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-For Lucian,

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it all started with ink,

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paper and the taste for beauty.

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Metallic squeaks

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Orphan without inheritance,

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he had to learn a trade to survive.

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His sister Ève having married a printer from Angoulême,

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he worked in this modest workshop

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dreaming of another life.

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Still today in Paris, all those who knew him

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wonder how his story was possible,

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in what movement of the world he was carried away.

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-Take.

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-I will be late. -But no.

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They won't do anything to you, you know.

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Here is.

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-Meanwhile, walking down that long aisle,

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it was like stepping into another world,

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almost change countries,

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to the castle of Madame de Bargeton.

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Someone knocked.

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- The guests are coming, Madame la Baroness.

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-Thank you.

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-Supporting a husband almost as old as his castle,

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she wanted to protect artists, and patron.

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One Sunday after Mass,

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the bishop had recommended a young poet to him

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employed in a printing press,

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who signed his poems with the beautiful name of Lucien de Rubempré.

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-What took the most work,

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it is to return the vitality of the petals.

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You see,

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at the level of the eglantines?

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Also the skin of different fruits...

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-Leave us, please.

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Thanks, Lucian.

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It's a great honour.

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I was afraid you weren't coming.

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- Will your husband be present?

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-Do you think.

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He only reads hunting treatises and takes care only of his dogs.

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- You are very beautiful, madam.

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- Dear friends, I thank you for your faithful presence.

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One day, when one of our proteges will be recognized

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and celebrated,

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we will be able to say: "I attended its beginnings

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"and that had moved me."

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The young poet we welcome

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had read to us last month a biblical ode.

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Our Gazette des Lettres greeted him with these words.

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"When a brilliant gift appears in a very young man,

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"It is for us a new hope,

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"a new spring of life.

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"20 years and already the momentum of a work."

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For him, poetry is

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a sacred thing, a kind of intimate religion.

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And we know how to respect the spirits in whom God places one of his rays.

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Come, sir, we are waiting for you.

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(The bag, take off your bag.)

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- For Her .

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To like,

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Pray,

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To sing,

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This is my whole life

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Mortal, of all these goods that here below man envies

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At the time of farewell, I regret nothing

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Nothing but burning pleasure,

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Who soars towards the sky,

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The ecstasy of the lyre Or the amorous silence

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With a heart pressed against mine

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At the feet of beauty, to feel her lyre quivering

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See agreement in agreement The harmonious delirium

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flow with sound

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And pass into her bosom

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Make the tears rain from these eyes that we adore

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Like the wind blowing

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Dawn's tears are raining down from an overfilled chalice

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Rare applause

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I am sorry.

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-They have narrow lives, they feel nothing.

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It was really beautiful.

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-Pardon.

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I was looking for you, lady. The Marchioness of Contades

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wanted to thank you.

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What do you want them to understand?

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-And you ?

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What did you think of it?

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-We don't think these things, we feel them, right?

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-"Louise.

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"A love such as the one you knew how to inspire in me,

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"I thought it both chimerical and forbidden.

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"Prohibited,

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"like everything that must ultimately triumph.

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“Every written word brings me closer to your lips.

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"Every book in my library seems to tell me about you.

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“Since that disastrous afternoon, I have thought only of you.

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"To you, isolated among the shadows between these lifeless walls,

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"without poetry, without love.

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“Only love in the world is something.

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"And love is like the wind,

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"He will take us away.

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"Your turn, Louise.

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"Lucien."

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-She took crazy risks to join him,

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inventing fugues in the afternoon.

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She guided his gestures, and he was already less clumsy.

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-Will this comedy with my wife last much longer,

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Mr. Thistle?

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- My name is Lucien de Rubempré.

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-I once met your parents, young man.

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You are the son of Chardon,

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small pharmacist of the place of the church.

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You have no right to bear your mother's name,

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even to sign your ridiculous poems,

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as mannered as your little person.

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-You don't know anything about these things.

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Go back to your dogs and your guns.

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You don't deserve a woman like her.

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You wasted her life by letting her waste away.

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-No ! -Lucian!

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-Monsieur !

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-Chardon !

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Chardon.

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And all these lands belong to me.

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I can chase your family away

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at any time!

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-I don't want to see you suffer, Louise.

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Come to Paris with me, until this case calms down.

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You deserve to have a little fun. Give me this chance.

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-I don't want you to misunderstand me.

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The friendship between us needs no other feelings.

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- I know how to wait.

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-No free young man having more than a thousand francs

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is really sad to leave his family.

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The young poet imagined the city as a pagan goddess,

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arms open to talent and merit.

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But what did he know of Paris?

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-I took them for the trip.

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Could I read to you?

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I will not be dependent on you.

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Never.

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It's too late to be afraid.

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-This smile that had escaped its protector,

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Lucien didn't think of giving it a name.

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But were they going, she and he, to the same place,

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at the same time in their lives?

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...

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-Paris.

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...

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- You traveled with him, alone, in your car?

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- No one saw us.

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- How could you take such a risk?

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- You promised to help me.

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-But there are rules here, things are not without damage.

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You have a title, you are a rare woman.

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And him, what is he?

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Imagine learning about it in Paris. Some would refuse to see you.

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-I couldn't abandon him, he will be a great poet.

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I always knew it.

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-He can't stay with you, Louise.

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Understand it.

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-To avoid a scandal,

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the unfortunate suitor found accommodation for the young favourite,

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a few blocks from Louise.

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But a few streets, when you arrive from the Charentes,

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it was already very far.

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- I will thank you.

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-Tomorrow evening, you will accompany us to the opera.

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I will introduce you as my protege.

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Let's say a godson.

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You must prevent any misunderstanding about your relationship with Louise.

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- I will do nothing to compromise her.

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-At this party, you will meet Louise's cousin,

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the Marquise d'Espard.

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A very respected woman in the suburb.

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The Faubourg Saint-Germain, yes.

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-Yes I understood.

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- Here, the rent is paid for a week.

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Do you have enough to survive?

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- I have enough to hold out until I find a publisher.

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Besides, I already have contacts.

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- Oh yes, I imagine.

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I'll tell you a tailor where to hire an evening dress.

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This is to honor our Louise.

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-I should hope so.

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Good bye, sir.

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-"For my brother, who believes in the adventure of beauty."

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-In Paris, the adventure of beauty

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was also that of beauty products,

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whose illustrated advertisements were displayed everywhere,

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as a new public language.

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Whistle Whiplash

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The world had changed

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and Lucien knew nothing of this world.

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We wanted to forget the Revolution,

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the Terror and the Wars of the Empire.

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France had restored the power of the Old Regime

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and court nobility.

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We now aspired to success and personal enrichment.

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Then the young provincials came running by the thousands,

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determined too to forge a destiny,

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but far from the battlefields.

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In any case, if you had to miss your life,

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it was better to miss it in Paris.

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In one afternoon,

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Lucien had already spent 1,570 francs.

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What to live for several weeks

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in Angouleme.

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But that night, Louise had to watch him at all costs.

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and love her again.

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A whole life could be played on the first impression

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given to this high society.

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And we know that the first impression is often the right one.

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Especially when it's bad.

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-Monsieur ?

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-I don't have a coupon, but I'm expected.

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-You are expected ? -Yes.

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-Thank you.

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-By the Marquise d'Espard and the Baron du Châtelet.

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-Yes, but you don't have a coupon.

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-Non.

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-Thank you. Step aside, please.

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- But they are expecting me.

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-You do not enter without a coupon.

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Let the guests pass, thank you.

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Thank you sir.

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-Ah, Lucien, we were looking for you.

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- Paris suits you well, Madame.

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-What did you do to your hair?

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- I wanted to honor you.

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-It's a real success. Let's go.

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-Lucien then discovered the famous Marquise d'Espard,

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who would have an essential role in the drama of his life.

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-Wait for a moment, Lucien.

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-Dear cousin. -Good evening.

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You are lovely.

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I would like to introduce you to someone, if you accept.

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-He is a godson who comes to us from Angoulême.

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I present to you the Marquise d'Espard.

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-Nice to meet you madam.

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Lucien de Rubempré, at your service.

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- A godson.

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-Walking towards the lodges,

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the Marquise had told her provincial cousin

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that you don't hold your handkerchief that way.

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Not at all.

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Good taste, that is to say elegance,

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is due to a thousand nuances of this kind that some easily understand,

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but that other women will never understand.

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The orchestra agrees.

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-M. of Rubempre,

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Are you coming to the opera for the first time?

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-Is it so obvious, madam?

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-Take this seat, you will have the whole room under your eyes.

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- She came with her hairdresser?

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00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,542
- The fashion of Angoulême amuses all these ladies.

273
00:21:56,708 --> 00:21:58,833
- No, my dear, it's not you.

274
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-Look, Louise.

275
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The baron is there.

276
00:22:08,250 --> 00:22:10,583
Look, Louise, second row.

277
00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:18,458
-In this world of pageantry, the little things became big.

278
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An unfortunate gesture

279
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a word or a look lose a beginner.

280
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Bad behavior is like a stab in the web,

281
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a dissonant note in an opera.

282
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Upbeat music

283
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...

284
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In the room,

285
00:22:46,208 --> 00:22:50,083
there was only the young Lucien to be captivated by the dancers,

286
00:22:50,583 --> 00:22:52,708
moreover very academic.

287
00:22:54,042 --> 00:22:55,500
For this worldly audience,

288
00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:58,750
the show was just a bad moment before intermission,

289
00:22:58,958 --> 00:23:02,208
where the real comedy could finally resume.

290
00:23:02,417 --> 00:23:04,583
Soft music

291
00:23:04,750 --> 00:23:23,375
...

292
00:23:23,542 --> 00:23:25,167
-Dearest Nathan.

293
00:23:25,750 --> 00:23:27,625
We were looking for you. -It's true ?

294
00:23:27,792 --> 00:23:29,833
-What did we think of the show?

295
00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:33,667
- We're looking at you. Your beauty eclipses the scene.

296
00:23:33,875 --> 00:23:35,250
-How nice.

297
00:23:35,417 --> 00:23:37,958
I still haven't received your new book.

298
00:23:38,167 --> 00:23:41,292
-Yes. This is scheduled for the end of next week.

299
00:23:41,458 --> 00:23:44,292
With white roses to make amends.

300
00:23:44,458 --> 00:23:46,125
-I present to you my cousin,

301
00:23:46,833 --> 00:23:48,625
Louise de Bargeton. -Madame.

302
00:23:48,792 --> 00:23:51,375
-A great reader, she comes from the Charentes.

303
00:23:51,542 --> 00:23:53,250
Delicious, right? -Absolutely.

304
00:23:53,417 --> 00:23:57,167
-And M. Lucien de Rubempré, a young poet thrown into Paris.

305
00:23:57,333 --> 00:24:00,500
Mr. Nathan is our greatest literary hope.

306
00:24:00,667 --> 00:24:02,458
If he agrees, he can

307
00:24:02,667 --> 00:24:03,625
to advise you.

308
00:24:03,792 --> 00:24:07,750
-Of course, I will be happy to help sir.

309
00:24:07,958 --> 00:24:09,458
-Louise? Excuse me.

310
00:24:15,042 --> 00:24:17,792
-Have you already met some publishers?

311
00:24:18,458 --> 00:24:19,792
-I have addresses.

312
00:24:21,750 --> 00:24:23,667
-Il y a Dauriat, Delaunay...

313
00:24:23,833 --> 00:24:26,208
We could take the time to talk about it.

314
00:24:26,375 --> 00:24:28,958
If you are interested, you have to meet them.

315
00:24:29,167 --> 00:24:32,375
-That's very nice. - Nothing is refused to the Marquise.

316
00:24:32,958 --> 00:24:34,583
-Excuse me sir.

317
00:24:45,375 --> 00:24:47,458
Are you having a good evening?

318
00:24:49,208 --> 00:24:51,500
I have never seen anything like it.

319
00:24:54,167 --> 00:24:57,167
We feel very small. -Who is this young man?

320
00:24:57,750 --> 00:25:00,208
-A famous writer. I do not know.

321
00:25:03,458 --> 00:25:06,875
-There are many things you don't know, Lucien.

322
00:25:18,042 --> 00:25:21,500
- Discreetly, the Baron du Châtelet had done what was necessary

323
00:25:21,667 --> 00:25:26,125
so that Lucien's lie about his particle circulates in the corridors.

324
00:25:28,250 --> 00:25:30,500
A commoner in the Marquise's box,

325
00:25:30,667 --> 00:25:34,042
one of the highest figures of this restored aristocracy,

326
00:25:34,208 --> 00:25:36,250
it was the promise of a scandal.

327
00:25:42,917 --> 00:25:44,125
-You're leaving already ?

328
00:25:46,125 --> 00:25:46,958
Louise ?

329
00:25:49,583 --> 00:25:50,708
Louise !

330
00:25:52,708 --> 00:25:55,250
-It is a young poet that I wanted to help.

331
00:25:55,417 --> 00:25:58,292
-And he thanks you by lying on his name?

332
00:25:58,458 --> 00:25:59,958
- That's his mother's name.

333
00:26:00,125 --> 00:26:03,792
-He therefore has no right to bear a title or a name.

334
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:09,167
- I didn't want to compromise you.

335
00:26:09,708 --> 00:26:11,375
- Compromise me?

336
00:26:12,042 --> 00:26:13,917
No one can compromise me.

337
00:26:14,083 --> 00:26:16,917
Rather worry about what people will say in Paris

338
00:26:17,083 --> 00:26:18,833
about your relationship with him.

339
00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:26,917
I've seen women banned from salons for less than that.

340
00:26:30,792 --> 00:26:32,208
-I get it.

341
00:26:34,792 --> 00:26:37,750
-I had left the money in the locked drawer!

342
00:26:37,917 --> 00:26:40,333
- Are you accusing me? I don't even have a key!

343
00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,542
- Nobody else came in, the money didn't disappear!

344
00:26:43,708 --> 00:26:45,958
- I tell you that I didn't touch anything!

345
00:26:49,208 --> 00:26:51,250
-Lucien took his finest pen.

346
00:26:51,708 --> 00:26:54,000
A sentimental and naive letter

347
00:26:54,167 --> 00:26:55,875
full of this dark dignity

348
00:26:56,042 --> 00:26:59,000
which the 20-year-old artist often exaggerates.

349
00:26:59,833 --> 00:27:02,333
- Can you give this to Madame de Bargeton?

350
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,500
- He never knew if Louise had received his letter.

351
00:27:10,667 --> 00:27:13,042
This untidy drawer of feelings,

352
00:27:13,542 --> 00:27:15,083
it had to be closed.

353
00:27:15,250 --> 00:27:17,250
melancholic music

354
00:27:17,417 --> 00:27:26,000
...

355
00:27:27,292 --> 00:27:29,708
- I apologize for being late.

356
00:27:30,875 --> 00:27:33,042
Let's talk a little further.

357
00:27:33,250 --> 00:27:36,417
- Are you afraid of being seen with me? -No.

358
00:27:38,625 --> 00:27:42,250
The police have installed large nets across the Seine,

359
00:27:42,417 --> 00:27:44,125
out of town.

360
00:27:44,625 --> 00:27:46,333
And do you know why ?

361
00:27:46,833 --> 00:27:48,833
To recover the bodies of the unfortunate

362
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,250
who throw themselves off a bridge because they have nothing left

363
00:27:52,417 --> 00:27:55,250
and that they refuse to return to their province.

364
00:27:59,083 --> 00:28:02,625
Louise went crazy putting you in her luggage.

365
00:28:03,292 --> 00:28:04,750
A woman's madness.

366
00:28:05,792 --> 00:28:08,042
If she continued to see you, her cousin

367
00:28:08,250 --> 00:28:10,792
and the whole suburb would turn their backs on him.

368
00:28:11,667 --> 00:28:14,000
She would be left with nothing and no one.

369
00:28:14,208 --> 00:28:16,125
So think about her a bit.

370
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:18,750
And to you, Mr. Chardon.

371
00:28:19,583 --> 00:28:21,542
- My name is Rubempré, sir.

372
00:28:21,708 --> 00:28:22,542
-Rubempré ?

373
00:28:26,042 --> 00:28:27,625
-You know nothing

374
00:28:27,792 --> 00:28:30,500
what we shared, her and I.

375
00:28:31,292 --> 00:28:33,708
-You two dreamed all this.

376
00:28:34,375 --> 00:28:36,958
Hold. She herself asked me

377
00:28:37,167 --> 00:28:40,000
to give you this to return to your household.

378
00:28:44,167 --> 00:28:45,042
-Money ?

379
00:28:46,125 --> 00:28:48,667
-She asks you not to come see her anymore.

380
00:28:51,042 --> 00:28:52,833
-I do not believe you.

381
00:28:53,042 --> 00:28:56,542
-I added a few posts because your story is touching.

382
00:28:57,583 --> 00:28:58,917
Finally, if you want.

383
00:29:01,958 --> 00:29:04,292
- She will never love a man like you.

384
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:05,875
Look at you.

385
00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:08,417
In Angoulême, you were called "La Pintade".

386
00:29:13,042 --> 00:29:13,875
Whistles

387
00:29:14,042 --> 00:29:15,417
-Go home !

388
00:29:17,042 --> 00:29:19,167
-In the student district,

389
00:29:19,375 --> 00:29:23,000
charitable souls have indicated to Lucien a fixed price restaurant

390
00:29:23,542 --> 00:29:25,083
well known at the time.

391
00:29:27,833 --> 00:29:29,833
The bread was there at will

392
00:29:30,042 --> 00:29:32,083
and the free carafe of water.

393
00:29:32,708 --> 00:29:34,708
The potato was queen of the menu

394
00:29:34,917 --> 00:29:37,208
and for Lucien, since his humiliating evening,

395
00:29:37,417 --> 00:29:39,542
the only accessible aristocrat.

396
00:29:39,750 --> 00:30:16,708
...

397
00:30:20,708 --> 00:30:22,917
Intriguing music

398
00:30:23,083 --> 00:30:28,583
...

399
00:30:28,750 --> 00:30:30,000
In Angouleme,

400
00:30:30,208 --> 00:30:32,792
Lucien had devoted himself to great authors.

401
00:30:32,958 --> 00:30:35,500
He knew nothing of this Parisian press

402
00:30:35,708 --> 00:30:39,167
insolent, its cult of the formula and its provocations.

403
00:30:45,292 --> 00:30:48,000
He was discovering this world of paper sold for two cents

404
00:30:48,167 --> 00:30:49,708
where opinion is made and unmade

405
00:30:49,917 --> 00:30:52,583
in a burst of laughter or a cry of rage.

406
00:30:57,167 --> 00:30:58,792
-It's offered by the house.

407
00:31:00,542 --> 00:31:02,458
Excuse me for disturbing you,

408
00:31:02,667 --> 00:31:05,375
but you are indeed an editor in a newspaper?

409
00:31:06,208 --> 00:31:07,875
-It is possible, yes.

410
00:31:08,958 --> 00:31:11,458
-I was a proofreader in a printing house.

411
00:31:11,667 --> 00:31:13,125
So I thought...

412
00:31:13,292 --> 00:31:17,000
If you ever had any writing or copying work...

413
00:31:17,167 --> 00:31:18,792
- Have you already written?

414
00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:22,625
-A collection of poems that have been talked about a lot in Angoulême.

415
00:31:24,125 --> 00:31:25,083
Hold.

416
00:31:25,500 --> 00:31:27,750
I brought you some articles.

417
00:31:29,708 --> 00:31:32,417
-The famous Gazette d'Angoulême.

418
00:31:33,208 --> 00:31:34,375
Impressive.

419
00:31:36,625 --> 00:31:37,833
He sneers.

420
00:31:39,333 --> 00:31:40,958
-I need to work.

421
00:31:41,125 --> 00:31:43,375
Does it pay well to write in a journal?

422
00:31:43,542 --> 00:31:44,375
-It depends.

423
00:31:44,583 --> 00:31:47,750
This week, I had 300 francs but I spent it all.

424
00:31:47,958 --> 00:31:50,250
-300 francs per week for articles?

425
00:31:50,458 --> 00:31:52,042
-It's a lot of work.

426
00:31:52,250 --> 00:31:54,042
-That's a lot of money.

427
00:31:57,333 --> 00:31:58,833
What is this ?

428
00:31:59,042 --> 00:32:02,375
-Hashish. With that, everyone has talent. You want some ?

429
00:32:02,875 --> 00:32:03,958
-No thanks.

430
00:32:05,458 --> 00:32:06,875
-What's your name ?

431
00:32:07,333 --> 00:32:08,375
-Lucien...

432
00:32:08,708 --> 00:32:09,667
of Rubempre.

433
00:32:10,542 --> 00:32:11,917
- Etienne Lousteau.

434
00:32:12,542 --> 00:32:14,125
distant laughter

435
00:32:14,292 --> 00:32:17,875
-The poet was still innocent enough to believe that in Paris,

436
00:32:18,042 --> 00:32:21,542
talent inevitably attracted sympathy to you.

437
00:32:22,417 --> 00:32:24,250
-Poems about daisies,

438
00:32:24,417 --> 00:32:27,583
Of course she's gone, your Baroness.

439
00:32:27,792 --> 00:32:31,750
-The next day, like a young rat in a hurry to get out of its hole,

440
00:32:31,917 --> 00:32:33,750
he visited his new friend

441
00:32:33,917 --> 00:32:37,500
in the journalists' quarter, near the main boulevards.

442
00:32:37,708 --> 00:32:41,833
The major Parisian press was represented by prestigious titles

443
00:32:42,042 --> 00:32:44,833
like Le Journal des Débats or Le Siècle .

