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April the 10th 1671.

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M. Le Prince de Condé,

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his Majesty gives me reasons
to believe that he would accept

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an invitation
to visit you at Chantilly.

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The visit will last 3 days.

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The King instructs me to say
that he wants no fuss.

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Merely the simple pleasures
of life in the country.

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In other words,

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if you value his Majesty's favor,

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you will set no limit

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to the extravagance and ingenuity
of the festivities.

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I will present myself beforehand
to approve the arrangements.

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Marquis de Lauzun,

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in the service of his Majesty,
Louis XIV of France.

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On that table!

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Good morning, Monsieur.

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Good morning.

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The Princess's apartments
are at the disposal of the Queen.

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Naturally I shall place mine
at the disposal of his Majesty.

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From the King's anti-chambre,
we pass through the music room.

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And next,

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to the apartments of the Queen.

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Her Majesty's bedroom,

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drawing room,

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and a further bedroom beyond
for her Majesty's lady-in-waiting.

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Lady-in-waiting.
Madame de Montausier.

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Madame de Montausier.

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Anne de Montausier.

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Her Majesty will be comfortable,

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and convenient.

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The King won't be going to her bed,
he did his duty 2 clays ago.

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Remarkably well informed.

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The Queen confesses
the morning after...

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- When was it?
- Monday.

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Remarkably well informed...

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This room is to serve as
the Council Chamber and...

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the King's bedroom.

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And a second bedroom through here,

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with access also
from the private corridor.

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And this of course,

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we have allocated
to the Duchesse de la Valliere.

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This room is for
the Marquise de Montespan.

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And La Valliere?

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Anywhere. Put her in the attic.

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I prefer it, M. Le Prince,
if my rooms were north facing.

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- I don't like the sun coming in.
- Your rooms, Lauzun?

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I myself will manage
with only one room

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as well as the Princess.

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Every corner and cupboard
is spoken for.

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Even so to accommodate the Court
we have to use every farmhouse

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for miles around.

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MY room?

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No.
I won't have you disturbed, Vatel.

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You haven't slept for a week
as it is.

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Have that cleaned!

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The first day. The glory of sun,
the bounty of nature.

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Trees, birds, butterflies,

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fruits and flowers.

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The second day, on the lake,

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fireworks.
The sun banishes the night.

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The lamps are on their way
from Paris.

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For Friday, the fish banquet
will be presented on a sea of ice.

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Neptune's tribute to Helios,
the Sun God.

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The King will catch cold.

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No, the braziers will be lit
one hour before the banquet.

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Then the ice will melt.

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I have forbidden it to melt,
my Prince.

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Our fate is in your hands.

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<i>The first day, noon.</i>

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Good day to you.

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How can I help you?

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Excuse me sir, we'll only talk
to the top, nobody else.

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I regret his Majesty is busy
at this moment.

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His host, the Prince de Condé,
likewise.

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Not them.

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The man in charge,

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the Master of Pleasures
and Festivities: Vatel.

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Slightly more difficult.

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I'll see what I can do.
Please follow.

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- How many geese?
- 60, Monsieur.

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You're trespassing here,
M. Alcalet.

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All of us are owed money.

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We've come to tell you.
From this moment, nothing on credit.

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Not a single cabbage leaf
or a cracked coffee cup

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or a table napkin,
nothing until our bills are paid!

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We have businesses to run
and families to provide for.

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- When will we get what we're owed?
- You are only owed the truth.

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As things stand,
we cannot honor our debts.

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Not for the months and years gone by,
still less for these festivities.

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We cannot pay you a single sou,

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nor will we ever.

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You have only one chance
of getting your money.

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By giving me everything I ask for,
instantly.

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And of the very best quality
and then more of the same.

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This visit is a reconciliation.

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If the King is pleased
by the festivities,

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then the royal coffers will open.

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It's up to you.

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If we give you more credit,
will we get our money back?

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The Prince has said so.

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My master is a man of honor.

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On that I stake my life.
You will be paid.

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Excellent.

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Are you going down, Madame?
I'm going up.

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Where is Montausier?

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Explain to her the Queen
does not wait on her lady-in-waiting!

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Forgive me, Madame.

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Let me...

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Allow me.

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I hope your birds
will be happy with us.

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- That's good.
- Oui, Monsieur.

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What do you think, your Highness?

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Effiat, Monsieur has chosen
the boy already.

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Here we are!

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Put him in with the fruit...

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There, you need a wash.

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Effiat, get in! Get in with...

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with him.

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M. The King's brother
wants him for his page.

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He chose me.

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Get him dressed and put him to work.

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And...

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What would you have me
tell his Highness,

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the King's brother?

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Tell him I don't get my boys
from his boudoir.

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And he won't get his from my kitchen.

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Indeed, I will.

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It's not very wise upsetting

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the King's brother.

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He could make things go badly for us
if he chooses.

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The Princess

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has been bitten... by a monkey!

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Master Steward, you've filled
my garden with savage beasts!

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I've been badly bitten.
Where were you?

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Busy, your Highness.
Some unwelcome visitors.

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Beggars?

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Creditors.

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Creditors!

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Doctor Bourdelot!

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I've been badly bitten...

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on the arm.

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I heard of a poultice
made of rose petals.

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What's your name?

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You were at Vaux-le-Vicomte
10 years ago.

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Yes, Madame.
I was steward to Nicolas Fouquet.

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His Majesty's Minister of Finance.

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You mean his Majesty's prisoner
for life in the fortress of Pignerol.

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That is so.

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That was my first banquet.

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Six thousand guests to meet the King.

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Diamonds and saddle horses given away
as prizes in childish games.

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That was overdoing it,
don't you think?

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It showed how much
Fouquet had been stealing.

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Gourville, why has the King
really come here?

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Revenge.

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He will never forget that Condé
fought against him in the civil war.

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That was a long time ago.
The King was a child.

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If there's a war with the Dutch,
the King will need Condé,

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so your part in this,
is to show the King

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we bow the head
and bend the knee.

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I'm passing red hot stones.

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What exactly do you need to borrow
so much money for?

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The better to serve France,
your Majesty.

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Aren't our envoys from Holland
here yet?

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Not yet, your Majesty.

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Peace with the Dutch is good
for nothing. Except tulips.

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How many tulips do we have
at Versailles?

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Two million, Sire.

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And my gardener hates flowers.

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He would love a war with the Dutch.

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Indeed, Sire.

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Would your Majesty please recall

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that you have offered your daughter
in marriage to William of Orange?

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An invasion would not look well
following a betrothal.

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My daughter can't even talk yet.
Colbert!

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We must secure our eastern frontier.

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4 clays ride from Paris, we have
a country of Republicans, Protestants

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and printers of seditious pamphlets.

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We have no better soldier than Condé.

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If there is a war, we'll need him.

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He's expensive.

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But if there's peace...

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What do I say in the meantime?

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Why Say anything?

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Your Majesty was invited here
to enjoy yourself.

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Not for business.

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Your Highness!

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Are the musicians ready?

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Yes, my Prince.

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The King did not utter
a civil word to me.

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He kept muttering to Lauzun.

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Bastard!

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My son has died

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working your machines
at Versailles!

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He died so you can have fountains
at Versailles!

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Have you no control over your people?

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His Majesty wants her flogged
at once.

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See to it, Master Steward.

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I'm not your Master
of flogging madwomen.

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A hundred lashes.

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You know what's at stake.
Don't weaken!

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But he died! My son died

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so the King can have his fountains!

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I am short of a page at my household
at Saint Cloud.

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You have a boy who might do
apparently.

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Send him to my apartement
and I'll have a look at him.

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Come, Lauzun,
we have been promised music.

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Music is my weakness.

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The madwoman has been flogged,
your Majesty.

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I ask your pardon.

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Madwoman?

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Don't concern yourself, Prince.
I recall no madwoman.

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No sign of them.
How long are they going to be?

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You can't hurry a King.

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You can't slow down a sunset!

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Madame...

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Monsieur le Marquis?

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The King sends you his compliments.

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He begs the favour of taking
a cup of chocolate with you

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in your room at midnight.

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With me?

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May I offer you my congratulations?

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Although, as you can imagine,

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this came as a great blow to me.

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After tonight,
I cannot hope for deliverance

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from the pain of my own desires.

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May I Suggest...

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my rooms at ten?

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Alas, Monsieur,

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at ten o'clock
I have an even more attractive offer.

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Her Majesty has asked me
to de-louse her spaniel.

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Madame!

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He's coming! Thank God.

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Quicker!

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Table one.

