58:15,320 --> 00:58:19,173 we are the unthinking instruments of her caprices. 686 00:59:30,657 --> 00:59:33,157 But my aunt is the creature I am going to destroy. 687 00:59:35,110 --> 00:59:36,550 Oh, Therese, in a philosopher's view 688 00:59:36,550 --> 00:59:39,660 how frivolous are these consanguinary ties. 689 00:59:39,660 --> 00:59:41,720 Forgive me, but I do not even wish to discuss them, 690 00:59:41,720 --> 00:59:43,363 so futile are they. 691 00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:46,129 These contemptible chains, 692 00:59:46,129 --> 00:59:49,560 the fruit of our laws and our political institutions 693 00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:51,210 can they mean anything to Nature? 694 00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:57,693 Desert your prejudices, Therese. 695 00:59:59,710 --> 01:00:01,993 Leave them behind, and serve me. 696 01:00:03,910 --> 01:00:05,403 Your fortune is made. 697 01:00:19,210 --> 01:00:22,250 - Oh Monsieur, your mind invents this theory 698 01:00:22,250 --> 01:00:24,423 of an impassive, indifferent Nature. 699 01:00:25,280 --> 01:00:27,000 Deign rather to heed your heart, 700 01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:28,140 and you will hear it condemn 701 01:00:28,140 --> 01:00:30,403 all libertinage's false reasonings. 702 01:00:33,630 --> 01:00:36,780 - [Man] I see very well I was mistaken, Therese. 703 01:00:36,780 --> 01:00:41,600 I regret it, perhaps as much on your account as on my own. 704 01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:45,483 No matter, I shall discover other means, 705 01:00:46,330 --> 01:00:47,820 and it will be much you shall have lost 706 01:00:47,820 --> 01:00:49,753 without your mistress gaining anything. 707 01:01:15,882 --> 01:01:18,132 (laughing) 708 01:01:23,667 --> 01:01:26,010 You are delicious, my child. 709 01:01:26,010 --> 01:01:28,933 A gleam of wisdom seems to have penetrated into your mind. 710 01:01:30,450 --> 01:01:33,410 That such charming mind as this should have lain in darkness 711 01:01:33,410 --> 01:01:34,313 for so long. 712 01:01:35,570 --> 01:01:36,403 Incredible. 713 01:02:22,010 --> 01:02:24,980 You are the first woman I have ever held in my arms, 714 01:02:24,980 --> 01:02:27,190 and truly, it is with my soul. 715 01:03:05,804 --> 01:03:07,150 - [Justine] But the abominable crime was to be consummated, 716 01:03:07,150 --> 01:03:09,170 some inconceivable permission must have been granted 717 01:03:09,170 --> 01:03:10,830 by Heaven that virtue might be made to yield 718 01:03:10,830 --> 01:03:12,130 to villainy's oppressions. 719 01:03:13,140 --> 01:03:14,610 The animal upon which we had experimented 720 01:03:14,610 --> 01:03:15,810 revealed everything to the Count. 721 01:03:15,810 --> 01:03:16,643 He heard it howling, 722 01:03:16,643 --> 01:03:18,962 knowing of his aunt's fondness for the beast, 723 01:03:18,962 --> 01:03:19,983 he asked what had been done to it. 724 01:03:20,870 --> 01:03:22,520 Those to whom he spoke knew nothing of the matter 725 01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:23,640 and made him no clear answer. 726 01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,720 From this moment, his suspicions began to take shape, 727 01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,520 he uttered not a word, but I saw that he was disquieted. 728 01:03:29,450 --> 01:03:30,840 I mentioned his state to the Marquise, 729 01:03:30,840 --> 01:03:31,960 she became further upset, 730 01:03:31,960 --> 01:03:33,766 but could think of nothing 731 01:03:33,766 --> 01:03:34,830 to do save urge the courier to make yet greater haste, 732 01:03:34,830 --> 01:03:36,210 and, if possible, still more carefully 733 01:03:36,210 --> 01:03:37,960 to hide the purpose of his mission. 