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it all began with ink,

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paper and the love of beauty.

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LOST ILLUSIONS

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Orphaned and destitute,
he was obliged

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to learn a trade to survive.

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His sister Eve had married
an Angouléme printer

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and he worked
in their modest shop,

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dreaming of another life.

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THE MARGUERITES
POEMS

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Even today in Paris,

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people wonder how
his story could have happened,

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what movement of the world
swept him away.

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Here.

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- I'll be late.
- No, you won't.

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They won't eat you alive.

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But for now, this long alleyway

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transported him to a new world,
almost another country...

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All the way to
Madam de Bargeton's chateau.

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The guests are arriving, My Lady.

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Thank you.

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Enduring a husband
almost as old as her chateau,

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she considered herself
a patroness of the arts.

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One Sunday after mass,

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the bishop spoke of a young poet,
a worker at a printer's,

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who went by the prestigious name
of Lucien de Rubempré.

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The most difficult

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is to render
the vitality of the petals.

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You see the eglantines?

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Please leave.

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For her.

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Thank you, Lucien.

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This is a great honor.

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I feared you might not come.

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Your husband's here?

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Don't be silly.

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He only reads hunting treatises
and plays with his dogs.

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You're very beautiful, madam.

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My dear friends,

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I thank you for your loyal presence.

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One day perhaps,
our protége will be recognized

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and famous,

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and we shall be able to say:
"I knew him,

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and his work moved me."

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Last month, our young poet read us
a magnificent biblical poem.

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Our gazette
hailed him in glowing terms:

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"When dazzling talent
emerges in a great youth,

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"it is fresh hope for us all.

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"A new springtime in one's life."

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"Only 20,
but the force of an artist."

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For him, poetry is holy,

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almost a personal religion.

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One can only revere minds
in whom God has placed His light.

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Sir, we are waiting.

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Your satchel, it's unbecoming.

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For her.

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Love,

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prayer

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and song,

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to me existence gave.

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Of all the earthly good
that mortals crave,

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In this my farewell hour
I nought regret.

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Nought, save the burning sighs

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that soar above,

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The lyre's full ecstasy,
or wordless love

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Of hearts that ne'er forget.

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To sweep the lyre
at listening beauty's feet,

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To mark from note to note
the transport sweet,

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Thrill her rapt bosom

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with responsive power

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To draw tears of rapture
from her eyes

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As morning dews are swept

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by zephyrs' sighs
From the full, bending flower.

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Forgive me.

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They have narrow lives,
they feel nothing.

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It was very beautiful.

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Excuse me.

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Marquise de Contades
wishes to thank you, madam.

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What do you expect from them?

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And you?

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What did you think?

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One does not think these things,
one feels them, right?

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Louise.

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Such a love
as you have made me feel,

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I thought both utopic and forbidden.

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Forbidden,

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like all which
must in the end triumph.

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Each word
brings your lips closer,

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each book I read
seems to speak of you.

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Since this dreadful afternoon,
I've thought only of you.

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Of you, alone in the shadows
of those lifeless walls,

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loveless and without poesy.

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Nothing but love

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matters in this world.

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And love is like the wind...

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it will carry us away.

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For you, Louise,

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Lucien.

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She took irrational risks to meet him,

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inventing reasons to run off.

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She guided his hands
and he was already less gauche.

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Shall this comedy with my wife
last much longer,

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Mr. Chardon?

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My name is Lucien de Rubempré.

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I knew your parents, young man.

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You're the son of Chardon,
the druggist on the church square.

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You have no right
to claim your mother's name,

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not even to sign
your ludicrous poems

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which are every bit as affected
as your little self.

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You know nothing of such things.

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Return to your dogs and rifles.

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You don't deserve a woman like her.

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You've let her wither away.

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Lucien, no!

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Sir!

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Chardon!

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Chardon.

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All this land belongs to me.

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I can chase your family away

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any time I like!

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I do not wish
to see you suffer, Louise.

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Come to Paris with me
until this affair quiets down.

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You deserve to enjoy yourself.

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Give me a chance.

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Please do not misunderstand.

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Our friendship suffices me.

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I'm a patient man.

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No young man,
free and with over 1,000 francs,

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is truly sad to leave his family.

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The young poet imagined the city
like a pagan goddess,

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open-armed,
embracing talent and merit.

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But what did he know of Paris?

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I brought them for the journey.

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Perhaps I could read to you?

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I shan't be a burden.

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Ever.

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It's too late to be frightened.

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Lucien did not question
his protectress's faint smile,

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but were they truly
heading for the same destination?

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Paris.

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You traveled with him alone,
in your own carriage?

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No one saw us.

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How could you
have taken such a risk?

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You said you'd help. Don't judge.

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There are rules here,
certain things cannot be done.

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You have a title,
you're a rare woman.

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But what is he?

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What if Paris heard of such madness?

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People would shun you.

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I couldn't leave him.
He's a poet of great talent.

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I've always known it.

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He cannot stay with you, Louise.

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Try to understand.

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To avoid a scandal,

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the unfortunate suitor
found lodgings for the favorite

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only streets away from Louise.

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But fresh from the provinces,

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even several streets is far.

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I will pay you back.

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Tomorrow,
you'll come to the Opera with us.

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I'll present you as my protege,

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a godson, for example.

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Your relations with Louise
must not be misinterpreted.

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I would never compromise her.

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At the Opera,
you will meet Louise's cousin,

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the Marquise d'Espard.

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Much respected in the faubourg.

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Faubourg Saint-Germain, you know?

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Of course I know.

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The rent is paid for one week.

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You have enough to get by?

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I can hold out
until I find a publisher.

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Moreover, I have many contacts.

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Yes, I imagine.

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I know a tailor
where you can rent evening wear.

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We must do justice to our Louise.

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I intend to.

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Good day, sir.

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For my brother,
who believes in the love of beauty.

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In Paris, the love of beauty

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encompassed beauty products.

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Illustrated advertisements
covered walls,

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like a new language.

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The world had changed
and Lucien was out of his depth.

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People wanted
to forget the Revolution,

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the Terror and the Empire wars.

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This was the time of the Restoration

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and Court nobility.

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People aspired
to personal success and wealth.

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Young provincials flocked to the capital,

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determined to forge a destiny,
as Napoleon did,

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only now, far from battlefields.

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Besides,
if you were going to fail,

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may as well fail in Paris.

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In one afternoon,

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Lucien had spent 1,570 francs.

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Enough to live for weeks.

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But that night,

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he needed to seduce Louise again.

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One's whole life
could hinge on a first impression

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in this high society.

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For as everyone knows,
first impressions are often right,

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especially bad ones.

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Sir.

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I'm expected.

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- You're expected...
- Yes.

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Thank you.

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By Mme. d'Espard
and the Baron du Chatelet.

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And you have no ticket.

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No.

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Stand aside, please.

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I'm expected.

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Sir, you cannot enter.

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Let the guests by, thank you.

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Lucien, there you are.

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Paris suits you well, madam.

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What did you do to your hair?

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I wanted to do you justice.

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A complete success.

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Let's go.

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Lucien discovered
the famous Marquise d'Espard,

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who would play
a key role in his life's tragedy.

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Wait here a minute.

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- My dear cousin.
- Good evening.

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You look stunning.

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I wish to introduce you to someone.

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A godchild from Angouléme.

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I present you
to the Marquise d'Espard.

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Delighted, madam.

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Lucien de Rubempré.
At your service.

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A godchild.

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As they walked toward the boxes,

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the marquise
whispered to her cousin

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not to hold
her handkerchief unfolded.

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It was not proper.

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Good or bad taste, that is elegance,

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rested on myriad details
that some women easily grasped,

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while others never understood.

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Mr. de Rubempré,

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this is your first time at the Opera?

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It shows?

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Sit here, you'll see the whole room.

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Is that her hairdresser?

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The ladies find
Angouléme fashion amusing.

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No, my dear, it's not you.

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Look, Louise.

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The baron.