444
00:32:46,208 --> 00:32:49,917
But the law had allowed the appearance of periodicals of one or two pages

445
00:32:50,125 --> 00:32:53,042
who took on provocative names like Le Corsaire ,

446
00:32:53,250 --> 00:32:56,042
The Satan, or even The lame Devil .

447
00:32:58,167 --> 00:32:59,542
Of liberal sensibility,

448
00:32:59,708 --> 00:33:03,292
they railed tirelessly against the royalist government.

449
00:33:05,458 --> 00:33:07,917
Could Lucien have known that in the press,

450
00:33:08,083 --> 00:33:11,417
everyone needs friends, like a general needs soldiers.

451
00:33:11,625 --> 00:33:12,833
-Make way!

452
00:33:13,042 --> 00:33:14,625
Brouhaha

453
00:33:14,792 --> 00:33:23,708
...

454
00:33:23,875 --> 00:33:25,875
-It's over here, the Daisies!

455
00:33:26,333 --> 00:33:27,167
One!

456
00:33:27,333 --> 00:33:30,333
Stop the dumplings, you have items to return.

457
00:33:30,542 --> 00:33:33,500
Sit down, please. Lamartine, go play.

458
00:33:34,417 --> 00:33:35,750
Do you want some champagne?

459
00:33:35,958 --> 00:33:36,792
-No thanks.

460
00:33:36,958 --> 00:33:38,833
-Well, you'll still have it.

461
00:33:41,583 --> 00:33:43,417
-I brought you my collection.

462
00:33:43,625 --> 00:33:46,000
-I'll give you editors, don't worry.

463
00:33:46,833 --> 00:33:47,958
-I do not worry.

464
00:33:48,167 --> 00:33:49,875
- Yeah, you're worried here.

465
00:33:51,250 --> 00:33:52,208
-I wanted to tell you,

466
00:33:52,417 --> 00:33:55,000
I have great respect for the profession of journalist.

467
00:33:55,208 --> 00:33:58,042
-Ah yes ? And what do you think my job is?

468
00:33:58,208 --> 00:33:59,333
-You realize

469
00:33:59,542 --> 00:34:02,792
new books and plays, new ideas.

470
00:34:05,167 --> 00:34:06,917
You enlighten people on...

471
00:34:07,625 --> 00:34:08,708
art...

472
00:34:10,833 --> 00:34:11,667
The world.

473
00:34:12,500 --> 00:34:14,333
He sneers.

474
00:34:15,083 --> 00:34:16,000
-My job,

475
00:34:16,208 --> 00:34:18,750
it is to enrich the shareholders of the newspaper.

476
00:34:19,208 --> 00:34:21,833
And by the way, to rake as much as possible.

477
00:34:25,292 --> 00:34:26,167
- To rake?

478
00:34:26,375 --> 00:34:28,083
-Rake, absolutely!

479
00:34:28,292 --> 00:34:29,750
We get paid first

480
00:34:29,958 --> 00:34:32,750
by a theater director to write a good review.

481
00:34:32,958 --> 00:34:35,000
Then we will see his competitor

482
00:34:35,167 --> 00:34:38,458
to propose to him to speak ill of it. And we raise the stakes

483
00:34:38,667 --> 00:34:41,083
writing in different journals

484
00:34:41,292 --> 00:34:42,750
under different names.

485
00:34:43,375 --> 00:34:45,083
And it turns and it turns.

486
00:34:45,250 --> 00:34:47,250
And we rake, we rake.

487
00:34:48,583 --> 00:34:50,000
It screams, it cries,

488
00:34:50,208 --> 00:34:52,833
it arrives here with insults or gifts.

489
00:34:53,292 --> 00:34:56,917
And the controversy is launched. For them, this is the most important.

490
00:34:57,083 --> 00:34:59,708
That's what makes people talk, so sell

491
00:34:59,917 --> 00:35:01,000
all that you want.

492
00:35:01,167 --> 00:35:04,958
-Do you find many editors who accept?

493
00:35:05,167 --> 00:35:08,958
-The newspaper pays by the line. And the same day, do you understand?

494
00:35:09,125 --> 00:35:12,042
You return your article in the morning, you are paid the same evening.

495
00:35:12,250 --> 00:35:16,250
Publishers, they pay you at six months, when they pay you.

496
00:35:18,208 --> 00:35:19,417
He sneers.

497
00:35:21,292 --> 00:35:22,833
Me, I arrived from Dijon

498
00:35:23,042 --> 00:35:26,167
with a little comedy in three acts

499
00:35:26,333 --> 00:35:28,833
that I had written in my campaign.

500
00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:33,458
At home, everyone told me that my piece was brilliant, magnificent.

501
00:35:33,667 --> 00:35:37,417
So I wanted to have it read to theater directors in Paris.

502
00:35:37,583 --> 00:35:38,792
-What happened ?

503
00:35:40,250 --> 00:35:42,208
- Nobody wanted to read it.

504
00:35:44,875 --> 00:35:45,917
-Why ?

505
00:35:46,083 --> 00:35:47,667
-Who do you take them for?

506
00:35:47,875 --> 00:35:50,333
If you don't have the power to do them a favor,

507
00:35:50,500 --> 00:35:51,750
you don't interest them.

508
00:35:51,917 --> 00:35:54,333
If you don't scare anyone,

509
00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:56,667
you don't interest anyone.

510
00:35:59,542 --> 00:36:00,708
And yet...

511
00:36:01,500 --> 00:36:02,625
I was good.

512
00:36:06,375 --> 00:36:08,375
I too was pure in heart.

513
00:36:16,042 --> 00:36:17,792
We're going to see Dauriat.

514
00:36:17,958 --> 00:36:19,083
-Who is Dauriat?

515
00:36:20,958 --> 00:36:21,875
-A poem.

516
00:36:22,083 --> 00:36:24,292
If they look for me, I'm at Dauriat's.

517
00:36:24,458 --> 00:36:26,167
And tonight, at Florine!

518
00:36:26,375 --> 00:36:27,792
-Are you royalist or liberal?

519
00:36:27,958 --> 00:36:30,208
-I am a liberal, like our financiers.

520
00:36:30,375 --> 00:36:32,958
You also. You don't know it yet, but you're a liberal.

521
00:36:34,917 --> 00:36:36,250
Royal Palace, quick!

522
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:42,833
-At the closing of the Stock Exchange,

523
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,708
a horde of young people poured into the Royal Palace.

524
00:36:46,875 --> 00:36:49,333
It was the crossroads of the pleasures of Paris.

525
00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:52,000
A kind of enclosure protected from the gaze of the street

526
00:36:52,167 --> 00:36:53,792
where the police never entered

527
00:36:53,958 --> 00:36:56,625
and where one came to taste all the adventures.

528
00:36:57,583 --> 00:36:58,833
around the gardens,

529
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:01,708
fashion boutiques, wig shops or attractions

530
00:37:01,917 --> 00:37:05,083
cohabited with restaurants, games rooms

531
00:37:05,250 --> 00:37:07,208
especially prostitutes.

532
00:37:07,583 --> 00:37:09,375
There were 1,500 unhappy

533
00:37:09,542 --> 00:37:12,000
who solicited day and night in the galleries.

534
00:37:12,167 --> 00:37:14,167
Youyous

535
00:37:14,333 --> 00:37:18,417
All had their specific names, specialties, times and locations.

536
00:37:18,583 --> 00:37:21,500
They were called swallows, courtesans,

537
00:37:21,667 --> 00:37:23,250
lorettes or beavers.

538
00:37:23,458 --> 00:37:25,708
Those who stalked passers-by from the window

539
00:37:25,875 --> 00:37:27,667
were called half-beavers.

540
00:37:27,833 --> 00:37:30,167
We never really knew why.

541
00:37:30,375 --> 00:37:32,292
Professional or occasional,

542
00:37:32,458 --> 00:37:35,708
each had its rate and name displayed on the columns,

543
00:37:35,875 --> 00:37:37,792
between two advertisements.

544
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:39,958
Women's bodies were for sale

545
00:37:40,125 --> 00:37:42,792
and we understood that he could sell

546
00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:44,458
everything and anything.

547
00:37:44,625 --> 00:37:46,292
-Here is. The belly of the beast.

548
00:37:46,500 --> 00:37:49,333
-It is in this temple of shops of all kinds

549
00:37:49,500 --> 00:37:52,125
that publishers had opened up shop.

550
00:37:52,292 --> 00:37:53,208
-You know him ?

551
00:37:53,417 --> 00:37:55,375
-We were introduced to the opera.

552
00:37:55,542 --> 00:37:57,167
He's famous, I've been told.

553
00:37:57,333 --> 00:37:59,667
-A royalist balloon. Look at him.

554
00:37:59,875 --> 00:38:03,167
He poses, very happy with his little character.

555
00:38:03,375 --> 00:38:06,042
His new book arrived this morning.

556
00:38:06,208 --> 00:38:09,208
I haven't read it and I won't read it. Come on, come on.

557
00:38:09,417 --> 00:38:10,250
Good morning !

558
00:38:10,417 --> 00:38:12,833
-His Daisies in hand, Lucien was about to enter

559
00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:16,375
at one of those great publishers he had dreamed of in Angoulême.

560
00:38:16,542 --> 00:38:17,958
- Gentlemen, good morning.

561
00:38:18,500 --> 00:38:20,958
-Originally a fruit and vegetable merchant,

562
00:38:21,125 --> 00:38:23,750
the most influential of them was called Dauriat

563
00:38:23,917 --> 00:38:26,375
and he could neither read nor write,

564
00:38:26,583 --> 00:38:28,625
which was unusual for a publisher.

565
00:38:28,792 --> 00:38:31,750
So the manuscripts and the contracts were read to him.

566
00:38:31,917 --> 00:38:34,625
On the other hand, he knew how to count perfectly.

567
00:38:34,833 --> 00:38:36,875
-3,000! Did you hear me?

568
00:38:37,083 --> 00:38:39,917
I had 3,000 of his novel of misfortune printed.

569
00:38:40,125 --> 00:38:41,583
Ink, paper, binding,

570
00:38:41,792 --> 00:38:44,625
printing, I'm already at 1,500 francs.

571
00:38:44,833 --> 00:38:46,583
1,500 francs, you hear me!

572
00:38:46,792 --> 00:38:48,542
-The book is good, it will sell.

573
00:38:48,750 --> 00:38:49,875
The reviews are excellent.

574
00:38:50,083 --> 00:38:51,167
-Let's talk about it !

575
00:38:51,375 --> 00:38:52,542
You charge

576
00:38:52,750 --> 00:38:55,208
150 francs the good review, now?

577
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:57,750
How far are we going to go like this?

578
00:38:57,958 --> 00:39:00,208
- You have to live well. -150 francs!

579
00:39:00,417 --> 00:39:02,167
- A good review pays off.

580
00:39:02,375 --> 00:39:03,792
-How do you calculate that?

581
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,833
At random, Parisian style?

582
00:39:07,583 --> 00:39:10,542
How much are you going to ask me to cast Nathan?

583
00:39:10,750 --> 00:39:12,708
And where is the divine child?

584
00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:15,750
-The. You promised to print 4,000 copies

585
00:39:15,917 --> 00:39:18,250
and you refuse to pay for advertising?

586
00:39:18,417 --> 00:39:20,542
It's used for ? -You're kidding me ?

587
00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:22,083
I paid Lousteau

588
00:39:22,292 --> 00:39:24,250
200 francs for an article in your glory

589
00:39:24,458 --> 00:39:26,208
in his duck. -Lousteau...

590
00:39:26,417 --> 00:39:28,667
-200 francs to be on the front page.

591
00:39:28,875 --> 00:39:31,083
True or false ? - And Blondet then?

592
00:39:31,292 --> 00:39:34,875
You had to pay Blondet to attack me and start a controversy.

593
00:39:35,042 --> 00:39:38,083
For the moment nothing. How do I do it without controversy?

594
00:39:38,708 --> 00:39:39,583
But tell me,

595
00:39:39,792 --> 00:39:42,333
how do you sell a book without controversy?

596
00:39:42,542 --> 00:39:46,667
- He's right, I was waiting for the attack, otherwise I can't write.

597
00:39:46,875 --> 00:39:48,042
-Switch, go, swindler!

598
00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:51,042
- He didn't even open the book.

599
00:39:51,250 --> 00:39:52,625
-You know like me

600
00:39:52,792 --> 00:39:56,125
that to criticize a book, it is better not to read it.

601
00:39:56,292 --> 00:39:58,083
Otherwise it influences. Laughter

602
00:39:58,292 --> 00:40:00,417
- It's not from him, it's from Chamfort.

603
00:40:00,625 --> 00:40:03,250
-So what ? I defend the French spirit.

604
00:40:03,792 --> 00:40:06,708
-You could defend it by writing something else.

605
00:40:06,875 --> 00:40:08,417
Amused cheers

606
00:40:08,625 --> 00:40:12,167
-Better a good word than a bad book, isn't it?

607
00:40:12,375 --> 00:40:14,250
...

608
00:40:14,417 --> 00:40:15,625
Acclamations

609
00:40:15,833 --> 00:40:20,875
...

610
00:40:21,958 --> 00:40:24,250
- Come on, let's move on, children, I'm hungry.

611
00:40:24,458 --> 00:40:26,125
Well, did you read it or not?

612
00:40:26,333 --> 00:40:27,583
- He didn't read it.

613
00:40:28,792 --> 00:40:30,250
- Of course, I read it.

614
00:40:30,458 --> 00:40:32,542
Out of pure professional conscience.

615
00:40:32,750 --> 00:40:34,167
Out of respect for the author.

616
00:40:34,333 --> 00:40:36,167
- So we're listening to you.

617
00:40:37,167 --> 00:40:38,208
-It's a book...

618
00:40:39,375 --> 00:40:42,208
very particular, we do not know how to take it.

619
00:40:42,375 --> 00:40:43,542
We turn the pages,

620
00:40:43,750 --> 00:40:46,000
the sentences all want to seduce you,

621
00:40:46,208 --> 00:40:48,458
like the girls I met

622
00:40:48,667 --> 00:40:49,792
in the gallery. Laughter

623
00:40:49,958 --> 00:40:50,792
It's like

624
00:40:51,000 --> 00:40:53,542
a carnival of words, put there...

625
00:40:54,083 --> 00:40:56,042
We were talking about it with my friend.

626
00:40:56,250 --> 00:40:57,875
- And who is that?

627
00:40:58,333 --> 00:40:59,250
Where do you write?

628
00:41:01,292 --> 00:41:03,000
-Lucien de Rubempre, sir.

629
00:41:04,667 --> 00:41:06,333
- Have you read his book?

630
00:41:08,750 --> 00:41:10,875
-Yes, I read it carefully.

631
00:41:11,083 --> 00:41:12,708
- Have you read it? You too.

632
00:41:13,250 --> 00:41:14,083
-Yes.

633
00:41:14,417 --> 00:41:15,500
-Let him talk.

634
00:41:16,000 --> 00:41:17,958
Go ahead, express yourself.

635
00:41:19,417 --> 00:41:22,583
-They say that an author must have things to say.

636
00:41:22,792 --> 00:41:25,792
I think he must also have things to keep quiet.

637
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:27,125
clamours

638
00:41:27,292 --> 00:41:28,958
Now, in Monsieur's book,

639
00:41:29,167 --> 00:41:31,917
as Lousteau said so well, everything is said.

640
00:41:32,125 --> 00:41:33,667
Everything is exhibited.

641
00:41:33,875 --> 00:41:35,250
Where is the mystery?

642
00:41:36,333 --> 00:41:40,417
- The mystery is that of your presence here, Mr. Chardon.

643
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,375
Thistle, is that right?

644
00:41:43,875 --> 00:41:45,958
-To put it simply,

645
00:41:46,167 --> 00:41:49,542
I find Monsieur's book curiously null.

646
00:41:49,708 --> 00:41:50,958
Amused cheers

647
00:41:51,125 --> 00:41:53,625
...

648
00:41:53,833 --> 00:41:54,917
-I like that.

649
00:41:55,125 --> 00:41:57,417
-Very well, the "curious about nullity".

650
00:41:57,625 --> 00:42:00,250
- My modesty allows me to laugh at this trait.

651
00:42:00,458 --> 00:42:04,250
-Funny virtue, as soon as you think you have it, you already don't have any more.

652
00:42:04,458 --> 00:42:06,667
Cheers Applause

653
00:42:06,875 --> 00:42:08,833
...

654
00:42:09,042 --> 00:42:12,750
- Well, we'll see you again on Tuesday, at 10 o'clock.

655
00:42:13,750 --> 00:42:15,333
Is it Chardon or Rubempré?

656
00:42:15,542 --> 00:42:16,375
-Rubempré.

657
00:42:16,542 --> 00:42:18,708
-Lucien comes to submit a manuscript to you.

658
00:42:18,917 --> 00:42:21,542
-No, that's enough hacks, they're everywhere.

659
00:42:21,750 --> 00:42:23,667
-It is a collection of very original poetry.

660
00:42:23,833 --> 00:42:26,250
-Some poetry ? Unfortunately, it's not selling.

661
00:42:26,458 --> 00:42:28,750
-I haven't read anything better for a long time.

662
00:42:28,917 --> 00:42:31,750
-Do you know people who buy poetry?

663
00:42:31,958 --> 00:42:35,083
Do you buy poetry, Lousteau? No, especially you.

664
00:42:35,250 --> 00:42:38,083
- He is also working on a novel... - A novel?

665
00:42:38,292 --> 00:42:40,250
They're everywhere, what for?

666
00:42:40,417 --> 00:42:42,542
-Literature is my life.

667
00:42:42,750 --> 00:42:44,958
-Books by strangers are of no interest to anyone.

668
00:42:45,125 --> 00:42:46,708
It's not selling. -He is right.

669
00:42:46,917 --> 00:42:48,167
-I do not understand.

670
00:42:48,333 --> 00:42:49,208
-I do not publish

671
00:42:49,417 --> 00:42:52,208
only people who are already famous, otherwise there are too many risks.

672
00:42:52,417 --> 00:42:55,833
-How to make yourself known ? -Dating famous people.

673
00:42:56,042 --> 00:42:58,750
Find yourself a mistress or a famous enemy.

674
00:42:58,958 --> 00:43:01,042
- He explains well. -A Famous Enemy

675
00:43:01,250 --> 00:43:03,083
who insults you in his diary.

676
00:43:03,292 --> 00:43:04,292
Nathan, for example.

677
00:43:04,500 --> 00:43:05,958
It would be a good enemy.

678
00:43:06,167 --> 00:43:07,208
Nathan ?

679
00:43:07,417 --> 00:43:10,250
The little one needs an enemy, would that amuse you?

680
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:13,042
-I am beyond your means.

681
00:43:13,792 --> 00:43:16,667
- We will talk about you, it will raise your rating.

682
00:43:16,875 --> 00:43:17,875
-Raise my rating?

683
00:43:18,042 --> 00:43:19,125
-Perfectly.

684
00:43:19,292 --> 00:43:22,250
Raise your rating, like on the stock market.

685
00:43:22,458 --> 00:43:24,792
- But literature in all this?

686
00:43:24,958 --> 00:43:27,708
- Oh, literature, it maintains illusions.

687
00:43:27,917 --> 00:43:29,292
- The pineapple, sir.

688
00:43:29,458 --> 00:43:31,208
-I no longer believe

689
00:43:31,417 --> 00:43:32,375
than in pineapple.

690
00:43:33,083 --> 00:43:34,208
- The pineapple?

691
00:43:34,417 --> 00:43:37,458
-I invested in a pineapple plantation in Meudon.

692
00:43:37,667 --> 00:43:39,708
It looks like it's going to be huge.

693
00:43:39,917 --> 00:43:42,542
The pineapple will save us from poetry. I hope.

694
00:43:42,750 --> 00:43:44,417
Come on, have fun.

695
00:43:45,167 --> 00:43:48,292
Nathan, come see. -That's a big publisher?

696
00:43:48,458 --> 00:43:49,542
This grocer?

697
00:43:49,708 --> 00:43:52,750
-It's the best. He identified you, that's good enough.

698
00:43:52,917 --> 00:43:54,500
Now let it boil.

699
00:43:54,917 --> 00:43:57,208
Lousteau, Lousteau!

700
00:43:58,625 --> 00:44:00,458
Did we tell you about Singali?

701
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:01,958
whispered words

702
00:44:02,583 --> 00:44:05,875
-The royalists paid to whistle my darling at the theatre.

703
00:44:06,042 --> 00:44:07,042
-Do we pay for this?

704
00:44:07,250 --> 00:44:10,167
-We can pay for everything. That's progress.

705
00:44:11,583 --> 00:44:15,333
- Lousteau's mistress was a well-known actress on the boulevard.

706
00:44:15,500 --> 00:44:19,125
And that evening was to take place the premiere of his new play.

707
00:44:20,583 --> 00:44:24,375
Lucien was going to live his second big night in Paris.

708
00:44:25,292 --> 00:44:28,583
-Every day, thousands of tickets were sold

709
00:44:28,792 --> 00:44:31,542
along what was called "Le boulevard du crime".

710
00:44:32,375 --> 00:44:35,500
These crimes were those committed on stage, in the rooms

711
00:44:35,708 --> 00:44:38,500
that we played in a dozen agglomerated halls,

712
00:44:38,708 --> 00:44:40,500
between two street performances.

713
00:44:40,708 --> 00:44:43,708
The theater was the most popular entertainment

714
00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:44,833
and the most profitable.