734 01:03:39,610 --> 01:03:41,440 She advised her nephew that she was writing to Paris 735 01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:42,700 to beg the Duc de Sonzeval 736 01:03:42,700 --> 01:03:44,160 to waste not a moment to take up the matter 737 01:03:44,160 --> 01:03:45,840 of the recently deceased uncle's inheritance 738 01:03:45,840 --> 01:03:47,424 for if no one were to appear to claim it, 739 01:03:47,424 --> 01:03:49,608 there was litigation to be feared. 740 01:03:49,608 --> 01:03:52,550 She added that she had requested the Duke to come 741 01:03:52,550 --> 01:03:54,080 and give her a complete account of the affair, 742 01:03:54,080 --> 01:03:55,610 in order that she might learn whether or not 743 01:03:55,610 --> 01:03:56,770 she and her nephew would be obliged 744 01:03:56,770 --> 01:03:58,120 to make a journey to Paris. 745 01:04:02,100 --> 01:04:04,230 At the time I knew nothing, I was the dupe of everything. 746 01:04:04,230 --> 01:04:05,680 Were the appalling crime to be committed 747 01:04:05,680 --> 01:04:07,240 as the Count's actions informed me later, 748 01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:08,860 he would of course have to commit it himself, 749 01:04:08,860 --> 01:04:10,053 but I did not know how. 750 01:04:11,710 --> 01:04:13,700 I conjectured much, what good would it do to tell you 751 01:04:13,700 --> 01:04:14,533 what I imagined? 752 01:04:14,533 --> 01:04:16,090 Rather, let us move ahead to the cruel manner 753 01:04:16,090 --> 01:04:16,940 in which I was punished 754 01:04:16,940 --> 01:04:19,600 for not having wished to undertake the thing. 755 01:08:26,899 --> 01:08:29,069 - The criminal capable of having poisoned my aunt 756 01:08:29,069 --> 01:08:31,000 is brazen indeed to dare thus write to me 757 01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,690 after her execrable deed. 758 01:08:32,690 --> 01:08:34,020 Better still is the care with which 759 01:08:34,020 --> 01:08:35,270 she conceals her retreat, 760 01:08:35,270 --> 01:08:37,210 for she may be sure she will be discomfited 761 01:08:37,210 --> 01:08:38,979 if she is discovered. 762 01:08:38,979 --> 01:08:41,510 But what is it she has the temerity to demand? 763 01:08:41,510 --> 01:08:42,960 What are these references to money? 764 01:08:42,960 --> 01:08:45,777 Does what she left behind equal the thefts she committed, 765 01:08:45,777 --> 01:08:47,729 either during her sojourn in the house 766 01:08:47,729 --> 01:08:49,938 or while consummating her final crime? 767 01:08:49,938 --> 01:08:52,760 Let her avoid sending a second request similar to this, 768 01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:54,340 for she is advised her ambassador 769 01:08:54,340 --> 01:08:56,090 will be arrested and held 770 01:08:56,090 --> 01:08:57,580 until the law acquaints itself 771 01:08:57,580 --> 01:09:00,280 with the place where the guilty party is taking cover. 772 01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:13,700 - Certainly, dear friend, 773 01:09:13,700 --> 01:09:15,050 my father could make ends meet 774 01:09:15,050 --> 01:09:17,950 without pursuing either of these two occupations. 