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With your King, eat, drink

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and enjoy yourselves!

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We have to be perfect. Go, go!

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The Prince's gout is bad.
Tell Dr. Bourdelot.

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Mme de Courbe needs a new napkin.

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Le Marquis d'Effiat wants his dish
without coriander.

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Isn't it to your taste, your Majesty?

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Change Montespan for Montausier.

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You look pale, Prince. Are you ill?

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Your Majesty is gracious
to enquire...

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Yes, indeed.

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I see we share the same taste.

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Taste?

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In women.

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There is a lady
who has been rejecting my advances

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in a way
which I find quite stimulating.

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Her world is about to change.

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The King has asked for her tonight.

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I suggest we mark the event.

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I want you to make a masterpiece.

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Spun sugar, almond paste...

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fruit, flowers.
I'll leave it to you.

258
00:27:50,435 --> 00:27:51,685
I'm not a patissier, Marquis.

259
00:27:53,477 --> 00:27:55,797
You were apprenticed at Eberhardt's
on the Ile Saint Louis.

260
00:27:59,227 --> 00:28:00,602
I'll be too busy.

261
00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:05,185
Ask someone else, Marquis.

262
00:28:06,602 --> 00:28:09,643
Fruit and flowers in the colour
of flesh and blood.

263
00:28:11,185 --> 00:28:12,185
Flesh...

264
00:28:12,393 --> 00:28:13,477
and blood.

265
00:28:15,643 --> 00:28:17,685
I'll send my valet in the morning.

266
00:28:44,727 --> 00:28:47,477
Young sires, behave yourselves!

267
00:28:47,643 --> 00:28:50,018
- Don't you know who I am?
- I do not have the honor.

268
00:28:50,268 --> 00:28:52,143
I am the Vicomte d'Amboise.

269
00:28:52,352 --> 00:28:55,310
And when I grow up,
I'll be the Duc de la Tremoille!

270
00:28:55,977 --> 00:28:58,560
In that case, it is not too soon
to learn how to behave

271
00:28:58,727 --> 00:29:00,685
like the Duc de la Tremoille.

272
00:29:05,643 --> 00:29:09,352
In truth, the Duc de la Tremoille
behaves like a pig.

273
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:11,018
I thank you, Madame.

274
00:29:11,185 --> 00:29:13,935
The poorest of the poor
picked those flowers,

275
00:29:14,143 --> 00:29:15,893
just for a few sous,

276
00:29:16,227 --> 00:29:18,102
to make the trees pretty
for his Majesty

277
00:29:18,310 --> 00:29:20,102
and those sous were on credit.

278
00:29:20,435 --> 00:29:23,560
But the poor are happy
to be the King's creditors.

279
00:29:23,768 --> 00:29:25,560
It's an honor
they never dreamed of.

280
00:29:25,727 --> 00:29:26,643
Of course.

281
00:29:27,602 --> 00:29:31,393
Both my parents were so honored
they died of it.

282
00:30:07,727 --> 00:30:09,393
The Prince's birds!

283
00:30:09,560 --> 00:30:11,727
Oh, God! I cannot believe this.

284
00:30:13,602 --> 00:30:14,935
Where are my birds?

285
00:30:15,310 --> 00:30:17,227
The Vicomte ordered to let them go.

286
00:30:17,393 --> 00:30:19,310
What Vicomte?

287
00:30:19,477 --> 00:30:23,102
The Vicomte d'Amboise and his sister.
They ordered me.

288
00:30:23,352 --> 00:30:25,977
But they're children.
Little children!

289
00:30:26,185 --> 00:30:27,518
He is still a Vicomte.

290
00:30:27,893 --> 00:30:30,310
But these are the birds
of the Prince!

291
00:30:35,852 --> 00:30:37,393
What am I going to do?

292
00:30:37,935 --> 00:30:39,727
I mean, it's a disaster!

293
00:30:40,310 --> 00:30:45,143
I specially ordered those thrushes
and larks for the Prince's gout.

294
00:30:45,310 --> 00:30:48,810
His gout is giving him agony today!
What will I do?

295
00:30:49,143 --> 00:30:50,810
Use something else.

296
00:30:51,977 --> 00:30:53,852
Use something else?

297
00:30:56,185 --> 00:30:57,852
Use something else!

298
00:30:58,935 --> 00:31:03,685
The heart torn from the living bird
is the only treatment for gout.

299
00:31:03,893 --> 00:31:05,435
Everyone knows that!

300
00:31:05,643 --> 00:31:07,602
- Why not chickens?
- Chickens!

301
00:31:08,310 --> 00:31:10,102
He's a Prince!

302
00:31:10,685 --> 00:31:12,602
Chicken hearts wouldn't even
cure a peasant!

303
00:31:28,435 --> 00:31:30,143
The King is bored.

304
00:31:30,435 --> 00:31:32,768
It's a disaster for Condé.

305
00:31:46,643 --> 00:31:48,810
Are you trying to ruin me?

306
00:31:48,977 --> 00:31:49,810
Your Highness?

307
00:31:50,435 --> 00:31:52,018
First that madwoman.

308
00:31:52,227 --> 00:31:54,768
Now Lauzun tells me
you have been insolent.

309
00:31:55,310 --> 00:31:56,143
Insolent?

310
00:31:56,602 --> 00:31:59,185
You refused to be of service to him.

311
00:32:01,268 --> 00:32:02,643
I refused to be his patissier.

312
00:32:06,643 --> 00:32:10,977
What is the matter with you?
Lauzun has the King's ear.

313
00:32:11,185 --> 00:32:13,393
For the next few clays,
do what he asks.

314
00:32:13,602 --> 00:32:17,018
Bravo, Prince! Bravo!

315
00:33:08,643 --> 00:33:11,685
Gourville!
Have they put you to spy on me?

316
00:33:11,852 --> 00:33:14,643
If they had,
you'd be in the Bastille by now.

317
00:33:14,852 --> 00:33:16,310
You despise them, don't you?

318
00:33:16,518 --> 00:33:19,352
I don't despise anyone
who does his duty.

319
00:33:20,352 --> 00:33:22,810
Tell me, Gourville,
who is Anne de Montausier?

320
00:33:23,018 --> 00:33:23,893
Why?

321
00:33:24,060 --> 00:33:27,393
How many times have I bitten
my tongue?

322
00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:30,435
Now I snap at the only one
who is humane to me.

323
00:33:30,602 --> 00:33:34,227
She's the tastiest morceau at court
many have tasted, or so they say.

324
00:33:34,518 --> 00:33:35,685
Where are we going?

325
00:33:55,143 --> 00:33:56,268
Good.

326
00:33:56,893 --> 00:33:59,977
Yes, it'd better be perfect.

327
00:34:00,518 --> 00:34:03,727
Colbert is hostile to our Prince
gaining influence at Court.

328
00:34:03,893 --> 00:34:05,393
He's not in our camp.

329
00:34:07,435 --> 00:34:09,643
The Prince made a remark tonight
about war...

330
00:34:09,810 --> 00:34:11,018
There are rumours...

331
00:34:11,185 --> 00:34:13,893
- Yes, but he is...
- Sick of war?

332
00:34:14,060 --> 00:34:15,060
So he is.

333
00:34:16,268 --> 00:34:18,685
But he's equally sick
of being in debt.

334
00:35:34,727 --> 00:35:36,185
Your Majesty.

335
00:35:41,435 --> 00:35:43,352
Madame de Montausier.

336
00:35:51,477 --> 00:35:53,560
I'm concerned about the fish.

337
00:35:54,352 --> 00:35:56,602
I've sent to Dieppe
for an extra cartload,

338
00:35:56,810 --> 00:35:58,893
in case of storms off Le Havre.

339
00:35:59,060 --> 00:36:00,685
You are my general.

340
00:36:01,227 --> 00:36:03,727
The battle plan is yours to decide.

341
00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,685
What else?

342
00:36:08,143 --> 00:36:10,727
Nothing, unless it rains.

343
00:36:11,810 --> 00:36:13,935
The carving squires will have
to sleep in a stable,

344
00:36:14,602 --> 00:36:16,143
but they're Germans.

345
00:36:17,393 --> 00:36:18,935
The lanterns arrive in the morning.

346
00:36:19,393 --> 00:36:20,310
Very good.

347
00:36:20,477 --> 00:36:23,060
Well, I'll leave it to you.

348
00:36:23,268 --> 00:36:25,310
Go to bed, my friend.

349
00:36:33,810 --> 00:36:35,060
You did well.

