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Are you enlisted, citizen?

How?

Are you enlisted?

Yes, of course.

Are you fit?

I have never been so clear-headed
in all my life.

By enlisting, you swear an oath not to
return home

until all our enemies are
driven out of France.

Unless I die for the fatherland first.

You look like a good citizen to me.

What's your name?

Benjamin Leserre.

Like the animal.

Profession?

Good for nothing.

Family situation?

Deplorable.

Do you have good shoes
and warm clothes?

I have everything I need.

Then it's perfect. All you have to do is
sign.

Like a true patriot.

Were you going out?

I was going to the print shop. What's going on?

Can you put me up for a few days?

Of course.

David has become enterprising since
the departure of his wife.

Come in.

She divorced him when he
voted for the death of the king.

I'm willing to work for him,
but not to console him.

Would the great revolutionary regret
the right of covetousness?

You're here, at home, and you can settle in
in Denis's room.

Thanks. And Benjamin?

He has enlisted.

Probably because of me.

But it's okay.

Our men have enlisted to fight

against the infamous troops of the
foreigners and immigrants.

Victory must be swift,

otherwise there will be only widows.

Gentlemen of the Convention, think
of those women who are suffering

and whose wallets are empty.

A bar of almond soap,
ten candles

and oil for my lamp,
please.

Do you have any money? There's enough for
at least thirty cents, there.

Last month, it was ten cents
less.

Of course, but everything's going up.

I'm obliged to keep up.

Citizen, you're making out on
our backs.

Your prices are soaring and we
can't keep up.

So, Manon, when is the
next issue of your Gazette due?

It was doing well.

It's due tomorrow, Jerome.

I'm going to need you again.

Okay.

Ask for Manon's Gazette,
starting today,

Ask for The People's Friend.

Death to the starving.

No mercy for the profiteers
who starve the people.

Ah, the beautiful grocers.

have you read it?

It's a horrible story.

It could happen to any
honest shopkeeper.

It's frightening.

You still go to your section of
sans-culottes?

I go there every night now.

Tomorrow, I'll go with you.

Cheers, citizen.

Greetings and brotherhood, citizen.

In the name of the Café Français,

I wish to participate
in the war effort.

I brought various clothes

and good shoes,
still usable.

That's generous of you, citizen.

And also several pairs of sheets.

So, it's a bit unfortunate to
tear them to shreds, but hey...

And also a nice piece of wine

to support the ardor of our
brave sans-culottes.

That's very good. On the other hand, you have
forgotten the essential,

the finances.

The finances?

Ah well yes.

Ah well?

If I can help.

Greetings and fraternity, citizen Morel.

Next time don't bother.
It's me who will come to see you.

Don't rush.

Camille Desmoulins and the citizen
Fouquier-Tinville.

Let them come in.

My dear Camille.

Hello Maximilien.

I present my cousin
Fouquier-Tinville.

A very competent man of law and
in the greatest need.

Here, a new portrait.

It's possible.

It's Madame Duplay who
collects them.

It pleases her.

So you're looking for a job, citizen?

Indeed, citizen Robespierre.

I had a nice job as a prosecutor in
Paris, but I had some setbacks

and I find myself in a precarious situation.

I am the father of seven children and I am
without resources at the moment.

Where does your bankruptcy come from?

Well, it's complicated.

Let's move on.

What are your qualities?

I am a good litigator
citizen Robespierre.

I am used to litigation.

I am zealous and punctual,
patriotic, virtuous,

I respect orders very scrupulously.

You have no faults, then.

A little short-tempered, perhaps.

The Revolution will give you
a second chance.

I'll find you something.

Thank you. Thank you very much
Citizen Robespierre.

Citizen Fouquier-Tinville?

Yes.

I will be very
attentive to your zeal

and your fidelity.

Thank you Maximilien.

Popular violence is becoming
worrying.

I fear new massacres.

Danton, in order to avoid them, we need
an authoritarian State.

And a united people, above all.
a united people.

But I agree with you
on the question of authority.

It is absolutely necessary to prevent
the settling of scores.

It is necessary to create a revolutionary Court

which will decide alone and will prevent the people
from taking justice into their own hands.

I know the right
people to place there.

That, we trust you
for that, Maximilien.

But facing our enemies, we must take
very fast decisions.

This assembly is frozen.

The Girondins block everything. Even between
them, they do not get along.

Time is running out.

Listen,

I propose the creation of a small
group of deputies.

Nine, at most. Who will have full
powers,

at least on external affairs
and on the war.

And this group, I want to be part of it,
because the war, I know.

Why not?

On condition that the
members change regularly.

It will be called the Committee
of public salvation.

Death to the Vendeans. No mercy
for these royalist traitors.

There you go.

Ask for L'Ami du peuple.

Well, well, well, he's got a voice
that one.

Death to the Vendeans.

Gather up the maps, we'll
redo them all.

Anything Vendéen, you take out.
The oysters of the Vendée,

the salt of Guérande, the potato
of Noirmoutier, finished.

We'll adapt.

I don't want to find myself in front of
the Revolutionary Court.

I have come to find you on behalf of
father Frédéric.

Madame de Valbreuse and her son
are in danger.

They don't dare to come out
of their hiding place.

They implore your help
to supply them.

So they are in Paris?

They only know you. You are
their last resort.

Are you watching over me?

No, I am watching over you, citizen.

I do not need protection.

The enemy is everywhere. Inside
as well as outside.

It is civil war.

I am also in charge of the committee
of surveillance of our section.

Beware.

You shop well
far from home.

It is to flee the profiteers.

With the new law, they must
not monopolize much anymore.

Otherwise, the sans-culottes are there.

I have taken the habit of coming
to buy by here.

Now, are you going home?

Do you allow? I'll walk you home.

Madame de Valbreuse and her son are
hiding in Paris.

They can't get out and I
am being watched.

Everyone spies on everyone.
since the Vendée is at war.

I'll take care of it.

The viscountess doesn't know about her
husband and me?

The address.

Here. Watch out for you, Sylva.

Open up, I've come on behalf of
Manon Deschamps.

Open up for me.

Manon can't come.
I'm replacing her.

Oh, excuse me.

We're locked
in this room,

can't get out, may
God keep us.

A thousand thanks, mademoiselle.

It's for Manon's sake I'm doing this.

She's very good to us.

And we haven't always been
with her.

Let's not keep this miss
any longer.

She seems to be in a hurry.

My name is Alexandre.

May I know your first name,
miss?

Sylva.

Are you looking for, citizen?

Manon Deschamps.

In my office.

Thanks.

Hello, Manon.

The café is deserted, I closed it.

I've come to the news.

With your newspaper, you must know everything.

They want to give work and launch
major works?

Hein?

There is talk of a new bridge
over the Seine?

At the Faubourg Saint-Antoine,
at the Jardin des Plantes?

For the moment, the big works,

it's us, the women, who do them.
Double day.

That's what I write.

In the evening, we sew the clothes
for the soldiers, the tents.

We make the carpentry, candles.

You, the men, it's the
big speeches.

Manon.

Have you got any news of Benjamin?

I was preparing the same one for
Marie-Antoinette

The unfortunate woman.

Her son was taken away from her, did you see?