715
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:47,792
Tightrope walker, Renaissance, Variety Theatre,

716
00:44:47,958 --> 00:44:51,542
Déjazet, by Mme Saqui, by the Italians, or the Théâtre de la Gaîté...

717
00:44:51,750 --> 00:44:53,042
The competition was fierce

718
00:44:53,250 --> 00:44:56,292
between the directors and their ruthless methods.

719
00:44:56,458 --> 00:44:59,875
It was common to whistle the show from the nearby theater.

720
00:45:00,083 --> 00:45:02,250
- Theater program. -It's not okay ?

721
00:45:02,458 --> 00:45:06,125
-To flip a coin, you had to protect yourself by buying the critic.

722
00:45:06,292 --> 00:45:08,667
We had no choice. Question of survival.

723
00:45:09,667 --> 00:45:12,917
Young journalists ruled the theaters

724
00:45:13,083 --> 00:45:14,958
and all blackmails were possible.

725
00:45:15,125 --> 00:45:17,875
The boulevard had become their hunting ground,

726
00:45:18,042 --> 00:45:20,167
where they could rake at will.

727
00:45:20,375 --> 00:45:23,833
-Singali brought in whistlers, it's going to be carnage.

728
00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,000
-Where is he ? - If I only knew!

729
00:45:26,167 --> 00:45:29,375
-It's complete, ladies and gentlemen. Disappointed clamours

730
00:45:29,583 --> 00:45:32,625
-To protect themselves, the directors had to subscribe

731
00:45:32,792 --> 00:45:35,042
hundreds of subscriptions to these newspapers

732
00:45:35,250 --> 00:45:37,625
and offer free boxes to these critics,

733
00:45:37,833 --> 00:45:41,083
who could sublet them and pocket the money.

734
00:45:42,292 --> 00:45:44,292
To compensate for this shortfall,

735
00:45:44,458 --> 00:45:47,292
managers had new sources of profit,

736
00:45:47,458 --> 00:45:49,375
such as the sale of confectionery.

737
00:45:49,583 --> 00:45:52,000
-Where were you ? It's going to whistle tonight.

738
00:45:52,208 --> 00:45:54,125
-Matifat had to pay, what happened?

739
00:45:54,292 --> 00:45:55,125
-I do not know,

740
00:45:55,333 --> 00:45:57,417
but if it whistles, we're dead.

741
00:45:57,625 --> 00:45:59,042
We will never recover.

742
00:45:59,208 --> 00:46:01,542
-It won't whistle. Where is Singali?

743
00:46:01,750 --> 00:46:02,958
- Well, in the room!

744
00:46:03,125 --> 00:46:05,750
- The most important thing was to pay the slap.

745
00:46:05,917 --> 00:46:09,958
Applause or whistles that we bought from specialists.

746
00:46:10,125 --> 00:46:13,125
The best known of these whistlers was called Singali.

747
00:46:13,333 --> 00:46:17,000
He had shot hundreds of plays, actresses and authors.

748
00:46:17,208 --> 00:46:19,125
Everyone was afraid of him

749
00:46:19,333 --> 00:46:21,167
and they were right.

750
00:46:21,375 --> 00:46:24,042
You wanted to destroy a competitor? Pay Singali.

751
00:46:24,458 --> 00:46:26,000
You wanted a triumph?

752
00:46:26,208 --> 00:46:28,042
Pay Singali, he took care of everything.

753
00:46:28,250 --> 00:46:30,000
He had set up his little business

754
00:46:30,167 --> 00:46:32,917
where he trained his teams before the shows.

755
00:46:33,125 --> 00:46:34,000
-Attention.

756
00:46:34,208 --> 00:46:37,000
-Men and women who mixed with the spectators.

757
00:46:37,208 --> 00:46:39,917
Impossible to spot them before the disaster.

758
00:46:40,125 --> 00:46:42,625
You could buy everything a la carte.

759
00:46:42,833 --> 00:46:45,417
Light applause, standing with cheers,

760
00:46:45,583 --> 00:46:47,292
laughter, laughter...

761
00:46:47,458 --> 00:46:49,333
Or on the contrary whistles, boos,

762
00:46:49,542 --> 00:46:51,750
possibly tomato squirts...

763
00:46:51,917 --> 00:46:53,292
All you had to do was pay.

764
00:46:53,500 --> 00:46:56,667
Mediocre piece or masterpiece? No difference.

765
00:46:56,875 --> 00:46:59,458
The important thing was to run his shop

766
00:46:59,625 --> 00:47:01,167
collecting more and more.

767
00:47:02,125 --> 00:47:04,833
He had succeeded in laying down the law on the boulevard.

768
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:07,250
The people of the show were at his mercy

769
00:47:07,458 --> 00:47:10,125
and he was checking them all out.

770
00:47:10,292 --> 00:47:11,625
- Here, come see.

771
00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:13,917
It's the little bald guy.

772
00:47:14,125 --> 00:47:16,208
He is planning his move.

773
00:47:16,417 --> 00:47:17,833
-Is it going to whistle or not?

774
00:47:18,000 --> 00:47:20,917
-The actresses had to buy the applause

775
00:47:21,083 --> 00:47:23,750
and prevent paid whistles by their rivals.

776
00:47:25,417 --> 00:47:27,958
- We'll take care of it, don't worry.

777
00:47:28,167 --> 00:47:29,583
You will be wonderful.

778
00:47:29,750 --> 00:47:33,000
-Destitute, they had to find a rich protector

779
00:47:33,167 --> 00:47:36,625
to pay what was called their "reputation fee".

780
00:47:36,792 --> 00:47:39,708
Mostly he was a textile trader

781
00:47:39,875 --> 00:47:43,375
or the cosmetics industry, then booming.

782
00:47:43,542 --> 00:47:44,917
The luckiest

783
00:47:45,125 --> 00:47:48,167
even became muses for beauty product brands.

784
00:47:48,375 --> 00:47:51,917
Those brands that bought newspaper inserts,

785
00:47:52,125 --> 00:47:54,000
thus rewarding their benevolence

786
00:47:54,167 --> 00:47:57,167
and complacent articles on these same muses.

787
00:47:57,333 --> 00:48:00,083
These advertisements brought so much to the newspapers

788
00:48:00,250 --> 00:48:03,000
that these industrialists would become secretly

789
00:48:03,167 --> 00:48:05,333
the real bosses of the modern press.

790
00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:07,958
And the politicians understood it well.

791
00:48:08,125 --> 00:48:10,542
They were ready for all the arrangements

792
00:48:10,750 --> 00:48:11,667
with these tycoons,

793
00:48:11,833 --> 00:48:14,458
to avoid being attacked in their newspapers.

794
00:48:14,958 --> 00:48:18,500
Everyone frolicked in the same puddle of interests.

795
00:48:18,667 --> 00:48:22,083
But still above them, at the top of the pyramid,

796
00:48:22,250 --> 00:48:24,375
there was finance and the oligarchs.

797
00:48:24,542 --> 00:48:29,083
The Laffite, Rothschild, Nucingen and all their intrigues on the stock market.

798
00:48:29,250 --> 00:48:34,000
They were the ones pulling the strings of all these puppets.

799
00:48:34,542 --> 00:48:37,375
The new aristocracy was that of money

800
00:48:37,542 --> 00:48:40,542
and we weren't about to cut off his head.

801
00:48:42,375 --> 00:48:44,208
One day or another, who knows,

802
00:48:44,375 --> 00:48:46,750
a banker would enter the government.

803
00:48:50,083 --> 00:48:51,375
-Let's talk to this Singali.

804
00:48:51,542 --> 00:48:54,167
- He has been paid, he must be paid more.

805
00:48:54,333 --> 00:48:55,625
-On stage in 10 minutes!

806
00:48:55,833 --> 00:48:57,333
-So what do we do ?

807
00:48:57,500 --> 00:49:01,083
-Etienne! Matifat is in the dressing room. -Yes. I will be back.

808
00:49:05,333 --> 00:49:07,833
- They're going to ruin the evening for us.

809
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:09,750
We have to pay, we have no choice.

810
00:49:09,958 --> 00:49:12,375
-Always pay. When will it stop?

811
00:49:12,542 --> 00:49:14,708
- There are whistlers, we have no choice.

812
00:49:14,875 --> 00:49:16,167
- So, let's cancel.

813
00:49:16,333 --> 00:49:18,458
-No, we'll do two pages tomorrow.

814
00:49:18,625 --> 00:49:20,625
- You have to pay, you have no choice.

815
00:49:20,792 --> 00:49:21,625
-Sure.

816
00:49:23,292 --> 00:49:26,333
- Can you participate? -Sure, what question !

817
00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:27,875
-How high ?

818
00:49:28,083 --> 00:49:31,333
-Not in front of the ladies. Up to my dignity.

819
00:49:32,125 --> 00:49:33,833
- Fine, we'll pay.

820
00:49:34,042 --> 00:49:36,208
Tell Singali the money is coming.

821
00:49:36,417 --> 00:49:37,250
- I warn him.

822
00:49:37,458 --> 00:49:38,708
Come on, we're late!

823
00:49:38,917 --> 00:49:41,167
-Thank you my love. He's laughing.

824
00:49:41,375 --> 00:49:44,542
Applause Ringing of bells

825
00:49:44,750 --> 00:49:47,042
-Come on, let's sit on the balcony.

826
00:49:47,833 --> 00:49:49,958
- It's good, he paid, we applaud.

827
00:49:50,167 --> 00:49:52,125
- Are you coming to Florine? -Why not.

828
00:49:52,292 --> 00:49:54,792
-You weren't supposed to give me your article, were you?

829
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:56,333
-I looked for you

830
00:49:56,542 --> 00:49:58,167
everywhere at Dauriat.

831
00:49:58,375 --> 00:50:00,167
I present to you Lucien de Rubempré.

832
00:50:00,375 --> 00:50:03,000
-Ah! "Curious about nullity", is that you?

833
00:50:03,167 --> 00:50:05,708
Your formula has made the rounds of the Galleries.

834
00:50:06,125 --> 00:50:08,042
Are you writing somewhere?

835
00:50:08,458 --> 00:50:11,167
-M. Finot is the director of the newspaper where I write.

836
00:50:11,375 --> 00:50:13,083
-Where you write nonsense.

837
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,583
See you at Florine's?

838
00:50:17,792 --> 00:50:19,292
-Yes. -I need to talk to you,

839
00:50:19,500 --> 00:50:20,625
without fail.

840
00:50:21,125 --> 00:50:22,458
- He's a smart one.

841
00:50:22,625 --> 00:50:24,833
He did well in his province.

842
00:50:29,333 --> 00:50:30,500
Excuse me.

843
00:50:30,667 --> 00:50:32,667
Upbeat music

844
00:50:32,833 --> 00:50:45,542
...

845
00:50:45,750 --> 00:50:47,125
-It does not bother you ?

846
00:50:47,958 --> 00:50:49,250
Matifat and your Florine.

847
00:50:49,417 --> 00:50:51,208
- No, what do you want.

848
00:50:51,417 --> 00:50:55,250
It's like loving a married woman. We learn to share.

849
00:50:58,500 --> 00:50:59,333
Look well.

850
00:50:59,542 --> 00:51:03,292
In front of you, you have the 200 most harmful people in Paris.

851
00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:06,417
At least half of them want me.

852
00:51:06,583 --> 00:51:08,250
But they won't move.

853
00:51:09,417 --> 00:51:11,333
And you know why ? -No.

854
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,833
-Because they are afraid.

855
00:51:14,417 --> 00:51:15,750
- Are they afraid of you?

856
00:51:17,750 --> 00:51:18,917
-From Journal.

857
00:51:20,375 --> 00:51:21,958
They are right to be afraid.

858
00:51:22,167 --> 00:51:24,042
With all their tricks.

859
00:51:26,583 --> 00:51:28,875
One day, you will meet her again, your baroness,

860
00:51:29,458 --> 00:51:31,625
and you will read the fear in his eyes.

861
00:51:32,375 --> 00:51:33,792
And it will be beautiful.

862
00:51:35,292 --> 00:51:37,667
-It's going to be a wonderful wedding !

863
00:51:37,833 --> 00:51:39,500
- No, I will not marry her.

864
00:51:39,708 --> 00:51:41,833
- She won't marry him. -Claro that yes.

865
00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:44,333
Formerly, in a small Spanish village,

866
00:51:44,542 --> 00:51:46,083
in the mountains...

867
00:51:47,083 --> 00:51:50,500
- Her name was Coralie and she was not 20 years old.

868
00:51:50,667 --> 00:51:52,042
Her blood red stockings

869
00:51:52,208 --> 00:51:56,208
had become famous in barely a season on the boulevard.

870
00:51:59,375 --> 00:52:01,583
Looking at her, a deep desire

871
00:52:01,792 --> 00:52:04,917
invades Lucien to take this world by the throat

872
00:52:05,500 --> 00:52:07,708
and put him on his knees before him.

873
00:52:14,792 --> 00:52:16,042
-Bravo !

874
00:52:20,583 --> 00:52:22,542
-Ladies and gentlemen...

875
00:52:22,708 --> 00:52:25,125
Coralie and Florine!

876
00:52:26,917 --> 00:52:28,125
-Bravo !

877
00:52:28,292 --> 00:52:30,500
triumphal music

878
00:52:30,667 --> 00:52:44,917
...

879
00:52:45,125 --> 00:52:47,042
-The rhythm in the skin!

880
00:52:47,250 --> 00:52:49,583
-Where is the bottle?

881
00:52:53,625 --> 00:52:55,458
Help yourself to a drink, I'll be back.

882
00:52:55,625 --> 00:52:57,750
Lively piano music

883
00:52:57,917 --> 00:53:03,375
...

884
00:53:03,583 --> 00:53:05,750
A woman sings in Italian.

885
00:53:05,917 --> 00:53:16,333
...

886
00:53:17,125 --> 00:53:18,375
-We will be back.

887
00:53:20,125 --> 00:53:22,417
-Are there more bottles? - Where are we?

888
00:53:22,583 --> 00:53:25,167
-Florine, finally at Matifat. We do not care.

889
00:53:25,333 --> 00:53:27,208
My piece was called "Enough Champagne".

890
00:53:27,375 --> 00:53:29,042
Good title, right? -Not bad.

891
00:53:29,208 --> 00:53:31,125
- You have to give me back your articles!

892
00:53:31,292 --> 00:53:34,083
- Here, that of Blondet at the opera. -Very well.

893
00:53:34,833 --> 00:53:35,958
Thank you.

894
00:53:36,167 --> 00:53:40,000
So we have Déjazet. The Opera is there.

895
00:53:40,167 --> 00:53:43,042
The Italians, very good. Varieties, who is it?

896
00:53:43,208 --> 00:53:44,417
-It's there, it's me.

897
00:53:44,583 --> 00:53:47,250
- Is this a criticism? - No, a summary.

898
00:53:47,417 --> 00:53:48,833
-What is that ?

899
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,375
- Tomorrow's newspaper. If everyone gives me back their paper.

900
00:53:56,750 --> 00:53:58,333
Lousteau laughs.

901
00:53:59,667 --> 00:54:06,792
...

902
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:08,958
- Is he a friend of Lousteau?

903
00:54:10,875 --> 00:54:12,750
-Are you sure he likes women?

904
00:54:12,917 --> 00:54:14,875
- In any case, he looks at them.

905
00:54:16,292 --> 00:54:18,083
There is something honest about it.

906
00:54:19,083 --> 00:54:21,042
- Take care of yourself, darling.

907
00:54:23,583 --> 00:54:25,792
They're laughing.

908
00:54:25,958 --> 00:54:36,500
...

909
00:54:38,500 --> 00:54:39,917
-It's not about selling

910
00:54:40,125 --> 00:54:42,792
but to join forces with Blondet's journal.

911
00:54:42,958 --> 00:54:46,000
Combine our two titles and divide the costs by two.

912
00:54:47,000 --> 00:54:49,000
By increasing the price of ads,

913
00:54:49,167 --> 00:54:52,083
we can lower the selling price and find new readers.

914
00:54:52,292 --> 00:54:56,000
-The more readers there are, the more the ads will be sold.

915
00:54:56,208 --> 00:54:57,917
-Here is. You see when you want.

916
00:54:58,500 --> 00:55:00,250
-Who would finance the operation?

917
00:55:00,958 --> 00:55:02,958
-Dauriat, Camusot and me.

918
00:55:03,167 --> 00:55:06,542
We need a fourth, but I want to keep the majority.

919
00:55:06,708 --> 00:55:09,625
Could your Florine talk to her perfumer about it?

920
00:55:13,625 --> 00:55:14,833
-We'll try.

921
00:55:17,208 --> 00:55:19,167
-You would be editor-in-chief.

922
00:55:19,333 --> 00:55:21,583
But I would retain editorial control.

923
00:55:22,083 --> 00:55:24,000
-I will still make friends.

924
00:55:24,458 --> 00:55:27,042
-You ? You would pay to sell yourself.

925
00:55:30,292 --> 00:55:33,333
What is that ? -Pineapple fritters, sir.

926
00:55:33,500 --> 00:55:34,333
-Thank you.

927
00:55:34,542 --> 00:55:37,583
-Are you going to see Coralie? She was looking for you everywhere.

928
00:55:37,750 --> 00:55:39,292
- Are you a pimp too?

929
00:55:40,333 --> 00:55:42,458
-I thought you didn't have a penny left.

930
00:55:43,458 --> 00:55:44,583
Ah, there you go!

931
00:55:44,958 --> 00:55:47,542
-Berthier, are you the one who writes on the play?

932
00:55:47,708 --> 00:55:48,750
-Not, but beautiful.

933
00:55:48,958 --> 00:55:50,750
Tonight, I have so far.

934
00:55:50,917 --> 00:55:52,625
-Shall we ask Mr. Lucien?

935
00:55:52,833 --> 00:55:55,667
It would change us from these liars. What does he think,

936
00:55:55,875 --> 00:55:57,667
Mr. Lucian? -Ah yes.

937
00:55:57,875 --> 00:56:00,125
Find us a good formula, Lucien.

938
00:56:00,292 --> 00:56:01,583
-Very good idea.

939
00:56:01,750 --> 00:56:03,792
- You are obligated to nothing, sir.

940
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,167
But it would make me very happy.

941
00:56:08,167 --> 00:56:10,958
- Show us, big boy. You saw it, the room.

942
00:56:15,875 --> 00:56:17,000
-Why not ?

943
00:56:27,208 --> 00:56:29,208
Soft music

944
00:56:29,375 --> 00:56:52,792
...

945
00:56:52,958 --> 00:56:54,667
-Easy styling effects,

946
00:56:54,875 --> 00:56:58,708
command enthusiasm and the desire to seduce a girl,

947
00:56:58,875 --> 00:57:02,458
this is how Lucien wrote his very first article.

948
00:57:02,625 --> 00:57:04,208
- "The intrigue was then renewed

949
00:57:04,417 --> 00:57:06,125
"and I let her reconnect,

950
00:57:06,292 --> 00:57:09,958
"but I can tell you what's clear and what's dark.

951
00:57:10,542 --> 00:57:12,833
"Don José's daughter is there, represented

952
00:57:13,042 --> 00:57:16,000
"by a real Andalusian, and she brings

953
00:57:16,208 --> 00:57:17,542
"love on the lips.

954
00:57:17,708 --> 00:57:20,500
"We want to jump on the stage

955
00:57:20,708 --> 00:57:22,542
"and to offer him his heart."

956
00:57:22,708 --> 00:57:24,333
Say, not bad!

957
00:57:24,958 --> 00:57:28,458
"She will be what she wants to be, she was born to do everything,

958
00:57:28,625 --> 00:57:29,500
"is not it

959
00:57:29,708 --> 00:57:32,958
"what is the best to say about a boulevard actress?"

960
00:57:33,125 --> 00:57:34,000
And.

961
00:57:34,208 --> 00:57:37,542
"At the end, I was asked what the coin was worth..."

962
00:57:37,708 --> 00:57:39,792
What did you answer, Lucien?

963
00:57:39,958 --> 00:57:41,625
-That she had red stockings

964
00:57:41,792 --> 00:57:43,625
and the face of a first love.

965
00:57:44,125 --> 00:57:45,292
-Bravo.

966
00:57:52,333 --> 00:57:53,292
Not bad.

967
00:57:57,083 --> 00:57:59,958
- Gentlemen, to your articles, to your lies!

968
00:58:07,333 --> 00:58:08,875
-And the Baron du Châtelet,

969
00:58:09,583 --> 00:58:10,625
you know ?

970
00:58:10,833 --> 00:58:13,458
- The one who wanted to be prefect of the Charentes?

971
00:58:13,625 --> 00:58:14,458
-Hm hm.

972
00:58:14,625 --> 00:58:15,458
-In Angouleme,

973
00:58:15,667 --> 00:58:19,250
it was called "La Pintade". He is close to the Marquise d'Espard.

974
00:58:19,458 --> 00:58:20,708
-He would like to.

975
00:58:21,458 --> 00:58:22,417
But the d'Espard,

976
00:58:23,542 --> 00:58:25,667
it's another world, friends.

977
00:58:26,042 --> 00:58:28,833
King's inner circle, huge influence.

978
00:58:29,000 --> 00:58:30,375
-He knows a lot of people.

979
00:58:32,833 --> 00:58:34,667
- They don't know me anymore.

980
00:58:41,917 --> 00:58:44,042
-Is this your first time smoking?

981
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:49,167
-Non.

982
00:58:52,958 --> 00:58:54,458
-Daisies...

983
00:59:03,458 --> 00:59:04,833
The Daisies.

984
00:59:05,417 --> 00:59:07,958
They laugh.