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Over there, in the second row.

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In these circles,
trifles were all important.

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A wrong gesture, word or look
could ruin a newcomer.

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A discordant detail
equaled slashing a master's painting

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or an unmelodious note
in an opera.

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In the room,

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only the young Lucien
was captivated by the ballet dancers

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whose performance
was perfectly academic.

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Society audiences
suffered through the show

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only for the entr'acte,

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where the true comedy
could finally begin.

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My dear Nathan.

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- We were looking for you.
- Yes?

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Did you enjoy it?

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One sees only you.
Your beauty far outshines the stage.

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How sweet.

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I haven't received your new book.

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It's scheduled for next week.

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With white roses to make it up.

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Come meet my cousin,

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Louise de Bargeton.

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A literature lover from Angouléme.
Delightful, no?

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Absolutely.

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Lucien de Rubempré,
a young poet thrown alone into Paris.

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Nathan is our greatest literary hope.

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He would surely be good counsel.

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It would be a pleasure to help
the gentleman.

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Have you met any publishers?

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I have addresses.

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There's Dauriat, Delaunay...

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We could discuss it some time.

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I could introduce you.

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That's very kind.

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Anything for the marquise.

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Excuse me, please.

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Are you enjoying the opera, madam?

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I've never seen anything like it.

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- I feel so small.
- Who's the young man?

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A famous writer. I don't know.

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There are many things
you don't know.

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Meanwhile, the Baron du Chatelet
had quietly spread

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the truth
about Lucien's plebian origins.

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A commoner
in the box of the marquise,

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one of highest figures
of restored aristocracy,

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was a guaranteed scandal.

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You're leaving?

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Louise?

00:25:48.583 --> 00:25:49.708
Louise!

00:25:51.667 --> 00:25:54.250
He's a young poet I wanted to help.

00:25:54.417 --> 00:25:57.375
And he thanks you
by lying his way into my box?

00:25:57.542 --> 00:25:58.958
It's his mother's name.

00:25:59.125 --> 00:26:02.250
Then he has no right
to claim her name or title.

00:26:06.250 --> 00:26:08.167
Forgive me if I compromised you.

00:26:08.833 --> 00:26:10.292
Compromise me?

00:26:11.125 --> 00:26:13.333
No one can compromise me.

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:15.917
Worry more about
what people might say

00:26:16.083 --> 00:26:17.833
of your ties with him.

00:26:22.792 --> 00:26:25.625
Women have been banished
from salons for less.

00:26:29.917 --> 00:26:31.292
I've understood.

00:26:34.417 --> 00:26:37.000
I left money in the drawer.
It was locked!

00:26:37.167 --> 00:26:39.583
I'm no thief!
I don't have your key!

00:26:39.917 --> 00:26:42.625
No one else came in.
Money doesn't disappear!

00:26:42.792 --> 00:26:44.625
And I said I didn't touch it.

00:26:48.542 --> 00:26:50.250
Lucien took his finest quill

00:26:50.750 --> 00:26:54.958
and wrote a naive, sentimental letter
full of the dark dignity

00:26:55.125 --> 00:26:57.792
so typical of an artist of 20.

00:27:06.042 --> 00:27:09.542
He would never know
if Louise received his letter.

00:27:09.708 --> 00:27:12.083
This messy drawer of sentiments...

00:27:12.500 --> 00:27:14.333
it was time to close it.

00:27:26.333 --> 00:27:28.250
Excuse me, I'm late.

00:27:29.917 --> 00:27:31.708
Let's find a quieter spot.

00:27:32.208 --> 00:27:34.042
Afraid of being seen with me?

00:27:34.208 --> 00:27:35.250
No.

00:27:37.583 --> 00:27:39.833
The police recently put dragnets

00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:42.292
across the Seine at the exit of Paris.

00:27:43.667 --> 00:27:45.083
You know why?

00:27:46.125 --> 00:27:49.792
To catch the bodies
of penniless fools who jump off bridges

00:27:49.958 --> 00:27:52.875
instead of returning to their provinces.

00:27:58.042 --> 00:28:01.333
It was folly
for Louise to bring you with her.

00:28:02.333 --> 00:28:03.750
A woman's folly.

00:28:04.833 --> 00:28:07.042
If she keeps seeing you,
her cousin

00:28:07.208 --> 00:28:09.375
and all society will snob her.

00:28:10.792 --> 00:28:12.667
She'll be an outcast.

00:28:13.167 --> 00:28:14.875
So think about her.

00:28:16.042 --> 00:28:17.750
And yourself, Mr. Chardon.

00:28:18.708 --> 00:28:20.583
<i>My name is Rubempré.</i>

00:28:20.750 --> 00:28:21.750
Rubempré?

00:28:25.083 --> 00:28:26.792
You have no idea

00:28:26.958 --> 00:28:28.958
what she and I shared.

00:28:30.417 --> 00:28:32.708
You dreamt it all, both of you.

00:28:33.417 --> 00:28:34.542
Here.

00:28:35.292 --> 00:28:39.000
She asked me to give you this
for your return journey.

00:28:43.250 --> 00:28:44.250
Money?

00:28:45.417 --> 00:28:47.667
She asks that you stay away.

00:28:50.083 --> 00:28:51.500
I don't believe you.

00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.125
I threw some in
because your story is touching.

00:28:56.625 --> 00:28:57.917
Well, sort of.

00:29:01.208 --> 00:29:03.292
She'll never love a man like you.

00:29:03.667 --> 00:29:04.917
Look at yourself.

00:29:05.458 --> 00:29:07.417
People called you "The Turkey."

00:29:13.042 --> 00:29:14.417
Go home!

00:29:16.083 --> 00:29:18.167
In the student Latin Quarter,

00:29:18.958 --> 00:29:22.000
charitable souls showed Lucien
a cheap restaurant

00:29:22.583 --> 00:29:24.083
well known at the time.

00:29:27.042 --> 00:29:28.833
Bread at discretion

00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:30.958
and a free carafe of water.

00:29:31.667 --> 00:29:33.375
Potatoes were king,

00:29:33.875 --> 00:29:36.208
and ever since
Lucien's humiliating eve,

00:29:36.375 --> 00:29:38.542
his only contact with aristocracy.

00:30:27.750 --> 00:30:29.000
Back in Angouléme,

00:30:29.167 --> 00:30:32.000
Lucien had devoted himself
to great writers.

00:30:32.167 --> 00:30:34.500
This insolent Parisian press
was novel,

00:30:35.167 --> 00:30:37.875
as was its cult of slogans
and provocation.

00:30:44.333 --> 00:30:45.375
He discovered

00:30:45.542 --> 00:30:48.708
these cheap papers
where opinions were made and unmade

00:30:48.875 --> 00:30:51.583
amid laughter or cries of rage.

00:30:56.125 --> 00:30:57.792
It's on the house.

00:30:59.583 --> 00:31:01.458
Excuse me for disturbing.

00:31:01.625 --> 00:31:04.375
The owner said
you wrote for newspapers.

00:31:05.375 --> 00:31:06.792
Could be, yes.

00:31:07.917 --> 00:31:10.458
I was a proofreader at a printer's.

00:31:10.625 --> 00:31:12.208
So I was wondering

00:31:12.375 --> 00:31:16.208
if you might have any
writing or copywriting jobs for me?

00:31:16.375 --> 00:31:17.792
Have you ever written?

00:31:18.292 --> 00:31:20.000
A collection of poems

00:31:20.167 --> 00:31:21.625
heralded in Angouléme.

00:31:23.167 --> 00:31:26.042
Here. I brought some articles.

00:31:28.667 --> 00:31:30.292
The famous Angouléme Gazette.

00:31:32.250 --> 00:31:33.375
Impressive.

00:31:38.292 --> 00:31:39.833
I need work.

00:31:40.375 --> 00:31:42.375
Do newspapers pay decently?

00:31:42.542 --> 00:31:43.375
Depends.

00:31:43.542 --> 00:31:46.500
I made 300 francs this week
but I've spent it all.