No, I didn't know.

The Dauphin was placed in apprenticeship
with a sausage-maker.

These sans-culottes are brutes.

They are ill-educated.

They carry the flame of the revolution.

Without them, it would have been extinguished
a long time ago.

I have forgotten the honey.

In any case, they are brutes
with the women

The royalists, at least
respected us.

And even the Girondins.

With them, a woman like Mme Roland
can make herself heard.

What we
women can't say, I'm going to write it down.

It's about time someone
took us seriously.

I'm worried.

For whom?

For the Valbreuses. They are
in such distress.

Did he catch your eye, the
little Valbreuse?

After the father, the son.

I'm kidding, Sylva.

Open up.

I'm sure Alexandre
is a good person.

You're completely crazy.

Did we take too much?

Don't you think so?

At least your darling isn't going to
starve to death.

Go ahead and knock.

It's Manon and Sylva.

Hello.

Ah, what a pleasure to have you here.

And you're spoiling us again.

I hate these sans-culottes
who force us

to live here like rats.

These revolutionaries are
monsters.

Oh no, stop it at once

or I won't come and supply you anymore.

Do you approve of this infamous
Revolutionary Tribunal?

Do you find the Convention beautiful?

Yes, Mr. Viscount. It does
admirable things, the Convention.

It comes to the aid of the most destitute.

It educates children for free.

It pays pensions to the veterans.

It creates hospitals.

It takes care of girls
mothers and orphans.

To achieve all this, we need
incorruptible leaders,

of the calibre of Robespierre.

So let's make that clear.

I help you, I hide you, I
supply you,

but I don't want to hear your opinions
anymore.

Are you coming, Sylva?

It was you who asked
for my demobilization?

You could say hello to me, it's been
months since we've seen each other.

With all these executions, I don't know where to turn.

I told the governor: "I
need my son,

traitors to the fatherland, he
will eliminate more

with the national razor than on your
battlefields.

Bring him back," I told him.

Except that I didn't feel like
coming back.

Shut up.

Every day, deserters are shot

and you complain about
coming home?

Come on, we have work to do.

My little
Charlotte Corday.

If it were up to me, I'd give her a
medal for having rid us
of this Marat.

Don't insult L'Ami du peuple or
I'm leaving.

In any case, she, at least,
didn't miss.

She's much more skilful
than your colleague from Lyon

who went back to the drawing board three times
to decapitate Chalier.

A real butchery. The crowd
almost killed him.

It's this executioner who is incapable.

Stories like that are bad
for the whole profession.

Now that there have been some misfires

I no longer feel confident
when I drop my knife.

I need you.

Go on, go and change.

It's time, citizen Corday.

Have you finished, sir?

Yes, madame.

Will you make a copy

and send it to my family,
with this letter?

Give me a wick, please.

That's all I can offer you,
sir.

God bless you.

Tell me what you want from me,
gentlemen, I will obey you.

I did what I had to do.

Benjamin...

Benjamin.

It's not possible.

My love.

I've been granted leave.

You've lost weight.

You're exhausted, my Benjamin.

Nothing has changed here.

And you're getting more beautiful.

I'm going to take care of you.

I don't have much time.

We're running out of men.

We're running out of food, weapons,
clothes.

We're running out of everything.

Living conditions are deplorable.

They kill as much as
enemy fire.

The men are extraordinary
of courage.

We took Dunkirk.

Against the English and the
Austrians combined.

Excuse me.

I can't take it anymore.

Do you know where they want to send me
now?

In the Vendée.

To kill other Frenchmen.

Do you realize that?

I'm going to explain it to
Robespierre directly.

Calm down.

You'll be very useful to us there to
foil plots.

Since you will be in the country
of knowledge.

What plot?

It is a disease of our revolution
to see plots everywhere.

There are betrayals in our ranks.

Otherwise, how do you explain that
Vendéen peasants

hold our armies in check?

They are very numerous and they are
good hunters

while our conscripts have never
held a weapon in their lives.

And the Vendéens have the advantage of
terrain,

their marshes are formidable.

That's why we need you
to burn their forests,

seize their livestock, destroy their
crops, annihilate their landmarks.

The Convention has decreed the total destruction
of the Vendée.

I was their deputy Maximilien, I cannot
fight them now.

We are suffering defeats on
all fronts,

both inside and outside.

The situation is catastrophic.

It is no longer time for procrastination.

Do your duty as a citizen, Benjamin.

You have to rub, not caress, there.

I have an idea.

I'm going to open an arms business.

You see, I support the
revolution, too.

Nice excess of patriotism.

I'm going to serve Abbé Grégoire,
a real patriot, him

who wants to abolish slavery.

I hope it will be profitable.

It's not a bad investment,
arms.

In times of war. You have to adapt
what, that's all.

From the raw and the best.

And if you don't mind, I'll toast
with you, may I?

Citizen, fill our glasses.

My father.

I raise my glass to the opening
of the Louvre museum

which will allow the people to admire the
masterpieces of the whole world.

To the people.

To the people.

To the opening of the Jardin des Plantes

which will allow to discover all
the richness of the nature.

To the creation of the Conservatoire
national de musique.

I raise my glass to the abolition
of the French Academy,

to the abolition of the Academy
of Sciences,

to the abolition of the Academy
of Fine Arts,

to the abolition of all these relics
of the past, let's drink.

My dear David.

In spite of everything, I find you
a little dark.

Me the abbot?

How could I be gloomy
on a holiday?

Perhaps you would have preferred to celebrate
with your wife and children?

This new invention of divorce
must not be easy to live with.

I am very well.

Manon?

I was probably followed by
going to the Valbreuse's house.

I'm afraid for them, we must find them
another hiding place.

Shhh. Calm down.

Who could help us?

I don't see anyone but Danton.

I'm going to go to the Convention and ask
to speak to him.

Camille?

Oh Manon. It's been a long time
since I've seen you.

How is Horace?

He's adorable, he's going to be a year old.

I'm looking for Danton, can you help me?

But Georges is in his country house
in Arcis with his wife.

Sit down. Would you like to drink
something?

Here there is only-

No, no, thank you, but Gabrielle
has passed away?

He remarried in July to
a 16-year-old girl.

Louise.

I didn't know.

What do you want? He is like that.

He can't live without love.

And then he needed help to
raise his three children.

Even so. Georges prefers
to flee Paris at the moment.

For nothing in the world, he would
vote the death of the Girondins.

What did you want to ask him?

A favor.

I have friends from the Vendée.

ci-devants who
are hiding.

He won't be able to do anything.

There are no more passe-droit since
the arrest of the Girondins.

The wind is turning very quickly at the moment.

Do you remember my cousin,
Fouquier-Tinville?

You knew him miserable.

He has today a considerable power.

Danton himself, yesterday so powerful,
has not been re-elected

to the Committee of Public Salvation.

Robespierre has placed men of his own there.

At his side with enlarged powers.

Well, that's very good.

No one is more virtuous
than Robespierre.

I want to persist in believing him,
me too.

Open up.

You are the ci-devants
Valbreuse?

Maman.

This is the best thing that could have happened to him.

Come on.

Madame de Valbreuse has
given herself up for dead,

Alexandre has been arrested by Landrau.