985
00:59:08,750 --> 00:59:10,167
Coralie laughs.

986
00:59:13,083 --> 00:59:14,708
Sighs of pleasure

987
00:59:14,917 --> 00:59:24,875
...

988
00:59:25,042 --> 00:59:26,167
-How are you ?

989
00:59:28,625 --> 00:59:29,458
-Yes.

990
00:59:32,833 --> 00:59:34,792
-Oh, oh, oh !

991
00:59:40,208 --> 00:59:41,125
-Lucien !

992
00:59:42,750 --> 00:59:43,667
Lucien ?

993
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:47,917
It's not okay ?

994
00:59:48,333 --> 00:59:51,208
-That evening, perhaps he had already seen too much,

995
00:59:51,375 --> 00:59:52,833
too drunk, heard too much.

996
00:59:56,417 --> 00:59:59,750
Paris had lifted her skirt to show the young poet,

997
00:59:59,917 --> 01:00:02,000
as to a worthy follower,

998
01:00:02,167 --> 01:00:04,375
her monstrous nudity.

999
01:00:04,542 --> 01:00:06,542
Soft music

1000
01:00:06,708 --> 01:00:48,333
...

1001
01:00:48,542 --> 01:00:50,167
-Sir ! - Coralie!

1002
01:00:50,333 --> 01:00:52,667
-Wake up ! We hurry!

1003
01:00:52,833 --> 01:00:54,458
- Open the window, look!

1004
01:00:54,625 --> 01:00:56,208
-What are you doing here ?

1005
01:00:56,417 --> 01:00:59,125
- Did I wake you up? Come see, it's a gift.

1006
01:00:59,333 --> 01:01:02,000
I got it from you red, like your stockings, darling.

1007
01:01:02,208 --> 01:01:04,250
-It's for me ? But you are crazy!

1008
01:01:04,458 --> 01:01:07,250
-M. Camusot is in the courtyard, he risks going upstairs.

1009
01:01:07,458 --> 01:01:08,708
Get dressed!

1010
01:01:09,708 --> 01:01:11,583
- Her name is Ruby.

1011
01:01:11,750 --> 01:01:14,542
Get down, we're going to the woods, the weather is fine.

1012
01:01:15,500 --> 01:01:16,708
-I'm going to talk to him.

1013
01:01:16,917 --> 01:01:18,833
- You're not going to do anything at all.

1014
01:01:19,042 --> 01:01:20,875
-Go on ! Wait, I'm going up.

1015
01:01:21,917 --> 01:01:23,000
-No no !

1016
01:01:23,875 --> 01:01:24,792
Go quickly.

1017
01:01:26,708 --> 01:01:28,792
He won't stay, don't move.

1018
01:01:34,083 --> 01:01:35,125
Mimi ?

1019
01:01:35,292 --> 01:01:36,750
- Oh, my little heart.

1020
01:01:37,083 --> 01:01:39,042
You weren't sleeping? - No, I repeated.

1021
01:01:39,250 --> 01:01:41,250
- Hello, Berenice. -Hello.

1022
01:01:41,417 --> 01:01:42,375
-You're crazy !

1023
01:01:43,958 --> 01:01:45,958
Laughter

1024
01:01:46,833 --> 01:01:49,208
-Wait, I'll be right back. Berenice!

1025
01:01:49,792 --> 01:01:52,542
What time do you have to be at the theatre?

1026
01:01:52,750 --> 01:01:54,458
You will have to go to Guérigny.

1027
01:01:54,625 --> 01:01:57,208
Do you care? I will give you money.

1028
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:03,458
There they were!

1029
01:02:03,667 --> 01:02:06,792
-I thought they were with your costumes. -No,

1030
01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:08,000
they were there.

1031
01:02:08,625 --> 01:02:11,375
I will play a man, the theater gave me boots,

1032
01:02:11,542 --> 01:02:13,292
but they are too big.

1033
01:02:13,500 --> 01:02:16,167
I put some newspaper, but it hurts me.

1034
01:02:17,208 --> 01:02:21,125
Are you taking me to my rehearsals? I will try out my new car.

1035
01:02:33,292 --> 01:02:36,625
I've never had a car, I don't know how it drives.

1036
01:02:37,292 --> 01:02:38,708
-I will show you.

1037
01:02:40,417 --> 01:02:42,083
- You are completely crazy.

1038
01:02:42,958 --> 01:02:45,542
She laughs out loud. The car pulls away.

1039
01:02:50,792 --> 01:02:52,833
-I'll find you some shoes.

1040
01:02:54,833 --> 01:02:56,750
- She is attached to this man?

1041
01:02:56,917 --> 01:02:58,917
-He's the one who takes care of us.

1042
01:03:00,417 --> 01:03:02,042
He saved us.

1043
01:03:06,167 --> 01:03:07,708
- What an actress.

1044
01:03:08,333 --> 01:03:11,708
-I don't want her to lose everything because of a crush.

1045
01:03:15,792 --> 01:03:17,125
What's your shoe size ?

1046
01:03:18,167 --> 01:03:21,417
- "My very dear sister, I write to you very little and I apologize for it,

1047
01:03:21,625 --> 01:03:24,250
"but in Paris, you don't see the time passing.

1048
01:03:24,417 --> 01:03:26,667
“Life there is frighteningly fast.

1049
01:03:27,708 --> 01:03:29,750
“First I have important news.

1050
01:03:29,917 --> 01:03:32,333
“I finally met a great publisher.

1051
01:03:32,542 --> 01:03:36,458
"His name is Dauriat and he expressed a keen interest in my poetry.

1052
01:03:37,000 --> 01:03:39,625
"To devote myself fully to my writing,

1053
01:03:39,833 --> 01:03:42,542
"I had to distance myself from Mme de Bargeton

1054
01:03:42,708 --> 01:03:45,000
"and its uninteresting worldliness.

1055
01:03:45,167 --> 01:03:47,542
"Our separation made him suffer a lot,

1056
01:03:47,708 --> 01:03:49,333
"But I had no choice.

1057
01:03:49,500 --> 01:03:52,958
“And without money, it is impossible to make a place for yourself.

1058
01:03:54,125 --> 01:03:57,458
“Imagine, I have already spent nearly 1,800 francs.

1059
01:03:57,625 --> 01:04:00,417
"I have to limit my spending if I want to survive.

1060
01:04:01,458 --> 01:04:04,750
“Paris is a strange abyss. People spend there on all occasions,

1061
01:04:04,917 --> 01:04:07,625
"even to cross the stream when it rained.

1062
01:04:07,792 --> 01:04:11,000
"But we meet people there that can change a life,

1063
01:04:11,167 --> 01:04:14,125
"rush you in the most unexpected directions

1064
01:04:14,292 --> 01:04:15,542
"the brightest.

1065
01:04:15,750 --> 01:04:18,708
"I met a brilliant writer

1066
01:04:18,875 --> 01:04:21,917
"who offered me to write for a well-respected journal.

1067
01:04:22,083 --> 01:04:23,375
"Do not worry.

1068
01:04:23,542 --> 01:04:27,208
"Journalism will never keep me from staying focused

1069
01:04:27,417 --> 01:04:29,083
on my poetry.

1070
01:04:29,500 --> 01:04:30,708
"Lucien."

1071
01:04:30,917 --> 01:04:33,083
Jingle Bells Youyous

1072
01:04:33,250 --> 01:04:37,333
... ...

1073
01:04:37,542 --> 01:04:39,500
- Gentlemen! Gentlemen!

1074
01:04:40,333 --> 01:04:41,542
Meeting !

1075
01:04:42,667 --> 01:04:44,292
This is the big day !

1076
01:04:45,333 --> 01:04:46,583
Gentlemen.

1077
01:04:47,292 --> 01:04:50,667
Today we celebrate the union of our two dear newspapers,

1078
01:04:50,833 --> 01:04:52,417
The Corsair and The Satan .

1079
01:04:53,125 --> 01:04:55,125
The newspaper will now be called

1080
01:04:55,333 --> 01:04:57,125
The Corsair-Satan.

1081
01:04:57,292 --> 01:05:00,500
Acclamations

1082
01:05:00,708 --> 01:05:02,542
Yes, you had to think about it!

1083
01:05:02,750 --> 01:05:04,667
And our comrade Lousteau

1084
01:05:04,875 --> 01:05:07,125
will be the illustrious editor-in-chief.

1085
01:05:07,292 --> 01:05:08,208
-BRAVO !

1086
01:05:11,125 --> 01:05:14,542
-Lousteau, one of the great consciences of our time.

1087
01:05:14,750 --> 01:05:16,333
Laughter

1088
01:05:16,500 --> 01:05:18,042
Dirt, go!

1089
01:05:18,250 --> 01:05:19,708
Over to you, Lousteau.

1090
01:05:20,750 --> 01:05:22,000
- Gentlemen.

1091
01:05:22,167 --> 01:05:24,292
Warn the theater managers,

1092
01:05:24,458 --> 01:05:25,750
publishers,

1093
01:05:25,917 --> 01:05:29,292
authors, actresses, traders, musicians,

1094
01:05:29,458 --> 01:05:30,792
the Pope if you want,

1095
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:35,875
that no more article of this newspaper will be sold with less than 150 francs.

1096
01:05:36,083 --> 01:05:38,208
-YEAH !

1097
01:05:38,417 --> 01:05:39,958
-150 francs per item!

1098
01:05:40,167 --> 01:05:42,042
-YEAH !

1099
01:05:43,667 --> 01:05:45,958
-Our editorial line will be simple.

1100
01:05:46,125 --> 01:05:49,125
The newspaper will hold as true all that is probable!

1101
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,958
- There was then a specific word to define false information.

1102
01:05:54,167 --> 01:05:56,042
It was called a duck,

1103
01:05:56,250 --> 01:05:58,292
because sensationalist fake news

1104
01:05:58,500 --> 01:06:01,750
made everyone run, like after ducks.

1105
01:06:01,917 --> 01:06:03,167
To make the event

1106
01:06:03,375 --> 01:06:05,500
a newspaper could print everything.

1107
01:06:05,708 --> 01:06:06,792
Truth or canard,

1108
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,333
we didn't dwell on that kind of detail.

1109
01:06:10,292 --> 01:06:13,333
They understood it, false information

1110
01:06:13,542 --> 01:06:16,292
and a denial was already two events.

1111
01:06:16,500 --> 01:06:18,083
The only truth that mattered

1112
01:06:18,250 --> 01:06:21,042
was that of the newspaper's sales figures.

1113
01:06:21,250 --> 01:06:25,208
So the famous ducks ran free in Paris,

1114
01:06:25,417 --> 01:06:27,500
we did not yet know how to chain them.

1115
01:06:27,708 --> 01:06:29,667
-Oh ! Long live the emperor !

1116
01:06:32,125 --> 01:06:36,250
-Businessmen, merchants, authors, politicians and theater owners...

1117
01:06:36,458 --> 01:06:38,583
Everyone came to the editorial office

1118
01:06:38,792 --> 01:06:41,667
to buy an item, spread a gossip

1119
01:06:41,875 --> 01:06:43,875
or give an interested gift.

1120
01:06:46,542 --> 01:06:48,958
-Paper ! -A new industry was being invented,

1121
01:06:49,167 --> 01:06:52,208
that of the opinion press that has become a commercial press.

1122
01:06:52,667 --> 01:06:53,667
-Paper !

1123
01:06:54,208 --> 01:06:56,875
-The newspaper was a shop that sold to the public

1124
01:06:57,042 --> 01:06:59,250
news of the color he wanted.

1125
01:06:59,417 --> 01:07:01,833
The aim was no longer to enlighten the reader,

1126
01:07:02,000 --> 01:07:05,208
but to flatter his opinions, or rather to invent them.

1127
01:07:05,917 --> 01:07:09,292
Information became commonplace commodities

1128
01:07:09,500 --> 01:07:11,333
to peddle to customers, subscribers.

1129
01:07:11,708 --> 01:07:12,625
-Paper !

1130
01:07:12,833 --> 01:07:15,833
-Some journalists became merchants of phrases,

1131
01:07:16,000 --> 01:07:17,417
word smugglers,

1132
01:07:17,583 --> 01:07:21,042
brokers who imposed themselves between the artists and the public.

1133
01:07:21,250 --> 01:07:23,458
-Paper ! - And Lucien learned quickly.

1134
01:07:23,667 --> 01:07:27,542
Very quickly. His pen had rage. A rage for revenge.

1135
01:07:28,792 --> 01:07:33,000
Rumors, mocking jokes... In a few days, he had written

1136
01:07:33,167 --> 01:07:35,333
dozens of funny and fierce articles

1137
01:07:35,542 --> 01:07:37,292
which would become his signature.

1138
01:07:37,500 --> 01:07:39,458
-Isn't it pretty? Paid the same day.

1139
01:07:39,667 --> 01:07:41,750
-Not bad. -It's not over. Eh yes !

1140
01:07:41,958 --> 01:07:43,958
They laugh.

1141
01:07:44,167 --> 01:07:46,333
Coralie will be happy.

1142
01:07:48,708 --> 01:07:50,708
She laughs.

1143
01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:58,667
- Is there any champagne left?

1144
01:08:00,417 --> 01:08:03,833
-And how old were you? -I must have been 13 or 14 years old.

1145
01:08:05,125 --> 01:08:06,958
-And your own mother gave you...

1146
01:08:08,208 --> 01:08:09,500
- Not given, sold!

1147
01:08:09,667 --> 01:08:13,667
And when I found out how much, I saw that I wasn't worth much.

1148
01:08:13,833 --> 01:08:17,207
It was a small troop, they took care of me.

1149
01:08:17,375 --> 01:08:19,167
They taught me to dance.

1150
01:08:20,207 --> 01:08:21,417
-And after ?

1151
01:08:21,582 --> 01:08:24,332
-The gentlemen started hovering around me

1152
01:08:24,500 --> 01:08:27,500
and I've seen ugly things with the other girls.

1153
01:08:27,667 --> 01:08:29,375
There have been many stories.

1154
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:32,207
-And after ?

1155
01:08:32,832 --> 01:08:37,457
-When I was 15, I was hired to do mime shows.

1156
01:08:37,625 --> 01:08:39,125
It was the fashion in Paris.

1157
01:08:40,375 --> 01:08:41,667
Then here it is.

1158
01:08:41,832 --> 01:08:44,250
That's how I met Florine.

1159
01:08:47,125 --> 01:08:48,082
-Thank you.

1160
01:08:51,667 --> 01:08:53,625
-You're way too handsome for me.

1161
01:08:53,832 --> 01:08:55,625
You are going to hurt me.

1162
01:08:56,207 --> 01:09:00,167
You're going to meet a rich marquise and presto, no more Coralie.

1163
01:09:03,582 --> 01:09:06,375
-I didn't know you could make love like that.

1164
01:09:07,167 --> 01:09:09,750
- When I give myself, I give myself entirely.

1165
01:09:09,917 --> 01:09:11,292
Otherwise what good is it?

1166
01:09:14,250 --> 01:09:16,125
I know you're not like them.

1167
01:09:17,750 --> 01:09:19,707
You are going to do great things.

1168
01:09:19,875 --> 01:09:22,125
I'm not smart, but I feel it.

1169
01:09:22,875 --> 01:09:24,582
I feel those things.

1170
01:09:30,707 --> 01:09:32,875
melancholic music

1171
01:09:33,042 --> 01:09:37,042
...

1172
01:09:37,207 --> 01:09:39,457
-"A guinea fowl held in its beak

1173
01:09:39,625 --> 01:09:42,917
"a cuttlebone and the driest.

1174
01:09:43,082 --> 01:09:44,000
"This guinea fowl

1175
01:09:44,207 --> 01:09:47,332
"was from Angoulême, on the banks of the Charente.

1176
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:51,832
"What do you think happened? It was the guinea fowl that died."

1177
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:54,750
Our friend the Baron will love this article.

1178
01:09:55,292 --> 01:09:57,833
-Lucien didn't write that. - He does not sign,

1179
01:09:58,042 --> 01:10:00,500
but there is his name on the next page.

1180
01:10:01,458 --> 01:10:04,500
He has the audacity to continue signing de Rubempré.

1181
01:10:09,542 --> 01:10:12,000
Is he able to tell certain things

1182
01:10:12,167 --> 01:10:14,292
that would embarrass you,

1183
01:10:14,625 --> 01:10:15,833
my dear Cousine ?

1184
01:10:19,167 --> 01:10:20,542
-It's better than that.

1185
01:10:21,125 --> 01:10:22,208
-You think ?

1186
01:10:31,375 --> 01:10:33,125
-It's my remorse.

1187
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:36,958
- Well then adopt it, let's get it over with.

1188
01:10:38,250 --> 01:10:39,458
- Far from living rooms,

1189
01:10:39,625 --> 01:10:42,542
Lucien continued his apprenticeship at the newspaper.

1190
01:10:45,208 --> 01:10:47,542
Overwhelmed by the number of books received,

1191
01:10:47,708 --> 01:10:50,167
the editors presented to their monkey

1192
01:10:50,375 --> 01:10:53,250
the works they were to write about.

1193
01:10:53,458 --> 01:10:56,417
- So, Stendhal or Châteaubriand?

1194
01:10:56,583 --> 01:10:58,458
-According to the reactions of the primate,

1195
01:10:58,667 --> 01:11:01,792
we decided to support or kill a play or a novel,

1196
01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,333
to attack without conscience the mask and the feather.

1197
01:11:06,292 --> 01:11:07,458
-He chose !

1198
01:11:08,417 --> 01:11:09,750
-In all ways,

1199
01:11:09,958 --> 01:11:12,458
everything would be settled by having someone crash.

1200
01:11:12,625 --> 01:11:15,833
And at that time, business was booming.

1201
01:11:16,042 --> 01:11:18,667
More and more readers. -Hugo or Byron?

1202
01:11:18,875 --> 01:11:19,875
Byron !

1203
01:11:20,042 --> 01:11:22,833
-To meet the growing demand,

1204
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:26,750
German engineers had created the 1st rotary printing machine.

1205
01:11:27,333 --> 01:11:31,292
From now on, we could print 20 times more pages per hour.

1206
01:11:31,500 --> 01:11:34,458
Distribution would thus increase from a few thousand

1207
01:11:34,667 --> 01:11:37,458
see you soon hundreds of thousands of copies

1208
01:11:38,292 --> 01:11:41,917
where the advertisements would bring in more and more.

1209
01:11:42,458 --> 01:11:45,208
Advertising offices were being created everywhere

1210
01:11:45,375 --> 01:11:48,458
to help manufacturers find the right grip

1211
01:11:48,625 --> 01:11:50,875
to sell products to readers

1212
01:11:51,042 --> 01:11:53,375
which they usually did not need.

1213
01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,917
Singali also needed to step up a gear.

1214
01:11:57,583 --> 01:12:01,250
To increase his profits, he had created a curious machine

1215
01:12:01,458 --> 01:12:04,167
which he had baptized "The Glory Machine".

1216
01:12:04,375 --> 01:12:06,250
By turning a crank,

1217
01:12:06,458 --> 01:12:08,792
small wooden plates were operated

1218
01:12:08,958 --> 01:12:11,417
which imitated the sound of applause.

1219
01:12:11,792 --> 01:12:15,042
He hoped that upon hearing the fake applause,

1220
01:12:15,250 --> 01:12:18,792
the public would follow the movement mechanically.

1221
01:12:19,292 --> 01:12:20,667
- What an invention!

1222
01:12:22,167 --> 01:12:26,125
-For whistles and boos, he planned to install cornets

1223
01:12:26,292 --> 01:12:29,125
hidden in the dark recesses of theaters.

1224
01:12:29,708 --> 01:12:33,542
Eventually he would forget his machines to continue by hand,

1225
01:12:33,750 --> 01:12:35,208
as a good craftsman,

1226
01:12:35,375 --> 01:12:38,458
and keep a real contact with the public.

1227
01:12:38,917 --> 01:12:40,417
And, of course, the artists.

1228
01:12:46,125 --> 01:12:47,458
-Ah! Cruel,

1229
01:12:48,917 --> 01:12:50,958
is it time to tell me?

1230
01:12:52,500 --> 01:12:54,000
What have you done ?

1231
01:12:54,417 --> 01:12:56,500
Alas! I thought I was loved.

1232
01:12:58,042 --> 01:13:00,083
Looking forward to seeing you my accustomed soul

1233
01:13:00,250 --> 01:13:01,917
Only lives for you.

1234
01:13:02,708 --> 01:13:03,958
Did you ignore your laws,

1235
01:13:04,125 --> 01:13:06,625
When I confessed it to you for the first time?

1236
01:13:08,042 --> 01:13:09,333
How much love...

1237
01:13:09,500 --> 01:13:12,542
- Mr. Director. - You asked to see me?

1238
01:13:12,750 --> 01:13:13,667
-Yes.

1239
01:13:15,708 --> 01:13:16,625
We know each other ?

1240
01:13:17,625 --> 01:13:20,125
-I know very well who you are.

1241
01:13:23,458 --> 01:13:26,667
-You will audition a lot of actresses

1242
01:13:26,875 --> 01:13:27,792
for the role?

1243
01:13:29,542 --> 01:13:31,333
- It's a difficult role.

1244
01:13:31,500 --> 01:13:32,917
I do not have a choice.

1245
01:13:35,625 --> 01:13:37,375
-We always have the choice.

1246
01:13:39,583 --> 01:13:40,917
You do not believe ?

1247
01:13:44,500 --> 01:13:46,125
My friends, please.

1248
01:13:46,792 --> 01:13:47,625
My friends.