350
00:37:52,768 --> 00:37:55,893
<i>The second day.</i>

351
00:38:07,102 --> 00:38:09,393
Can you tell me where Vatel is?

352
00:38:18,518 --> 00:38:20,810
You sent for me, Monsieur Vatel?

353
00:38:25,268 --> 00:38:26,768
Food for cattle.

354
00:38:28,935 --> 00:38:31,560
Now we can feed cattle
through the winter

355
00:38:31,810 --> 00:38:34,227
instead of slaughtering them
every year.

356
00:38:35,143 --> 00:38:37,310
How many varieties of pear
are there?

357
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:41,852
There are 500 different kinds
of pear.

358
00:38:42,643 --> 00:38:44,018
This is the best one.

359
00:38:44,185 --> 00:38:45,352
Its name is?

360
00:38:45,977 --> 00:38:47,977
Bon Chrétien d'Hiver.

361
00:38:48,185 --> 00:38:49,268
And?

362
00:38:49,685 --> 00:38:52,310
It was known to the Romans.

363
00:38:52,477 --> 00:38:53,393
Good.

364
00:38:55,143 --> 00:38:58,685
When I am rich,
I'd like a garden like yours.

365
00:38:59,060 --> 00:39:01,893
I hope so, Colin. I hope so.

366
00:39:03,852 --> 00:39:06,018
Bravo, you made a good choice.

367
00:39:06,185 --> 00:39:08,143
The King will be pleased.

368
00:39:09,852 --> 00:39:12,935
Colin, don't leave the kitchen
without my order.

369
00:39:38,102 --> 00:39:41,518
They were badly packed
and the roads were bad...

370
00:39:53,393 --> 00:39:55,935
I am the valet
of the Marquis de Lauzun.

371
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:59,018
My commiserations.

372
00:39:59,352 --> 00:40:00,268
Thank you.

373
00:40:53,727 --> 00:40:54,977
Good.

374
00:40:57,310 --> 00:41:00,393
Now a real flower.
Give me the blue one.

375
00:41:02,852 --> 00:41:04,810
Harmony and contrast.

376
00:41:05,393 --> 00:41:08,227
All beauty
comes from those two things.

377
00:41:14,602 --> 00:41:18,977
You see, few objects
are beautiful or ugly in themselves.

378
00:41:19,185 --> 00:41:22,643
To know that
is the beginning of being an artist.

379
00:41:39,310 --> 00:41:41,893
Now, I'll show you
a real masterpiece.

380
00:41:48,643 --> 00:41:50,185
For your mistress.

381
00:41:50,768 --> 00:41:51,810
Just a moment.

382
00:41:54,227 --> 00:41:56,352
It's from the Marquis de Lauzun.

383
00:41:58,352 --> 00:41:59,393
Send it back.

384
00:42:01,643 --> 00:42:03,018
She doesn't want it.

385
00:42:21,852 --> 00:42:24,685
Will you keep me with you
when you are a Duchess?

386
00:42:26,185 --> 00:42:29,143
Let's wait and see
if I am to be a Duchess

387
00:42:29,352 --> 00:42:34,102
or just a night's divertissement
to keep Mme de Montespan on her toes.

388
00:42:35,393 --> 00:42:36,977
Or on her knees.

389
00:42:42,727 --> 00:42:46,727
Know Phedre then,
and all her wild desires.

390
00:42:46,935 --> 00:42:48,143
I'm in love.

391
00:42:48,352 --> 00:42:49,602
With a fish?

392
00:42:57,727 --> 00:42:59,102
Monsieur le Marquis.

393
00:43:04,102 --> 00:43:05,018
What?

394
00:43:05,227 --> 00:43:07,143
She refused it.

395
00:43:10,185 --> 00:43:11,727
That's rather beautiful.

396
00:43:13,268 --> 00:43:14,268
Senditto...

397
00:43:16,477 --> 00:43:18,102
the Duchesse de Longueville.

398
00:43:19,393 --> 00:43:20,518
With the note?

399
00:43:21,227 --> 00:43:22,310
Of course!

400
00:43:23,060 --> 00:43:25,643
There's far too much waste
in this country.

401
00:43:37,435 --> 00:43:41,143
Do not suppose that loving you,
I think myself innocent

402
00:43:41,352 --> 00:43:42,352
or approve myself.

403
00:43:42,518 --> 00:43:46,810
I am the victim
of Celestium Vengeance

404
00:43:47,018 --> 00:43:50,060
and hate myself still more
than you detest me.

405
00:43:50,602 --> 00:43:52,977
Civilize, Madame, civilize...

406
00:43:54,810 --> 00:43:57,935
There still won't be enough meat.
Not with the extra guests.

407
00:44:02,102 --> 00:44:04,727
Monsieur, I'm worried
about the meat.

408
00:44:04,977 --> 00:44:06,852
We have scarcely enough.

409
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:14,310
M. The King's brother
has got the whale!

410
00:44:14,602 --> 00:44:17,560
This is, lover, death...

411
00:44:21,143 --> 00:44:24,518
The frightful monster
must not get away!

412
00:44:25,185 --> 00:44:27,102
Here is my heart.

413
00:44:27,352 --> 00:44:30,768
It is there your hand should strike.

414
00:44:31,935 --> 00:44:35,727
Already I cannot face
that I may prick it.

415
00:44:39,435 --> 00:44:41,102
Strike now!

416
00:44:42,227 --> 00:44:44,185
Or if you think me
not worth a blow...

417
00:44:44,393 --> 00:44:47,810
Your men are careless.
They spoiled our pleasure.

418
00:44:48,560 --> 00:44:52,018
My men had orders to wait for me.

419
00:44:52,810 --> 00:44:54,935
The whale was intended
for the King's pleasure.

420
00:44:55,310 --> 00:44:58,685
The King! That's a shame.
We, Bourbons, are...

421
00:44:58,893 --> 00:45:01,602
unpredictable when deprived of our...

422
00:45:01,810 --> 00:45:03,060
pleasure.

423
00:45:05,477 --> 00:45:08,185
You are a stubborn man,
Master Steward.

424
00:45:08,602 --> 00:45:09,435
Admirable!

425
00:45:18,727 --> 00:45:19,893
Horse racing!

426
00:45:23,893 --> 00:45:25,768
Get that carcass out of the water.

427
00:45:34,477 --> 00:45:36,102
For your mistress.

428
00:45:48,143 --> 00:45:50,935
It must be from the King!
There's a note.

429
00:46:00,768 --> 00:46:01,852
It's sugar.

430
00:46:03,143 --> 00:46:04,893
It's all right, Louise.

431
00:46:06,435 --> 00:46:07,560
It's all right.

432
00:46:15,102 --> 00:46:16,102
<i>Madame,</i>

433
00:46:17,435 --> 00:46:21,768
<i>you were kind
to one who turned aside kindness.</i>

434
00:46:21,935 --> 00:46:26,185
<i>Such gifts as I have,
I employ for your forgiveness.</i>

435
00:46:27,268 --> 00:46:29,060
<i>François Vatel.</i>

436
00:46:39,852 --> 00:46:41,602
Gourville, help me.

437
00:46:41,768 --> 00:46:45,018
The table lanterns were smashed
on the journey.

438
00:46:45,518 --> 00:46:49,477
If the wind gets up,
it will blow out the candles.

439
00:46:49,977 --> 00:46:51,893
Torches would be dangerous.

440
00:46:52,102 --> 00:46:54,060
Fires of Bengal burn better
then tallow,

441
00:46:54,268 --> 00:46:56,643
but the scent will ruin
the taste of the food.

442
00:46:56,852 --> 00:46:58,935
The banquet will be a failure.

443
00:46:59,102 --> 00:47:01,143
It's just a hot meal
on its way to the commode.

444
00:47:01,310 --> 00:47:02,768
No, Gourville.

445
00:47:02,977 --> 00:47:04,685
It's the future
of the House of Condé.

446
00:47:04,893 --> 00:47:06,060
If you were a gambler,

447
00:47:06,227 --> 00:47:08,352
you'd appreciate
a whole new human pleasure.

448
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:10,352
The risk of losing everything.

449
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,060
My advice is: Enjoy your disasters.

450
00:47:13,268 --> 00:47:15,143
But don't ever stake your soul.

451
00:47:15,810 --> 00:47:20,227
I'd sell it today
for the weather to hold.

452
00:47:42,102 --> 00:47:45,352
Master Steward,
do you promise us sport?

453
00:47:45,602 --> 00:47:47,227
Yes, there will be sport.

454
00:47:49,268 --> 00:47:50,643
I smell blood.