00:31:46.917 --> 00:31:49.250
300 francs
to write newspaper articles?

00:31:50.042 --> 00:31:52.167
- It's hard work.
- And lots of money.

00:31:56.875 --> 00:31:57.875
What's that?

00:31:58.250 --> 00:31:59.417
Hashish.

00:31:59.583 --> 00:32:01.375
With this, everyone has talent.

00:32:01.917 --> 00:32:03.083
No, thanks.

00:32:04.667 --> 00:32:05.875
What's your name?

00:32:06.375 --> 00:32:07.542
Lucien.

00:32:07.875 --> 00:32:08.875
<i>De Rubempré.</i>

00:32:09.583 --> 00:32:10.958
Etienne Lousteau.

00:32:13.333 --> 00:32:15.792
The poet was still innocent
and believed

00:32:15.958 --> 00:32:17.042
that in Paris,

00:32:17.208 --> 00:32:20.125
talent would necessarily
attract goodwill.

00:32:22.250 --> 00:32:23.833
Poems about marguerites?

00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:26.083
No wonder your baroness ran off!

00:32:26.750 --> 00:32:30.875
The next day, like a young woodrat
impatient to leave his lair,

00:32:31.042 --> 00:32:34.542
he visited his new friend
in the noisy newspaper district

00:32:34.708 --> 00:32:36.500
near the Grands Boulevards.

00:32:37.083 --> 00:32:40.833
The great and worthy Parisian press
had prestigious papers

00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:43.750
such as Le Journal des débats
and Le Siécle.

00:32:45.375 --> 00:32:48.917
But new laws had enabled
the creation of small periodicals

00:32:49.083 --> 00:32:51.792
with provocative names
such as Le Corsaire,

00:32:52.208 --> 00:32:54.792
Le Satan and Le Diable boiteux.

00:32:57.333 --> 00:33:00.167
Of Liberal leanings,
these papers lashed out

00:33:00.333 --> 00:33:02.292
against the Royalist government.

00:33:04.417 --> 00:33:07.167
Lucien couldn't know
that within press ranks,

00:33:07.333 --> 00:33:10.417
men needed friends,
like generals need soldiers.

00:33:10.583 --> 00:33:11.833
Move over!

00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:24.750
Over here, Marguerites!

00:33:25.458 --> 00:33:26.500
Come on.

00:33:26.667 --> 00:33:29.333
Cut the nonsense,
you have articles to write!

00:33:29.500 --> 00:33:30.792
Have a seat.

00:33:30.958 --> 00:33:32.292
Lamartine, go play.

00:33:33.375 --> 00:33:34.542
Champagne?

00:33:34.917 --> 00:33:35.917
No, thank you.

00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:37.833
You'll have some anyhow.

00:33:40.625 --> 00:33:42.417
I brought you my collection.

00:33:42.583 --> 00:33:45.000
I'll give you names, don't worry.

00:33:46.083 --> 00:33:47.083
I'm not.

00:33:47.125 --> 00:33:48.458
Yes, you are.

00:33:50.208 --> 00:33:51.208
You know...

00:33:51.375 --> 00:33:54.000
I have great respect for journalists.

00:33:54.167 --> 00:33:55.167
Oh yeah?

00:33:55.250 --> 00:33:57.167
What exactly do you think I do?

00:33:57.333 --> 00:34:00.875
You report on
new books, new plays...

00:34:01.042 --> 00:34:02.042
new ideas.

00:34:04.125 --> 00:34:05.917
You enlighten people about

00:34:06.667 --> 00:34:07.750
art...

00:34:09.958 --> 00:34:10.958
the world.

00:34:14.333 --> 00:34:17.542
My job is to make
newspaper shareholders rich.

00:34:18.250 --> 00:34:20.458
And along the way, rake it in.

00:34:24.333 --> 00:34:25.167
Rake it in?

00:34:25.333 --> 00:34:27.083
Rake it in, absolutely.

00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:30.375
A theater manager pays you

00:34:30.542 --> 00:34:31.750
for a good review.

00:34:32.167 --> 00:34:35.625
You then propose
a nasty article to his competitor

00:34:35.792 --> 00:34:37.458
and you raise the stakes,

00:34:37.958 --> 00:34:40.083
writing good and bad indifferently

00:34:40.250 --> 00:34:41.750
under different names.

00:34:42.417 --> 00:34:43.958
And so on and so forth...

00:34:44.125 --> 00:34:45.792
and you rake it in.

00:34:47.625 --> 00:34:49.000
They shout, they weep,

00:34:49.167 --> 00:34:51.833
they come here with insults or gifts

00:34:52.333 --> 00:34:54.167
and a controversy is launched.

00:34:54.333 --> 00:34:56.000
That's all they care about.

00:34:56.167 --> 00:34:57.375
Controversy sells.

00:34:57.542 --> 00:34:58.708
Tickets, books,

00:34:58.875 --> 00:35:00.042
what have you.

00:35:00.208 --> 00:35:01.750
And you find

00:35:02.167 --> 00:35:03.958
many writers who agree to...

00:35:04.125 --> 00:35:05.875
Papers pay by the line.

00:35:06.042 --> 00:35:08.125
By the line, cash the same day.

00:35:08.292 --> 00:35:11.042
Your articles are paid that evening.

00:35:11.208 --> 00:35:14.667
Publishers pay 6 months later,
if they pay.

00:35:20.458 --> 00:35:21.833
I arrived from Dijon

00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:24.167
with a three-act comedy

00:35:24.708 --> 00:35:26.958
written in my backlands.

00:35:28.083 --> 00:35:32.458
At home, everyone said
my play was fabulous, magnificent.

00:35:32.625 --> 00:35:36.125
So I asked theater managers
and actors to read it.

00:35:36.583 --> 00:35:37.792
What happened?

00:35:39.292 --> 00:35:41.292
No one would even look at it.

00:35:43.917 --> 00:35:45.167
Why not?

00:35:45.500 --> 00:35:46.667
What do you think?

00:35:46.833 --> 00:35:49.458
If you can't grant favors
at a paper,

00:35:49.625 --> 00:35:50.875
you don't exist.

00:35:51.042 --> 00:35:53.292
If no one's afraid of you...

00:35:54.042 --> 00:35:55.667
no one's interested in you.

00:35:58.500 --> 00:35:59.750
And yet...

00:36:00.500 --> 00:36:01.667
I was good.

00:36:05.417 --> 00:36:07.333
I had a pure heart like you.

00:36:15.083 --> 00:36:16.667
Let's go see Dauriat.

00:36:17.250 --> 00:36:18.250
Who's that?

00:36:19.917 --> 00:36:20.917
A living poem.

00:36:21.292 --> 00:36:23.375
If you need me, I'm at Dauriat's.

00:36:23.542 --> 00:36:25.167
See you tonight at Florine's!

00:36:25.333 --> 00:36:26.875
You Royalist or Liberal?

00:36:27.042 --> 00:36:29.333
The paper's Liberal, so I'm Liberal.

00:36:29.500 --> 00:36:31.958
You are too.
You just don't know it yet.

00:36:33.958 --> 00:36:35.250
Palais-Royal, quick!

00:36:39.958 --> 00:36:41.917
When the Stock Exchange closed,

00:36:42.083 --> 00:36:45.750
hordes of young people
poured out into the Palais-Royal,

00:36:45.917 --> 00:36:48.250
the Capital's center of diversion.

00:36:48.417 --> 00:36:51.125
A closed-off, protected square

00:36:51.292 --> 00:36:54.125
where police never came
and pleasures abounded.

00:36:57.042 --> 00:37:00.708
Fashionable boutiques,
wigmakers and street entertainers

00:37:00.875 --> 00:37:04.083
worked alongside
restaurants, gambling dens,

00:37:04.250 --> 00:37:06.042
and above all, prostitutes.

00:37:06.750 --> 00:37:10.625
Up to 1,500 poor women
plied their trade in the Galleries.