775 01:09:17,950 --> 01:09:18,960 He pursues both at once, 776 01:09:18,960 --> 01:09:21,110 it is because of the two motives 777 01:09:21,110 --> 01:09:23,149 I am going to reveal to you. 778 01:09:23,149 --> 01:09:26,210 He practices medicine because he has a liking for it, 779 01:09:26,210 --> 01:09:27,969 he takes keen pleasure in using his skill 780 01:09:27,969 --> 01:09:31,255 to make new discoveries, he has made so many of them, 781 01:09:31,255 --> 01:09:32,673 he has written so many authoritative texts 782 01:09:32,673 --> 01:09:35,059 based upon his investigations 783 01:09:35,059 --> 01:09:36,616 that he is generally acknowledged 784 01:09:36,616 --> 01:09:39,460 the most accomplished man in France at the present time. 785 01:09:39,460 --> 01:09:41,559 He worked for twenty years in Paris, 786 01:09:41,559 --> 01:09:43,190 and for the sake of his amusements 787 01:09:43,190 --> 01:09:44,573 he retired to the country. 788 01:09:45,510 --> 01:09:47,059 The real surgeon at Saint-Marcel 789 01:09:47,059 --> 01:09:48,690 is someone named Rombeau 790 01:09:48,690 --> 01:09:50,250 whom he has taken under his tutelage 791 01:09:50,250 --> 01:09:52,962 and with whom he collaborates upon experiments, 792 01:09:54,299 --> 01:09:55,404 and now, Therese, 793 01:09:55,404 --> 01:09:57,059 would you know why he runs a school? 794 01:09:57,059 --> 01:10:00,620 Libertinage, my child, libertinage alone, 795 01:10:00,620 --> 01:10:02,763 a passion he carries to its extremes. 796 01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:06,425 My father finds in his pupils of either sex 797 01:10:06,425 --> 01:10:10,296 objects whose dependence submits them to his inclinations, 798 01:10:10,296 --> 01:10:11,346 and he exploits them. 799 01:10:12,387 --> 01:10:15,820 But wait a moment, come with me, 800 01:10:15,820 --> 01:10:18,620 today is Friday, one of the three days during the week 801 01:10:18,620 --> 01:10:20,969 when he corrects those who have misbehaved. 802 01:10:20,969 --> 01:10:22,000 It is in this kind of punishment 803 01:10:22,000 --> 01:10:23,450 my father takes his pleasure. 804 01:10:24,300 --> 01:10:27,520 Follow me, I tell you, you shall see how he behaves. 805 01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:29,670 Everything is visible from a closet in my room 806 01:10:29,670 --> 01:10:32,373 which adjoins the one where he concludes his business. 807 01:10:33,250 --> 01:10:35,850 Let's go there without making any noise, 808 01:10:35,850 --> 01:10:38,120 and above all be careful not to say a word 809 01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:39,548 both about what I am telling you 810 01:10:39,548 --> 01:10:42,298 and what you're about to witness. 811 01:11:07,260 --> 01:11:09,080 Don't believe a word of it, 812 01:11:09,080 --> 01:11:12,520 these are trifles my invents by way of pretext. 813 01:11:12,520 --> 01:11:14,070 That little creature is an angel, 814 01:11:14,070 --> 01:11:17,080 it is because she resists him he treats her harshly. 815 01:13:04,282 --> 01:13:05,969 - Dear Heaven! 816 01:13:05,969 --> 01:13:09,680 How is one able to surrender oneself to such excesses? 817 01:13:09,680 --> 01:13:12,693 How can one find pleasure in the torments one inflicts? 818 01:13:13,580 --> 01:13:15,600 - Ah, you do not know everything. 819 01:13:15,600 --> 01:13:17,760 Listen, what you have seen has perhaps enabled you 820 01:13:17,760 --> 01:13:21,219 to understand that when my father discovers some aptitudes 821 01:13:21,219 --> 01:13:22,600 in his young pupils, 822 01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,910 he carries his horrors much further. 823 01:13:24,910 --> 01:13:26,610 He abuses the girls in the same manner 824 01:13:26,610 --> 01:13:28,219 as he deals with the boys. 825 01:13:28,219 --> 01:13:30,360 By this means the girls are not in the least dishonored, 826 01:13:30,360 --> 01:13:32,650 there are no pregnancies to fear, 827 01:13:32,650 --> 01:13:35,750 and nothing prevents them from finding a husband. 