455
00:47:50,852 --> 00:47:51,852
I promise you blood.

456
00:48:10,518 --> 00:48:12,935
Montausier's stock is rising.

457
00:48:13,727 --> 00:48:16,268
She spent the night
in his Majesty's bed.

458
00:48:17,310 --> 00:48:19,185
Does everybody know
who sleeps with the King?

459
00:48:19,393 --> 00:48:20,810
Every footman knows.

460
00:48:21,018 --> 00:48:23,768
Sometimes,
you can be quite ridiculous!

461
00:49:10,393 --> 00:49:13,310
You find the day more exciting
than the night, Madame?

462
00:49:15,268 --> 00:49:18,102
You sent back my gift and my note.

463
00:49:19,102 --> 00:49:21,060
Do you think
the King intends to keep you?

464
00:49:21,268 --> 00:49:22,893
Perhaps not, Lauzun,

465
00:49:23,102 --> 00:49:26,477
but from the King's bed to yours
is a long fall.

466
00:49:26,685 --> 00:49:28,727
I am not contemplating it
in this life.

467
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:41,060
Mme de Longueville.

468
00:50:00,977 --> 00:50:02,518
They're waiting for the sauces!

469
00:50:05,810 --> 00:50:08,435
Pick this up. Someone help him!

470
00:50:12,185 --> 00:50:13,643
M. Vatel, the pies!

471
00:50:13,810 --> 00:50:16,143
There is not enough meat!
We're two tables short.

472
00:50:16,310 --> 00:50:18,310
They gave us the wrong numbers.

473
00:50:22,435 --> 00:50:25,227
Give me this.
Bring me some mushrooms!

474
00:50:25,435 --> 00:50:27,643
Antoine, mushrooms!

475
00:50:29,810 --> 00:50:30,810
Are you all right?

476
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:34,768
It's nothing!

477
00:50:49,477 --> 00:50:50,602
GO! Go!

478
00:51:11,435 --> 00:51:13,893
Condé has won 40,000 pistols
from the King.

479
00:51:14,102 --> 00:51:15,977
Colbert must be furious.

480
00:51:16,560 --> 00:51:19,268
By losing a little,
you might have won more.

481
00:51:19,477 --> 00:51:23,268
By winning a little,
you might lose everything.

482
00:51:24,810 --> 00:51:27,352
Is the Prince losing his chéteau?

483
00:51:27,685 --> 00:51:29,893
Not if he plays his cards wrong.

484
00:51:38,477 --> 00:51:39,893
Your Majesty.

485
00:51:48,685 --> 00:51:50,893
He'd better lose, Condé!

486
00:52:44,977 --> 00:52:47,185
Condé's demands are excessive.

487
00:52:47,477 --> 00:52:48,685
Outrageous.

488
00:52:48,893 --> 00:52:50,727
You mean he knows his price.

489
00:52:51,185 --> 00:52:53,643
Of course, if there were
to be a war...

490
00:52:55,018 --> 00:52:56,852
I'm sure my friend M. De Turenne

491
00:52:57,018 --> 00:53:01,060
would forgive the monies
he loaned his Majesty last year.

492
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:04,435
Condé is a better leader.
As yet, there is no war.

493
00:53:04,643 --> 00:53:07,893
Our envoys from Holland
may well bring acceptable terms.

494
00:53:08,060 --> 00:53:09,560
I would prefer that.

495
00:53:10,018 --> 00:53:13,560
It is not rational
for two rich countries

496
00:53:13,727 --> 00:53:15,018
to make war.

497
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:17,185
My dear Colbert,

498
00:53:17,393 --> 00:53:19,810
our destinies
are not ruled by reason.

499
00:53:20,227 --> 00:53:23,643
Lust for power, like any lust,
is seated,

500
00:53:23,810 --> 00:53:26,893
according to latest
medical knowledge, in the liver.

501
00:53:30,602 --> 00:53:31,643
Although personally,

502
00:53:33,143 --> 00:53:34,435
it hasn't been my experience.

503
00:56:04,560 --> 00:56:06,393
Are you ill, Madame?

504
00:56:08,893 --> 00:56:11,727
An infusion of this will restore you.

505
00:56:14,560 --> 00:56:17,393
I wanted the wind to stop blowing.

506
00:56:19,893 --> 00:56:21,310
I made it stop.

507
00:56:23,310 --> 00:56:24,810
I thought it was God.

508
00:56:29,227 --> 00:56:32,727
Then perhaps God provided me.

509
00:56:40,602 --> 00:56:42,060
Is it so important?

510
00:56:45,060 --> 00:56:47,352
It is no small thing
to please a King.

511
00:56:48,227 --> 00:56:51,727
To please a King is easily clone

512
00:56:53,227 --> 00:56:54,685
and of no importance.

513
00:56:55,393 --> 00:56:58,018
But as a steward,
I have it in my power

514
00:56:58,185 --> 00:57:01,352
to save the house
of the Prince of Condé.

515
00:57:03,435 --> 00:57:05,268
What power do you have?

516
00:57:06,018 --> 00:57:07,518
To create.

517
00:57:08,393 --> 00:57:09,977
To astonish.

518
00:57:12,143 --> 00:57:14,893
The visit of his Majesty
is the supreme test.

519
00:57:15,060 --> 00:57:16,268
If I please him,

520
00:57:16,435 --> 00:57:19,560
his benevolence will restore
my master to his position

521
00:57:19,768 --> 00:57:22,185
in the destiny of France.

522
00:57:24,727 --> 00:57:28,268
So the destiny of France
is in your hands.

523
00:57:30,102 --> 00:57:33,935
That will be a great surprise
to the King's minister Colbert!

524
00:57:42,893 --> 00:57:44,393
I must go back.

525
00:58:20,227 --> 00:58:22,685
You really believe
Lauzun has enough influence...

526
00:58:22,852 --> 00:58:24,185
Trust me, my dearest.

527
00:58:24,518 --> 00:58:26,518
I've never let you down... have I?

528
00:58:29,893 --> 00:58:32,685
Stay late after dinner.
I'll need the room.

529
00:58:33,727 --> 00:58:36,685
I don't feel like ruining my gown
in the corner of some stable.

530
00:58:41,935 --> 00:58:44,227
Is this what the Court
has brought us to?

531
00:59:22,102 --> 00:59:23,852
Laurent! Laurent!

532
00:59:24,893 --> 00:59:26,810
What kind of meat is this?

533
00:59:27,185 --> 00:59:29,060
Unicorn. Laurent!

534
00:59:31,518 --> 00:59:32,560
M. Demaury.

535
00:59:34,268 --> 00:59:36,685
Hurry up! Hurry up!

536
00:59:36,893 --> 00:59:38,310
For God's sake.

537
00:59:43,685 --> 00:59:45,810
There's no news about the lanterns.

538
00:59:47,143 --> 00:59:50,810
More than half the eggs are addled.
We can't make the custard.

539
00:59:57,518 --> 00:59:58,560
Watch.

540
01:00:04,268 --> 01:00:05,310
Come.

541
01:00:14,935 --> 01:00:17,977
The sugar will come up
like beaten egg whites.

542
01:00:25,352 --> 01:00:26,893
Don't forget the apricot!

543
01:00:51,477 --> 01:00:53,227
If they ask you what it is,

544
01:00:53,435 --> 01:00:56,435
tell them
it's an old recipe from Chantilly.

545
01:00:57,727 --> 01:00:59,393
Don't cut any more melons.

546
01:01:31,602 --> 01:01:32,643
Who is it?

547
01:01:34,685 --> 01:01:35,935
Don't be afraid. Come on.

548
01:01:39,310 --> 01:01:40,768
My mistress...

549
01:01:41,643 --> 01:01:44,768
She asked me to stay until
I have seen you read it.

550
01:01:48,310 --> 01:01:49,977
This is so pretty!

551
01:01:50,185 --> 01:01:51,977
What a strange idea!

552
01:01:52,477 --> 01:01:55,060
- A custom from India.
- India!

553
01:01:58,768 --> 01:02:01,560
Please thank your mistress.

554
01:02:38,268 --> 01:02:40,060
My clock has stopped.

555
01:02:40,268 --> 01:02:41,643
Does it matter?

556
01:02:42,518 --> 01:02:45,102
All the other clocks in this chéteau
are working perfectly.

557
01:02:45,268 --> 01:02:46,185
By the way,

558
01:02:46,352 --> 01:02:50,727
the King stopped to examine
the sun clock and admired it.

559
01:02:51,102 --> 01:02:52,685
It means something.