They had to take him to the prison of
La Force.

Gabriel, can you get us
a visiting right?

It's impossible at the moment.

I beg you, Gabriel, we have to get him
out of there,

otherwise it's the scaffold.

Open. I've come to fetch a former.

Ci-devant, Alexandre Valbreuse?

Ci-devant, Alexandre Valbreuse?

Follow me.

It's over for him.

He's yours, citizen.

It's good. Landrau is waiting for him
for questioning.

Come on.

Don't move.

Here. Put this on.

It's them.

My love.

You'll stay hidden here.

No one will come before
tomorrow morning.

And go, as soon as it gets dark.

Your uniform will protect you a little,
but you'll have to go through

the gates of Paris and they are
well guarded.

Thank you for everything, Manon.

Thanks.

I owe you my life, Gabriel.

I won't forget.

Go. Go to my office.

Good luck.

Citizens. There is a traitor among us.

I have proof of his crime and
I know his name.

You are unmasked, citizen.

What are you talking about?

I don't understand anything, Landrau.

You plotted to break out
a ci-devant.

Alexandre de Valbreuse, a
dangerous criminal.

And on top of that, you used my name.

I have never set foot in the-

I have never set foot in the Prison
of La Force.

You are lying. You were protecting the Valbreuses.

You were supplying them in their hideout.
I know, I followed you.

You are betraying the
revolutionary forces.

I am working here for
the Republic.

I know nothing of this.

Stop your perfidy.

You are a Vendean and you hid it from us.

Your good friend is a former
maid

of the royal family.

A spy whom you introduced
into this section.

Since you women were given the right
to divorce,

you are no longer held.

You have just granted us
a new right.

The right to be guillotined.

Since Charlotte Corday,
it doesn't stop anymore.

Marie-Antoinette, Madame Roland,
Olympe de Gouges.

Are you criticizing the revolution, citizen?

The revolution is doing an admirable job

for social equality, education,
justice, health.

What else do I know?

But for women. Indeed,
it is lamentable.

You will explain yourself before the Revolutionary Tribunal.

I am the guilty one, Landrau.

If you have to arrest someone,
arrest me.

You don't pay anything to wait.

Go on, get out of here.

Sanson,

your name won't protect you forever.

I'll say goodbye.

I have to leave, I'm
safer here.

But where are you going?

To my home in the Vendée.

I'm going to find Benjamin.

This is crazy.

Stay here. It's the worst
place right now

my little Manon and the roads
are cut off.

I'll see.

Decidedly, everyone is running away.

Come on, hurry up. I'll accompany you
to the coach.

Good luck, Manon.

Thank you.

Thanks for everything, Gabriel.

I hope you won't get into trouble
because of me.

As Landrau says, my name
still protects me.

Be careful, Manon.

Don't come with me.

You never know. You can follow me.

I like you, Gabriel.

We have to go downstairs.

Why?

I'm stopping here.

You're not bringing us any new trouble, are you?

We've got our share because of you.

Do you want me to go back right away?

There's a lot of dead people in the village.

They've all been massacred.

All blue.

The others joined the whites, with
the army of Monsieur de Charette.

I too went there to
make the shot.

What I saw there, I
would like to forget it.

It's an atrocious war.

The Valbreuse estate was sold
as national property.

I went to the commune's hotel.

For the farm and the plot you
have worked all your life.

This time, no one
will be able to chase you away.

Please.

Accept.

You are now at home.

You are a good girl.

May God protect you.

Manon?

Father Frédéric?

Do you believe me?
not in Coblence

or in Rome far from our people who
are dying for the Vendée?

I am happy to see you again Manon.

You know that I was
back in the village?

I have always been well informed, you know

and then I suspected that you
would come to see Denis.

Why are you armed?

Because I travel a lot
to support our troops.

I bathed before the battle,

peasants like your father who let
their fields fall.

When I return, the parishioners
hide me in turn

with admirable devotion.

They need you, Manon
in this turmoil.

We have to recruit a teacher
republican to replace me.

You would be perfect

No, father, that's impossible.

I have to go back to Paris.

Yet you know how grateful I
am to you.

You encouraged me to flee
the Valbreuses.

But I'm also here to find
Ben...

Les Bleus.

You mustn't let them
see you with me,

you would be lost. Save yourself.

The little one.

Hey there. Don't be afraid.

Come here, you.

Oh là, là.

He got her.

A Vendée.

Father Frédéric.

Jacques?

Father Frédéric...

Come here, you.

Come on, follow us.

They prefer to drown us.

The soldiers can no longer manage to
shoot all the condemned.

They put them in boats where
the front opens up in the middle of the Loire.

If there are survivors,

they shoot them.

These are Carrier's orders. The special envoy
of the Convention.

This monster makes
reign terror in Nantes.

And before we present ourselves to him,

his soldiers us-

Citizen, Deschamps Manon?

Follow us.

I saw your name on the list.

I got you to appear
directly before Carrier.

Beware, he is unpredictable.

I love you.

I'm listening, citizen.

Citizen Deschamps is
very much appreciated

by our great revolutionaries.

David had her pose for his
Oath of the Jeu de paume.

Ah, very good, very good.

I have a lot of admiration for our
great revolutionaries.

Only here,

you were found with a
refractory priest

who killed one of our men and that,
that is unforgivable.

She was there against her will.

The citizen was born in the Vendée, but
her heart is republican.

with a Vendéen heart on her chest.

She founded a patriotic newspaper to
educate women.

La Gazette de Manon.

Supported by Camille Desmoulins
himself.

Robespierre, praises her patriotism.

This affair is very boring.

Your last chance, my daughter,
is to be pretty.

This could incline me to indulgence.

Leave us, Benjamin.

Leave us.

If the Vendée is in this state, it's
your fault, it's the fault of women.

It's you who fomented this
war with the priests.

It's because of you if our prisoners
are slit,

crucified like
bats.

To the bath.

Soldiers, take her away.

And at the first hour,
throw her in the bath.

To the bath. To the bath.

Go on.

Go on, run.

Save yourself.

Run, Manon.

Catch her. Come on, get after her.

Where did she go?

Let's go this way.

Hey, look what I found.

Come on, baby. Come on.

Sit down.

Where'd you come from?

Well then, you don't talk?

From the Warehouse prison.

They killed Benjamin.

Here. This will help you forget.

Drink up. Come on, drink.

They drown the prisoners by the boatload
every day.

I come from Saint-Domingue.

I come from Martinique.

I was a carpenter.

I was a wigmaker.

And I was a cook.

We were all Negroes working
for the ci-devants.

But we took back our freedom
when they emigrated

and we disembarked in Nantes,
the slave port.

Normally, as soon as we set foot
in France, we are free.

Except that we have no papers
to prove it.

If we are caught and sent back
there, we become slaves again.

I don't trust whites anymore.

Come on, baby. You are mine
now.

Stop. She just escaped
drowning.

You leave her alone. Huh?

Let's go. Quickly.

I want to go to Paris.

With you, it's easier and the
Blacks are less noticeable.

You arrange for us to go to Paris,
you don't hear from me anymore.

Is that all right?

Come on, let's go.

Thank you for everything, Baptiste.

Good luck.

You see that there are Blacks in Paris.