1249
01:13:47,833 --> 01:13:50,750
To Coralie and her first major role.

1250
01:13:50,917 --> 01:13:52,917
playful music

1251
01:13:53,083 --> 01:14:00,750
...

1252
01:14:00,917 --> 01:14:03,625
-Don't worry, you too are going to play Racine.

1253
01:14:03,792 --> 01:14:05,917
You will discover the feelings.

1254
01:14:06,083 --> 01:14:31,167
...

1255
01:14:31,333 --> 01:14:34,250
-You have very nice boots, sir.

1256
01:14:34,750 --> 01:14:37,667
I seem to have seen them somewhere before.

1257
01:14:38,250 --> 01:14:39,125
Non ?

1258
01:14:46,250 --> 01:14:47,750
I would give everything I have

1259
01:14:47,958 --> 01:14:49,333
to make her look at me like that.

1260
01:14:49,500 --> 01:14:52,417
- Sir, accept that your role ends.

1261
01:14:52,583 --> 01:14:54,375
She doesn't need you anymore.

1262
01:14:54,542 --> 01:14:56,750
-I don't want her to miss anything.

1263
01:14:58,042 --> 01:14:59,625
- For me, sir,

1264
01:14:59,792 --> 01:15:01,417
you are nobody.

1265
01:15:02,833 --> 01:15:04,125
-Like he said that.

1266
01:15:04,292 --> 01:15:07,458
-Your articles make me laugh, you make me mean.

1267
01:15:07,625 --> 01:15:08,917
-So much the better.

1268
01:15:09,083 --> 01:15:10,250
Madame.

1269
01:15:16,083 --> 01:15:17,917
She won't miss anything.

1270
01:15:20,125 --> 01:15:21,667
Good evening, sir.

1271
01:15:23,542 --> 01:15:25,542
-A little actress from the boulevard

1272
01:15:25,750 --> 01:15:27,833
landed a repertoire role

1273
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,500
discreetly made more than one smile.

1274
01:15:32,167 --> 01:15:35,292
The success of his articles and the conquest of Coralie

1275
01:15:35,458 --> 01:15:37,708
were two head-turning triumphs

1276
01:15:37,875 --> 01:15:40,125
less young than that of Lucien.

1277
01:15:41,500 --> 01:15:45,667
He had the awkwardness to display his success and worse still,

1278
01:15:45,833 --> 01:15:47,583
to show off his happiness.

1279
01:15:51,125 --> 01:15:54,083
Coralie took Lucien to all the parties

1280
01:15:54,292 --> 01:15:57,083
and offered his journalist the right costumes

1281
01:15:57,292 --> 01:16:00,375
so that it shines on his arm in All-Paris.

1282
01:16:03,083 --> 01:16:06,042
She wanted to teach Lucien to play with life,

1283
01:16:06,208 --> 01:16:08,458
as she knew how to do on stage.

1284
01:16:08,667 --> 01:16:10,958
But art and literary glory,

1285
01:16:11,125 --> 01:16:12,625
there was no more question.

1286
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:16,208
Coralie laughs.

1287
01:16:17,792 --> 01:16:19,958
triumphal music

1288
01:16:20,125 --> 01:17:34,542
...

1289
01:17:34,708 --> 01:17:37,958
Applause

1290
01:17:38,167 --> 01:17:40,333
Upbeat music

1291
01:17:40,500 --> 01:17:58,125
...

1292
01:17:58,292 --> 01:17:59,333
-Good evening.

1293
01:18:00,625 --> 01:18:02,417
I present to you Miss Coralie.

1294
01:18:08,625 --> 01:18:10,125
You don't greet her

1295
01:18:10,333 --> 01:18:12,875
because she's an actress, right?

1296
01:18:13,542 --> 01:18:14,958
We applaud him on stage,

1297
01:18:15,167 --> 01:18:17,125
but we do not greet her in life.

1298
01:18:17,333 --> 01:18:19,583
-It's enough. -An actress is not

1299
01:18:19,792 --> 01:18:22,792
a woman decent enough for people like you?

1300
01:18:27,417 --> 01:18:31,208
-Tell me, my favorite enemy, where are you with Dauriat?

1301
01:18:32,917 --> 01:18:35,708
- For the moment, I have to earn my living at the newspaper.

1302
01:18:35,875 --> 01:18:37,292
And I inherited nothing.

1303
01:18:37,833 --> 01:18:39,083
-Neither do I.

1304
01:18:39,583 --> 01:18:42,125
-You haven't even inherited a name, Mr. Chardon.

1305
01:18:42,333 --> 01:18:43,708
- My name is Rubempre.

1306
01:18:43,917 --> 01:18:45,500
- Thistle or Rubempre,

1307
01:18:45,708 --> 01:18:47,000
your articles will soon be forgotten.

1308
01:18:47,208 --> 01:18:49,250
- That's enough, Lucien, we're leaving.

1309
01:18:49,417 --> 01:18:52,125
- And your literary ambitions, have you already given up?

1310
01:18:53,292 --> 01:18:54,625
-Do not worry.

1311
01:18:56,542 --> 01:18:58,417
-We're leaving. -Miss.

1312
01:18:59,708 --> 01:19:01,750
I admire your acting talent.

1313
01:19:05,625 --> 01:19:07,375
Can I invite you to dance?

1314
01:19:08,125 --> 01:19:09,917
-Excuse me sir,

1315
01:19:10,583 --> 01:19:12,875
but I no longer have the heart to dance.

1316
01:19:14,167 --> 01:19:15,292
- Good evening, Louise.

1317
01:19:20,458 --> 01:19:21,417
- Was it her?

1318
01:19:25,042 --> 01:19:26,125
She is beautiful.

1319
01:19:27,917 --> 01:19:29,917
She doesn't look very happy.

1320
01:19:35,625 --> 01:19:37,708
Why did they call you Chardon?

1321
01:19:50,042 --> 01:19:52,083
-My father was called Chardon

1322
01:19:53,167 --> 01:19:56,375
and my mother was born Amélie de Rubempré.

1323
01:19:58,917 --> 01:20:01,250
And I want to carry my mother's name.

1324
01:20:08,917 --> 01:20:10,667
- It doesn't change anything for me.

1325
01:20:12,042 --> 01:20:13,583
You have only one name.

1326
01:20:14,625 --> 01:20:16,250
That of my love.

1327
01:20:20,417 --> 01:20:22,042
Soft music

1328
01:20:22,250 --> 01:20:24,208
Sighs of pleasure

1329
01:21:21,208 --> 01:21:22,958
I am sick, Lucien.

1330
01:21:25,250 --> 01:21:27,542
This is called phthisis of the lungs.

1331
01:21:29,542 --> 01:21:31,333
A kind of tuberculosis.

1332
01:21:38,917 --> 01:21:40,875
You have to do good things.

1333
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:49,333
Everything is rotten everywhere, don't you think?

1334
01:21:51,667 --> 01:21:54,250
You have to fight to do good things.

1335
01:22:05,042 --> 01:22:08,125
-I don't want your poetry! It's wasted money.

1336
01:22:08,333 --> 01:22:10,708
-Lucien is part of the newspaper now.

1337
01:22:11,250 --> 01:22:13,708
-Are you trying to intimidate me, little man?

1338
01:22:14,083 --> 01:22:16,875
It's unsaleable, we're going to make a fool of ourselves.

1339
01:22:17,083 --> 01:22:20,083
-There are many for whom literature matters.

1340
01:22:20,292 --> 01:22:22,542
A look at the world, a taste for beauty...

1341
01:22:22,750 --> 01:22:24,958
Even for a handful of readers.

1342
01:22:25,125 --> 01:22:26,542
Even for a single reader.

1343
01:22:26,708 --> 01:22:28,250
- Only one reader? -Yes.

1344
01:22:28,458 --> 01:22:30,125
- But you are sick.

1345
01:22:30,292 --> 01:22:32,333
I don't care about your Daisies.

1346
01:22:32,542 --> 01:22:36,167
In what language should you say it? Here, come, you.

1347
01:22:38,708 --> 01:22:40,375
I have to talk to you about Berthier.

1348
01:22:40,583 --> 01:22:41,417
-What ?

1349
01:22:41,583 --> 01:22:44,333
-He starts chasing me, too. Thank you.

1350
01:22:44,500 --> 01:22:45,583
Here, you do this.

1351
01:22:45,792 --> 01:22:49,208
Do what we said. Do your job. -Sure.

1352
01:23:03,833 --> 01:23:06,667
- He will end up taking them, your Daisies.

1353
01:23:08,333 --> 01:23:10,542
-I try to impose my conditions on him.

1354
01:23:10,708 --> 01:23:11,583
-Yes.

1355
01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:15,000
I'd like to talk to you, Lucien.

1356
01:23:16,875 --> 01:23:18,333
I know your texts.

1357
01:23:21,542 --> 01:23:22,792
Louise...

1358
01:23:23,458 --> 01:23:26,500
She talked about you and Angoulême the other night,

1359
01:23:26,667 --> 01:23:28,458
with a lot of emotion.

1360
01:23:28,833 --> 01:23:31,292
She read some of your poems to us.

1361
01:23:32,042 --> 01:23:34,250
There were some really good things.

1362
01:23:35,583 --> 01:23:36,792
Really.

1363
01:23:42,292 --> 01:23:43,833
She's a wounded woman.

1364
01:23:45,208 --> 01:23:47,083
She means you no harm.

1365
01:23:47,458 --> 01:23:50,500
"How could she hurt me now?"

1366
01:23:51,208 --> 01:23:53,125
By sending you to trap me?

1367
01:23:56,417 --> 01:23:58,417
-Don't see enemies everywhere.

1368
01:23:58,625 --> 01:24:00,250
- You have no enemies?

1369
01:24:00,875 --> 01:24:02,750
- I content myself with what is necessary.

1370
01:24:05,125 --> 01:24:07,542
What I have in life is creation.

1371
01:24:07,708 --> 01:24:09,208
And you too, I know.

1372
01:24:10,250 --> 01:24:12,375
For the rest, all these shenanigans,

1373
01:24:12,583 --> 01:24:14,333
these endless palavers,

1374
01:24:14,542 --> 01:24:16,292
it's just noise, wind.

1375
01:24:16,458 --> 01:24:18,917
We have to learn to play with all that.

1376
01:24:19,625 --> 01:24:20,542
-Lucien ?

1377
01:24:21,250 --> 01:24:22,125
Let's go ?

1378
01:24:25,333 --> 01:24:26,917
-See you soon, I hope.

1379
01:24:27,875 --> 01:24:29,833
- Do you want revenge on Dauriat?

1380
01:24:33,292 --> 01:24:35,833
Nathan's book comes out on Wednesday.

1381
01:24:36,000 --> 01:24:38,708
He bet big on it. Very big !

1382
01:24:38,875 --> 01:24:39,917
Have fun.

1383
01:24:42,917 --> 01:24:44,625
-Nathan came to talk to me.

1384
01:24:44,833 --> 01:24:47,917
-Obviously, he wants everyone to like him.

1385
01:24:48,083 --> 01:24:51,292
He is afraid of what we are going to write. He's right.

1386
01:24:51,458 --> 01:24:53,542
He told you about the love of art?

1387
01:24:53,750 --> 01:24:55,833
He had tried the same trick with me.

1388
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:56,833
Have fun.

1389
01:24:57,333 --> 01:25:00,208
Hectic music

1390
01:25:13,042 --> 01:25:14,375
-Envious of many,

1391
01:25:14,542 --> 01:25:18,375
Nathan had become a prominent figure in the literary world.

1392
01:25:18,542 --> 01:25:21,250
We envied his insolent youth and his style.

1393
01:25:21,417 --> 01:25:22,833
We were fighting over his friendship

1394
01:25:23,042 --> 01:25:25,542
and his network of influence among the royalists.

1395
01:25:25,750 --> 01:25:27,458
Even if some did not see in him

1396
01:25:27,667 --> 01:25:31,250
only a false glory made with blows of articles and press.

1397
01:25:55,958 --> 01:25:57,708
-So how are you doing?

1398
01:26:03,958 --> 01:26:06,708
-Étienne, I can't say anything bad about this book.

1399
01:26:06,875 --> 01:26:08,375
He has a strength...

1400
01:26:08,792 --> 01:26:09,833
a feeling.

1401
01:26:10,667 --> 01:26:12,583
He has a real talent, this Nathan.

1402
01:26:13,250 --> 01:26:14,750
It's inspired,

1403
01:26:15,417 --> 01:26:16,583
sincere,

1404
01:26:16,792 --> 01:26:18,708
never agreed. -Please !

1405
01:26:18,875 --> 01:26:22,542
-I assure you. He has the right distance from his subject.

1406
01:26:22,708 --> 01:26:25,083
Here, listen to the last sentence.

1407
01:26:26,000 --> 01:26:29,125
"I no longer hope for anything and I begin to live."

1408
01:26:32,667 --> 01:26:34,292
Looks like Corneille.

1409
01:26:34,500 --> 01:26:36,667
-He certainly stung Corneille.

1410
01:26:36,875 --> 01:26:38,292
- How can you say anything bad about it?

1411
01:26:38,500 --> 01:26:41,750
-We can always speak ill, it's a form of spirit to take.

1412
01:26:42,417 --> 01:26:43,458
-That is to say ?

1413
01:26:43,625 --> 01:26:45,833
-I'm going to tell you a story.

1414
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:48,500
One day, two critics are on a boat

1415
01:26:48,667 --> 01:26:51,292
on Lake Tiberias, in the Holy Land.

1416
01:26:51,458 --> 01:26:52,625
Suddenly,

1417
01:26:53,167 --> 01:26:54,583
Christ appears

1418
01:26:54,958 --> 01:26:57,167
and begins to walk on water.

1419
01:26:57,750 --> 01:27:00,208
One reviewer leans towards the other and says:

1420
01:27:00,375 --> 01:27:02,500
"You see, he can't even swim."

1421
01:27:05,333 --> 01:27:07,667
If the book is moving, say it is complacent.

1422
01:27:07,833 --> 01:27:11,875
If it is classic, it is academic. If he is funny, he is superficial.

1423
01:27:12,042 --> 01:27:14,750
If he's smart, he's pretentious.

1424
01:27:14,917 --> 01:27:19,167
If he's inspired, he's a hotshot. And then you unroll.

1425
01:27:21,375 --> 01:27:24,792
-If the story is well constructed, it is predictable.

1426
01:27:24,958 --> 01:27:27,375
If the author has style, it's to hide

1427
01:27:27,583 --> 01:27:29,083
that he has nothing to say.

1428
01:27:29,292 --> 01:27:30,500
-Here is.

1429
01:27:31,500 --> 01:27:33,667
You can go for the length too.

1430
01:27:33,833 --> 01:27:36,708
It always hurts. Everything is always too long.

1431
01:27:36,875 --> 01:27:38,875
So confused, not mastered.

1432
01:27:39,083 --> 01:27:42,833
We don't see where the author is coming from. Does he himself know?

1433
01:27:43,792 --> 01:27:45,625
-If it's mastered, it lacks madness.

1434
01:27:45,833 --> 01:27:48,417
- Yes, and if it's crazy, it's incoherent!

1435
01:27:51,292 --> 01:27:52,708
Lets' go.

1436
01:27:53,167 --> 01:27:54,750
We'll take care of the Nathan.

1437
01:27:54,958 --> 01:27:56,375
-His desire for revenge

1438
01:27:56,542 --> 01:28:00,292
Dauriats, Louises, Angoulême and all over the world

1439
01:28:00,458 --> 01:28:04,667
held Lucien's inspiration to assassinate Nathan's work.

1440
01:28:05,583 --> 01:28:08,042
This critical pleasure, dark and solitary,

1441
01:28:08,208 --> 01:28:12,708
is like a duel with an absentee, wounded from a distance by the stroke of a pen.

1442
01:28:12,917 --> 01:28:16,333
And despite the ease and vulgarity of this mocking spirit,

1443
01:28:16,500 --> 01:28:19,583
it is often well received by some newspapers.

1444
01:28:21,792 --> 01:28:24,417
Hectic music

1445
01:28:25,625 --> 01:28:26,542
- "So say

1446
01:28:26,750 --> 01:28:28,292
"à M. Nathan d'Anastazio

1447
01:28:28,458 --> 01:28:30,750
"not to jump off a bridge right away,

1448
01:28:30,917 --> 01:28:34,333
"because he still has a lot of people to disappoint."

1449
01:28:34,500 --> 01:28:35,917
They laugh.

1450
01:28:36,083 --> 01:28:38,917
This is admirable bad faith. -Thank you.

1451
01:28:43,292 --> 01:28:44,833
-What's the matter ?

1452
01:28:45,292 --> 01:28:47,792
-I don't even know if I like the book anymore.

1453
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:52,125
-It does not matter. What you write is forgotten the same day.

1454
01:28:52,292 --> 01:28:53,958
It ends up packing the fish.

1455
01:28:58,042 --> 01:29:00,792
-We can also write works that last,

1456
01:29:01,542 --> 01:29:04,500
defend ideas in which we believe.

1457
01:29:05,792 --> 01:29:07,125
Nathan, I'm sure...

1458
01:29:07,292 --> 01:29:10,708
-Stop with Anastazio's Nathan! He's a social puppet.

1459
01:29:12,750 --> 01:29:13,583
-Like us.

1460
01:29:13,792 --> 01:29:15,792
-Like us, exactly.

1461
01:29:19,333 --> 01:29:21,583
He's going to die of it, big Dauriat.

1462
01:29:32,167 --> 01:29:34,292
-In the morning, Lucien sent to Dauriat

1463
01:29:34,458 --> 01:29:37,292
the manuscript of the article versus Nathan's book.

1464
01:29:40,333 --> 01:29:41,625
Before posting it,

1465
01:29:41,792 --> 01:29:44,958
Lousteau and Lucien wanted to warn the publisher

1466
01:29:45,125 --> 01:29:48,167
that a cabal threatened his foal of the moment.

1467
01:29:54,292 --> 01:29:56,458
- Is it Lucien who signs this rag?

1468
01:29:56,625 --> 01:29:57,542
-Obviously.

1469
01:30:11,708 --> 01:30:15,167
-Lucien made the sultan of the edition wait a good hour.

1470
01:30:15,333 --> 01:30:18,500
He supposedly had urgent business to attend to.

1471
01:30:21,333 --> 01:30:23,792
- I brought your article back to you.

1472
01:30:24,708 --> 01:30:26,333
How wicked.

1473
01:30:26,708 --> 01:30:28,333
You have come a long way.

1474
01:30:28,792 --> 01:30:30,917
-You think ? -Hmm hm.

1475
01:30:32,083 --> 01:30:34,625
I'm uneducated, but my eyes have been opened

1476
01:30:34,833 --> 01:30:36,625
on the beauty of your Daisies.

1477
01:30:38,708 --> 01:30:41,583
So I changed my mind, I buy your poems.

1478
01:30:43,208 --> 01:30:44,833
-I am very annoyed.

1479
01:30:45,542 --> 01:30:47,750
I received other offers.

1480
01:30:47,958 --> 01:30:49,625
-Ah bah, j'imagine.

1481
01:30:49,792 --> 01:30:52,583
They have to fight to publish poetry.

1482
01:30:52,750 --> 01:30:53,667
But beware.

1483
01:30:53,875 --> 01:30:56,333
From the moment I buy your book,

1484
01:30:56,542 --> 01:30:58,667
you are part of the family,

1485
01:30:58,833 --> 01:31:02,458
this means that you will never attack my authors again.

1486
01:31:03,125 --> 01:31:05,208
-I have to keep my independence.

1487
01:31:05,375 --> 01:31:06,917
-Your independence? -Yes.

1488
01:31:07,458 --> 01:31:10,083
-I bought half of the Paris reviews,

1489
01:31:10,250 --> 01:31:12,292
don't talk to me about independence.

1490
01:31:14,333 --> 01:31:15,708
-Excuse me.

1491
01:31:16,375 --> 01:31:17,875
I have work. -Ah yes.

1492
01:31:19,708 --> 01:31:21,625
You call that a job?

1493
01:31:23,917 --> 01:31:25,500
- Shall I accompany you?

1494
01:31:26,542 --> 01:31:28,583
If we do business together,

1495
01:31:28,750 --> 01:31:32,250
I would like to choose the paper, the typography and the illustrations.

1496
01:31:32,417 --> 01:31:33,250
-Yes.

1497
01:31:33,458 --> 01:31:35,792
They told me it was your first job.

1498
01:31:35,958 --> 01:31:38,125
-I was an orphan, I had to live.

1499
01:31:39,375 --> 01:31:41,542
- Oh, it's very very moving.

1500
01:31:41,708 --> 01:31:43,917
Have you considered making a novel out of it?

1501
01:31:44,083 --> 01:31:47,208
Ah yes ! The Orphan of Angoulême .

1502
01:31:47,375 --> 01:31:50,875
They throw him into Paris, he loses his footing, he drowns.

1503
01:31:51,042 --> 01:31:55,458
And then, not stupid, he observes, he learns.

1504
01:31:56,625 --> 01:32:00,625
But will he remember that he had higher ambitions?

1505
01:32:02,500 --> 01:32:03,583
-Let's go.

1506
01:32:04,417 --> 01:32:05,458
Dauriat ?

1507
01:32:06,458 --> 01:32:09,167
Did you at least open my manuscript?

1508
01:32:09,333 --> 01:32:11,167
I would like to know for sure.

1509
01:32:11,375 --> 01:32:14,750
-Leave your little heart out of it all, young man.

1510
01:32:14,917 --> 01:32:18,000
You have influential friends, famous enemies,

1511
01:32:18,167 --> 01:32:21,000
people talk about your bad articles in Paris.