560
01:02:55,185 --> 01:02:57,143
I stink from head to toe.

561
01:02:57,852 --> 01:03:01,018
This is good. I don't know it.

562
01:03:01,560 --> 01:03:03,602
It's made from walnuts.

563
01:03:04,102 --> 01:03:05,560
What did you want?

564
01:03:06,393 --> 01:03:08,143
Monsieur sent me...

565
01:03:09,810 --> 01:03:12,185
It's not an easy embassy.

566
01:03:15,518 --> 01:03:19,560
Your name is on everybody's lips.
This banquet will be decisive.

567
01:03:19,768 --> 01:03:21,560
Your genius is...

568
01:03:22,518 --> 01:03:23,727
Get to the point.

569
01:03:26,227 --> 01:03:29,393
Monsieur wants you for his friend.

570
01:03:29,893 --> 01:03:31,643
He admires...

571
01:03:31,977 --> 01:03:34,727
Well, he admires you
and to speak quite frankly,

572
01:03:35,102 --> 01:03:36,685
everything about you, so...

573
01:03:36,893 --> 01:03:39,018
What he wants from you is...

574
01:03:40,893 --> 01:03:42,102
everything.

575
01:03:50,977 --> 01:03:52,227
Do I hear you right?

576
01:03:52,602 --> 01:03:54,268
- What do you hear?
- That Monsieur has sent you

577
01:03:54,477 --> 01:03:57,352
to ask me to join the long line
of stableboys and princes

578
01:03:57,560 --> 01:03:58,977
who he has honoured so...

579
01:03:59,185 --> 01:04:00,643
intimately?

580
01:04:01,143 --> 01:04:03,143
Yes, your hearing is very good.

581
01:04:03,602 --> 01:04:05,102
Tell Monsieur,

582
01:04:05,310 --> 01:04:09,060
and I quote Descartes,
who I once knew:

583
01:04:09,477 --> 01:04:12,935
"There is no soul so weak
that it cannot acquire

584
01:04:13,143 --> 01:04:16,018
"an absolute power
over the passions."

585
01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:20,102
Monsieur is not a Cartesian,
as far as is known.

586
01:04:21,310 --> 01:04:23,727
He only wants a few moments
of your time.

587
01:04:23,893 --> 01:04:26,102
Then I'll send him a message

588
01:04:26,268 --> 01:04:28,768
which reveals more of me

589
01:04:28,977 --> 01:04:31,643
than he would ever see
if I were to submit.

590
01:04:31,852 --> 01:04:33,018
Tell him:

591
01:04:34,102 --> 01:04:37,393
We both of us
live with a terrible thing,

592
01:04:37,810 --> 01:04:40,435
a desire for the absolute,

593
01:04:40,643 --> 01:04:43,435
the sublime, the perfect.

594
01:04:48,852 --> 01:04:51,893
That's why he? Its
from person to person,

595
01:04:52,352 --> 01:04:55,268
and that's why I give myself
to no one.

596
01:04:56,393 --> 01:04:57,727
And the Prince?

597
01:04:58,727 --> 01:05:01,327
How long do you think it will take
before this reaches the Prince?

598
01:05:01,352 --> 01:05:02,727
Not long if you hurry.

599
01:05:05,102 --> 01:05:07,060
My dear Vatel.

600
01:05:08,143 --> 01:05:11,143
We all go round together
like a celestial machine.

601
01:05:11,352 --> 01:05:13,018
The Sun King is at the center.

602
01:05:13,185 --> 01:05:16,060
Condé is one of his planets
and I am Condé's moon.

603
01:05:16,227 --> 01:05:18,768
Do you think there is a place
to stand where we are free?

604
01:05:18,935 --> 01:05:21,102
Naturally I will speak to Condé.

605
01:05:22,102 --> 01:05:24,018
Not to do so would be...

606
01:05:24,977 --> 01:05:26,685
self-important.

607
01:05:41,518 --> 01:05:43,352
More fruit on table six.

608
01:05:48,518 --> 01:05:49,518
Bourdelot!

609
01:05:50,768 --> 01:05:53,060
Why have you got
Mme de Montausier's birds?

610
01:05:53,227 --> 01:05:55,102
I got them from Mme de Montausier.

611
01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:58,602
- I'm saving them for the banquet.
- For the banquet?

612
01:05:59,102 --> 01:06:02,018
No. In case the Prince requires them
for his gout.

613
01:06:02,227 --> 01:06:03,268
But Why?

614
01:06:04,435 --> 01:06:07,810
The Princess asked La Montausier
to sacrifice her canaries.

615
01:06:08,018 --> 01:06:09,143
She refused.

616
01:06:09,352 --> 01:06:12,727
So the Princess told her Majesty

617
01:06:12,893 --> 01:06:15,977
and she commanded La Montausier
to give them to me.

618
01:06:16,185 --> 01:06:17,435
Her Majesty.

619
01:06:19,018 --> 01:06:20,727
But canaries,

620
01:06:20,935 --> 01:06:24,727
they are so small, I don't think
their hearts will be enough

621
01:06:24,935 --> 01:06:26,727
to ease the Prince's pain.

622
01:06:28,727 --> 01:06:31,018
You see, this rich food
is very bad for his gout.

623
01:06:31,352 --> 01:06:32,512
I can't serve him an omelette

624
01:06:32,643 --> 01:06:34,685
to celebrate
the visit of the King of France.

625
01:06:34,893 --> 01:06:35,935
It's not your fault.

626
01:06:36,143 --> 01:06:38,727
I just wish I had some better birds,
that's all.

627
01:06:41,435 --> 01:06:42,518
I have my parrots.

628
01:06:42,768 --> 01:06:45,852
But surely, Vatel,
you would not sacrifice...

629
01:06:46,060 --> 01:06:47,740
If the Prince's pain
gets too great to bear

630
01:06:47,810 --> 01:06:49,727
then send to me for my parrots.

631
01:06:49,893 --> 01:06:52,560
Tell the Princess
canaries are too small.

632
01:06:53,643 --> 01:06:54,685
Demaury!

633
01:06:58,352 --> 01:07:01,477
Return those birds
to Madame de Montausier's room.

634
01:07:14,560 --> 01:07:15,935
The Duc de Longueville
is drinking too heavily,

635
01:07:16,102 --> 01:07:17,935
serve him a lighter wine.

636
01:07:19,060 --> 01:07:21,602
A candle has gone out on table six.

637
01:07:46,018 --> 01:07:48,518
Angel drops!

638
01:08:03,935 --> 01:08:08,018
Condé is lucky, this banquet
would shame a Roman Emperor.

639
01:08:09,893 --> 01:08:12,310
Who is this Vatel?
Where does he come from?

640
01:08:12,518 --> 01:08:15,560
Nowhere. The slums of Paris.

641
01:08:15,810 --> 01:08:17,643
He was apprenticed at Eberhardt's,
I believe.

642
01:08:17,852 --> 01:08:19,852
Eberhardt's?
On the Ile Saint Louis?

643
01:08:20,060 --> 01:08:21,643
My mother swore by Eberhardt's.

644
01:08:21,852 --> 01:08:23,560
So did your father, I believe,

645
01:08:23,768 --> 01:08:26,602
although I don't think
he went there for the pastries.

646
01:08:27,227 --> 01:08:29,727
Vatel!
I was just telling the Duchess here

647
01:08:29,935 --> 01:08:33,977
about your boyhood days in
the brothels of the Ile Saint Louis.

648
01:08:34,185 --> 01:08:35,477
It's quite true.

649
01:08:35,685 --> 01:08:38,268
No one knows more about
the brothels of the Ile Saint Louis

650
01:08:38,477 --> 01:08:40,643
than the Marquis de Lauzun.

651
01:08:46,102 --> 01:08:49,060
I think he's just insulted you,
but it's hard to tell.

652
01:08:49,268 --> 01:08:50,268
That's a rare gift.

653
01:08:50,477 --> 01:08:53,852
If you punish him for it, I'll tell
everyone your favorite perversion.

654
01:08:54,060 --> 01:08:56,977
But Duchesse,
you will be the last to know.

655
01:08:58,143 --> 01:09:02,393
Monsieur, you let us taste flavors
one shall never forget.

656
01:09:02,560 --> 01:09:05,310
As a rule I don't allow the King
to be served vinegar.

657
01:09:05,477 --> 01:09:07,102
It makes him irritable,

658
01:09:07,310 --> 01:09:09,643
particularly around his anus.

659
01:09:17,727 --> 01:09:19,060
Fetch Bourdelot!