It's the first time I've seen them
dressed

in a big deputy's uniform.

These are your representatives, Joseph.

They've just arrived from Saint-Domingue.

The Blacks have representatives?

Now they do.

Maybe they could help you?

You should go see them.

We'll see.

I don't like to beg.

Where will you sleep?

I don't know. I'll figure it out,
I'm used to it, you know.

I may have a solution
for tonight.

One chance. David always hides it here.

Is this where you live?

No.

I had to leave my home
in a hurry.

I'd rather sleep here tonight.

I posed for it too.

I know this kind of picture.

With a black guy next to the lady for
that we can see better

the whiteness of the skin.

I'm cold.

Here.

I'm going to light a fire.

I let you sleep, you looked
exhausted.

Thank you David.

I'm exhausted too.

I work permanently at the
General Security Committee.

That's the police, isn't it?

Why don't you sit in
an artistic committee?

Robespierre gives me more
responsibilities.

It is a great honor, but I have
barely two hours

to paint in the morning, when the light is good.

Joseph Bara. Victim of the Vendeans.

Another martyr?

Well, it's definitely becoming
a specialty.

You don't have the assassination
of Marat, of Lepelletier.

I make these paintings so that they can be
reproduced in engravings,

distributed in all the departments
to educate the people.

Martyrs, there are some on both sides.

Don't you feel like painting something else?

Serving a great cause doesn't prevent me
from inventing new forms.

Look at this stripping down, this subject
on a neutral background.

It's new, effective.

Ah.
I've got to go to one of these damn meetings.

Stay here, if you want.

Thanks.

Joseph?

Where have you been?

When your painter arrived, I
preferred to disappear.

Come. We're going to Sanson's.

Come.

I'll follow you.

Ask for the latest news from
the Vendean insurrection.

Ask for the latest news from
the Vendean insurrection.

Is he a musician?

No. He's the executioner of Paris,

but don't call him that.

Manon? It's Manon.

Manon.

We were very worried.

Benjamin is dead.

Peace to his soul, Manon.

Peace to his soul.

Come on, let's go.

Are the sans-culottes still looking for me?

When you left, Landrau requisitioned
the printing house to make his posters.

The Gazette de Manon lived.

And Sylva? Have you heard anything?

I heard that Alexandre and Sylva were
in England.

Manon.

Manon.

Not so much. We didn't touch anything.

Thank you.

But, I haven't introduced you to
Citizen Joseph,

who has helped me a lot.

Can you house him?

I have nothing against you, Citizen Joseph,

but this is not a house
for colored citizens.

I was hoping for more understanding.

If he doesn't stay, neither do I.

It's useless, Manon.

I'll manage.

I'm going to get my things.

But finally, Charles-Henri,
what are you doing?

Manon, don't get carried away.

What do you know how to do,
Citizen Joseph?

I can take care of the garden.

It's true that with all these
executions,

I've hardly had time to take care of it myself.

Attention. I forbid you to tell
that you're staying at my place.

It's a good thing, I don't plan to go out.

You know, at my place, when you're in
mourning, you scream your grief.

So, family and friends come
to bring us comfort

or to cry with us.

We don't keep it to ourselves.

You should cry out your pain, Manon.

Try it.

Try it, Manon.

In this weather, a good soup,
will warm you up.

It makes my blood run cold.

The neighbors will think I
torture at home.

Most convicts
suffer in silence.

Those who struggle and
who scream are right.

What's the point of denying that death
is a terrible thing?

What's the point?

Your representatives were
remarkable, Joseph.

That's a million men
we just freed.

We ended the atrocities of this
infamous human trade.

Drink.

With the abolition of slavery,

the National Assembly took the decision
that honors it the most.

They simply let
the abbé Grégoire

speak about the great principles
of the revolution.

They brilliantly demonstrated
that the abolition

was in the very interest of France.

The English attack our colonies.

The planters are very few in number.
Only one for every ten slaves.

By abolishing, we create a formidable
army of men of color

who will fight with the planters
for our islands.

A free man is always
better than a slave.

By working, they will allow
the islands to prosper.

Danton, my friend. You didn't let the
deputies catch their breath.

You went up to the rostrum, didn't you?

And we voted the law unanimously by
shouting: "Long live the Republic".

It's a great day for the nation.

Today we're drinking rum.

I haven't introduced you to Louise,
my wife.

To the abolition of slavery.

Manon, we're putting coffee at 40
sous.

Its price will soar with the abolition
of slavery.

You know what will happen?

Customers won't order any more.

They'll ask for free glasses
of water.

Well, in that case, we have a
new coffee, which remains at 30 cents.

The revolutionary coffee.

What's that?

Coffee with milk.

A little coffee, a lot of milk.

And no more free glasses of water.

Here. Here's your chocolate, Horace..

Yes.

He's adorable.

It's brave of you to go back to work already, Manon.

Benjamin's death revolts me. This
civil war revolts me.

All these massacres revolt me
and, believe me,

I denounce it with virulence in the
Old Cordelier.

Camille does not sleep any more.

The prisons are full
of good patriots.

With Danton, I militate for the creation
of a Committee of clemency.

It is necessary to examine the case of each
prisoner

and to release without delay all those
who have no reason

to be in prison, to be
surely sent to the scaffold.

Camille, you take risks.
Be careful.

On the one hand Danton, Desmoulins and all the
moderates want to empty the prisons,

on the other hand Hébert and the enraged
want to fill them.

And still more executions.

And us, Robespierre?

We will be overwhelmed
on both sides.

We must react very quickly.

Otherwise the Committee of Public Safety
will lose all its power.

And what do you propose, Saint-Just?

The moderates are as dangerous
as the enragés.

The articles of your friend, Camille
Desmoulins

have a disastrous influence.

No, Saint-Just, believe me.

It is the enragés who are most dangerous.

Hébert is corrupt.

He calls for insurrection.

The sans-culottes are even
ready to follow him.

He is the one who must be neutralized.

Desmoulins...

I'll take care of it.

Your new newspaper is upsetting
many people, Camille.

You criticize the war in the Vendée.

You ask for the release of suspects.

You advocate moderation.

You would even like to see
the creation of a Committee of Clemency.

Are you aware of the seriousness
of your remarks?

Everything I say is true, Maximilien.

Many generous ideas that were

ours at the beginning of the
revolution are dead.

My fault is to be the only one
who still dares to speak.

It is not you who speaks.

It is Danton, through you.

You are a spoiled child.

Stop taking this paternalistic tone
will you? It's unbearable.

You are playing into the hands of our enemies.

You are encouraging their plots.

I appeal to our old friendship,
Maximilien.

We have known each other since college.

And I have always been by your side.

Let's stop these effusions, shall we?

My friends are losing their patience.

I couldn't fly to your rescue
forever.

I take it upon myself to defend
your person.

Not this newspaper rag.

If you want to be forgiven, burn it.

There, now, in front of us.

What good would it do you, Maximilian?

Remember Rousseau,
your favorite author.

To burn is not to answer.

So be it.

Since you maintain your dangerous ideas,

you will assume the consequences.

Now, get out.

Are you still drawing us a martyr?

No. A sketch for a great
republican celebration,

still secret for the moment.