00:37:13.500 --> 00:37:17.458
Each one had her name, specialty,
hours and spot...

00:37:17.625 --> 00:37:21.875
They were called hussies,
courtesans, Lorettes and grisettes.

00:37:22.417 --> 00:37:26.583
Those who collared men
from upstairs were called "half-beavers."

00:37:26.750 --> 00:37:28.708
Though we never knew why.

00:37:29.667 --> 00:37:31.458
Professionals or part-timers,

00:37:31.625 --> 00:37:34.708
rates and names
were posted on the columns

00:37:34.875 --> 00:37:36.792
next to advertisements.

00:37:37.208 --> 00:37:39.042
Women's bodies were for sale,

00:37:39.208 --> 00:37:41.792
and people knew
these bodies could also sell

00:37:41.958 --> 00:37:43.583
just about anything.

00:37:43.750 --> 00:37:45.292
The belly of the beast.

00:37:46.167 --> 00:37:48.333
In this temple of commerce,

00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:51.542
publishers had set up shop too.

00:37:51.708 --> 00:37:54.000
- You know him?
- We met at the Opera.

00:37:54.458 --> 00:37:56.042
I hear he's famous.

00:37:56.208 --> 00:37:57.667
A social puppet.

00:37:57.833 --> 00:37:58.667
Look at him.

00:37:58.833 --> 00:38:02.167
Striking poses,
playing the role of dandy.

00:38:03.042 --> 00:38:05.125
We received his new book today.

00:38:05.292 --> 00:38:07.417
Naturally, I haven't read it.

00:38:07.583 --> 00:38:08.583
Come on.

00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:10.667
Clutching his poems,

00:38:10.833 --> 00:38:13.792
Lucien was to meet
a great Parisian publisher,

00:38:13.958 --> 00:38:15.500
his dream come true.

00:38:15.667 --> 00:38:16.917
Good day, gentlemen.

00:38:17.917 --> 00:38:22.833
A grocer by trade,
the most influential one was Dauriat

00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:25.375
and he could neither read nor write.

00:38:25.542 --> 00:38:27.625
Unusual for a publisher.

00:38:27.792 --> 00:38:30.750
Assistants read him
manuscripts and contracts,

00:38:30.917 --> 00:38:32.833
but he sure could count.

00:38:33.792 --> 00:38:35.875
3,000! You hear me?

00:38:36.042 --> 00:38:38.917
I printed 3,000 copies
of his ill-fated novel.

00:38:39.083 --> 00:38:40.583
Ink, paper, binding...

00:38:41.083 --> 00:38:43.625
I already spent 1,500 francs.

00:38:43.792 --> 00:38:45.583
1,500, you hear me!

00:38:45.750 --> 00:38:47.542
The book is good. It'll sell.

00:38:47.708 --> 00:38:48.875
It has rave reviews.

00:38:49.042 --> 00:38:50.167
Speaking of which,

00:38:50.333 --> 00:38:53.875
you charge 150 francs
for a good write-up now?

00:38:54.875 --> 00:38:56.750
Where will it stop?

00:38:56.917 --> 00:38:59.208
- A man's gotta live.
- 150 francs!

00:38:59.375 --> 00:39:01.167
A good review costs.

00:39:01.333 --> 00:39:02.792
How do you calculate?

00:39:02.958 --> 00:39:04.833
You pull numbers out of a hat?

00:39:06.542 --> 00:39:09.542
How much will you
charge to launch Nathan?

00:39:09.708 --> 00:39:11.708
Where is the child prodigy?

00:39:11.875 --> 00:39:14.667
Right here.
You promised 4,000 copies

00:39:14.833 --> 00:39:17.292
and now
you won't pay for promotion?

00:39:17.458 --> 00:39:19.542
- What's the point?
- You serious?

00:39:19.917 --> 00:39:23.250
I paid Lousteau 200 francs
to sing your praises

00:39:23.417 --> 00:39:25.208
in his flunkey rag!

00:39:25.375 --> 00:39:27.667
200 francs, for the front page.

00:39:28.042 --> 00:39:30.083
- True or false?
- And Blondet?

00:39:30.250 --> 00:39:33.167
You were supposed
to pay Le Figaro to attack

00:39:33.333 --> 00:39:35.667
and start a controversy, but nothing.

00:39:35.833 --> 00:39:37.083
I need a controversy!

00:39:37.917 --> 00:39:41.333
How do you sell a book today
without a controversy?

00:39:41.917 --> 00:39:45.667
He's right. I was waiting for an attack
to write my article.

00:39:45.833 --> 00:39:47.042
You're a crook.

00:39:48.208 --> 00:39:50.042
He hasn't even opened it.

00:39:50.750 --> 00:39:55.083
My dear Nathan, to write a review,
best not read the book.

00:39:55.250 --> 00:39:57.083
You might be influenced.

00:39:57.250 --> 00:39:59.417
His clever remark isn't even his.

00:39:59.583 --> 00:40:02.083
And? I defend French spirit.

00:40:02.250 --> 00:40:05.500
Then write other things
than your miserable articles.

00:40:08.375 --> 00:40:11.167
A good word
is better than a bad book, right?

00:40:20.917 --> 00:40:23.250
C'mon lads, let's move on.
I'm hungry.

00:40:23.417 --> 00:40:25.125
Did you read it or not?

00:40:25.292 --> 00:40:26.583
No, he didn't.

00:40:28.125 --> 00:40:29.250
Of course I did.

00:40:29.417 --> 00:40:33.000
Out of professional conscience
and respect for the author.

00:40:33.167 --> 00:40:35.083
- I read it.
- We're listening.

00:40:36.208 --> 00:40:37.208
The book is...

00:40:38.542 --> 00:40:41.208
very particular.
Don't know what to think.

00:40:41.375 --> 00:40:42.542
You turn pages,

00:40:42.708 --> 00:40:45.000
phrases go by,
trying to seduce you...

00:40:45.167 --> 00:40:47.458
Like the hustlers outside

00:40:47.625 --> 00:40:49.000
in the Galleries.

00:40:49.167 --> 00:40:51.792
A hodgepodge of words.

00:40:53.125 --> 00:40:55.042
My friend and I agreed.

00:40:55.208 --> 00:40:56.792
And who's he?

00:40:57.417 --> 00:40:59.125
Where do you write?

00:41:00.417 --> 00:41:02.000
Lucien de Rubempré.

00:41:03.625 --> 00:41:05.333
And did you read his book?

00:41:07.833 --> 00:41:09.875
I read it, yes. Very attentively.

00:41:10.042 --> 00:41:11.708
You read it too?

00:41:12.458 --> 00:41:13.458
Yes.

00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:14.500
Let him speak.

00:41:15.042 --> 00:41:16.958
Go on. We're listening.

00:41:18.458 --> 00:41:21.583
One says that a writer
should have something to say.

00:41:22.292 --> 00:41:24.792
He must also
leave certain things unsaid.

00:41:26.333 --> 00:41:27.958
Yet, in this book

00:41:28.125 --> 00:41:29.875
- as Lousteau said so well -

00:41:30.042 --> 00:41:31.042
all is said.

00:41:31.292 --> 00:41:32.667
All is exposed.

00:41:32.833 --> 00:41:34.292
Where is the mystery?

00:41:35.417 --> 00:41:39.167
The mystery is your presence here,
Mr. Chardon.

00:41:40.042 --> 00:41:41.375
Chardon, am I correct?

00:41:43.458 --> 00:41:46.917
To put it simply,
I found the gentleman's book

00:41:47.083 --> 00:41:49.250
a curious sum of nothingness.

00:41:52.792 --> 00:41:53.917
That was good.

00:41:54.583 --> 00:41:55.875
Nice find.

00:41:56.583 --> 00:41:59.250
My natural modesty
allows me to mock scorn.

00:41:59.667 --> 00:42:01.292
Modesty's a funny virtue.

00:42:01.458 --> 00:42:03.250
Think you have it, it's gone.