1512
01:32:21,167 --> 01:32:25,000
That's it, you're on the scene. You are part of the show.

1513
01:32:25,833 --> 01:32:27,625
-A spectacle ? -Yes.

1514
01:32:27,833 --> 01:32:30,083
-What if now, I wanted to

1515
01:32:30,292 --> 01:32:32,917
to speak highly of Mr. Nathan's book.

1516
01:32:34,333 --> 01:32:36,042
-200 francs, paid cash.

1517
01:32:36,208 --> 01:32:38,000
-Come on, 200 francs...

1518
01:32:38,208 --> 01:32:40,667
It's a lot more work to say good things.

1519
01:32:40,875 --> 01:32:42,792
You know it. -Ah yes !

1520
01:32:42,958 --> 01:32:46,292
Especially for a freelancer like you.

1521
01:32:47,167 --> 01:32:49,375
-Make me another offer.

1522
01:32:49,542 --> 01:32:51,375
-So, let's say 250.

1523
01:32:52,500 --> 01:32:54,125
-Let's say 500.

1524
01:32:54,292 --> 01:32:55,417
-500 ?

1525
01:32:57,125 --> 01:32:59,000
No one is paid that price.

1526
01:33:00,417 --> 01:33:01,750
-That's my price.

1527
01:33:04,250 --> 01:33:07,542
-500 then, with an ad on the front page.

1528
01:33:07,750 --> 01:33:09,000
-Agreed.

1529
01:33:10,625 --> 01:33:12,375
But I will do it for nothing.

1530
01:33:14,292 --> 01:33:17,042
I will do so out of respect for literature.

1531
01:33:18,125 --> 01:33:19,208
Tell Nathan.

1532
01:33:20,000 --> 01:33:22,875
-You will need him as he needs you.

1533
01:33:27,125 --> 01:33:30,750
-This time, Lucien expressed sincere admiration

1534
01:33:30,958 --> 01:33:33,042
that he had experienced for this novel

1535
01:33:33,208 --> 01:33:35,583
which no doubt he would have liked to write.

1536
01:33:42,708 --> 01:33:45,208
The next day, Lucien's laudatory article

1537
01:33:45,417 --> 01:33:49,167
appeared as promised on the first page of the famous Corsaire-Satan .

1538
01:33:50,417 --> 01:33:52,583
The controversy was on.

1539
01:33:52,750 --> 01:33:54,708
giggles

1540
01:33:58,125 --> 01:34:00,708
We were excited about this new critic

1541
01:34:00,917 --> 01:34:03,792
able to rise above partisan bickering

1542
01:34:04,542 --> 01:34:08,167
out of a taste for beauty and without a second thought.

1543
01:34:09,750 --> 01:34:12,750
Incredible event, a royalist deputy had even

1544
01:34:12,958 --> 01:34:16,250
quoted in the Chamber one of Lucien's formulas.

1545
01:34:16,792 --> 01:34:20,000
The comedy was also played in the hemicycle.

1546
01:34:20,167 --> 01:34:24,083
Henceforth, the beautiful name of Rubempré was on everyone's lips.

1547
01:34:25,375 --> 01:34:29,292
Lucien had become a recognized journalist, a Parisian figure,

1548
01:34:29,458 --> 01:34:32,833
with all the advantages associated with his new status.

1549
01:34:37,958 --> 01:34:39,583
- Well, say so.

1550
01:34:42,042 --> 01:34:44,542
He wasted no time, the Daisies!

1551
01:34:48,625 --> 01:34:49,792
-You are there.

1552
01:34:50,458 --> 01:34:52,208
We did everything at the last minute,

1553
01:34:52,417 --> 01:34:53,667
it's not over yet.

1554
01:34:53,833 --> 01:34:55,583
- It's going to take a long time to pay for all that.

1555
01:34:55,750 --> 01:34:58,083
- Camusot obtained six months of credit for us.

1556
01:34:58,292 --> 01:34:59,417
-Bravo.

1557
01:34:59,917 --> 01:35:01,500
-Where is Lucien? -Upstairs.

1558
01:35:01,667 --> 01:35:04,500
He's preparing a surprise, we're expecting people tonight.

1559
01:35:04,708 --> 01:35:05,667
How do you like it ?

1560
01:35:05,833 --> 01:35:08,708
It's the first time I have a place of my own.

1561
01:35:09,625 --> 01:35:11,583
-Congratulation. -Thank you.

1562
01:35:15,792 --> 01:35:17,583
-Ask for the newspaper!

1563
01:35:17,750 --> 01:35:18,917
Here it is.

1564
01:35:19,333 --> 01:35:20,708
The newspaper, sir.

1565
01:35:20,875 --> 01:35:24,375
The newspaper, the newspaper, ask for the daily newspaper.

1566
01:35:24,542 --> 01:35:27,375
The newspaper, we have copies. The newspaper...

1567
01:35:28,417 --> 01:35:30,375
Here it is, it is that of today.

1568
01:35:30,583 --> 01:35:33,083
Go ahead, read it! The newspaper.

1569
01:35:33,292 --> 01:35:35,375
Ladies and gentlemen, glory to the newspaper.

1570
01:35:35,542 --> 01:35:36,375
-BRAVO !

1571
01:35:36,583 --> 01:35:38,292
-The newspaper, sir? -Well done !

1572
01:35:38,500 --> 01:35:39,542
-Here it is !

1573
01:35:41,000 --> 01:35:42,042
The newspaper, ma'am.

1574
01:35:43,542 --> 01:35:45,500
And don't forget, read the newspaper.

1575
01:35:45,708 --> 01:35:46,875
-BRAVO !

1576
01:35:50,542 --> 01:35:51,875
-In Paris !

1577
01:35:54,292 --> 01:35:55,792
And, and...

1578
01:35:55,958 --> 01:35:57,250
to our Loves !

1579
01:35:57,417 --> 01:35:59,042
Acclamations

1580
01:36:05,583 --> 01:36:09,625
-I believe the time has come to baptize Lucien

1581
01:36:09,833 --> 01:36:10,958
authentically.

1582
01:36:11,250 --> 01:36:12,625
one knee down,

1583
01:36:13,125 --> 01:36:17,125
brave and proud knight without fear and without principles.

1584
01:36:17,292 --> 01:36:18,917
- Without any principle!

1585
01:36:21,375 --> 01:36:22,750
-The name

1586
01:36:23,167 --> 01:36:24,875
bad faith,

1587
01:36:25,042 --> 01:36:28,500
false rumor and advertisement...

1588
01:36:29,292 --> 01:36:31,167
I baptize you journalist.

1589
01:36:31,917 --> 01:36:35,500
Applause

1590
01:36:35,708 --> 01:36:38,375
-Bravo! Bravo!

1591
01:36:40,875 --> 01:36:42,958
- Go, go, go, go!

1592
01:36:43,500 --> 01:36:44,792
It's free !

1593
01:36:51,458 --> 01:36:53,292
-Let's open at 50 francs, friends.

1594
01:36:53,458 --> 01:36:54,625
-The friends !

1595
01:36:54,792 --> 01:36:56,083
There are no friends!

1596
01:36:56,792 --> 01:36:58,500
-It's a way of speaking.

1597
01:36:58,708 --> 01:37:00,708
Well, do you want tokens or not?

1598
01:37:00,875 --> 01:37:02,958
-Of course we want tokens.

1599
01:37:04,625 --> 01:37:06,042
- It was funny, right?

1600
01:37:06,417 --> 01:37:07,458
-Very.

1601
01:37:07,625 --> 01:37:09,708
- I didn't think you would come.

1602
01:37:10,458 --> 01:37:12,958
- I was touched by what you wrote.

1603
01:37:13,125 --> 01:37:14,667
- But I was sincere.

1604
01:37:17,583 --> 01:37:20,083
How is the release of your book going?

1605
01:37:21,083 --> 01:37:22,417
-Listen...

1606
01:37:22,583 --> 01:37:25,542
Good. My royalist friends support me,

1607
01:37:25,708 --> 01:37:27,792
or at least lead me to believe so.

1608
01:37:27,958 --> 01:37:31,167
And thanks to you, the liberal press should spare me.

1609
01:37:31,917 --> 01:37:34,542
- Literature comes out on top.

1610
01:37:36,292 --> 01:37:37,750
-Dependent contrast.

1611
01:37:45,667 --> 01:37:47,583
I bring a personal message.

1612
01:37:48,375 --> 01:37:49,792
From Louisa.

1613
01:37:51,833 --> 01:37:53,542
I saw her this afternoon.

1614
01:37:56,542 --> 01:38:00,833
-The newspaper is preparing attacks against Châtelet and his clique.

1615
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:02,417
I can not do anything about it.

1616
01:38:02,625 --> 01:38:05,875
-But Louise makes fun of Châtelet and politics.

1617
01:38:09,208 --> 01:38:10,750
She would like to see you again.

1618
01:38:11,708 --> 01:38:14,375
She runs a great risk by doing this.

1619
01:38:14,542 --> 01:38:16,458
You are his friends' pet peeve.

1620
01:38:16,667 --> 01:38:17,875
-I hope so.

1621
01:38:20,417 --> 01:38:24,375
- She would like to help you on a point that is important to you.

1622
01:38:25,292 --> 01:38:26,667
-That is to say ?

1623
01:38:27,792 --> 01:38:29,917
- She will explain it to you herself.

1624
01:38:30,750 --> 01:38:52,917
...

1625
01:38:55,917 --> 01:38:59,667
-The appointment with Louise was taken away from all eyes.

1626
01:39:01,292 --> 01:39:04,250
Those looks that had always condemned to death

1627
01:39:04,458 --> 01:39:06,292
the couple of Louise and Lucien.

1628
01:39:06,750 --> 01:39:08,458
-Lucian. -Hello, Nathan.

1629
01:39:08,625 --> 01:39:11,417
-How are you doing ? -Good. Is it your home?

1630
01:39:11,625 --> 01:39:14,458
- Oh no, we're at a friend's house.

1631
01:39:14,625 --> 01:39:16,833
A discreet man, protector of artists

1632
01:39:17,000 --> 01:39:20,333
where I occasionally come to blacken a bit of paper.

1633
01:39:21,250 --> 01:39:22,250
-Agreed.

1634
01:39:23,083 --> 01:39:24,208
-Come.

1635
01:39:26,708 --> 01:39:28,708
She's waiting for you, right there.

1636
01:39:42,417 --> 01:39:45,083
- I thought of you when I saw all these books.

1637
01:39:49,500 --> 01:39:51,583
Do you still love reading?

1638
01:39:53,000 --> 01:39:54,750
-It has become my job.

1639
01:39:55,958 --> 01:39:57,083
-I say.

1640
01:39:57,667 --> 01:39:59,708
I know your newspaper.

1641
01:39:59,917 --> 01:40:02,625
I didn't know you were capable of being so severe.

1642
01:40:05,792 --> 01:40:08,750
But the Châtelet guinea fowl made us laugh a lot.

1643
01:40:08,917 --> 01:40:11,792
Everyone read his caricature under the coat.

1644
01:40:13,042 --> 01:40:16,500
-I thought he was your friend. -Yes, I thought so.

1645
01:40:17,042 --> 01:40:18,083
I believed it too

1646
01:40:18,292 --> 01:40:20,792
and I understood that he had played comedy on me.

1647
01:40:20,958 --> 01:40:25,083
He wanted to approach my cousin to push him to court.

1648
01:40:26,125 --> 01:40:27,833
He got his way.

1649
01:40:28,292 --> 01:40:32,000
He will leave Paris to be appointed prefect of Charentes.

1650
01:40:32,583 --> 01:40:34,583
That way he'll go back there.

1651
01:40:36,250 --> 01:40:38,667
We may be doomed to the provinces.

1652
01:40:40,667 --> 01:40:43,042
- You and I, we got out of it.

1653
01:40:43,792 --> 01:40:46,250
- What madness to leave together.

1654
01:40:49,458 --> 01:40:51,375
I was lost, Lucien.

1655
01:40:52,375 --> 01:40:53,500
I was alone.

1656
01:40:55,583 --> 01:40:57,333
I too was scared.

1657
01:40:58,875 --> 01:41:00,583
And I hurt you.

1658
01:41:02,042 --> 01:41:06,250
Now, I would like to appease your resentment and be forgiven.

1659
01:41:08,792 --> 01:41:11,917
I can help you find your name and title.

1660
01:41:16,500 --> 01:41:19,667
But the only way to get an order from the King

1661
01:41:19,833 --> 01:41:23,500
is to ask for it as a reward for services rendered to the Château.

1662
01:41:24,792 --> 01:41:26,167
-What services?

1663
01:41:26,583 --> 01:41:30,167
-Lucien, stop your attacks against our friends.

1664
01:41:31,208 --> 01:41:33,833
I know your story better than anyone.

1665
01:41:34,542 --> 01:41:36,917
Circumstances have made you our enemy,

1666
01:41:37,125 --> 01:41:39,625
but deep down you are one of us.

1667
01:41:40,125 --> 01:41:41,417
I know it.

1668
01:41:51,875 --> 01:41:54,167
Often, I miss the countryside.

1669
01:41:55,208 --> 01:41:57,292
I'm tired of Paris.

1670
01:42:02,458 --> 01:42:05,417
There was something beautiful between us there.

1671
01:42:25,125 --> 01:42:27,083
-I learned everything with you.

1672
01:42:29,667 --> 01:42:31,042
Until sorrow.

1673
01:42:37,042 --> 01:42:39,167
- How is your pretty fiancée?

1674
01:42:39,958 --> 01:42:43,208
I would like to see her play, they say she is wonderful.

1675
01:42:46,250 --> 01:42:48,125
-I am very much in love.

1676
01:42:48,292 --> 01:42:50,500
melancholic music

1677
01:43:00,583 --> 01:43:03,000
- She will also be entitled to her poems?

1678
01:43:24,208 --> 01:43:28,833
Hectic music

1679
01:43:30,542 --> 01:43:34,375
-M. the Viscount has gone out, he begs me to deliver this letter to you.

1680
01:43:34,542 --> 01:43:39,000
-"Dear Lucien, many great men began with two names.

1681
01:43:39,583 --> 01:43:42,375
"Poquelin before Molière, Arouet before Voltaire,

1682
01:43:42,542 --> 01:43:43,958
"Bonaparte before Napoleon.

1683
01:43:45,250 --> 01:43:48,042
“The first name is like the preface to the other.

1684
01:43:48,208 --> 01:43:49,458
"Thistle or Rubempre,

1685
01:43:49,625 --> 01:43:52,292
"I recognized in you this passion which is mine.

1686
01:43:52,500 --> 01:43:55,625
"I would like to protect you from the traps of this Parisian theater

1687
01:43:55,792 --> 01:43:57,958
"which makes us actors.

1688
01:43:59,458 --> 01:44:02,125
"Lucien, I must warn you that behind the scenes,

1689
01:44:02,292 --> 01:44:04,458
"A serious crisis is brewing.

1690
01:44:04,667 --> 01:44:06,375
"In the circles of power,

1691
01:44:06,542 --> 01:44:10,458
“new laws are announced to strangle the opposition press.

1692
01:44:10,792 --> 01:44:12,083
"Some around you

1693
01:44:12,250 --> 01:44:15,250
"have already started selling in secret.

1694
01:44:16,333 --> 01:44:20,083
"You are better than those lawless penpushers.

1695
01:44:22,333 --> 01:44:24,292
"You will know how to act.

1696
01:44:25,000 --> 01:44:26,042
"Your friend,

1697
01:44:26,417 --> 01:44:27,708
"Nathan."

1698
01:44:30,292 --> 01:44:32,750
-I raise my bottle at the theater

1699
01:44:33,417 --> 01:44:35,125
and journalism!

1700
01:44:38,917 --> 01:44:40,875
Laughter

1701
01:44:49,292 --> 01:44:51,000
-Come with us, sweetie.

1702
01:44:54,417 --> 01:44:55,667
-It's too hot !

1703
01:45:12,792 --> 01:45:15,042
- So... It was transmitted to me

1704
01:45:15,250 --> 01:45:19,250
a request for a genealogical study concerning the title of Rubempré.

1705
01:45:20,625 --> 01:45:22,083
- That's my mother's name.

1706
01:45:22,292 --> 01:45:23,833
- Your father being called?

1707
01:45:25,667 --> 01:45:27,167
-I want to forget that name.

1708
01:45:29,542 --> 01:45:32,458
-According to this note, you have influential supporters.

1709
01:45:32,667 --> 01:45:35,292
And even very influential, the Marquise d'Espard

1710
01:45:37,417 --> 01:45:38,958
and a baroness...

1711
01:45:39,667 --> 01:45:40,875
de Bargeton,

1712
01:45:41,750 --> 01:45:43,000
that I do not know.

1713
01:45:44,167 --> 01:45:47,000
-I will try not to disappoint their friendship.

1714
01:45:49,125 --> 01:45:52,792
-After a state of your quarters of nobility,

1715
01:45:53,000 --> 01:45:55,958
your request will be sent to the Keeper of the Seals,

1716
01:45:56,125 --> 01:45:56,958
who will transmit

1717
01:45:57,167 --> 01:45:59,125
in the King's Chamber,

1718
01:45:59,583 --> 01:46:02,708
with a favorable or unfavorable opinion.

1719
01:46:05,750 --> 01:46:07,958
-How long will this study take?

1720
01:46:08,125 --> 01:46:11,500
- This will depend on the quality of the documents found.

1721
01:46:12,708 --> 01:46:17,042
And of course, concrete proof of your support for our ideas.

1722
01:46:21,333 --> 01:46:22,417
Waiting for,

1723
01:46:22,625 --> 01:46:25,583
I think it's time for you to stop writing

1724
01:46:25,750 --> 01:46:28,417
in a newspaper hostile to the government.

1725
01:46:29,208 --> 01:46:33,042
The Keeper of the Seals will be particularly sensitive to this.

1726
01:46:37,458 --> 01:46:38,833
-I understand.

1727
01:46:42,958 --> 01:46:47,250
- Claiming personal work, Lucien had his latest articles carried,

1728
01:46:47,417 --> 01:46:50,083
but no longer appeared in Lousteau's journal.

1729
01:46:50,250 --> 01:46:52,125
He now had, literally,

1730
01:46:52,333 --> 01:46:54,125
loftier ambitions.

1731
01:46:56,833 --> 01:46:58,542
Already dangerously in debt,

1732
01:46:58,708 --> 01:47:03,125
Coralie continued her crazy spending to offer her journalist

1733
01:47:03,292 --> 01:47:05,542
a panoply of dandies and aristocrats.

1734
01:47:05,708 --> 01:47:07,292
-Shoulder, 14.

1735
01:47:07,500 --> 01:47:10,250
-She had learned that only superficial people

1736
01:47:10,458 --> 01:47:12,583
do not judge by appearances.

1737
01:47:12,792 --> 01:47:16,625
Suits at Staub rue de Richelieu, shirt at Mrs Ireland,

1738
01:47:16,792 --> 01:47:19,292
walking sticks from Verdier, boots from Farelli...

1739
01:47:19,500 --> 01:47:21,458
You had to buy fashionable labels,

1740
01:47:21,667 --> 01:47:22,958
whatever the price is.

1741
01:47:23,167 --> 01:47:25,167
The question of the costume is crucial

1742
01:47:25,333 --> 01:47:27,958
for those who want to appear to have what they don't have,

1743
01:47:28,125 --> 01:47:31,167
because it's the best way to own it later.

1744
01:47:31,917 --> 01:47:34,833
-Here is the Comte de Rubempré.

1745
01:47:35,417 --> 01:47:38,083
-We saw him in the woods with the Countess Coralie,

1746
01:47:38,250 --> 01:47:39,625
of French theatre.

1747
01:47:40,250 --> 01:47:43,208
She is going to play Racine there and she is incredible.

1748
01:47:43,375 --> 01:47:46,167
-Besides, she has to go and rehearse. Hold on.

1749
01:47:47,958 --> 01:47:49,750
It's an acting trick.

1750
01:47:49,958 --> 01:47:53,208
I've seen plenty of handsome men do that. It's fashionable.

1751
01:47:53,375 --> 01:47:54,375
-Ah yes ?

1752
01:47:56,292 --> 01:47:58,417
-Coralie was helping Lucien get ready,

1753
01:47:58,583 --> 01:48:02,042
but was never invited to these aristocratic feasts,

1754
01:48:02,208 --> 01:48:05,000
who always refused to receive an actress,

1755
01:48:05,167 --> 01:48:06,417
a street girl.

1756
01:48:06,583 --> 01:48:08,333
She was left alone with Racine,

1757
01:48:08,500 --> 01:48:11,292
this crushing text for his frail shoulders.

1758
01:48:17,583 --> 01:48:19,917
-M. the Count of Choiseul.

1759
01:48:20,708 --> 01:48:23,708
-Lucien saw the doors of the salons open to him

1760
01:48:23,875 --> 01:48:26,958
from which he had believed himself banished a few months earlier.

1761
01:48:27,125 --> 01:48:28,625
-M. Lucien Chardon.

1762
01:48:33,917 --> 01:48:36,083
Madame the Marquise de Contades.

1763
01:48:45,375 --> 01:48:47,917
Monsieur le Baron du Chatenet. mocking laughter

1764
01:48:48,125 --> 01:48:49,708
Whispers

1765
01:48:49,875 --> 01:48:56,292
...

1766
01:48:57,667 --> 01:49:00,167
- Excuse me, I'll be right back.