The celebration of The Supreme Being.

The country needs an ideal, a
kind of new religion.

There will be living paintings.

I will call upon my favorite models.
You first.

Thank you.

But why did you make me
come, David?

Are you seeing my wife again?

Your ex-wife?

No. Not at the moment.

I don't understand how politics
could have separated us so much.

Was that the only reason?

Of course. For her I committed
the irreparable

by voting for the death of the king.

Otherwise, everything was fine.

Tell her I miss her, Manon.

The executions have become so
numerous

that I have to hire.

But it's not easy to find
helpers who are up to the task.

You need reserve, dignity.

It's not for the first person who comes along.

I think you have
the necessary qualities, Joseph.

Would you be interested in that?

After what my family has been through,

I wouldn't mind cutting off the heads
of a few white kids.

Aren't you afraid of shocking
with someone like me?

We can put a hood on you.

No, sincerely, I'd rather
take care of the vegetable garden.

As a good citizen, I plant
potatoes.

A law has been passed to develop
this crop

since there is a shortage of wheat.

You, I leave the meat to you.

That's not funny.

Seriously, I became free
thanks to the revolution.

Protestants, Jews, even
executioners

became citizens
thanks to the revolution.

How can we continue to cut off
heads after that?

But Manon, you look great.

I've been invited to a ceremony
of citizenship.

I saw David.
He's having a very
hard time with your divorce.

He misses you.

You're not going to see him again, are you?
It's much too soon.

No, no way.

Sophie de Condorcet has asked
for a divorce, too.

They seemed to get along so well.

She still loves him, but it's for
that their daughter will not be

disinherited after de Condorcet's escape.

It's still sad,
all these divorces.

On the contrary, there have never been
so many love marriages

as since they could separate.

For me, it's the divorce of the leaders of the
revolution that worries me.

Danton and Robespierre
don't talk to each other anymore.

You're right.

Do you think Danton would agree
to meet Robespierre?

I think so.

And you? Can you talk to
Maximilien about it?

My brother doesn't listen to me, but I can
always tell him

that Danton would like to meet him.

Manon?

Your boss is calling you.

It's becoming a habit your
women's meetings.

Now that women's clubs
are banned,

we have to find another
way to get together.

This is it, at my expense. By taking advantage of
my candles

and blocking off my tables.

I'll take the order.

See? I'm being overzealous.
I work

even when I'm off.

You have to adapt.

So?

I'm making tea for everyone?

Charlotte, a glass of white wine?

Yes, thank you.

Manon.

We're beckoning you.

But he's very handsome.

He has as much charm as the knight
de Saint-Georges.

La ci-devant du Barry had a man of color for a page,

it seems that he gave her
all the satisfaction.

He was certainly less cute.

Stop. It's not at all what
you think.

The situation of women is not so
different from that of blacks.

And slaves.

Appreciated for their domestic
qualities-

Well, that's enough.

And then for the rest...

Good ceremony.

You are silly.

Manon Deschamps.

What do you want from me Landrau?

Why don't we see you anymore at
the neighborhood section?

You have a guilty conscience.

Simply, lack of time.

What is more important
than serving the fatherland?

Come back soon, citizen.

Or else I will know where to find you.

Joseph Marie Pasteur,

in the name of the French Republic and
in accordance with the terms of the law,

I am officially handing over to
you your certificate of citizenship

These are real identity papers.

I never thought this would happen to me.

Theodore Biche ?

In the name of the French Republic and
in accordance with the terms of the law,

I officially present you with your
citizenship certificate.

Appetizing, your stew.

Creole chicken and turnips.

Taste.

It's spicy, but it's good.

I cooked it like a
French citizen.

Less spice, more wine.

Who taught you to cook?

My mother. She was a cook
in the master's house.

Did he like you?

Yes. He liked my mother too.

Maybe that's why
I have fair skin.

I'm going to set the table.

I'm going to help you, Manon.

Ah, it's good to get your mind off.

12 executions this morning.

And what a great bunch.

The Enragés gang.

Hebert, the founder of Père
Duchesne and his friends.

When will it end?

Business is very good
for you right now.

Think about it, the Convention pays me
a pittance. 17,000 a year.

Between my assistants' wages, rent,
vehicle maintenance,

additional rentals,
fodder,

signs for public executions

and machine maintenance.

Not to mention baskets
for corpses,

burial expenses, tips
to gravediggers.

I have at least 30 to
35,000 a year.

I have written to the Convention to demand

the reimbursement of the advances

and an increase in
my salary.

Otherwise, I'll stop everything.

You are the only one who can still
complain, Mr. Sanson.

No one would dare.

It's true.

Last week, a poor housewife was executed.

Her crime?

She complained about the market prices.

Anyway, we're not here to
talk about work.

We're here to celebrate Joseph's
citizenship.

Here's to my citizenship.

Here's to your citizenship, Joseph.

It was a nice evening.

Good night, Manon.

I don't want you to get into trouble
because of me, Manon.

We have to stop spilling blood,
Maximilien.

We have to save the Republic, Georges.

It's the only way to stop
the bloodshed.

You underestimate our enemies.

I am a man of revolution,
not a fan of bloodshed.

I created the revolutionary tribunal

to prevent mob violence,
not to turn it into a slaughterhouse.

Corruption is eating away at the nation, like
termites eating away at an old house.

Would you rather wait and
see it fall apart?

Corruption...

Since you were nicknamed
the incorruptible,

you see corrupt people everywhere.

Without virtue, there is no republic.

It is true that virtue is not your first quality, Danton.

I am a debauchee, am I not?

A lively person, a joker.

It seems to bother you.

You are rude.

You prefer power to will.

You are a model of virtue, but what
merit do you have, Robespierre?

Isn't it simply that
women are indifferent to you?

You are distressing.

We have nothing more to say to each other.

Danton has a moderate attitude which
blocks the revolution.

He wants to put an end to the Terror,

to re-establish individual liberties.

Barère is right. We must
get rid of Danton.

As we got rid of Hébert's
Enragés.

In the name of the revolution.

Danton is very popular.

He betrayed the people.

He is corrupt.

Danton likes money, it is true.

He managed secret funds
in complete opacity.

But we have no proof that he
embezzled them for his own benefit.

Let's bring him before the Revolutionary Court.

Robespierre, for or against?

Very well.

If Danton is innocent, a trial for him
will prove it.

Exactly. And Camille Desmoulins
must also be indicted.

Everyone knows your friendship for him.

If he is excluded from this trial,
it will be seen as favoritism.

Saint-Just is right.

The indictment must be signed.

David, you will sign it too.

In the name of the Committee of General Safety.

Very well.

The meeting is adjourned.

Business in the café is very quiet
at the moment.

Fortunately, I am adapting.

I've set up my own business
supplying the army.

Isn't that a bit much?

No, not at all.

I even sell them
horses now.

I don't earn much, but... well.

During the revolution, business
continues-

Manon.

Manon, They arrested Camille.

They arrested Danton too.
They are
imprisoned in the Luxembourg.

Impossible to get news.

Georges knew he was in danger.

For several days, he knew it.

He refused to flee.

He used to say: "We all wear our
homeland on the soles of our shoes.

They won't let themselves be done.

The people love them.