660
01:09:24,810 --> 01:09:26,352
From India?

661
01:09:27,102 --> 01:09:29,852
How beautiful, ingenious.

662
01:09:30,060 --> 01:09:34,018
I have learned something today,
which is rare.

663
01:10:14,727 --> 01:10:16,810
- I need something...
- Are you in pain?

664
01:10:17,393 --> 01:10:19,810
No, I'm in the grip of some anxiety.

665
01:10:20,143 --> 01:10:24,393
Anxiety? I have nothing for anxiety.
I am a doctor.

666
01:10:29,060 --> 01:10:29,893
GO, go!

667
01:10:33,185 --> 01:10:34,518
And now... For you!

668
01:10:34,727 --> 01:10:38,977
And one and two and three and four,
and more and more.

669
01:10:39,143 --> 01:10:41,893
I am the Steward of the Fish.

670
01:10:42,852 --> 01:10:45,893
They tell me these carp
are called love-carp.

671
01:10:50,268 --> 01:10:51,435
Can you tell us why?

672
01:10:51,643 --> 01:10:53,352
Yes, why? Tell us, tell us why?

673
01:10:56,352 --> 01:11:01,227
They have thick lips
for kissing the stone banks.

674
01:11:04,977 --> 01:11:07,435
Gourville gave me your message.

675
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:14,893
You understand me like none
of my friends understand me.

676
01:11:15,518 --> 01:11:17,685
I hope you find your perfection.

677
01:11:18,060 --> 01:11:21,477
I know I'm looking
in the wrong place,

678
01:11:21,643 --> 01:11:23,643
but when I despair

679
01:11:23,852 --> 01:11:28,143
I shall remember there was a man
who looked into my soul.

680
01:11:30,435 --> 01:11:33,852
Sport...
I demand there shall be a race

681
01:11:34,268 --> 01:11:36,768
between... Effiat

682
01:11:37,393 --> 01:11:38,643
and the carp!

683
01:11:38,935 --> 01:11:40,477
Effiat, now!

684
01:11:42,227 --> 01:11:44,185
It's clouding over.

685
01:11:44,393 --> 01:11:47,102
I'm worried about the salvoes
from up here.

686
01:11:47,477 --> 01:11:50,727
There's a lot of humidity
coming up off the canal.

687
01:11:50,977 --> 01:11:52,477
It may even rain.

688
01:11:52,643 --> 01:11:56,227
It wouldn't dare. He's not called
the Sun King for nothing.

689
01:12:00,477 --> 01:12:02,935
Bravo, sir,
but save your voice for the King.

690
01:12:03,143 --> 01:12:05,102
His ear, as we know, is perfect,

691
01:12:05,310 --> 01:12:09,685
as of course, is his nose,
his navel and his big toe.

692
01:12:12,060 --> 01:12:14,477
Monsieur Vatel, they are ready.

693
01:13:37,893 --> 01:13:39,268
The horses are ready.

694
01:13:40,727 --> 01:13:41,935
Come on.

695
01:15:51,935 --> 01:15:54,310
What a wonderful spectacle.

696
01:15:55,227 --> 01:15:58,768
Condé, who is responsible
for these marvels?

697
01:15:58,935 --> 01:16:00,727
My Steward, your Majesty.

698
01:16:00,935 --> 01:16:03,102
And what is his name?

699
01:16:15,893 --> 01:16:18,185
Bring me this Vatel.

700
01:16:19,018 --> 01:16:21,393
I would like to congratulate him.

701
01:16:28,018 --> 01:16:31,268
Sixteen thousand pounds of flares
and rockets gone up in smoke

702
01:16:31,435 --> 01:16:32,935
to kill a groom.

703
01:16:37,185 --> 01:16:39,143
The King wishes to speak to you.

704
01:16:39,685 --> 01:16:41,018
Not now, please.

705
01:16:41,477 --> 01:16:44,227
Does he think all this
happens by itself!

706
01:16:45,143 --> 01:16:47,768
I want everything cleared up by dawn.
Understand?

707
01:17:03,893 --> 01:17:06,268
- Is it Friday already?
- Yes, nearly.

708
01:17:06,477 --> 01:17:08,893
I must send Demaury
to look out for the fish.

709
01:17:09,102 --> 01:17:10,268
The roads are bad.

710
01:17:27,435 --> 01:17:30,935
Jean-Marie Benoud is dead.
You must tell his family.

711
01:17:31,102 --> 01:17:33,352
I know.
I've sent a messenger to tell them.

712
01:17:35,810 --> 01:17:37,810
The Queen is asking
for crystalized fruits.

713
01:17:38,018 --> 01:17:39,060
Well, get some!

714
01:17:44,935 --> 01:17:46,310
For her Majesty.

715
01:17:48,685 --> 01:17:50,102
Her Majesty.

716
01:17:57,352 --> 01:18:00,143
Lauzun! Don't go away, Lauzun.

717
01:18:03,935 --> 01:18:06,102
The King has called for Vatel.

718
01:18:06,268 --> 01:18:09,727
He's refused to come.
He claims he's too busy.

719
01:18:12,435 --> 01:18:13,518
Do you know the story

720
01:18:15,393 --> 01:18:17,393
of the Marquis de Cufevent?

721
01:18:23,310 --> 01:18:24,310
Everybody does, Monsieur.

722
01:18:24,852 --> 01:18:26,310
Tell it to me, clear Lauzun.

723
01:18:27,227 --> 01:18:28,893
Tell us, tell it, Lauzun.

724
01:18:30,893 --> 01:18:33,768
It seems,
as the Marquis bowed for the King,

725
01:18:33,935 --> 01:18:35,175
he let out a tremendous fart...

726
01:18:36,977 --> 01:18:40,143
And so his Majesty made him
Master of the King's Music.

727
01:18:40,352 --> 01:18:43,727
And what moral do you see
in that story, Lauzun?

728
01:18:46,018 --> 01:18:48,685
That if you don't give a fart
for music,

729
01:18:48,893 --> 01:18:51,477
you'll never rise at Court.

730
01:19:00,018 --> 01:19:03,768
I'll pass his message on to the King.

731
01:19:34,727 --> 01:19:35,810
Halt!

732
01:19:38,018 --> 01:19:39,935
- What is your business?
- The King's business!

733
01:19:40,102 --> 01:19:41,477
Envoys from Holland!

734
01:19:41,810 --> 01:19:43,643
Let me go. Let me pass.

735
01:19:45,018 --> 01:19:47,893
The black queen loses, Colbert.

736
01:19:48,393 --> 01:19:49,977
I am only trying to help.

737
01:19:50,185 --> 01:19:53,435
Your Majesty, my hand needs
all the help it can get.

738
01:19:53,643 --> 01:19:57,852
If Colbert loses, he won't be able
to pay our workmen at Versailles.

739
01:19:59,393 --> 01:20:00,727
Are you alright?

740
01:20:03,352 --> 01:20:06,560
Well, Monsieur, don't deal
in the black queen.

741
01:20:07,102 --> 01:20:09,102
How many orange trees
do we have, Colbert?

742
01:20:09,477 --> 01:20:10,977
One thousand, your Majesty.

743
01:20:11,185 --> 01:20:13,518
And one hundred in silver tubs.

744
01:20:13,727 --> 01:20:16,352
Versailles is my favorite mistress.

745
01:20:16,685 --> 01:20:19,143
That's why she costs you so much.

746
01:20:21,768 --> 01:20:23,602
What are you staking, Prince?

747
01:20:24,185 --> 01:20:25,435
Fifteen Louis.

748
01:20:27,477 --> 01:20:28,893
Fifteen Louis!

749
01:20:30,102 --> 01:20:32,560
How many fountains
do we have, Colbert?

750
01:20:32,810 --> 01:20:34,893
One and a half thousand,
your Majesty.

751
01:20:35,102 --> 01:20:36,185
Forfait.

752
01:20:38,893 --> 01:20:41,810
For Versailles if I lose.

753
01:20:42,018 --> 01:20:44,810
For something of yours if I win...

754
01:20:45,060 --> 01:20:47,268
A glove, perhaps, mon frére.

755
01:20:52,643 --> 01:20:55,518
But one glove is no good to anybody.

756
01:21:05,227 --> 01:21:06,268
Well, Prince.

757
01:21:07,685 --> 01:21:11,018
I have nothing to add to the glory
of Versailles, your Majesty.

758
01:21:11,227 --> 01:21:12,477
But that's not true.

759
01:21:13,685 --> 01:21:16,685
You have something
rarer than diamonds.