1767
01:49:02,833 --> 01:49:05,250
-His new friend Nathan sponsored Lucien

1768
01:49:05,417 --> 01:49:08,125
among young rich and idle aristocrats

1769
01:49:08,333 --> 01:49:10,500
who were called "The Livers".

1770
01:49:10,708 --> 01:49:11,750
-Lucien de Rubempre.

1771
01:49:11,917 --> 01:49:14,542
-He made a remarkable entrance with this caste

1772
01:49:14,708 --> 01:49:17,292
that he had once more envied than despised.

1773
01:49:17,500 --> 01:49:20,167
"Duke Martin Lassalle," said Jean-Lou between us.

1774
01:49:20,333 --> 01:49:22,958
-But blinded by the desire to obtain a title,

1775
01:49:23,125 --> 01:49:27,333
did he see the cold and inhuman aspect of their smile?

1776
01:49:27,542 --> 01:49:29,500
- There, we are complete.

1777
01:49:29,667 --> 01:49:30,583
Lucian writes

1778
01:49:30,792 --> 01:49:32,125
exciting things,

1779
01:49:32,292 --> 01:49:34,625
a collection of poems which will appear soon.

1780
01:49:35,792 --> 01:49:36,917
-Excuse me.

1781
01:49:37,083 --> 01:49:39,083
Soft music

1782
01:49:59,417 --> 01:50:01,125
- Sir, what's going on?

1783
01:50:01,333 --> 01:50:04,875
People talk to me about your Marguerites and I don't receive your poems.

1784
01:50:05,083 --> 01:50:06,917
- The book is not out yet.

1785
01:50:07,083 --> 01:50:08,750
-Louise told me the opposite.

1786
01:50:08,958 --> 01:50:11,167
So you won't forget me?

1787
01:50:11,750 --> 01:50:14,292
-Who could forget you, madam?

1788
01:50:15,458 --> 01:50:18,708
-Come with me, everyone wants to know you.

1789
01:50:22,875 --> 01:50:23,958
Here it is.

1790
01:50:24,750 --> 01:50:26,917
Chose promise, chose due.

1791
01:50:28,625 --> 01:50:31,833
-Annoyed by Louise's new Parisian grace,

1792
01:50:32,042 --> 01:50:34,542
the Marquise d'Espard multiplied the attentions

1793
01:50:34,708 --> 01:50:37,625
to become attached to Lucien, who has become the man of the moment.

1794
01:50:38,333 --> 01:50:41,917
-You know, this house loves rare birds.

1795
01:50:42,083 --> 01:50:46,542
Tonight, two young poets will cross our skies.

1796
01:50:47,250 --> 01:50:49,250
Gentlemen, we are listening to you.

1797
01:50:53,083 --> 01:50:54,000
- For Her .

1798
01:50:56,833 --> 01:51:00,125
-The Earth is to the Sun What man is to the angel

1799
01:51:00,333 --> 01:51:04,083
-One is made of splendor, the other is steeped in mire

1800
01:51:04,250 --> 01:51:07,458
-Every star is Sun Every star is paradise

1801
01:51:07,625 --> 01:51:10,542
-Around the pure globes Are the accursed worlds

1802
01:51:10,708 --> 01:51:13,750
-And in the shadows where the mind Sees better than the telescope

1803
01:51:13,917 --> 01:51:16,542
-The Sun paradise Drags the hell planet

1804
01:51:17,208 --> 01:51:20,500
-The angel living in the star Is fallible and, seduced,

1805
01:51:20,667 --> 01:51:23,458
-He can become the Dweller man of the night

1806
01:51:23,667 --> 01:51:26,167
-That's what the wind told me On the mountain

1807
01:51:26,333 --> 01:51:28,375
-Every dark globe groans

1808
01:51:29,125 --> 01:51:31,042
All Earth is a prison

1809
01:51:31,792 --> 01:51:33,792
-Where life crying

1810
01:51:34,292 --> 01:51:36,083
Until the day of awakening

1811
01:51:36,458 --> 01:51:39,792
-Comes to imprison the spirit Which falls from the Sun

1812
01:51:41,417 --> 01:51:42,875
-It's big.

1813
01:51:45,750 --> 01:51:47,167
-For several weeks,

1814
01:51:47,333 --> 01:51:50,250
his life became a long party between two worlds,

1815
01:51:50,458 --> 01:51:51,958
between two intoxications.

1816
01:51:52,625 --> 01:51:56,458
And his success was no less than in journalism.

1817
01:51:57,625 --> 01:52:00,667
He let himself be carried away by an invincible current

1818
01:52:00,833 --> 01:52:03,250
in a whirlwind of pleasures and debts

1819
01:52:03,417 --> 01:52:05,250
ever more devouring.

1820
01:52:05,958 --> 01:52:08,708
The game became a passion that allowed him

1821
01:52:08,875 --> 01:52:10,208
to sit at the same table

1822
01:52:10,417 --> 01:52:13,458
than this golden youth and to ape their manners

1823
01:52:13,667 --> 01:52:16,042
without having the family money.

1824
01:52:17,292 --> 01:52:21,042
He lived hand to mouth and sometimes it seemed to him that his race

1825
01:52:21,250 --> 01:52:25,000
to a title of nobility was only a pretext to do nothing,

1826
01:52:25,167 --> 01:52:27,833
simply to enjoy, to enjoy.

1827
01:52:31,958 --> 01:52:34,167
Nathan watched his favorite rival

1828
01:52:34,333 --> 01:52:36,833
to dissipate his talent in this idle life,

1829
01:52:37,000 --> 01:52:39,125
far from any creation.

1830
01:52:42,125 --> 01:52:45,042
But maybe, when you want to be able to write everything,

1831
01:52:45,208 --> 01:52:47,667
must we have seen everything, experienced everything...

1832
01:52:48,000 --> 01:52:51,750
one day to impose his particular illusion on the world.

1833
01:52:52,500 --> 01:52:55,292
dramatic music

1834
01:52:55,500 --> 01:53:21,917
...

1835
01:53:22,083 --> 01:53:24,375
-And here, there are these too.

1836
01:53:29,333 --> 01:53:31,125
How far are we going to go like this?

1837
01:53:31,333 --> 01:53:34,208
-I forbid you to tell him anything.

1838
01:53:34,375 --> 01:53:36,750
I don't want to worry him right now.

1839
01:53:36,917 --> 01:53:41,167
If he recovers his title, he will have protectors, a charge.

1840
01:53:41,333 --> 01:53:43,542
You don't know any of these things.

1841
01:53:44,000 --> 01:53:45,750
- Neither do you, darling.

1842
01:53:51,917 --> 01:53:53,167
-Lousteau!

1843
01:53:57,375 --> 01:53:58,542
You leave.

1844
01:54:01,500 --> 01:54:02,375
You leave !

1845
01:54:06,167 --> 01:54:09,042
Did you take the liberty of correcting my article on Ducange?

1846
01:54:09,250 --> 01:54:12,375
-We didn't know where you were, Dauriat paid.

1847
01:54:12,542 --> 01:54:13,875
-What does it mean ?

1848
01:54:14,417 --> 01:54:16,000
Am I more free to write?

1849
01:54:16,167 --> 01:54:18,667
-Dauriat has paid! He paid, are you deaf?

1850
01:54:18,875 --> 01:54:20,958
-I don't care that Dauriat paid.

1851
01:54:21,417 --> 01:54:23,625
I've had enough of your petty dealings.

1852
01:54:23,833 --> 01:54:26,542
-Where are your items? You got paid.

1853
01:54:26,708 --> 01:54:29,333
Do you rub shoulders with marquises and play politics?

1854
01:54:29,500 --> 01:54:32,667
Do you find that fair? Vis-à-vis the newspaper, the shareholders?

1855
01:54:32,875 --> 01:54:36,417
- The newspaper is going to be sold. We're gonna lose everything, is that fair?

1856
01:54:36,625 --> 01:54:38,042
- Do you want a trial?

1857
01:54:38,250 --> 01:54:40,000
- Will the newspaper be sold or not?

1858
01:54:40,208 --> 01:54:42,958
-Things sell, what do you understand?

1859
01:54:43,125 --> 01:54:45,000
You always arrive from Angoulême.

1860
01:54:47,792 --> 01:54:49,875
-Who do you think you are?

1861
01:54:50,083 --> 01:54:53,458
-You even bought a horse to show off with Nathan.

1862
01:54:53,625 --> 01:54:57,042
With your waistcoats, your floral suspenders, you're ridiculous.

1863
01:54:57,208 --> 01:55:00,083
And Coralie comes to cry because you're broke.

1864
01:55:00,292 --> 01:55:03,083
- No, I forbid you to talk about her!

1865
01:55:03,292 --> 01:55:06,458
- Without us you would be nothing! You hear ? Nothing.

1866
01:55:06,625 --> 01:55:08,042
An air current.

1867
01:55:16,167 --> 01:55:17,833
Where would you be without me?

1868
01:55:18,000 --> 01:55:19,708
At the bottom of the Seine.

1869
01:55:37,375 --> 01:55:38,958
The door opens.

1870
01:55:42,500 --> 01:55:43,875
-Hello miss.

1871
01:55:50,125 --> 01:55:52,083
- Thank you for having me, madam.

1872
01:55:57,708 --> 01:56:00,125
Lucien doesn't know I'm here.

1873
01:56:03,917 --> 01:56:05,917
He often spoke to me about you.

1874
01:56:08,042 --> 01:56:09,667
With great respect.

1875
01:56:11,625 --> 01:56:13,708
I know you are not like them.

1876
01:56:15,875 --> 01:56:17,708
-What can I help you with ?

1877
01:56:19,792 --> 01:56:23,667
-I read his poems before. There was love between you.

1878
01:56:26,083 --> 01:56:27,625
-Love of literature.

1879
01:56:31,875 --> 01:56:36,083
-His book is not yet published and he has already spent the money advanced.

1880
01:56:36,708 --> 01:56:38,625
He has no sense of these things.

1881
01:56:39,375 --> 01:56:42,667
The money slips through his fingers. -It is an artist.

1882
01:56:44,583 --> 01:56:45,708
-Exactly.

1883
01:56:46,917 --> 01:56:50,250
I was told that there were official orders at the Court

1884
01:56:50,417 --> 01:56:52,667
to help royalist artists.

1885
01:56:54,625 --> 01:56:57,042
You could tell your friends about it.

1886
01:57:00,667 --> 01:57:02,125
-I can find out.

1887
01:57:03,958 --> 01:57:06,167
-It's a little pressing.

1888
01:57:07,292 --> 01:57:11,083
- In the meantime, I could put a sum at your disposal.

1889
01:57:11,500 --> 01:57:12,833
It would be our secret.

1890
01:57:13,250 --> 01:57:14,250
-Non.

1891
01:57:15,417 --> 01:57:17,292
I believe in hard work, lady.

1892
01:57:18,042 --> 01:57:21,542
We work and we are paid for our work, whatever it is.

1893
01:57:24,667 --> 01:57:27,375
I would like him to find his inspiration,

1894
01:57:28,583 --> 01:57:30,958
his desire to do beautiful things.

1895
01:57:33,125 --> 01:57:34,500
-You are right.

1896
01:57:36,792 --> 01:57:38,792
-You are a very beautiful woman.

1897
01:57:43,625 --> 01:57:46,000
I envy your manners and your elegance.

1898
01:57:50,500 --> 01:57:52,542
You're not going to take it from me?

1899
01:57:57,917 --> 01:57:59,542
Because I would die of it.

1900
01:58:04,375 --> 01:58:18,292
...

1901
01:58:25,750 --> 01:58:27,250
-She left.

1902
01:58:31,167 --> 01:58:33,583
-Don't tell me she's a good girl.

1903
01:58:36,542 --> 01:58:38,083
- They don't have a penny left.

1904
01:58:39,583 --> 01:58:41,000
-As expected.

1905
01:58:47,292 --> 01:58:48,125
- Gentlemen!

1906
01:58:49,167 --> 01:58:50,792
Gentlemen, gentlemen.

1907
01:58:53,167 --> 01:58:57,333
The time has come for the restoration of this beautiful and noble idea,

1908
01:58:58,875 --> 01:59:00,000
journalism.

1909
01:59:05,542 --> 01:59:06,542
Let's publish...

1910
01:59:07,625 --> 01:59:10,875
Publish a newspaper with real integrity and responsibility.

1911
01:59:11,458 --> 01:59:12,792
Let's be worthy

1912
01:59:13,167 --> 01:59:14,375
and honourable.

1913
01:59:15,083 --> 01:59:17,125
We will never give in to money,

1914
01:59:17,292 --> 01:59:19,958
interested gifts, influence peddling.

1915
01:59:20,458 --> 01:59:22,458
In short, to this corruption

1916
01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:24,792
which dishonors our mission.

1917
01:59:26,042 --> 01:59:28,292
That's why I chose this title:

1918
01:59:29,125 --> 01:59:30,208
The Revival .

1919
01:59:32,667 --> 01:59:37,250
A moral, social, political and artistic awakening!

1920
01:59:39,208 --> 01:59:40,458
Only...

1921
01:59:40,667 --> 01:59:43,667
Only our readers will be able to buy from us!

1922
01:59:44,167 --> 01:59:47,333
-He is also very happy with his little character,

1923
01:59:47,542 --> 01:59:49,833
the director of Réveil would be involved later

1924
01:59:50,000 --> 01:59:52,292
in an influence peddling case.

1925
01:59:52,458 --> 01:59:56,458
He would be sent back to justice and dragged through the mud by the press,

1926
01:59:56,625 --> 02:00:00,292
while being indignant at these journalists who posed as judges.

1927
02:00:02,542 --> 02:00:05,333
And if the liberal Corsair-Satan had his ducks,

1928
02:00:05,500 --> 02:00:07,417
The Royalist Revival had its pigeons.

1929
02:00:07,625 --> 02:00:10,750
Pigeons that could fly in the morning from Paris

1930
02:00:10,958 --> 02:00:13,667
and arrive the same afternoon in London.

1931
02:00:14,125 --> 02:00:18,167
Thanks to this network of birds, the circulation of fake news

1932
02:00:18,375 --> 02:00:22,833
experienced a spectacular acceleration, which was also very profitable.

1933
02:00:30,833 --> 02:00:34,167
Lucien was paid by the line and Coralie by the receipts.

1934
02:00:34,333 --> 02:00:39,125
But he hadn't written anything yet and she was still in rehearsals.

1935
02:00:39,583 --> 02:00:43,875
So they had some stiff new guests: the ushers.

1936
02:00:44,667 --> 02:00:47,667
-I will return to the boulevard to show my thighs.

1937
02:00:48,167 --> 02:00:49,458
If necessary, it must.

1938
02:00:49,833 --> 02:00:51,042
It is not serious.

1939
02:00:51,250 --> 02:00:53,333
That's not the serious stuff.

1940
02:00:57,542 --> 02:00:58,917
She laughs.

1941
02:01:10,250 --> 02:01:12,542
You can't take that from us.

1942
02:01:15,875 --> 02:01:17,042
Do not worry.

1943
02:01:19,250 --> 02:01:21,167
-He betrayed us, that bastard.

1944
02:01:21,375 --> 02:01:23,250
He signed with the Royalists.

1945
02:01:23,458 --> 02:01:25,208
With the royalists!

1946
02:01:28,583 --> 02:01:31,417
That's enough now. It has to be knocked down.

1947
02:01:31,583 --> 02:01:35,250
You have to type where it hurts, the story of your particle.

1948
02:01:35,458 --> 02:01:37,792
His jacket reversals. His way of life.

1949
02:01:37,958 --> 02:01:39,583
-Nathan. -His chick.

1950
02:01:39,750 --> 02:01:42,000
-Warning, it is supported by d'Espard.

1951
02:01:42,208 --> 02:01:43,667
-You're wrong.

1952
02:01:45,167 --> 02:01:47,583
I think she despises him as much as we do.

1953
02:01:48,792 --> 02:01:51,542
There is nothing more harmful than these women.

1954
02:01:51,750 --> 02:01:53,583
Especially d'Espard.

1955
02:01:53,750 --> 02:01:55,542
- How could I help this wretch?

1956
02:01:56,417 --> 02:01:59,292
-It reassured you, to play the big brother.

1957
02:02:02,583 --> 02:02:06,417
He at least has ambition, who do you have up your sleeve besides me?

1958
02:02:07,000 --> 02:02:07,917
What do you have ?

1959
02:02:19,000 --> 02:02:20,167
The friends,

1960
02:02:21,292 --> 02:02:22,833
there are no friends.

1961
02:02:23,583 --> 02:02:26,250
-Before the end of the day you will justify me.

1962
02:02:26,583 --> 02:02:27,875
Farewell, madam.

1963
02:02:28,042 --> 02:02:30,583
- O heavens, what a speech! Stay.

1964
02:02:30,792 --> 02:02:34,000
Prince, it's too much to hide my trouble from your sight.

1965
02:02:34,167 --> 02:02:36,042
You see a distraught queen,

1966
02:02:36,208 --> 02:02:39,208
Who, death in the womb, asks you for two words.

1967
02:02:39,417 --> 02:02:41,125
-Thank you for coming so quickly.

1968
02:02:44,708 --> 02:02:46,583
- All that sounds good to me.

1969
02:02:48,500 --> 02:02:51,417
- They're going to go after her on the night of the premiere.

1970
02:02:51,583 --> 02:02:53,292
They will go down the room.

1971
02:02:54,417 --> 02:02:56,708
-I haven't heard of anything.

1972
02:02:58,333 --> 02:02:59,875
-How much do you want ?

1973
02:03:00,708 --> 02:03:03,292
-It seems that you are in a bad patch.

1974
02:03:04,583 --> 02:03:07,917
-I have the money to pay you. Finally, I will have it.

1975
02:03:08,792 --> 02:03:12,042
-I trust you, Lucien, but people talk.

1976
02:03:12,208 --> 02:03:13,375
-Do not worry.

1977
02:03:14,792 --> 02:03:16,042
I have protectors.

1978
02:03:16,750 --> 02:03:18,333
I have a new diary.

1979
02:03:19,542 --> 02:03:23,500
-I heard, you changed sides. I won't blame you,

1980
02:03:23,667 --> 02:03:26,750
I spent my life selling myself to the highest bidder.

1981
02:03:34,542 --> 02:03:37,000
-I want it to be a great night.

1982
02:03:38,375 --> 02:03:40,167
- Don't worry, mom is here.

1983
02:03:40,333 --> 02:03:43,042
We're going to give your princess a triumph.

1984
02:03:44,542 --> 02:03:46,792
You know I saw it debut?

1985
02:03:47,750 --> 02:03:49,292
She was cute.

1986
02:03:52,833 --> 02:03:55,042
dramatic music

1987
02:03:55,208 --> 02:04:01,792
...

1988
02:04:02,000 --> 02:04:03,500
-Berthier will have nothing.

1989
02:04:05,542 --> 02:04:07,250
Come in, come in, Lucien.

1990
02:04:10,292 --> 02:04:12,417
You want to drink something ?

1991
02:04:14,292 --> 02:04:15,542
Close the doors.

1992
02:04:22,667 --> 02:04:25,667
Lousteau says you haven't returned multiple items

1993
02:04:25,833 --> 02:04:27,167
which have been paid to you.

1994
02:04:27,375 --> 02:04:28,917
Expensive, by the way.

1995
02:04:31,500 --> 02:04:35,292
He wants to send you the bailiffs, make a scandal, a trial.

1996
02:04:37,542 --> 02:04:39,750
-That's not what will give him talent.

1997
02:04:39,958 --> 02:04:41,500
-That's not true.

1998
02:04:43,042 --> 02:04:45,333
He swore you dead, too.

1999
02:04:47,125 --> 02:04:48,333
He's a small player

2000
02:04:48,542 --> 02:04:49,833
a second knife.

2001
02:04:50,750 --> 02:04:51,833
Non ?

2002
02:04:55,000 --> 02:04:58,375
Are you still close to the Marquise d'Espard?

2003
02:05:00,000 --> 02:05:02,667
-I was received at her home. Yes.

2004
02:05:03,458 --> 02:05:04,833
-Impressive.

2005
02:05:06,250 --> 02:05:09,500
Then I will soon have a favor to ask of you.

2006
02:05:10,292 --> 02:05:11,958
An important service.

2007
02:05:12,750 --> 02:05:14,667
Would you accept?

2008
02:05:16,125 --> 02:05:17,625
-I need allies.

2009
02:05:18,667 --> 02:05:21,750
I know your influence. - Then you can help me.

2010
02:05:22,542 --> 02:05:24,625
I would like to consolidate a newspaper,

2011
02:05:24,792 --> 02:05:27,667
an advertising bureau and an information agency.

2012
02:05:28,833 --> 02:05:30,917
Form a kind of group,

2013
02:05:31,292 --> 02:05:32,667
of association.

2014
02:05:32,875 --> 02:05:35,208
We will have to find funding,

2015
02:05:35,458 --> 02:05:36,792
invest.

2016
02:05:39,000 --> 02:05:40,792
As my English friends say,

2017
02:05:40,958 --> 02:05:45,333
economic liberalism will be the freedom of the free fox

2018
02:05:45,500 --> 02:05:47,167
in a free henhouse.

2019
02:05:48,875 --> 02:05:51,458
He cackles.

2020
02:05:51,958 --> 02:05:55,417
I have no desire to end up eaten like chicken.

2021
02:05:55,833 --> 02:05:57,542
Neither do you, am I wrong?

2022
02:05:59,833 --> 02:06:00,875
-Non.

2023
02:06:01,833 --> 02:06:05,333
- Power wants to control everything, prevent everything, slow everything down.