Let's go see Robespierre.

I often spoke to him when he used to come
here.

He's not the tyrant they say he is.

He let himself be dragged away.

Charlotte will help us.

I'm Charlotte Robespierre,

we've come to see my brother, Maximilien.

Wait.

It's extremely urgent.

It's up to citizen Duplay to decide on this.

This is her house.

Your brother is not here.

You're lying. I'm sure you're lying.

Always so exalted,
my poor Charlotte.

Where do you want him to be? At the
Convention, I suppose.

Let's go.

Tell him I'm looking for him.

It's a matter of life and death.

And also tell him that his
best friend, Camille,

is in danger of being taken to the scaffold.

Silence. Silence. Silence.

Accused Danton, stand up.

Your name, your age, your home?

I am Danton, I am 35 years old. My home
tomorrow will be nothingness.

My name will remain in the Pantheon
of history.

And I, Camille Desmoulins, 33 years old.
The age of the sans-culottes, Jesus.

You and your friends must answer

for counter-revolutionary plots
with a foreign power.

What enemies are you talking about,
Fouquier-Tinville?

I have political friends, here

Desmoulins, Delacroix, Philippeaux.
All right.

But the others, I don't know them.
They're common law.

We've never met them.

Do you know them?

No.

Do you know us?

How would you like us to
plot together?

Silence.

Silence. Silence...

You lack vocabulary, Fouquier.

It's not enough for you to muzzle
the press.

You have to silence the citizens.

But it's not so easy to silence Danton.

Long live Danton.

My dear cousin,

it was I who found you that
job at the court.

Don't forget it.

Here you are, quite docile with your
new masters.

Citizen Danton, you are also accused
of theft and corruption.

Obviously, this is the accusation that you
brandish to kill your enemies.

The only problem, you have no proof
and no witness for the prosecution.

Do you have a single fact to support
your accusations?

It is I who ask the
questions, Danton.

Do you have any witnesses?

Let my accusers uncover themselves,

I will plunge them back into the void from which
they should never have emerged.

Vile impostors. Appear.

No one.

I ask for the creation of an inquiry commission

and I have 20 deputies as witnesses.

They must be prevented from speaking or
we will never get out of this.

My only fault, citizens, was to
carry this revolution

at arm's length before it
devoured its children.

And mine was to ask that a
Committee of Clemency finally

be set up so that the massacre-

Is there a question? The debates
are suspended.

The verdict will take place behind closed doors.

This is an absolute denial of rights.

We have never acted except in
the interest of the people.

I am proud of what we
have accomplished.

I would rather be guillotined than
guillotineur.

Camille.

Lucille. Lucille.

What's this disguise again?

I'm leaving.

You're letting me go at the moment of execution
of Danton, when there will be a crowd.

It will be hard.

Precisely.

I refuse to cut off the head
of such a man.

I too would rather be guillotined
than guillotined.

What's wrong with him?

But say something.

I've always hated this job.

All this bloodshed.

I used to think it was
a necessary evil.

Now I don't believe it anymore.

I'm going back to the front.

Gabriel...

I can't take any more of your lessons.

I want to forget even my name.

It's over.

Finished.

Goodbye.

Gabri...

Thank you.

Miss?

A pint of sweet wine.

There are more pints.

Now it's 92 centilitres.

And that's less wine?

No. Same thing.

But then, why change the name?

That's the way it is. Everything works by
ten now.

There are no more leagues, no more feet,
no more toises.

There are meters, decameters,
kilograms,

centigrams.

It's the new system.

Well, we don't find our way around anymore.

We don't even know what day it is with
their new republican calendar.

And the names of the saints have been replaced by
the names of tools or animals.

And all of this is to dechristianize?

I'm called. I'll leave you to it.

And my pint?

Finally, my 92 centilitres.

What's going on?

I'm leaving, Manon.

No one can love the son
of an executioner.

I've known it for a long time.

I don't blame you.

I loved you from the moment I saw you.

I'll always be your friend.

No. Don't be sad.

It's over.

I'm almost ashamed to be so happy
with you, at a time like this.

But I don't want to hide it.

I do.

Even the Sansons can't know.

Why? We're not guilty.

Slavery has been abolished.

We have too much to love each other in broad daylight
now.

That's in the law.

In people's heads, it's something else.

I don't care what anyone thinks
or what anyone says.

All around us, it's horror.

With you, I feel good.

I love you, Manon.

People.

Poor people.

You are being deceived.

Your friends are being killed.

Horace, Lucille.

I abandon you.

No.

Death, death.

Death to Danton.

Death to the traitors.

Death, death.

Can you hear me, Robespierre?

Your turn will come. You will have to answer
for your actions.

No, David.

The monsters who murder me
will not survive me.

You will show my head to the people,
it is worth it.

Now we will be able
to do great things.

Open.

Order of the Committee of General Safety.

Open.

Lucile Desmoulins, you are
under arrest

You have conspired against the people to
try to save your husband.

Bring her in.

Take care of Horace.

Hey, don't be sad. I'm going to
find Camille.

I love you.

Come in.

You were friends with Lucile Desmoulins.

When I cut her hair at
the Conciergerie,

I asked them to put it aside.

If you want to take care of them
give them to his mother.

Manon, Manon, let me introduce you to
Napoleon Bonaparte.

A talented young military man.

Thanks to him, we chased
the English out of Toulon.

Nice to meet you, citizen.

Bonaparte has just been appointed
brigadier general.

At 25 years old, that's beautiful.
No?

Come on, give us two toddies.

She's a wonderful girl,

but you don't touch her, do you?

So, Manon, are those toddies coming?

Hey, what's going on?

What's going on is that Robespierre
is a monster.

You killed Danton.

You killed Desmoulins.

You sent Lucile to the guillotine.
You massacred the Vendée.

You killed Benjamin.

I believed in you.

You embodied an ideal for me.

The hope of a better world.

Don't even count on me
to bring you

a simple glass of water.

You can have me guillotined,
I don't care.

Manon, but what's going on?

Manon.

There's Fouché, beware.

He's a snake, a cold-blooded animal.

What an honor, citizen.

I'm trying to contact Charlotte
Robespierre,

I know you know her.

She's part of the group of
women who meet here.

Who told you?

I know everything.

It's part of my talent.

So?

I'm risking my head. Talk.

I don't know where to reach her.

Won't you help me?

Fine.

I'll remember
Manon Deschamps.

Robespierre summoned me.

I am the representative on mission,
Joseph Fouché.

One moment.

You may enter.

Nice to see you again, Maximilien.

You who have done so much for the people
since I've known you.

I remember before the revolution,

when I arrived in your beautiful city of Arras,
as a modest teacher.

Those invigorating evenings where already,
I had so much pleasure

to hear you speak about politics.

Your sister of whom I was
so much in love

and who flees me from now on.

And then your election as
deputy of the third state.

If I made you come back from Lyon, Fouché,

it is not to evoke
old memories.

It is because of your unspeakable behavior.

The guillotine is not enough for you then.

Is it true that you have
suspects tied up in bundles of 10, of 100

at the edge of a pit,

that they would have dug themselves

and that afterwards a cannon shoots
on these human clusters?

The survivors are finished off at
the bayonet

when they are not buried alive.