828 01:13:35,750 --> 01:13:37,690 Not a year goes by without his corrupting 829 01:13:37,690 --> 01:13:39,070 nearly all the boys in this way, 830 01:13:39,070 --> 01:13:40,923 and at least half the other children. 831 01:13:42,309 --> 01:13:43,950 Of the 14 girls you have seen, 832 01:13:43,950 --> 01:13:46,580 eight have already been spoiled by these methods, 833 01:13:46,580 --> 01:13:49,570 and he has taken his pleasure with nine of the boys, 834 01:13:49,570 --> 01:13:51,070 the two women who serve him are submitted 835 01:13:51,070 --> 01:13:52,303 to the same horrors. 836 01:13:54,223 --> 01:13:56,660 O Therese, O dear girl, 837 01:13:56,660 --> 01:13:59,785 and I too, yes I, he seduced me in my earliest years. 838 01:13:59,785 --> 01:14:03,413 I was barely 11 when I became his victim, 839 01:14:04,389 --> 01:14:07,153 when, alas I was unable to defend myself against him. 840 01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,910 Come hither, that room where he chastises his students 841 01:14:14,910 --> 01:14:17,350 is the same wherein he enjoys us. 842 01:14:17,350 --> 01:14:19,059 The lessons are over now, 843 01:14:19,059 --> 01:14:21,575 it is the hour when, warmed by the preliminaries, 844 01:14:21,575 --> 01:14:22,707 he is going to compensate himself 845 01:14:22,707 --> 01:14:25,873 for the restraint his prudence sometimes imposes upon him. 846 01:14:26,980 --> 01:14:29,100 Go back to where you were, dear girl, 847 01:14:29,100 --> 01:14:31,137 and with your own eyes behold it all. 848 01:14:42,590 --> 01:14:46,100 - Anatomy will never reach its ultimate state of perfection 849 01:14:46,100 --> 01:14:48,130 until an examination has been performed 850 01:14:48,130 --> 01:14:52,380 upon the vaginal canal of a 14 or 15-year-old girl 851 01:14:53,344 --> 01:14:55,243 who has expired from a cruel death. 852 01:14:56,730 --> 01:14:59,370 It is only from the contingent contraction 853 01:14:59,370 --> 01:15:01,969 we can obtain a complete analysis 854 01:15:01,969 --> 01:15:04,840 of a so highly interesting part. 855 01:15:04,840 --> 01:15:08,309 - The same holds true for the hymeneal membrane. 856 01:15:08,309 --> 01:15:12,670 We must, of course, find a young girl for the dissection. 857 01:15:12,670 --> 01:15:14,660 What the deuce is there to be learned 858 01:15:14,660 --> 01:15:16,420 after the age of puberty? 859 01:15:16,420 --> 01:15:17,253 Nothing. 860 01:15:18,388 --> 01:15:22,180 The menstrual discharges rupture the hymen, 861 01:15:22,180 --> 01:15:25,623 and all research is necessarily inexact. 862 01:15:27,430 --> 01:15:30,719 Your daughter is precisely what we need. 863 01:15:30,719 --> 01:15:33,993 Although she is 15, she is not yet mature. 864 01:15:35,300 --> 01:15:38,480 The manner in which we have enjoyed her 865 01:15:38,480 --> 01:15:41,420 has done no damage to the membranous tissue, 866 01:15:41,420 --> 01:15:43,610 and we will be able to handle her 867 01:15:43,610 --> 01:15:47,010 with complete immunity from interference. 868 01:15:47,010 --> 01:15:50,655 I must say, I am delighted you have decided 869 01:15:50,655 --> 01:15:52,153 to go ahead at last. 870 01:15:53,467 --> 01:15:55,910 - Oh, I certainly have. 871 01:15:55,910 --> 01:15:59,080 I find it odious that futile considerations 872 01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:01,690 should check the progress of science, 873 01:16:01,690 --> 01:16:04,120 did great men ever allow themselves to be enslaved 874 01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:05,923 by such contemptible chains? 