00:42:08.500 --> 00:42:11.833
That's all, see you Tuesday at 10:00.

00:42:12.708 --> 00:42:14.333
Are you Chardon or Rubempré?

00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:15.500
Rubempré.

00:42:15.667 --> 00:42:17.708
Lucien brought you his manuscript.

00:42:17.875 --> 00:42:20.542
Thanks, I've seen
enough wannabee writers.

00:42:21.042 --> 00:42:23.000
It's very original poetry.

00:42:23.167 --> 00:42:25.958
Poetry!
No one buys that, you fool.

00:42:26.125 --> 00:42:27.917
Best thing I've read in ages.

00:42:28.083 --> 00:42:30.750
You know many people
who buy poetry?

00:42:30.917 --> 00:42:32.667
Do you buy poetry, Lousteau?

00:42:32.833 --> 00:42:34.292
No, especially not you.

00:42:34.458 --> 00:42:37.083
- He's also working on a novel...
- A novel?

00:42:37.250 --> 00:42:39.292
There are thousands.
Why bother?

00:42:39.458 --> 00:42:41.542
Because literature is my life.

00:42:41.708 --> 00:42:44.000
No one wants books by unknowns.

00:42:44.167 --> 00:42:45.708
- They don't sell.
- True.

00:42:46.292 --> 00:42:48.208
- But...
- I only publish

00:42:48.375 --> 00:42:51.208
already famous authors with no risk.

00:42:51.375 --> 00:42:53.083
How do you become known?

00:42:53.250 --> 00:42:54.833
By knowing famous people.

00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:57.750
Find yourself
a famous mistress or enemy.

00:42:57.917 --> 00:42:59.167
No doubletalk here.

00:42:59.333 --> 00:43:02.083
A famous enemy
who insults you in his paper.

00:43:02.250 --> 00:43:03.292
Like Nathan.

00:43:03.458 --> 00:43:04.958
He'd be a perfect enemy.

00:43:05.125 --> 00:43:06.208
Nathan?

00:43:06.375 --> 00:43:09.250
The kid needs a famous enemy,
what do you say?

00:43:10.417 --> 00:43:12.042
I'm too expensive for you.

00:43:13.167 --> 00:43:15.667
People will talk
and increase your value.

00:43:15.833 --> 00:43:17.000
Increase my value?

00:43:17.167 --> 00:43:18.333
Perfectly.

00:43:18.500 --> 00:43:20.625
Like on the stock market.

00:43:21.417 --> 00:43:23.375
What about literature?

00:43:24.167 --> 00:43:26.708
Literature nourishes illusions.

00:43:26.875 --> 00:43:28.333
Your pineapple, sir.

00:43:28.500 --> 00:43:30.208
I believe in pineapples.

00:43:32.125 --> 00:43:33.208
Pineapples?

00:43:33.375 --> 00:43:36.458
I might invest
in a plantation outside Paris.

00:43:36.958 --> 00:43:38.375
A future goldmine.

00:43:38.875 --> 00:43:41.542
Pineapples
will save us from poetry, I hope.

00:43:42.042 --> 00:43:43.417
Help yourselves.

00:43:44.125 --> 00:43:45.125
Nathan!

00:43:45.250 --> 00:43:47.042
That's a great publisher?

00:43:47.500 --> 00:43:48.667
That grocer?

00:43:48.833 --> 00:43:49.875
The best.

00:43:50.042 --> 00:43:51.833
He met you, that's a start.

00:43:52.000 --> 00:43:53.375
Now let him stew.

00:43:54.167 --> 00:43:55.708
Lousteau!

00:43:55.875 --> 00:43:57.167
What's he want?

00:43:57.792 --> 00:43:59.333
You hear about Singali?

00:44:02.792 --> 00:44:05.125
The Royalists
paid to hiss my sweetheart.

00:44:05.292 --> 00:44:06.042
Paid?

00:44:06.208 --> 00:44:08.833
You can pay for anything!
That's progress.

00:44:10.542 --> 00:44:14.375
<i>Lousteau's mistress
was a cheap Boulevard actress.</i>

00:44:14.542 --> 00:44:17.792
Tonight was the opening night
of her new play.

00:44:19.625 --> 00:44:23.042
Lucien was about
to taste another night on the town.

00:44:25.542 --> 00:44:27.583
Every day, tickets were for sale

00:44:27.750 --> 00:44:30.542
on what had been baptized
"Crime Boulevard."

00:44:31.333 --> 00:44:34.500
And the crimes
were those committed onstage

00:44:34.667 --> 00:44:37.500
in some dozen theatres
tucked in between

00:44:37.667 --> 00:44:39.500
street performances.

00:44:39.667 --> 00:44:43.750
Theatre had become
outrageously popular and profitable.

00:44:43.917 --> 00:44:46.708
The Funambules,
Renaissance, Variétés,

00:44:46.875 --> 00:44:50.542
Déjazet, Mme. Saqui, ltaliens
and Ambigu-Comique...

00:44:50.708 --> 00:44:53.292
Competition was fierce
amongst managers,

00:44:53.458 --> 00:44:55.125
and their methods ruthless.

00:44:55.667 --> 00:44:59.917
It was common practice
to boo a rival theatre on opening night.

00:45:00.292 --> 00:45:01.292
Get lost!

00:45:01.417 --> 00:45:05.208
For a new play, you bought critics
to protect yourself.

00:45:05.375 --> 00:45:07.667
Everyone did it.
Question of survival.

00:45:08.917 --> 00:45:12.125
Thus young journalists like Lousteau
made the law.

00:45:12.625 --> 00:45:13.917
Blackmail reigned.

00:45:14.083 --> 00:45:17.208
The Boulevard was their turf,
their hunting ground,

00:45:17.375 --> 00:45:19.167
and they "raked it in."”

00:45:19.333 --> 00:45:22.833
Singali brought his Italian hissers.
It'll be a massacre.

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:25.083
- Where's Singali?
- If I knew!

00:45:25.250 --> 00:45:27.083
Sold out, ladies and gentlemen.

00:45:29.292 --> 00:45:30.667
To protect themselves,

00:45:30.833 --> 00:45:34.042
managers took out
hundreds of subscriptions to papers

00:45:34.208 --> 00:45:36.625
and gave free boxes to journalists,

00:45:36.792 --> 00:45:38.417
who rented them out...

00:45:38.583 --> 00:45:40.083
and pocketed the earnings.

00:45:41.417 --> 00:45:43.708
To make up
for this loss of turnover,

00:45:43.875 --> 00:45:46.375
theatres sought
new ways to make money,

00:45:46.542 --> 00:45:48.375
like selling sweets.

00:45:48.542 --> 00:45:51.000
Where were you?
Everyone's in a panic.

00:45:51.417 --> 00:45:54.125
Florine said Matifat would pay.
What happened?

00:45:54.292 --> 00:45:56.417
No idea.
If they boo, we're dead!

00:45:56.583 --> 00:46:00.083
- We'll never recover.
- Don't worry, where's Singali?

00:46:00.708 --> 00:46:02.083
Inside, getting ready!

00:46:02.250 --> 00:46:04.833
For the most important
was the "claque."

00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:08.708
The cheers or catcalls
ordered from professionals.

00:46:09.167 --> 00:46:12.125
And the most famous of all,
was Singali.

00:46:12.542 --> 00:46:16.000
He lambasted plays,
humiliated actresses and writers.

00:46:16.750 --> 00:46:18.792
He was feared by all,

00:46:18.958 --> 00:46:20.167
and rightly so.

00:46:20.333 --> 00:46:23.042
Destroy a competitor's play?
Pay Singali.

00:46:23.667 --> 00:46:25.000
You wanted triumph?

00:46:25.167 --> 00:46:27.042
Pay Singali. He did it all.

00:46:27.833 --> 00:46:31.917
He trained his teams prior to shows.

00:46:33.458 --> 00:46:36.000
His people mingled in the audience,

00:46:36.167 --> 00:46:38.917
impossible to spot
before disaster struck.