Is this your beautiful invention?

We had to go fast and
save the powder.

This inventive refinement in cruelty

is in absolute contradiction with
the virtues of the Republic.

And the Republic is a virtue, but
you have no notion of it.

And these infamous violences reinforce
the hatred

and the armed arms of our enemies.

Lyon was in insurrection.

Was it necessary to let it become
a second Vendée?

You also became very rich
by embezzling public funds.

It is false.

Worse still, you ridiculed
religion,

you, a former priest.

You organized desecrations
unworthy.

I was dechristianizing.

It was necessary to fight against
religious fanaticism.

By answering it with an even crueller fanaticism?

By sacrileges?

Sacrileges.

A society cannot live
without aspiring

to a higher dimension.

The people,

need a cult.

A supreme Being.

We don't ridicule these things.

Sanson?

Sanson?

Open up, it's Landrau.

Open up, it's Landrau.

You dare to break into the executor's house
in the middle of the night?

There's no time for home visits
Sanson.

That's the law, it's the same
for everyone.

Manon, Manon, I think we
have visitors.

Come on, stay out of this, Sanson
we're not after you.

Search, you others.

You brought the hair of the woman
Desmoulins to her family.

You were followed.
This is confirmation of
your treachery.

Your counter-revolutionary sympathies
are well known.

You were Danton's friend.

I found money.

That's a nice sum for
a simple waitress.

It was Benjamin who left me this money.

You're lying, it's money
from abroad.

What proof do you have?

Come and see.

You, get out.

Do you have a citizenship certificate?

Yes.

I'm very proud of it, citizen.

Confiscated for verification.

It didn't take you long
to console yourself.

Come on, you're following us.

That's enough now. Manon lives
at my place and I answer for it.

And besides, what
tells me that you either,

you're not a thief, eh?

And you? And you, do you want me to talk
about your case to Fouquier-Tinville?

Which of you will I have the pleasure
of sending first?

Do you know Sanson's tie?

Do you want to see what
the bottom of my basket looks like?

You don't pay anything to wait.

It's the second time that
you've escaped from me.

And the next time, it will be the right one.

And the executioners, father and son,
won't be able to do anything about it.

Don't worry, I'm here.

Thanks.

Barère,

I have followed your
instructions in Lyon to the letter,

I have just suffered the wrath
of Robespierre.

There is nothing we can do against him, Fouché.

Robespierre has become too powerful.

He dominates the Committee. He has the sections
for him, the Convention

and above all the people.

He adores him.

He fears him.

In his eyes, he embodies virtue.

He has become the living God.

As for his brother, he is a debauchee.

How so?

Augustin Robespierre frequents
a dubious establishment

in the Palais-Royal.

Which one?

The 50 at Madame de
Sainte-Amaranthe.

He entered there on the 18th of Germinal at 4:20 p.m.,
in the afternoon, accompanied by a nabot

who had a Corsican accent.

A certain Bonaparte.

As precise as ever, Fouché.

I'll see what I can do.

The citizen Landrau.

Bring him in.

Greetings and fraternity, citizen Barère.

They are plotting at the Palais royal.

The waitress at a café.

A certain Manon Deschamps is
in the plot. A Vendée woman.

The evidence is overwhelming.

It always is with you.

Come on, I'll pass it on. Good evening
Landrau.

Good evening, Barère.

Louise Danton has succeeded in
joining Arcis

with the children where they
are safe.

I should have made Lucile do the same.

She would still be here.

I blame myself.

She would not have listened to you.

I have to see David again tomorrow.

You still have nothing to say to him?

No.

Now David is making partisan caricatures of rare rudeness.

He is having his former benefactors arrested.

He is totally indoctrinated.

Yet you still love him.

I don't know.

Anyway, I don't want to see him anymore.

Let me show you how the party of the Supreme Being

the celebration of the Supreme Being.

You walk at the head of the procession,

in a blue suit with a red lapel,
a sheaf of wheat in your hand,

in your capacity as president of the Convention.

The whole National Assembly follows you.

You lead them towards the Champ de Mars.

How many people are expected?

400 000, at least.

Flowers and cockades in all the streets of Paris.

On the way, you cross the statue of atheism

that you reduce to ashes with the torch of freedom.

The living statue of wisdom comes out of the flames.

On the Champ de Mars, a symbolic mountain

topped by a tree of liberty.

You will sit in this chair,

then you will stand up.

And that's where you'll give your speech.

And the music?

Patriotic songs. Lots of trumpets, drums.

Cannon shots too.

He's coming, he's coming.

You have to congratulate him.

Why do you say it was successful?

People were whistling, snickering.

The crowd laughed at him.

Be quiet.

This celebration of The Supreme Being
is a total failure.

It was a beautiful ceremony, Maximilian.

It is horrible.

Now, being a suspect is enough to be guillotined.

No more lawyers, no more testimonies.

Only one verdict. It's acquittal or death.

And to think that Robespierre was
against the death penalty three years ago.

Now he is the one behind these laws of Prairial.

Aren't you interested? For you,
the revolution is over

since you are free.

You're right.

I'm taking advantage of it in case
the Whites go back on their promise.

Besides, what's the point of being free
if you can't do what you want?

You know what? One day we'll open a restaurant.

I've got enough to get started.

You'll be running the kitchen, won't you?

And I'll be your slave, just like before.

Oh, but I'm fine with that.

Go get me the chicken.

I'll make you a colombo.

Parsley, chives, coriander
and those little chillies.

Anyway, now that I'm a free man,

I have other plans.

What plans?

To help my people.

Well, what about me?

Ben you, I take you in my luggage.

I will take you, Manon.

I'm not abandoning you, I'm going to kidnap you.

You miss your old tools?

It was all the same better than the guillotine.

That one, I keep moving it.

Nobody wants to see it anymore. Neither do I.

That says it all.

Have you left the Place de la Révolution?

We're in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine at this hour.

The women of the Faubourg,
it moves them, all these condemned.

And then, with the summer,
the smell of blood is appalling.

The stench goes up between the paving stones.

Even the gravediggers start to run away.

Come on, come and help me.

Burn some herbs, Mr. Sanson.

Thyme, sage, juniper.

But that won't make us forget the carnage.

Citoyenne, tell Sanson that we brought him the basket

from Madame Tussauds.

Isn't it enough to cut them up?

Can't you let them rest
in peace?

Don't get yourself into such a state.

I'm only lending them out for one night.

What do they do with them?

Castings.
heads in wax.

But why?

To make a museum of the Revolution
I hear.

The gallery of the enemies of the people.

And they pay you for that?

The Convention still hasn't
paid me the arrears.

I have to find some money.

I even sold the blade that sliced
the head of Louis XVI.

To tell the truth, I sold it
several times.

There's no shortage of twisted people.

Have you finished, David?
Hurry up.

Who is she?

A certain Manon Deschamps.

A Vendeen. Landrau told me about her.

She is suspected of taking part in the
Palais-Royal conspiracy.

She is a friend of the Desmoulins woman.

So she is part of the conspiracy.
I'll take that already.

David, hurry up. We're waiting for you.

50 51 52, 53 54.

Today, we're breaking all records.

A vast plot against Robespierre
at the Palais-Royal.