875 01:16:07,580 --> 01:16:08,860 And, when Michelangelo 876 01:16:08,860 --> 01:16:10,853 wished to render a Christ after Nature, 877 01:16:11,840 --> 01:16:13,719 did he make the crucifixion of a young man 878 01:16:13,719 --> 01:16:15,880 the occasion for a fit of remorse? 879 01:16:15,880 --> 01:16:16,713 Why no. 880 01:16:18,270 --> 01:16:20,219 He copied the boy in his death agonies. 881 01:16:22,520 --> 01:16:25,730 But where it is a question of the advance of our art, 882 01:16:25,730 --> 01:16:28,050 how absolutely essential such means become, 883 01:16:28,050 --> 01:16:30,480 and how the evil in permitting them 884 01:16:30,480 --> 01:16:32,190 dwindles to insignificance. 885 01:16:32,190 --> 01:16:33,240 Only think of it. 886 01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:37,889 You sacrifice one, but you save a million, perhaps, 887 01:16:37,889 --> 01:16:40,139 can one hesitate when the price is so modest? 888 01:16:41,327 --> 01:16:45,920 Is the murder operated by the law of a species 889 01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,559 different from the one we are going to perform? 890 01:16:48,559 --> 01:16:50,340 And is not the purpose of those laws, 891 01:16:50,340 --> 01:16:52,793 commonly found so wise, 892 01:16:54,190 --> 01:16:58,225 the sacrifice of one in order to save a thousand? 893 01:16:58,225 --> 01:16:59,990 - But what other way can one approach the problem? 894 01:16:59,990 --> 01:17:01,630 There is certainly no other way 895 01:17:01,630 --> 01:17:03,213 by which to obtain information. 896 01:17:04,330 --> 01:17:07,496 In those hospitals where I worked as a young man 897 01:17:07,496 --> 01:17:10,491 I witnessed similar experiments by the thousand, 898 01:17:10,491 --> 01:17:15,491 but I must confess that I, in view of the ties 899 01:17:18,270 --> 01:17:20,664 which attach you to this creature, 900 01:17:20,664 --> 01:17:25,083 I would have thought you might hesitate. 901 01:17:26,330 --> 01:17:27,610 - What? 902 01:17:27,610 --> 01:17:28,910 Because she's my daughter? 903 01:17:29,846 --> 01:17:31,973 A capital reason. 904 01:17:33,583 --> 01:17:35,460 And what rank do you then suppose this title 905 01:17:35,460 --> 01:17:36,913 must allot her in my heart? 906 01:17:38,440 --> 01:17:41,070 I place roughly the same value upon a little semen 907 01:17:41,070 --> 01:17:42,469 which has hatched its chick, 908 01:17:43,340 --> 01:17:48,340 and upon that I am pleased to waste while enjoying myself. 909 01:17:49,040 --> 01:17:51,540 One has the power to take back what one has given, 910 01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:54,570 amongst no race that has ever dwelled on earth 911 01:17:54,570 --> 01:17:56,610 has there been any disputing the right 912 01:17:56,610 --> 01:17:58,860 to dispose of one's children as one sees fit. 913 01:17:59,900 --> 01:18:02,750 The Persians, the Medes, the Armenians, 914 01:18:02,750 --> 01:18:05,500 the Greeks all used this right in its fullest latitude. 915 01:18:06,585 --> 01:18:09,219 The constitution decreed by Lycurgus, 916 01:18:09,219 --> 01:18:11,620 that paragon of lawgivers, 917 01:18:11,620 --> 01:18:14,909 not only accorded fathers every right over their offspring, 918 01:18:14,909 --> 01:18:16,980 but even condemned to death 919 01:18:16,980 --> 01:18:19,059 those children parents did not care to feed, 920 01:18:19,059 --> 01:18:22,183 or those which were discovered malformed. 921 01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:25,430 A great proportion of savage peoples 922 01:18:25,430 --> 01:18:27,333 kill their young immediately they are born. 923 01:18:28,200 --> 01:18:30,710 Nearly all the women of Asia, America, Africa, 924 01:18:30,710 --> 01:18:32,530 practice abortions, and are not for that reason 925 01:18:32,530 --> 01:18:33,713 covered with discredit. 