00:46:39.083 --> 00:46:40.667
You could buy anything.

00:46:41.208 --> 00:46:42.750
Applause, light applause,

00:46:42.917 --> 00:46:46.333
standing ovation,
laughter, hysterical laughter.

00:46:46.500 --> 00:46:48.333
Or else whistles and boos,

00:46:48.500 --> 00:46:50.917
even rotten tomatoes
and vegetables.

00:46:51.083 --> 00:46:52.292
You only had to pay.

00:46:53.000 --> 00:46:55.667
Mediocre play or masterpiece?
He didn't care.

00:46:56.208 --> 00:46:59.708
Making ever more money
was his only concern.

00:47:01.250 --> 00:47:04.125
He had established his Law
on the Boulevard.

00:47:04.292 --> 00:47:06.250
Everyone was at his mercy,

00:47:06.417 --> 00:47:09.250
and he made them all pay,
one way or another.

00:47:09.417 --> 00:47:10.542
Have a look.

00:47:11.458 --> 00:47:12.917
The short bald guy.

00:47:13.083 --> 00:47:14.875
Bastard's preparing to strike.

00:47:15.375 --> 00:47:16.833
Will they whistle?

00:47:17.375 --> 00:47:20.125
Actresses too were obliged
to buy applause

00:47:20.292 --> 00:47:21.292
and above all,

00:47:21.458 --> 00:47:23.583
prevent boos paid by rivals.

00:47:25.667 --> 00:47:26.958
We'll handle it.

00:47:27.125 --> 00:47:28.625
You'll be fabulous.

00:47:28.792 --> 00:47:32.208
Necessarily helpless,
girls needed rich protectors

00:47:32.375 --> 00:47:35.583
to cover what were known as
"reputation" expenses.

00:47:36.083 --> 00:47:37.375
Most often,

00:47:37.542 --> 00:47:39.458
they were big textile merchants

00:47:39.625 --> 00:47:42.250
or newly-rich
cosmetics manufacturers.

00:47:42.583 --> 00:47:43.917
The luckiest girls

00:47:44.083 --> 00:47:46.792
became icons
for the big brand names,

00:47:47.333 --> 00:47:50.917
which in turn bought
advertising space in newspapers,

00:47:51.083 --> 00:47:54.875
whose kindly criticism and indulgence
were also remunerated.

00:47:56.542 --> 00:48:00.917
Advertising brought in so much income
that newspaper owners

00:48:01.083 --> 00:48:04.458
would stealthily
become modern-day press barons.

00:48:04.625 --> 00:48:06.750
And politicians had understood.

00:48:07.292 --> 00:48:09.542
They were happy
to make "arrangements"

00:48:09.708 --> 00:48:13.000
with these barons
to avoid attacks in their papers.

00:48:13.917 --> 00:48:17.542
Likewise interests,
shady dealings and compromises...

00:48:17.708 --> 00:48:21.375
But above them,
at the very top of the pyramid,

00:48:21.542 --> 00:48:23.417
were the financial oligarchs.

00:48:23.583 --> 00:48:28.125
Laffitte, Rothschild, Nucingen
and their Stock Exchange intrigues.

00:48:28.292 --> 00:48:33.000
In the wings, they pulled the strings
of all these puppets.

00:48:33.833 --> 00:48:38.458
Money was the new royalty,
and no one wanted to chop its head off.

00:48:41.625 --> 00:48:45.667
Who could say, one day
a banker might even join the government.

00:48:49.042 --> 00:48:50.625
Can't we talk to Singali?

00:48:50.792 --> 00:48:53.292
He's been paid.
We have to pay more.

00:48:53.458 --> 00:48:54.625
On stage in ten!

00:48:54.792 --> 00:48:56.375
What do we do?

00:48:56.542 --> 00:48:57.542
Etienne!

00:48:57.667 --> 00:49:00.083
- Careful, Matifat's with Florine.
- Thanks.

00:49:04.417 --> 00:49:08.042
They'll trample us.
We have to pay, Mimi.

00:49:09.458 --> 00:49:11.542
Always more! When will it end?

00:49:11.708 --> 00:49:13.583
The room is full of hissers.

00:49:13.750 --> 00:49:15.625
Or else we cancel the show.

00:49:15.792 --> 00:49:19.833
- There's 2 pages in tomorrow's paper.
- We have to pay.

00:49:22.833 --> 00:49:25.250
- Can you chip in?
- Of course I can.

00:49:25.417 --> 00:49:26.542
How much?

00:49:27.042 --> 00:49:28.333
Let's not be crass.

00:49:28.500 --> 00:49:30.333
A price equal to my dignity.

00:49:31.333 --> 00:49:32.833
Very well, we'll pay.

00:49:33.375 --> 00:49:35.208
Tell Singali his money's coming.

00:49:35.375 --> 00:49:36.375
I'll go.

00:49:36.417 --> 00:49:37.708
C'mon, kids, we're late!

00:49:37.875 --> 00:49:39.542
Thank you, my love.

00:49:43.708 --> 00:49:45.500
Wel'll sit in the balcony.

00:49:47.083 --> 00:49:48.958
He paid up, we'll applaud.

00:49:49.375 --> 00:49:51.333
- Coming to Florine's?
- Why not?

00:49:51.500 --> 00:49:53.792
Don't you have an article
to turn in?

00:49:54.458 --> 00:49:56.708
I looked for you at Dauriat's.

00:49:57.333 --> 00:49:59.167
My friend Lucien de Rubempré.

00:50:00.167 --> 00:50:02.250
"A curious sum of nothingness."

00:50:02.792 --> 00:50:04.708
Your locution traveled quickly.

00:50:05.167 --> 00:50:06.917
Do you write somewhere?

00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:10.167
Mr. Finot runs the paper I write for.

00:50:10.333 --> 00:50:12.083
Where you write nonsense.

00:50:14.958 --> 00:50:16.583
See you at Florine's?

00:50:16.750 --> 00:50:18.292
- Yes.
- We need to talk.

00:50:18.458 --> 00:50:19.625
It's important.

00:50:20.167 --> 00:50:21.625
He's a cunning devil.

00:50:21.792 --> 00:50:23.500
Made good for a country boy.

00:50:44.708 --> 00:50:46.000
You don't mind?

00:50:47.083 --> 00:50:48.708
Matifat and your Florine.

00:50:48.875 --> 00:50:50.208
What can I do?

00:50:50.375 --> 00:50:52.125
She's a married woman.

00:50:52.292 --> 00:50:53.917
You learn to share.

00:50:57.417 --> 00:50:58.417
Take a look.

00:50:59.167 --> 00:51:02.292
Behold the two hundred
most noxious people in Paris.

00:51:02.750 --> 00:51:04.792
At least half would like me dead.

00:51:05.708 --> 00:51:07.125
But they'll do nothing.

00:51:08.750 --> 00:51:10.333
- You know why?
- No.

00:51:11.125 --> 00:51:12.750
Because they're afraid.

00:51:13.375 --> 00:51:14.792
Afraid of you?

00:51:16.792 --> 00:51:17.917
Of the paper.

00:51:19.625 --> 00:51:20.958
And rightly so.

00:51:21.458 --> 00:51:23.083
With all their scheming.

00:51:25.875 --> 00:51:27.875
One day,
you'll run into your Lady

00:51:28.500 --> 00:51:30.542
and you'll read fear in her eyes.

00:51:31.375 --> 00:51:32.917
And it will feel good.

00:51:36.875 --> 00:51:38.500
I won't marry him!

00:51:38.667 --> 00:51:39.667
She says no!

00:51:39.750 --> 00:51:43.333
Oh, yes she will.
Long ago in a small Spanish village,

00:51:43.500 --> 00:51:45.000
in the mountains...

00:51:46.125 --> 00:51:49.125
Her name was Coralie
and she wasn't yet 20.

00:51:49.875 --> 00:51:54.625
Her scarlet stockings
had become famous in only one season.