2024
02:06:05,500 --> 02:06:08,708
They are afraid of the new press, of the new world.

2025
02:06:08,875 --> 02:06:11,667
They don't understand it. You have to reassure them.

2026
02:06:11,833 --> 02:06:14,750
I'm not going to get mad at you and your friends for a...

2027
02:06:14,917 --> 02:06:16,750
puppet like Lousteau.

2028
02:06:17,250 --> 02:06:18,167
You understand ?

2029
02:06:20,750 --> 02:06:21,583
-Yes.

2030
02:06:21,792 --> 02:06:23,500
-I will be grateful.

2031
02:06:26,250 --> 02:06:28,292
So I suggest that...

2032
02:06:28,500 --> 02:06:30,917
you gave me some small items

2033
02:06:31,083 --> 02:06:33,042
satirical your way

2034
02:06:33,208 --> 02:06:35,833
to pay us what you owe us

2035
02:06:36,000 --> 02:06:39,167
and we'll leave it at that, would that be fine with you?

2036
02:06:39,625 --> 02:06:41,167
-If my name does not appear.

2037
02:06:41,375 --> 02:06:43,333
-Your name ? Which name ?

2038
02:06:43,500 --> 02:06:46,250
Thistle or Rubempre? We no longer know.

2039
02:06:50,375 --> 02:06:54,167
-The same day, Finot sent Lucien a list of personalities

2040
02:06:54,375 --> 02:06:56,167
that he should attack.

2041
02:06:57,917 --> 02:06:59,458
He had met some

2042
02:06:59,667 --> 02:07:02,208
in the various salons he had passed through.

2043
02:07:02,375 --> 02:07:03,292
whatever,

2044
02:07:03,500 --> 02:07:06,042
his pen ran over the paper, anonymous,

2045
02:07:06,208 --> 02:07:08,083
as separate from itself.

2046
02:07:08,750 --> 02:07:11,750
Attacking public men by flaunting their private lives

2047
02:07:11,917 --> 02:07:15,458
was now part of the games of the journalistic circus.

2048
02:07:15,625 --> 02:07:16,958
By handing over to Finot

2049
02:07:17,167 --> 02:07:19,708
the little anonymous articles he owed her,

2050
02:07:19,917 --> 02:07:22,458
Lucien threw himself into the mouth of the wolf.

2051
02:07:29,042 --> 02:07:30,208
-Perfect.

2052
02:07:30,375 --> 02:07:31,500
He saw nothing

2053
02:07:31,958 --> 02:07:33,292
we hold it.

2054
02:07:34,500 --> 02:07:37,125
-To Lucien de Rubempre.

2055
02:07:47,000 --> 02:07:48,208
-Lucien !

2056
02:07:50,083 --> 02:07:51,458
- Come, my friend.

2057
02:07:52,250 --> 02:07:53,583
I have your money.

2058
02:07:55,625 --> 02:07:57,292
You will have the rest tomorrow.

2059
02:07:57,667 --> 02:08:01,083
- Don't worry, we're going to give him a triumph.

2060
02:08:01,292 --> 02:08:03,250
dramatic music

2061
02:08:03,417 --> 02:08:10,750
...

2062
02:08:10,917 --> 02:08:14,458
-In the life of all ambitious people there is a terrible moment

2063
02:08:14,625 --> 02:08:18,583
where a mysterious power subjects them to severe tests,

2064
02:08:18,750 --> 02:08:21,417
to punishments too long deferred.

2065
02:08:21,583 --> 02:08:24,208
On all sides the threads break or become tangled

2066
02:08:24,375 --> 02:08:27,083
and misfortune appears at all points.

2067
02:08:30,000 --> 02:08:34,375
Every man, unless born rich, therefore has his fatal week.

2068
02:08:35,417 --> 02:08:38,417
And this cruel moment had come for Lucien.

2069
02:08:39,167 --> 02:08:43,333
He had to see men and things turn against him.

2070
02:08:48,083 --> 02:08:51,708
-Have you joined a new newspaper that defends our ideas?

2071
02:08:53,917 --> 02:08:57,000
-It is a belated but sincere rallying, madam.

2072
02:08:57,208 --> 02:08:58,458
-We are talking about Lucien

2073
02:08:58,625 --> 02:09:01,625
to become rapporteur for the debates in the House.

2074
02:09:01,833 --> 02:09:05,125
It is a very well paid official position.

2075
02:09:05,333 --> 02:09:08,917
-Which will allow you to devote yourself to your writing work,

2076
02:09:09,083 --> 02:09:10,250
to your work.

2077
02:09:11,792 --> 02:09:14,125
And also to your young and pretty bride,

2078
02:09:14,292 --> 02:09:17,500
they tell me she has a great talent, don't you, Louise?

2079
02:09:20,417 --> 02:09:22,458
- She's a very nice person.

2080
02:09:22,625 --> 02:09:25,458
- Yes, it is real, alive. She would please you.

2081
02:09:25,625 --> 02:09:28,125
- We might be able to receive it.

2082
02:09:28,667 --> 02:09:30,542
After all why not ?

2083
02:09:31,833 --> 02:09:33,208
And then Nathan could

2084
02:09:33,417 --> 02:09:36,208
publish a portrait of her in your newspaper,

2085
02:09:36,375 --> 02:09:38,042
that would flip the coin.

2086
02:09:38,250 --> 02:09:39,542
She will play Racine,

2087
02:09:39,750 --> 02:09:42,542
it is deserving, it is the blood of France.

2088
02:09:44,708 --> 02:09:47,167
-It's a very nice idea, ma'am.

2089
02:09:48,000 --> 02:09:51,208
- Racine was also born bourgeois, you know.

2090
02:09:51,917 --> 02:09:54,542
And then he was ennobled by dint of genius

2091
02:09:55,250 --> 02:09:56,792
and intrigue.

2092
02:09:57,000 --> 02:09:59,333
- The compromise is of all the centuries.

2093
02:10:02,083 --> 02:10:04,500
-Fortunately, there is love.

2094
02:10:05,583 --> 02:10:08,542
Laughter

2095
02:10:09,792 --> 02:10:11,042
To love.

2096
02:10:11,250 --> 02:10:13,042
-TO LOVE.

2097
02:10:13,875 --> 02:10:15,833
Soft music

2098
02:10:16,000 --> 02:10:31,958
...

2099
02:10:32,125 --> 02:10:34,417
- What have they done with us, Lucien?

2100
02:10:39,958 --> 02:10:41,500
-I do not know.

2101
02:10:51,333 --> 02:10:52,375
-Come.

2102
02:11:13,708 --> 02:11:15,583
I know you need it.

2103
02:11:15,792 --> 02:11:31,875
...

2104
02:11:37,917 --> 02:11:40,250
Moans of pleasure

2105
02:11:40,458 --> 02:11:45,583
...

2106
02:11:45,750 --> 02:11:46,792
Stronger.

2107
02:11:46,958 --> 02:11:48,792
Stronger, stronger.

2108
02:11:48,958 --> 02:12:00,708
...

2109
02:12:00,917 --> 02:12:35,167
...

2110
02:12:35,958 --> 02:12:38,167
dramatic music

2111
02:12:38,333 --> 02:12:53,750
...

2112
02:12:53,917 --> 02:12:55,500
-The money given by Louise

2113
02:12:55,708 --> 02:12:59,167
had to pay the applause at the premiere of Coralie.

2114
02:12:59,375 --> 02:13:03,417
Singali had promised Lucien that he would shake the chandeliers.

2115
02:13:09,917 --> 02:13:13,167
All the characters who had passed through his Parisian life,

2116
02:13:13,333 --> 02:13:14,750
his human comedy,

2117
02:13:14,917 --> 02:13:18,500
were present that evening, dressed in their evening clothes,

2118
02:13:18,708 --> 02:13:20,583
with their beautiful figures as masks,

2119
02:13:20,792 --> 02:13:22,417
in this theater of the world

2120
02:13:22,583 --> 02:13:25,833
where the worst people often have the best seats.

2121
02:13:26,583 --> 02:13:29,458
It's a whole society that had made an appointment

2122
02:13:29,667 --> 02:13:31,667
for the big night of lovers.

2123
02:13:31,875 --> 02:13:32,833
-Thank you.

2124
02:13:33,000 --> 02:13:34,958
dramatic music

2125
02:13:35,167 --> 02:13:44,583
...

2126
02:13:44,750 --> 02:13:46,750
Ringing of bells

2127
02:13:46,917 --> 02:13:50,542
...

2128
02:13:50,708 --> 02:13:52,958
Applause

2129
02:13:53,167 --> 02:14:02,458
...

2130
02:14:02,667 --> 02:14:23,292
...

2131
02:14:28,792 --> 02:14:30,083
-Prince,

2132
02:14:30,250 --> 02:14:32,708
it's too much to hide my trouble from your sight.

2133
02:14:33,500 --> 02:14:35,750
You see before you a distraught queen

2134
02:14:35,917 --> 02:14:38,833
Who, death in the womb, asks you for two words.

2135
02:14:39,042 --> 02:14:42,083
You are afraid, you say, of disturbing my rest;

2136
02:14:42,250 --> 02:14:45,417
And your cruel refusals, far from sparing my pain,

2137
02:14:45,583 --> 02:14:48,417
Excite my pain, my anger, my hatred.

2138
02:14:50,167 --> 02:14:53,625
Lord, if my rest is so precious to you,

2139
02:14:53,833 --> 02:14:55,875
If ever I was dear to you...

2140
02:14:57,125 --> 02:14:58,125
-Everything is fine ?

2141
02:14:58,667 --> 02:15:00,250
-It's going to be beautiful.

2142
02:15:00,458 --> 02:15:02,542
- In the name of the gods, ma'am... - What?

2143
02:15:02,750 --> 02:15:04,542
Are you so little afraid of disobeying me?

2144
02:15:04,708 --> 02:15:06,500
-I have only to speak to make myself hated.

2145
02:15:06,667 --> 02:15:09,625
-I want you to talk. -Gods ! What violence!

2146
02:15:09,792 --> 02:15:11,542
-She offered herself entirely,

2147
02:15:11,750 --> 02:15:14,708
expressing a truth of a truly loving woman

2148
02:15:14,875 --> 02:15:17,125
under her actress mask.

2149
02:15:19,208 --> 02:15:22,458
But unable to face a room whose hostility she felt,

2150
02:15:22,917 --> 02:15:25,875
the coldness of the public could chill her.

2151
02:15:26,708 --> 02:15:30,500
The applause was useless to his self-esteem,

2152
02:15:30,708 --> 02:15:33,167
but essential to his courage. -What ?

2153
02:15:33,333 --> 02:15:36,000
- A queen is suspect to the Roman Empire.

2154
02:15:36,167 --> 02:15:39,208
You must separate, and you leave tomorrow.

2155
02:15:43,875 --> 02:15:45,208
-Separate us !

2156
02:15:45,750 --> 02:15:47,417
Alas, Phoenice!

2157
02:15:48,250 --> 02:15:49,708
- Well, ma'am?

2158
02:15:50,042 --> 02:15:52,208
- By dint of sincerity,

2159
02:15:52,417 --> 02:15:55,958
the little actress had to find unexpected accents that evening...

2160
02:15:56,125 --> 02:15:57,667
- After so many oaths...

2161
02:15:57,875 --> 02:16:00,125
-.. and even heartbreaking. -Titus abandon me!

2162
02:16:00,292 --> 02:16:01,708
Titus who swore to me...

2163
02:16:01,917 --> 02:16:03,917
No, I can't believe it:

2164
02:16:04,083 --> 02:16:06,583
He does not leave me, his glory depends on it.

2165
02:16:06,750 --> 02:16:07,750
Against his innocence

2166
02:16:07,958 --> 02:16:10,042
they want to warn me... Whistles.

2167
02:16:10,250 --> 02:16:11,375
boos

2168
02:16:11,583 --> 02:16:13,375
dramatic music

2169
02:16:13,583 --> 02:16:32,583
... ...

2170
02:16:32,791 --> 02:16:33,833
Cris

2171
02:16:34,041 --> 02:16:51,916
... ...

2172
02:16:52,125 --> 02:16:53,416
-Singali!

2173
02:16:53,583 --> 02:17:01,416
... ...

2174
02:17:01,625 --> 02:17:02,791
Singali!

2175
02:17:03,291 --> 02:17:04,375
Singali!

2176
02:17:06,458 --> 02:17:08,041
Singali!

2177
02:17:13,416 --> 02:17:16,625
-Faithful to its principles, Singali had at the last moment

2178
02:17:16,833 --> 02:17:20,000
sold to the highest bidder, for a good price.

2179
02:17:22,708 --> 02:17:23,833
-Let me go !

2180
02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:26,625
- What was Lucien in this world of ambitions?

2181
02:17:26,791 --> 02:17:30,083
A child who ran after the pleasures of vanity,

2182
02:17:30,291 --> 02:17:32,416
sacrificing everything to them, changing light

2183
02:17:32,625 --> 02:17:35,291
like a butterfly, a slave to circumstances.

2184
02:17:35,500 --> 02:17:36,500
-Bastard!

2185
02:17:36,708 --> 02:17:40,125
-His conscience was then a ruthless executioner.

2186
02:17:40,333 --> 02:17:58,166
...

2187
02:17:58,375 --> 02:18:00,375
The next day in their newspapers,

2188
02:18:00,541 --> 02:18:04,583
Lousteau and his friends happily slaughtered Coralie's performance.

2189
02:18:04,791 --> 02:18:06,291
The pack was loose.

2190
02:18:06,500 --> 02:18:09,000
“But who does this little actress think she is?

2191
02:18:09,166 --> 02:18:11,625
"Pretending to embody a great tragic role

2192
02:18:11,791 --> 02:18:14,291
"When you spend your life showing off your thighs?

2193
02:18:14,500 --> 02:18:17,375
"Let Coralie return to the red stockings of her vulgarity!"

2194
02:18:19,333 --> 02:18:22,791
To humiliate Lucien, you had to throw Coralie into the machine,

2195
02:18:23,000 --> 02:18:25,875
ridicule her, stone her in public places...

2196
02:18:26,625 --> 02:18:28,708
And that was only the beginning.

2197
02:18:30,458 --> 02:18:34,291
While he had promised that these articles would remain anonymous,

2198
02:18:34,500 --> 02:18:37,625
Finot had spread Lucien's signature under his attacks

2199
02:18:37,833 --> 02:18:40,375
against the Keeper of the Seals and the royalists.

2200
02:18:42,166 --> 02:18:45,833
- But I was tricked! -Is that your signature?

2201
02:18:46,333 --> 02:18:49,458
- But it's a trap! -Who are you, sir?

2202
02:18:49,666 --> 02:18:52,208
A weather vane ? An air current ?

2203
02:18:52,958 --> 02:18:53,875
Look.

2204
02:18:54,791 --> 02:18:57,833
The order for the recovery of your title.

2205
02:18:58,000 --> 02:19:00,833
It was going to be signed by the King's own hand.

2206
02:19:01,000 --> 02:19:03,166
-This theatrically brandished document

2207
02:19:03,333 --> 02:19:06,375
was in truth only a banal piece of paper lying around.

2208
02:19:06,541 --> 02:19:07,833
But tearing it apart,

2209
02:19:08,000 --> 02:19:11,333
Lucien had for a moment the illusion of being master of his destiny.

2210
02:19:12,500 --> 02:19:15,708
Because there had never been a serious question

2211
02:19:15,875 --> 02:19:19,125
that he can access the name and title of his chimeras.

2212
02:19:22,458 --> 02:19:25,125
The Marquise d'Espard had invented this cruel game

2213
02:19:25,291 --> 02:19:27,916
to induce Lucien to betray his friends.

2214
02:19:28,083 --> 02:19:29,583
It was done.

2215
02:19:31,791 --> 02:19:34,333
The betrayal was for nothing, for no one,

2216
02:19:34,500 --> 02:19:36,958
as if evil, self-sufficient,

2217
02:19:37,125 --> 02:19:39,500
no longer pursued any earthly goal.

2218
02:19:41,041 --> 02:19:43,208
Whistles

2219
02:19:43,750 --> 02:19:47,916
The royalist government passed new laws against the press,

2220
02:19:48,083 --> 02:19:49,667
to muzzle the opposition.

2221
02:19:49,833 --> 02:19:53,000
It was the end of small newspapers. The end of an era.

2222
02:19:53,208 --> 02:19:54,333
-I am journalist !

2223
02:19:54,542 --> 02:19:56,583
-You will learn to shut up!

2224
02:20:02,250 --> 02:20:04,958
-The police discovered the trafficking of the editors

2225
02:20:05,167 --> 02:20:07,958
and uncovered a whole parallel economy.

2226
02:20:08,125 --> 02:20:10,125
-And freedom of the press ?

2227
02:20:10,333 --> 02:20:11,875
-The great and worthy press

2228
02:20:12,042 --> 02:20:15,958
did not fail to express his indignation at these practices.

2229
02:20:16,375 --> 02:20:18,792
She, of course always so independent,

2230
02:20:18,958 --> 02:20:21,917
continued its sacred mission to enlighten its readers.

2231
02:20:22,083 --> 02:20:23,792
-I would like some champagne.

2232
02:20:24,000 --> 02:20:25,542
-By burning their reserves,

2233
02:20:25,708 --> 02:20:29,042
the power hoped to silence the small newspapers.

2234
02:20:30,458 --> 02:20:34,917
What could become of a newspaper without ink or paper or a printing press?

2235
02:20:37,292 --> 02:20:39,000
Hoarse cough.

2236
02:20:40,958 --> 02:20:42,583
...

2237
02:20:43,750 --> 02:20:45,583
...

2238
02:20:48,375 --> 02:20:49,792
...

2239
02:20:51,125 --> 02:20:52,333
...

2240
02:20:52,500 --> 02:20:54,833
Coralie remained dignified in suffering,

2241
02:20:55,583 --> 02:20:57,792
his lungs devoured by disease.

2242
02:21:08,625 --> 02:21:12,000
Penniless and rejected by newspapers of all persuasions,

2243
02:21:12,167 --> 02:21:15,125
Lucien did vulgar advertising work

2244
02:21:15,292 --> 02:21:16,667
paid 10 francs each.

2245
02:21:18,042 --> 02:21:20,667
"For you, ma'am. New Macassar Oil,

2246
02:21:20,833 --> 02:21:22,625
"a scent of paradise."

2247
02:21:23,208 --> 02:21:26,583
"For your laundry, buy the famous violet soap,

2248
02:21:26,750 --> 02:21:29,583
"a spring of life in your cupboards."

2249
02:21:29,750 --> 02:21:32,250
"Buy, always buy more...

2250
02:21:32,583 --> 02:21:35,583
"It's a new world that opens its arms to you."

2251
02:21:35,750 --> 02:21:37,458
...

2252
02:21:43,750 --> 02:21:45,583
Few weeks later,

2253
02:21:45,792 --> 02:21:48,458
Matifat used his growing influence

2254
02:21:48,625 --> 02:21:51,042
for Florine to take over the role of Coralie.

2255
02:21:51,250 --> 02:21:53,833
He had bought the royalist newspaper Le Réveil

2256
02:21:54,042 --> 02:21:55,958
and entrusted his leadership to Nathan.

2257
02:21:56,583 --> 02:21:59,833
Florine's voice was white, her gesture mechanical,

2258
02:22:00,000 --> 02:22:02,750
but with the priced applause of Singali

2259
02:22:02,958 --> 02:22:05,708
and complacent critics, that made the joke.

2260
02:22:05,917 --> 02:22:07,875
melancholic music

2261
02:22:08,042 --> 02:23:01,667
...

2262
02:23:01,833 --> 02:23:05,375
Lucien could not afford to offer a grave to Coralie.

2263
02:23:05,542 --> 02:23:08,292
Funeral plots were unaffordable

2264
02:23:08,458 --> 02:23:12,917
since real estate speculation had touched even the cemeteries.

2265
02:23:14,750 --> 02:23:17,083
Eternal rest had its price,

2266
02:23:17,542 --> 02:23:19,083
him too.

2267
02:23:19,292 --> 02:23:40,167
...

2268
02:23:46,167 --> 02:23:48,500
-I thought you were my friend.

2269
02:23:57,125 --> 02:23:58,833
-I am, Lucien.

2270
02:24:04,750 --> 02:24:06,625
I return to writing.

2271
02:24:06,792 --> 02:24:08,375
What you are.

2272
02:24:12,333 --> 02:24:14,792
Maybe one day you'll thank me.

2273
02:24:28,292 --> 02:24:30,333
Lucien had to leave Paris,

2274
02:24:31,208 --> 02:24:32,500
to return to his place.

2275
02:24:39,125 --> 02:24:40,542
And it's that sad day

2276
02:24:40,708 --> 02:24:42,833
that I started to write his story.

2277
02:24:44,417 --> 02:24:47,042
The story I just told you.

2278
02:24:47,208 --> 02:24:48,167
The story

2279
02:24:49,417 --> 02:24:51,333
of his lost illusions.

2280
02:25:04,625 --> 02:25:06,625
melancholic music

2281
02:25:23,375 --> 02:25:27,375
This lake, he had known it since his childhood.

2282
02:25:31,042 --> 02:25:32,792
When entering the icy water,

2283
02:25:32,958 --> 02:25:36,958
he did not know whether he wanted to purify himself or die.

2284
02:25:39,292 --> 02:25:41,167
The remains there for a moment.

2285
02:25:43,417 --> 02:25:45,542
He was going to stop hoping

2286
02:25:46,167 --> 02:25:48,167
and start living.

2287
02:26:43,292 --> 02:26:45,292
Hectic music