926 01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:36,790 Cook discovered the custom widespread 927 01:18:36,790 --> 01:18:38,282 in all the South Sea islands. 928 01:18:39,270 --> 01:18:41,575 Romulus permitted infanticide, 929 01:18:41,575 --> 01:18:45,163 the law of the 12 tables similarly tolerated it, 930 01:18:46,630 --> 01:18:48,410 and until the era of Constantine 931 01:18:49,910 --> 01:18:53,543 the Romans killed or exposed their children with impunity. 932 01:18:55,450 --> 01:18:57,780 Aristotle recommended this pretended crime, 933 01:18:57,780 --> 01:19:01,570 the Stoic sect thought it praiseworthy. 934 01:19:01,570 --> 01:19:03,480 It's still very much in use in China. 935 01:19:03,480 --> 01:19:05,330 Every day one stays lying in the streets 936 01:19:05,330 --> 01:19:07,320 and floating in the canals of Peking, 937 01:19:07,320 --> 01:19:10,030 over 10 thousand individuals immolated or abandoned 938 01:19:10,030 --> 01:19:11,612 by their parents, 939 01:19:11,612 --> 01:19:13,641 and in that wisely-governed empire 940 01:19:13,641 --> 01:19:15,990 no matter what a child's age may be 941 01:19:15,990 --> 01:19:19,320 a father need but put it into the hands of a judge 942 01:19:19,320 --> 01:19:21,430 to be rid of it. 943 01:19:21,430 --> 01:19:22,990 According to the laws of the Parthians, 944 01:19:22,990 --> 01:19:25,430 one killed one's son, one's daughter, or one's brother, 945 01:19:25,430 --> 01:19:27,160 even at the age of nubility. 946 01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:30,843 Caesar discovered the custom universal amongst the Gauls. 947 01:19:31,770 --> 01:19:33,430 Several passages in the Pentateuch 948 01:19:33,430 --> 01:19:35,600 prove that amongst the children of God 949 01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,532 one was allowed to kill one's children, 950 01:19:37,532 --> 01:19:42,532 and, finally, God Himself ordered Abraham to do just that. 951 01:19:46,830 --> 01:19:47,950 It's long been believed, 952 01:19:47,950 --> 01:19:50,503 declares a celebrated modern author, 953 01:19:50,503 --> 01:19:52,639 that the prosperity of empires 954 01:19:52,639 --> 01:19:54,673 depends upon the slavery of children. 955 01:19:55,559 --> 01:19:57,924 This opinion is supported by the healthiest logic. 956 01:19:57,924 --> 01:20:01,150 Why, a monarch will fancy himself 957 01:20:01,150 --> 01:20:05,160 authorized to sacrifice 20, 30 thousand of his subjects 958 01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:06,360 in a single day 959 01:20:07,430 --> 01:20:09,910 in order to achieve his own ends, 960 01:20:09,910 --> 01:20:12,400 and a father is not to be allowed, 961 01:20:12,400 --> 01:20:14,010 when he esteems it propitious 962 01:20:14,870 --> 01:20:17,635 to become the master of his children's lives. 963 01:20:17,635 --> 01:20:19,070 (chuckles) 964 01:20:19,070 --> 01:20:20,840 What absurdity! 965 01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:22,963 O folly! 966 01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:28,443 What is this inconsistency, 967 01:20:29,580 --> 01:20:33,163 this feebleness in them upon whom such chains are binding. 968 01:20:34,340 --> 01:20:36,290 A father's authority over his children, 969 01:20:36,290 --> 01:20:39,147 the only real one, the one that serves as basic 970 01:20:39,147 --> 01:20:40,973 to all others, 971 01:20:42,500 --> 01:20:44,790 that authority is dictated 972 01:20:44,790 --> 01:20:47,469 by the voice of Nature herself, 973 01:20:48,779 --> 01:20:50,719 and the intelligent study of her operations 974 01:20:50,719 --> 01:20:53,219 provides examples of it at every turn and instant. 