760
01:21:17,435 --> 01:21:19,810
You have your Master of Pleasures.

761
01:21:23,643 --> 01:21:25,602
Vatel is worthy of a larger stage,

762
01:21:25,810 --> 01:21:28,310
and Versailles could use
a man of his gifts.

763
01:21:32,310 --> 01:21:37,227
You're asking me to stake
my Master Steward on a card game?

764
01:21:37,685 --> 01:21:40,102
Do you have any objections?
Look what you might win.

765
01:21:50,185 --> 01:21:51,852
We'll take the bet!

766
01:21:58,310 --> 01:21:59,893
Are we playing or not?

767
01:22:05,143 --> 01:22:05,977
Very well.

768
01:22:08,977 --> 01:22:09,893
Then we're playing.

769
01:22:12,143 --> 01:22:15,560
Your Majesty,
the envoys from Holland have arrived.

770
01:22:15,768 --> 01:22:17,727
Then they come
at an interesting moment.

771
01:22:18,852 --> 01:22:19,893
This is true.

772
01:22:23,185 --> 01:22:24,018
Well.

773
01:22:26,852 --> 01:22:28,060
It's between you two.

774
01:22:29,685 --> 01:22:30,518
Prince?

775
01:22:45,352 --> 01:22:46,893
Black queen.

776
01:22:49,185 --> 01:22:50,310
Bad luck.

777
01:22:52,893 --> 01:22:53,727
The envoys...

778
01:23:42,727 --> 01:23:44,268
The Queen wants garlic.

779
01:23:45,352 --> 01:23:48,143
- Garlic?
- She said she likes it.

780
01:23:48,352 --> 01:23:49,893
Well, run to the kitchen...

781
01:23:50,102 --> 01:23:51,185
Garlic!

782
01:23:53,227 --> 01:23:55,143
If his Majesty comes out smiling,

783
01:23:55,352 --> 01:23:57,685
it will be peace with Holland.

784
01:23:58,518 --> 01:24:01,852
No, if he returns smiling,
it will be war.

785
01:24:02,685 --> 01:24:04,018
War!

786
01:24:04,393 --> 01:24:05,514
What do you think, Monsieur?

787
01:24:06,852 --> 01:24:09,393
Certainly one or the other.

788
01:24:09,602 --> 01:24:12,352
Also if he returns frowning.

789
01:24:15,893 --> 01:24:20,435
Your wife is looking so beautiful
tonight, Longueville...

790
01:24:20,643 --> 01:24:21,977
But where is she?

791
01:24:43,018 --> 01:24:43,893
Your majesty?

792
01:24:45,727 --> 01:24:46,685
Condé.

793
01:24:48,477 --> 01:24:50,602
What's your opinion of war?

794
01:24:54,602 --> 01:24:58,560
I have seen too much destruction,
Majesty.

795
01:24:58,810 --> 01:25:00,518
William of Orange
has declined the offer

796
01:25:00,685 --> 01:25:03,268
of the daughter
of the Duchesse de La Valliere.

797
01:25:03,560 --> 01:25:06,352
Gallantly telling us
that his family only marry

798
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,060
the legitimate daughters of Kings,

799
01:25:09,352 --> 01:25:10,352
not their bastards.

800
01:25:11,310 --> 01:25:12,143
I see.

801
01:25:12,352 --> 01:25:14,643
Furthermore, the ruler
of the flat earth

802
01:25:14,893 --> 01:25:18,518
has minted coins
with the image of the Sun.

803
01:25:20,560 --> 01:25:22,893
That is impertinent.

804
01:25:24,018 --> 01:25:24,893
He has commissioned

805
01:25:25,102 --> 01:25:29,143
an oil painting
of one of my flagships sinking.

806
01:25:33,685 --> 01:25:35,393
With your permission,

807
01:25:35,560 --> 01:25:38,727
I will drown him in one of his dykes.

808
01:26:02,768 --> 01:26:05,310
You do not have the command yet,
Prince.

809
01:26:06,185 --> 01:26:09,977
- It is between you and Turenne.
- Turenne?

810
01:26:10,310 --> 01:26:13,018
I'm sure all will be alright.

811
01:26:13,352 --> 01:26:16,560
After all, you have the King
under your roof.

812
01:26:21,310 --> 01:26:23,977
Tomorrow will be decisive.

813
01:26:38,893 --> 01:26:40,852
No, no, just leave me this one.

814
01:26:53,018 --> 01:26:56,143
The Prince is grateful.
He would like to see you.

815
01:27:12,852 --> 01:27:13,977
Her Majesty?

816
01:27:14,185 --> 01:27:15,518
Asleep, Madame.

817
01:27:17,685 --> 01:27:20,893
They were brought back,
orders of M. Vatel.

818
01:27:22,393 --> 01:27:24,685
Would you like me
to undress you, Madame?

819
01:27:37,227 --> 01:27:40,852
Fortune seems to be with us.
War with Holland.

820
01:27:41,060 --> 01:27:44,060
Turenne is scheming
to get Colbert's backing.

821
01:27:44,268 --> 01:27:45,810
The King favors me, I think.

822
01:27:46,018 --> 01:27:48,602
He will make an announcement
at the banquet tomorrow.

823
01:27:48,810 --> 01:27:49,891
Everything must be perfect.

824
01:27:50,310 --> 01:27:51,790
Everything will be perfect,
my Prince.

825
01:27:53,435 --> 01:27:55,810
We've always understood each other.

826
01:27:56,018 --> 01:27:58,143
You're a great man, Vatel.

827
01:27:58,810 --> 01:28:00,268
You will end up as a Vicomte.

828
01:28:08,185 --> 01:28:10,518
- You have heard?
- Heard?

829
01:28:10,727 --> 01:28:12,060
The King wants you
at Versailles.

830
01:28:16,018 --> 01:28:17,643
Gently, gently-

831
01:28:18,518 --> 01:28:20,768
The King wishes to honor you.

832
01:28:29,310 --> 01:28:30,143
I'm sorry.

833
01:28:33,018 --> 01:28:34,977
Gently now... Breathe in.

834
01:29:57,977 --> 01:30:00,768
We have a present for you.
From the Marquis de Lauzun.

835
01:30:12,102 --> 01:30:14,602
This will teach you
to step above your station.

836
01:30:21,102 --> 01:30:22,018
What do you want?

837
01:30:26,602 --> 01:30:27,643
Surprise!

838
01:30:29,185 --> 01:30:30,310
Preparation!

839
01:30:33,560 --> 01:30:36,643
Excellent. Lesson continues.
Ready?

840
01:30:38,643 --> 01:30:40,102
Edouard, calf!

841
01:30:40,310 --> 01:30:41,352
Louis, back!

842
01:30:41,560 --> 01:30:43,185
Charles, wrist!

843
01:30:44,393 --> 01:30:45,227
Bravo!

844
01:30:45,852 --> 01:30:47,852
And now... open...

845
01:30:48,018 --> 01:30:49,102
Th rust!

846
01:30:52,935 --> 01:30:54,018
Thigh!

847
01:31:10,060 --> 01:31:12,102
Tell Lauzun, enough.

848
01:31:15,518 --> 01:31:20,102
His Highness the King's brother
presents his compliments.

849
01:31:20,643 --> 01:31:23,560
He requests us to escort you
to your apartments.

850
01:31:26,435 --> 01:31:28,102
It won't be necessary.

851
01:32:09,810 --> 01:32:10,727
Madame.

852
01:32:12,185 --> 01:32:13,935
I wanted to thank you.

853
01:32:15,935 --> 01:32:17,310
If the King knew you were here.

854
01:32:17,643 --> 01:32:20,268
The King is busy
with Mme de Montespan.

855
01:32:21,268 --> 01:32:22,810
No one has seen me.

856
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:34,352
So you are coming to Versailles,
Monsieur.

857
01:32:35,060 --> 01:32:36,560
Or haven't you heard?

858
01:32:40,477 --> 01:32:43,060
One of my people was killed today.

859
01:32:46,893 --> 01:32:48,143
Who was it?

860
01:32:48,310 --> 01:32:49,477
His name was...

861
01:32:50,518 --> 01:32:52,102
Jean-Marie Benoud.

862
01:32:52,977 --> 01:32:56,685
28 years old,
from the village of St. Crose.

863
01:32:56,893 --> 01:32:58,935
His father is the miller there.

864
01:33:00,060 --> 01:33:03,060
His mother died of the sweating
sickness two years ago.

865
01:33:04,102 --> 01:33:06,685
He had two brothers, one a priest.