A plot where the suspects don't even
know each other,

as usual.

Do your job, Sanson.

I did mine.

Fifty-four convicts, that's
minus nine carts.

Well, I don't have them.

You'll make several trips,
that'll take you around.

And why do they have to put on their red parricides' shirts?

They wanted to kill Robespierre,
the Father of the Nation.

The last person to have put on
the red shirt,

was little Charlotte Corday.

But she, Marat, had killed him
for good.

Where do you want me to find 54 shirts?

You're on your own.

It's carnage.

Look at them, they're so young
and so beautiful.

That one, she looks like a child.

They don't have the right, not a child.

The red shirt. But who does
he think he is, the incorruptible?

We don't believe in this plot.

It's a disgrace.

What's wrong, Charles-Henri?

I want to retire.

Let's go to Brie-Comte-Robert
in our countryside.

I have to find someone to replace me.
Gabriel abandoned us.

No news from him.

He never wanted to return to the job.

What are you doing?

I'm removing the stains.

The stains?

The blood stains.

Maximilien hasn't been out for two weeks.

He doesn't want to see anyone anymore,
not even Mrs Duplay.

He's very bad.

He's hiding like an animal.

Listen Charlotte, you're my friend, but
your brother,

he's really the last person
for whom I'd have any pity

He has become a monster.

Listen Manon, his enemies are working
in the shadows to harm him.

They are multiplying the executions.

They are pushing the population to the limit.

Maximilien is unaware of this sinister
comedy, I'm sure.

It is urgent that he takes back control
and instead,

he plays dead.

That's just one more.

What's wrong?

I'm thinking about your restaurant project,
Manon.

I agree.

I'm not going to abandon you.

And then no one is waiting for me
in Santo Domingo.

I've been thinking about us too.

You were right.

That's where you belong.

That's where they need you.

Everything has to be built
since the abolition.

It's so fragile.

And you, Manon?

What about us?

I love you.

But we can't love each other
by denying our ideas.

Freedom has its demands.

Benjamin taught me that.

I was selfish to want to keep you.

I love you, Manon.

Me too.

But you have to go.

Is citizen Landrau here?

He has my certificate of citizenship.
I've come to fetch him.

Follow me, citizen.

He's here.

Here's to the Convention.

There you are.

We're better off talking here
than at the executioner's.

Don't you think?

The citizen Manon Deschamps
doesn't accompany you?

She's not concerned.

I need this paper to
go back home.

He says I'm a child of the
Republic

and that the revolution has
given me back my freedom.

You speak well.

Alas, we have a problem
with your certificate.

It is a forgery.

It is impossible.

An officer of the commune gave it to me
at the town hall.

You will explain yourself in court,
citizen.

Stop. I am a sans-culotte,
like you.

And after what we have been through, believe me,

a sans-culottes from the islands, as
patriotic as you.

The revolution has brought down
the old privileges.

It establishes equality of opportunity for
everyone to take their destiny into their own hands.

It is not you who is going to.
stand in the way.

Arrest him, he's a traitor.

You dishonor the Republic.

Here's to the Convention.

Take him away.

Joseph is in the Conciergerie.

We have to get him out of there.

What do you want me to do?

You see Fouquier-Tinville every
day. Talk to him.

The public prosecutor himself
can't do anything.

He's just a pawn.

And so am I.

Officials of death Manon,
that's what we are.

Let Joseph go.

Instead of putting him in your
cart, I beg you.

Have you seen David? I need to talk to him.

Have you seen David?

No.

I need to see David.

It's a matter of life and death,
where is he?

He didn't come today.

Manon.
I was looking for you.

Maximilien will go to the Convention tomorrow,

but I haven't been able to do anything for Joseph.

I haven't even been able to talk to him.

I don't recognize him anymore.

Maximilien.

Maximilien, no one has understood that
you've been disappearing for all this time.

Maximilien.

Can't you answer me?

Your enemies took advantage of this
to occupy the field.

They multiplied the executions to push
the population to the limit.

What were you doing?

Tell me. What were you doing?

I was preparing a speech that I
will deliver

this afternoon at the Convention.

My enemies will be silenced.

You are on Robespierre's next
list.

But why?

You are in correspondence
with the foreigner, he knows it.

Finally, it is not possible.

You are on Robespierre's next
list.

What?

Your mistress is a former ci-devant,
he knows about it.

You are going to buy national property, by
swindling the revolution.

It's not true.

Robespierre maintains the opposite.

You will explain yourself in front of the
Revolutionary Tribunal.

Barras?

The incorruptible one wants to send us to the scaffold, too.

After all the trouble we went through
to fulfill our mission.

Fouché.

Robespierre is here.

Citizens presidents, I
request the floor.

Have you seen David?

He can't be far away.

I must speak to him, it's urgent.

Just yesterday he swore

that he would abandon
Robespierre forever.

That he was ready to die for
him if necessary.

Death to the tyrant.

The floor is yours, Robespierre.

Citizens, I have come to denounce
abominable plots.

Enough with the threats.

You, over there.

David, David.

There's no one there.

Get out of there.

He's not there anymore.

We had to warn him. Come on, he can't
escape us.

I have bad news, Sanson.

It's about your son, Gabriel.

My God.

Death to the tyrant.

Robespierre to the guillotine.

To the guillotine.

Surrender yourselves traitor.

You are the traitor. I will have you
shot.

Sanson? One comes to fill the basket
for Madam Tussaud.

It seems that there are only heads
known today.

Robespierre, Saint-Just and their
friends.

Nothing but beautiful people.

There is no head today.

There are more heads, it is finished.
Gabriel died also

and it is finished, you hear me?

Get the hell out of here.

It's over.
It's over.

Robespierre's death saved my life.

While I had resigned myself to die,
the prisons were suddenly reopened.

I haven't stopped thinking about you during

what I thought were
my last hours.

You are my only love.

But you are also my conscience.

I prefer not to see you again, because I
will not have the strength to leave.

You are right,

I must join my people

to bring them back what I came here to seek:

freedom.

I still hope to
find you again one day.

Are you back?

David did four months in prison.

He paid for his friendship with
Robespierre.

We need each other.

Politics no longer separate us

and we are getting married again next month.

I am happy for you.

David is with Bonaparte.

I imagine that he is the one you
came to see.

He is infatuated with him now.

You take up too much of my time, David.

Do we know each other?

The Café Français.

It has changed its name.

Now it is the café of the
Republic, I was told.

I will leave you with our
great painter.

I will see you out.

Thank you.

Manon, I heard about Joseph.

I've come to say goodbye.

You are the first person I
met when I arrived in Paris.

I wanted to kiss you goodbye before
leaving for my home in the Vendée.

I hope that history will remember
not only the dead.

These men changed the world.

Their laws laid the foundation
of a new society,

in all areas of the mind
and of science.

They were sincere innovators.

And as Robespierre said,

there is no revolution
without revolution.

Others, like Bonaparte,

will perhaps take up the torch.

Go to your land, Manon.

Where the message of the Republic has
not yet been understood.

Come a little way, my sweet.

Wait for me.

Wait for me, my darling.

It's over, little wolf. Come.

Give me your hand, darling.

Careful, careful, careful.