975 01:20:55,530 --> 01:20:58,350 Czar Peter was in no doubt as to this right. 976 01:20:58,350 --> 01:21:00,370 He used it habitually, 977 01:21:00,370 --> 01:21:03,270 and addressed a public declaration to all the orders 978 01:21:03,270 --> 01:21:04,690 of his empire, 979 01:21:04,690 --> 01:21:06,660 in which he said that, according to laws 980 01:21:06,660 --> 01:21:08,373 of human and divine, 981 01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:11,368 a father had the entire and absolute right 982 01:21:11,368 --> 01:21:13,930 to sentence his children to death, 983 01:21:13,930 --> 01:21:17,670 without appeal and without consulting the opinion 984 01:21:17,670 --> 01:21:18,577 of anyone at all. 985 01:21:21,112 --> 01:21:24,760 It is only in our own barbarous France 986 01:21:24,760 --> 01:21:28,150 that a false and ludicrous pity 987 01:21:28,150 --> 01:21:30,293 has presumed to suppress this prerogative. 988 01:21:33,610 --> 01:21:35,993 No, no, my friend, 989 01:21:37,540 --> 01:21:40,180 I will never understand how a father, 990 01:21:40,180 --> 01:21:43,580 who's had the kindness to provide it with life, 991 01:21:43,580 --> 01:21:47,393 may not be at liberty to bestow death upon his issue. 992 01:21:49,913 --> 01:21:50,910 'Tis the ridiculous value 993 01:21:50,910 --> 01:21:52,370 we place upon life 994 01:21:53,222 --> 01:21:55,469 which eternally makes us speak drivel 995 01:21:55,469 --> 01:21:57,330 about the kind of deed to which a man resorts 996 01:21:57,330 --> 01:22:00,193 in order to disencumber himself with a fellow traveler. 997 01:22:02,043 --> 01:22:06,593 But the cessation of this existence, 998 01:22:07,630 --> 01:22:08,930 or rather what follows it, 999 01:22:10,180 --> 01:22:14,219 is no more an evil than life is a good, 1000 01:22:14,219 --> 01:22:15,950 or rather, if nothing dies, 1001 01:22:15,950 --> 01:22:17,960 if nothing is destroyed, 1002 01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:21,823 if nothing at all is lost to Nature, 1003 01:22:23,760 --> 01:22:26,240 if all the decomposed parts 1004 01:22:26,240 --> 01:22:30,000 of any body whatsoever merely await dissolution 1005 01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:33,200 to reappear immediately under new forms, 1006 01:22:33,200 --> 01:22:35,350 then how indifferent is this act of murder? 1007 01:22:36,650 --> 01:22:39,023 And how dare one find any evil in it? 1008 01:22:42,690 --> 01:22:45,193 In this connection I act according to my own whim. 1009 01:22:46,860 --> 01:22:49,480 I ought to regard the thing as very simple indeed, 1010 01:22:49,480 --> 01:22:50,990 especially so when it becomes necessary 1011 01:22:50,990 --> 01:22:53,693 to an act of such vital importance to mankind, 1012 01:22:54,639 --> 01:22:57,683 when it can furnish such a wealth of knowledge. 1013 01:22:59,650 --> 01:23:04,650 Henceforth it is a crime or an evil no longer, my friend. 1014 01:23:06,230 --> 01:23:08,373 No, not a petty misdemeanor, 1015 01:23:09,490 --> 01:23:12,623 it is the best, the wisest, 1016 01:23:14,120 --> 01:23:17,240 the most useful of all actions, 1017 01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:20,550 and crime would exist only in refusing oneself 1018 01:23:20,550 --> 01:23:22,360 the pleasure of committing it. 1019 01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:24,780 - Dear fellow. 