866
01:33:08,518 --> 01:33:10,602
He came here as a stable boy

867
01:33:11,393 --> 01:33:13,643
and was senior groom for three years.

868
01:33:15,685 --> 01:33:16,977
Three years...

869
01:33:19,643 --> 01:33:21,060
You knew him well.

870
01:33:23,643 --> 01:33:25,352
Not particularly.

871
01:33:28,685 --> 01:33:30,352
He was one of my people.

872
01:33:31,518 --> 01:33:33,727
He was fortunate in that.

873
01:33:40,352 --> 01:33:43,643
Why did you save my birds, Monsieur?

874
01:33:50,643 --> 01:33:54,768
Because they were too small
to do any good, Madame.

875
01:34:06,602 --> 01:34:08,352
And because...

876
01:34:18,643 --> 01:34:21,018
Because they were yours.

877
01:35:26,393 --> 01:35:27,227
Anne!

878
01:35:27,852 --> 01:35:29,893
- His Majesty...
- Go!

879
01:35:37,268 --> 01:35:38,727
I'm ruined.

880
01:35:39,852 --> 01:35:41,143
It's the King.

881
01:35:41,935 --> 01:35:42,977
I'm a fool.

882
01:35:43,435 --> 01:35:45,060
Yesterday you were a fool.

883
01:35:45,518 --> 01:35:46,602
Stay here.

884
01:35:47,018 --> 01:35:48,935
If you think I can do that,

885
01:35:49,143 --> 01:35:51,560
you have lived among farmers
too long.

886
01:35:54,310 --> 01:35:56,810
Condé gave you away
at the card table.

887
01:35:56,977 --> 01:36:00,977
To please the King, he gave you away
like a hound from his kennels.

888
01:36:55,852 --> 01:36:57,352
The King has retired.

889
01:36:58,518 --> 01:36:59,643
Alone.

890
01:37:01,977 --> 01:37:04,352
- We searched high and low.
- I was...

891
01:37:04,685 --> 01:37:06,727
I know where you were.

892
01:37:14,435 --> 01:37:16,352
But I would never betray you.

893
01:37:22,102 --> 01:37:25,477
I told the King you were probably
consoling a dear friend,

894
01:37:26,268 --> 01:37:28,018
the Duc de Longueville.

895
01:37:31,143 --> 01:37:36,060
I mean, the way his wife
puts herself about is disgraceful,

896
01:37:36,935 --> 01:37:38,060
don't you think?

897
01:37:43,185 --> 01:37:45,143
You are a true friend.

898
01:37:48,227 --> 01:37:49,060
Excuse me!

899
01:37:49,268 --> 01:37:51,727
Well, you will need a friend now,
won't you?

900
01:37:56,143 --> 01:37:59,518
Would you do me the honor
of sharing a cup of chocolate

901
01:38:00,185 --> 01:38:01,477
with me

902
01:38:02,477 --> 01:38:04,560
even at this late hour?

903
01:38:07,352 --> 01:38:10,977
I think you'll find the King
a less democratic man than myself.

904
01:38:11,310 --> 01:38:14,768
And it would be tragic, would it not,

905
01:38:14,935 --> 01:38:18,435
if Vatel were to be sent back
to his former master

906
01:38:18,602 --> 01:38:20,518
in the prison of Pignerol?

907
01:39:20,310 --> 01:39:23,643
<i>The last day, dawn.</i>

908
01:39:31,977 --> 01:39:33,893
My lord! Is there any news?

909
01:39:34,102 --> 01:39:34,977
News?

910
01:39:35,518 --> 01:39:37,852
Our money!
The money from the King!

911
01:39:38,060 --> 01:39:38,935
Money?

912
01:39:39,143 --> 01:39:41,143
Yes, the news is very good.

913
01:39:41,352 --> 01:39:43,018
The King is well pleased with us.

914
01:39:43,227 --> 01:39:44,560
God please! Where is Vatel?

915
01:39:44,768 --> 01:39:46,602
I'm looking for him myself.

916
01:39:47,185 --> 01:39:49,643
- Is everything alright?
- Yes indeed.

917
01:40:17,518 --> 01:40:21,268
There will be turbot, sole,
pike, halibut, mullet.

918
01:40:22,352 --> 01:40:25,268
Presented in heaps,
as beautiful as an engraving.

919
01:40:25,435 --> 01:40:28,560
Trout and salmon
will seem to be swimming in broth...

920
01:40:28,893 --> 01:40:32,060
On his Majesty's table
will be a sea monster,

921
01:40:32,852 --> 01:40:37,352
a great cod,
baked whole, glazed, decorated,

922
01:40:37,518 --> 01:40:39,643
holding a mackerel in its mouth.

923
01:40:40,268 --> 01:40:43,643
The ice feast will be like
nothing seen before.

924
01:41:12,477 --> 01:41:13,810
Is that all?

925
01:41:16,352 --> 01:41:18,268
Have you seen other fish carts
on the road?

926
01:41:18,435 --> 01:41:20,852
No, sir. There were storms
all along the coast.

927
01:41:21,018 --> 01:41:24,935
Few boats put to sea at all,
and they came back empty.

928
01:41:25,102 --> 01:41:26,393
Empty!

929
01:41:35,768 --> 01:41:39,477
- Come back tomorrow to be paid.
- Thank you, M. Vatel.

930
01:42:41,060 --> 01:42:43,268
M. Vatel! May I have a word?

931
01:42:43,435 --> 01:42:45,852
Not now, Thibault, not now...

932
01:43:41,268 --> 01:43:42,852
From his Majesty.

933
01:43:43,643 --> 01:43:46,018
It's your commission for Versailles.

934
01:43:47,810 --> 01:43:51,185
The King commands that you leave
with the Court tomorrow.

935
01:43:51,810 --> 01:43:54,727
There will be a wagon
for your personal baggage.

936
01:43:56,393 --> 01:43:58,227
You'll have a horse.

937
01:43:58,893 --> 01:44:00,643
We await your answer.

938
01:44:04,185 --> 01:44:05,435
Are you there?

939
01:44:51,643 --> 01:44:53,227
It's your turn.

940
01:47:31,352 --> 01:47:33,352
Poor little things.

941
01:47:37,685 --> 01:47:39,393
My prisoners.

942
01:47:47,810 --> 01:47:48,852
What is it?

943
01:47:53,185 --> 01:47:54,602
This is for you.

944
01:48:23,185 --> 01:48:24,268
<i>Madame,</i>

945
01:48:25,018 --> 01:48:26,935
<i>when you read this,</i>

946
01:48:27,477 --> 01:48:30,685
<i>I shall have left this world
with only one regret,</i>

947
01:48:30,852 --> 01:48:33,518
<i>that I cannot be with you.</i>

948
01:48:52,018 --> 01:48:55,977
<i>Madame, they will tell you
it was the failure of the feast...</i>

949
01:48:57,560 --> 01:49:00,393
<i>But between the opening</i>

950
01:49:00,560 --> 01:49:03,435
<i>and the closing of your heart,
I saw</i>

951
01:49:03,643 --> 01:49:06,685
<i>that I was not the master
of these festivities,</i>

952
01:49:06,893 --> 01:49:08,643
<i>but their slave.</i>

953
01:49:10,185 --> 01:49:13,435
<i>May you escape by a better road.</i>

954
01:49:18,602 --> 01:49:21,935
<i>Your home is, I think, in the south.</i>

955
01:49:22,768 --> 01:49:25,977
<i>If so, remember that there is a place</i>

956
01:49:26,185 --> 01:49:29,102
<i>not far away in the Vaucluse,</i>

957
01:49:29,268 --> 01:49:32,102
<i>where they plant peach trees
among the vines.</i>

958
01:49:34,477 --> 01:49:36,352
<i>The taste of the peaches</i>

959
01:49:36,935 --> 01:49:40,352
<i>comes through in the wine.</i>

960
01:49:42,643 --> 01:49:46,560
<i>Your servant, François Vatel.</i>

961
01:50:41,852 --> 01:50:46,227
<i>Gourville, however, tried to make up
for the loss of Vatel.</i>

962
01:50:46,435 --> 01:50:47,602
<i>It was done.</i>

963
01:50:47,810 --> 01:50:49,602
<i>The meal was excellent.</i>

964
01:50:49,810 --> 01:50:52,560
<i>People walked
and others were hunting.</i>

965
01:50:52,768 --> 01:50:57,393
<i>The scent of daffodils
was everywhere, a true enchantment.</i>

966
01:50:59,685 --> 01:51:01,768
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