00:51:58.417 --> 00:52:00.583
Gazing at Coralie, Lucien was seized

00:52:00.750 --> 00:52:03.917
with an overwhelming desire
to throttle this world

00:52:04.542 --> 00:52:06.375
and bring it to its knees.

00:52:13.833 --> 00:52:14.833
Bravo!

00:52:19.542 --> 00:52:24.167
Ladies and gentlemen,
Coralie and Florine!

00:52:52.583 --> 00:52:54.167
Pour yourself a drink.

00:53:16.250 --> 00:53:17.583
We'll be right back.

00:53:19.083 --> 00:53:20.250
No more champagne?

00:53:20.417 --> 00:53:22.958
- Whose place?
- Florine's, no Matifat's.

00:53:23.125 --> 00:53:24.167
Go on, drink.

00:53:24.333 --> 00:53:27.167
I wanted to write a play called
"Enough Champagne!"

00:53:27.333 --> 00:53:28.125
Not bad.

00:53:28.292 --> 00:53:30.208
Guys, I need your articles.

00:53:30.375 --> 00:53:32.167
Take Blondet's on the Opera.

00:53:32.333 --> 00:53:33.333
Great.

00:53:33.792 --> 00:53:34.958
Thanks.

00:53:35.125 --> 00:53:36.833
We have the Déjazet...

00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:38.917
The Opera...

00:53:39.250 --> 00:53:40.708
The ltaliens, good.

00:53:40.875 --> 00:53:43.167
- Who had the Variétés?
- Me.

00:53:43.708 --> 00:53:46.250
- A review?
- Summary, I didn't have time.

00:53:46.917 --> 00:53:47.917
What's this?

00:53:48.083 --> 00:53:51.000
Tomorrow's paper.
If everyone hands in their work.

00:54:05.958 --> 00:54:07.875
He's a friend of Lousteau?

00:54:10.167 --> 00:54:11.750
You sure he likes women?

00:54:11.917 --> 00:54:13.583
He certainly looks at them.

00:54:15.292 --> 00:54:16.917
He seems honest.

00:54:18.083 --> 00:54:19.833
You be careful, dear.

00:54:39.083 --> 00:54:41.792
We're not selling, we're joining forces.

00:54:41.958 --> 00:54:43.500
Combine two names

00:54:43.667 --> 00:54:45.083
and split expenses.

00:54:45.958 --> 00:54:48.292
We raise the cost of advertising,

00:54:48.458 --> 00:54:51.083
lower our price
and extend readership.

00:54:51.958 --> 00:54:55.000
And more readers
means more expensive ads.

00:54:55.167 --> 00:54:56.917
See, when you try?

00:54:57.958 --> 00:54:59.250
Who finances?

00:54:59.958 --> 00:55:01.958
Dauriat, Camusot and me.

00:55:02.125 --> 00:55:04.667
We need a fourth,
but I want the majority.

00:55:05.667 --> 00:55:08.625
Think Florine could talk to her perfumer?

00:55:12.708 --> 00:55:13.833
We can try.

00:55:16.458 --> 00:55:18.125
You'll be editor-in-chief.

00:55:18.542 --> 00:55:20.583
And I keep editorial control.

00:55:21.333 --> 00:55:23.000
I'll be even more popular.

00:55:23.583 --> 00:55:26.042
You?
You'd pay to sell your soul.

00:55:29.750 --> 00:55:32.375
- What's this?
- Pineapple fritters, sir.

00:55:33.917 --> 00:55:35.958
Coralie's been looking for you.

00:55:37.000 --> 00:55:38.292
You a pimp too?

00:55:39.333 --> 00:55:40.917
I thought you were broke.

00:55:42.417 --> 00:55:43.583
There they are!

00:55:44.292 --> 00:55:46.542
Berthier,
you reviewing us tonight?

00:55:46.708 --> 00:55:47.750
Not me, gorgeous.

00:55:47.917 --> 00:55:49.458
I've had enough.

00:55:50.292 --> 00:55:51.625
Let's ask Mr. Lucien.

00:55:52.167 --> 00:55:53.833
Forget these scoundrels.

00:55:54.000 --> 00:55:55.750
What does Mr. Lucien think?

00:55:55.917 --> 00:55:56.667
Sure.

00:55:56.833 --> 00:55:59.083
Find us a nice twist, like earlier.

00:55:59.250 --> 00:56:00.375
Good idea.

00:56:00.875 --> 00:56:02.417
You don't have to.

00:56:02.958 --> 00:56:05.125
But it would make me awfully happy.

00:56:07.333 --> 00:56:09.958
Show us your stuff. You saw the play.

00:56:14.875 --> 00:56:16.000
Why not?

00:56:52.333 --> 00:56:53.667
Stylistic effects,

00:56:53.833 --> 00:56:57.458
suitable enthusiasm,
and the desire to seduce a girl...

00:56:57.833 --> 00:57:01.125
Lucien wrote his very first article.

00:57:02.125 --> 00:57:04.917
"The intrigue slowly unfolded,

00:57:05.292 --> 00:57:08.458
"though I am quite unable
to clear up the mystery.

00:57:09.542 --> 00:57:11.833
"Don Jose's daughter,

00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:14.333
"personified by a living Andalusian,

00:57:14.500 --> 00:57:16.542
"brings your heart into your mouth.

00:57:16.708 --> 00:57:19.500
"Tantalized, you long to leap onstage"

00:57:19.667 --> 00:57:21.750
"and offer her hovel and heart."

00:57:21.917 --> 00:57:23.333
My, my, not bad.

00:57:23.958 --> 00:57:27.500
"She can be anything she chooses,
she was born to fly.

00:57:27.667 --> 00:57:28.500
"Can more"

00:57:28.667 --> 00:57:31.000
"be said of a boulevard actress?"

00:57:33.167 --> 00:57:36.875
"Somebody asked me
how the piece was and I replied..."

00:57:37.625 --> 00:57:38.792
What did you reply?

00:57:38.958 --> 00:57:40.667
She had scarlet stockings

00:57:40.833 --> 00:57:42.625
and the face of first love.

00:57:43.125 --> 00:57:44.208
Bravo.

00:57:51.292 --> 00:57:52.292
Not bad.

00:57:56.083 --> 00:57:58.417
Gentlemen,
to your articles and lies!

00:58:06.375 --> 00:58:07.875
The Baron du Chatelet...

00:58:08.583 --> 00:58:09.625
you know him?

00:58:10.292 --> 00:58:12.542
Doesn't he want to be Prefect?

00:58:13.958 --> 00:58:16.333
Back home,
we called him "The Turkey."

00:58:16.500 --> 00:58:18.250
He's close to Mme. d'Espard.

00:58:18.417 --> 00:58:19.708
He wishes.

00:58:20.333 --> 00:58:21.417
D'Espard...

00:58:22.542 --> 00:58:24.542
is a whole other world, friends.

00:58:25.042 --> 00:58:27.667
The king's close circle.
Huge influence.

00:58:28.333 --> 00:58:30.292
You know the right people.

00:58:31.792 --> 00:58:33.667
They know me no longer.

00:58:41.500 --> 00:58:43.042
This your first smoke?

00:58:47.167 --> 00:58:48.167
No.

00:58:51.958 --> 00:58:53.292
Marguerites...

00:59:24.042 --> 00:59:25.208
Are you alright?

00:59:27.792 --> 00:59:28.792
Yes.

00:59:41.750 --> 00:59:42.792
Lucien?

00:59:45.417 --> 00:59:46.792
Are you okay?

00:59:47.333 --> 00:59:50.125
That evening,
maybe he had seen too much,

00:59:50.292 --> 00:59:51.833
drunk and heard too much.

00:59:55.458 --> 00:59:57.208
Paris had lifted her skirts

00:59:57.375 --> 01:00:00.167
to show the young poet
- like a worthy disciple -

01:00:01.167 --> 01:00:03.083
her terrible nudity.

01:00:47.500 --> 01:00:48.250
Sir.