1020 01:23:24,780 --> 01:23:28,833 I applaud you, your wisdom enchants me, 1021 01:23:30,630 --> 01:23:34,003 but I find your indifference astonishing. 1022 01:23:35,780 --> 01:23:39,990 I would have thought you would have been more amorous. 1023 01:23:43,678 --> 01:23:45,761 - I, in love with a girl? 1024 01:23:47,065 --> 01:23:48,760 (laughs) Rombeau. 1025 01:23:48,760 --> 01:23:50,273 I supposed you knew me better. 1026 01:23:51,780 --> 01:23:53,020 I employ these creatures when there's 1027 01:23:53,020 --> 01:23:54,563 nothing better to hand. 1028 01:23:57,280 --> 01:24:02,280 The extreme penchant I have for pleasures 1029 01:24:02,690 --> 01:24:04,969 of the variety you have 1030 01:24:04,969 --> 01:24:06,210 make very precious to me 1031 01:24:06,210 --> 01:24:09,000 all the temples at which this sort of incense 1032 01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:10,634 may be offered, 1033 01:24:10,634 --> 01:24:13,335 and to multiply my devotion 1034 01:24:13,335 --> 01:24:16,500 I sometimes assimilate a little girl 1035 01:24:16,500 --> 01:24:18,767 into a pretty little boy, 1036 01:24:18,767 --> 01:24:22,490 but should one of these female personages 1037 01:24:22,490 --> 01:24:25,323 unhappily nourish my illusions for too long, 1038 01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:31,362 my disgust energetically manifests itself, 1039 01:24:32,530 --> 01:24:35,240 and I have yet found but one means 1040 01:24:35,240 --> 01:24:40,240 to satisfy it deliciously. 1041 01:24:40,250 --> 01:24:41,713 You understand me, Rombeau. 1042 01:24:43,827 --> 01:24:47,340 Chilperic, the most voluptuous of France's kings, 1043 01:24:47,340 --> 01:24:48,433 held the same views. 1044 01:24:49,940 --> 01:24:52,486 His boisterous organ proclaimed aloud 1045 01:24:52,486 --> 01:24:55,750 that in an emergency one could make use of a woman, 1046 01:24:55,750 --> 01:24:57,850 but upon the express condition 1047 01:24:57,850 --> 01:25:02,303 one exterminated her as soon as one had done with her. 1048 01:25:04,219 --> 01:25:08,610 This little wench has served my pleasures for five years, 1049 01:25:08,610 --> 01:25:13,610 now it's time she paid for my loss of interest 1050 01:25:15,320 --> 01:25:17,093 with her loss of existence. 1051 01:26:03,900 --> 01:26:07,543 - Ah, wretch, where are you going? 1052 01:26:10,320 --> 01:26:14,653 Why, here's the rascal who has encouraged your flight. 1053 01:26:16,180 --> 01:26:19,110 Therese, now we see the results 1054 01:26:19,110 --> 01:26:21,870 of your great virtuous principles, 1055 01:26:21,870 --> 01:26:24,440 the kidnapping of a daughter from her father! 1056 01:26:24,440 --> 01:26:27,400 - Certainly, and I must do so when that father 1057 01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:30,223 is so barbarous as to plot against his daughter's life. 1058 01:26:32,827 --> 01:26:34,023 - Well, well! 1059 01:26:34,889 --> 01:26:36,963 Espionage and seduction. 1060 01:26:38,580 --> 01:26:42,139 All a servant's most dangerous vices. 1061 01:26:42,139 --> 01:26:46,333 Upstairs, up with you, I say. 1062 01:26:48,969 --> 01:26:51,246 The case requires to be judged. 1063 01:27:54,882 --> 01:27:56,490 - Let's punish her a thousand times more 1064 01:27:56,490 --> 01:27:59,230 than we would were we to take her life. 1065 01:27:59,230 --> 01:28:00,227 Let's brand her. 1066 01:28:06,150 --> 01:28:08,260 This disgrace, joined to all the sorry business 1067 01:28:08,260 --> 01:28:09,610 about her body, 1068 01:28:09,610 --> 01:28:12,437 will get her hanged if she does not first die of hunger. 1069 01:28:18,670 --> 01:28:22,038 And our more prolonged vengeance 1070 01:28:22,038 --> 01:28:24,621 will become the more delicious.