01:00:48.417 --> 01:00:50.125
Sir! Wake up.

01:00:50.292 --> 01:00:52.792
Coralie, come to the window!

01:00:52.958 --> 01:00:53.625
Look!

01:00:53.792 --> 01:00:55.208
What's going on?

01:00:55.375 --> 01:00:58.125
I woke you up, darling?
I have a gift.

01:00:58.292 --> 01:01:01.000
Scarlet like your stockings.

01:01:01.167 --> 01:01:03.250
That's for me? You're crazy!

01:01:03.417 --> 01:01:06.250
Mr. Camusot is downstairs,
he could come up.

01:01:06.417 --> 01:01:07.708
Get dressed!

01:01:08.708 --> 01:01:10.375
Her name is Ruby.

01:01:10.750 --> 01:01:13.542
Wel'll go to the woods, the sun's shining!

01:01:14.833 --> 01:01:15.833
I'll talk to him.

01:01:15.875 --> 01:01:17.833
No, you won't! Not at all.

01:01:18.000 --> 01:01:19.875
Come on.
Wait, I'll come up.

01:01:20.875 --> 01:01:22.250
No, no!

01:01:23.042 --> 01:01:24.042
Hurry.

01:01:25.667 --> 01:01:27.625
He won't stay long, don't move.

01:01:33.083 --> 01:01:34.125
Mimi?

01:01:34.292 --> 01:01:35.542
My sweetheart.

01:01:36.333 --> 01:01:38.042
- Sleeping?
- No, rehearsing.

01:01:38.208 --> 01:01:38.917
Already!

01:01:39.083 --> 01:01:40.250
Hello, Berenice.

01:01:40.417 --> 01:01:41.417
You're crazy.

01:01:45.583 --> 01:01:47.042
Hang on, one second.

01:01:47.208 --> 01:01:48.292
Berenice!

01:01:48.792 --> 01:01:50.958
What time is rehearsal today?

01:01:51.708 --> 01:01:54.625
Can you pick up
my dress at Guérini's?

01:01:54.792 --> 01:01:56.208
I'll give you money.

01:02:00.958 --> 01:02:02.458
There are my boots!

01:02:02.625 --> 01:02:05.250
You said they were with your costumes.

01:02:05.417 --> 01:02:06.833
No, they were here.

01:02:07.583 --> 01:02:10.375
They're for a man's role
I'm playing soon.

01:02:10.542 --> 01:02:12.292
But they're much too big.

01:02:12.458 --> 01:02:14.833
I put newspaper inside, but they hurt.

01:02:16.167 --> 01:02:19.958
Will you drop me off?
I can try out my new carriage.

01:02:32.250 --> 01:02:35.375
I've never had one,
I don't know how to drive.

01:02:36.292 --> 01:02:37.625
I'll show you.

01:02:39.417 --> 01:02:41.000
You're completely crazy.

01:02:50.292 --> 01:02:51.833
I'll find you some shoes.

01:02:53.917 --> 01:02:55.542
Is she attached to him?

01:02:55.917 --> 01:02:57.417
He keeps us.

01:02:59.542 --> 01:03:01.917
He saved us when she was unwell.

01:03:05.167 --> 01:03:06.708
What an actress.

01:03:07.500 --> 01:03:10.708
I won't let her lose everything
for a springtime flirt.

01:03:15.167 --> 01:03:16.167
What size?

01:03:17.333 --> 01:03:20.417
Dear sister,
I beg your forgiveness, I write little.

01:03:21.083 --> 01:03:22.458
Time flies in Patris.

01:03:23.125 --> 01:03:25.292
Everything is alarmingly rapid.

01:03:27.292 --> 01:03:28.750
I have big news.

01:03:28.917 --> 01:03:31.333
I at last met a great publisher.

01:03:31.500 --> 01:03:35.042
His name is Dauriat
and he's interested in my poetry.

01:03:36.250 --> 01:03:38.625
To devote myself entirely to writing,

01:03:38.792 --> 01:03:41.375
I distanced myself
from Mme. de Bargeton

01:03:41.542 --> 01:03:43.625
and her vain society life.

01:03:44.500 --> 01:03:48.458
I believe our separation made her suffer,
but I had no choice.

01:03:48.625 --> 01:03:51.958
Without money,
one cannot join high society.

01:03:53.125 --> 01:03:56.542
Imagine,
I've already spent 1,800 francs.

01:03:56.917 --> 01:03:59.417
I must now cut back on spending.

01:04:00.458 --> 01:04:02.208
Paris is a bottomless pit.

01:04:02.375 --> 01:04:06.542
You pay for everything,
even to cross gutters when it rains!

01:04:07.125 --> 01:04:10.083
But you can also
make lifechanging encounters,

01:04:10.250 --> 01:04:14.542
ones that propel you
in unexpected and luminous directions.

01:04:14.958 --> 01:04:17.417
For example,
I met a brilliant journalist

01:04:17.583 --> 01:04:19.917
who gave me
a job in a respected paper.

01:04:21.167 --> 01:04:22.250
Have no fear.

01:04:22.417 --> 01:04:26.208
Journalism will never distract me
from my own writing

01:04:26.750 --> 01:04:28.167
or my poetry.

01:04:28.333 --> 01:04:29.333
Lucien.

01:04:36.500 --> 01:04:38.292
Gentlemen!

01:04:39.333 --> 01:04:40.542
Meeting!

01:04:41.667 --> 01:04:43.083
It's the big day!

01:04:44.333 --> 01:04:45.458
Gentlemen.

01:04:46.250 --> 01:04:49.667
Today we celebrate
the union of our two beloved papers:

01:04:49.833 --> 01:04:51.417
Le Corsaire and Le Satan.

01:04:52.208 --> 01:04:54.125
Henceforth, we are called:

01:04:54.292 --> 01:04:56.042
Le Corsaire-Satan.

01:04:59.667 --> 01:05:01.542
Took clever thinking!

01:05:02.000 --> 01:05:03.667
Comrade Lousteau here

01:05:03.833 --> 01:05:06.250
will be our illustrious editor-in-chief.

01:05:10.208 --> 01:05:13.542
Lousteau,
a great conscience of our times.

01:05:15.583 --> 01:05:16.833
Scoundrel.

01:05:17.208 --> 01:05:18.708
Your turn, Lousteau.

01:05:19.708 --> 01:05:21.000
Gentlemen.

01:05:21.167 --> 01:05:23.042
Inform your theater managers,

01:05:23.417 --> 01:05:24.750
publishers,

01:05:24.917 --> 01:05:28.292
writers, actresses,
merchants and musicians...

01:05:28.458 --> 01:05:29.792
The Pope if you like...

01:05:29.958 --> 01:05:34.875
No article in this paper
will be sold for under 150 francs!

01:05:37.375 --> 01:05:38.958
150 francs the article!

01:05:42.750 --> 01:05:45.000
Our editorial policy is simple:

01:05:45.167 --> 01:05:47.750
the probable
will be upheld as truth!

01:05:49.083 --> 01:05:52.958
There was a specific term
for a false information:

01:05:53.125 --> 01:05:55.042
a "canard" or duck.

01:05:55.208 --> 01:05:57.292
Maybe because
fake sensational news

01:05:57.458 --> 01:06:00.250
was like a wild duck chase.

01:06:00.875 --> 01:06:02.167
To create an event,

01:06:02.333 --> 01:06:04.500
a paper could print any rumor.

01:06:04.667 --> 01:06:05.792
True or false,

01:06:05.958 --> 01:06:08.333
no one dwelled on such details.

01:06:09.292 --> 01:06:11.208
These men had understood,

01:06:11.375 --> 01:06:14.708
a fake news and its denial
were two events.

01:06:15.458 --> 01:06:19.125
The only truth that mattered,
were sales figures.

01:06:20.458 --> 01:06:21.792
So false information

01:06:21.958 --> 01:06:24.208
or "ducks" had free reign

01:06:24.375 --> 01:06:26.500
and were not yet chained down.

01:06:26.667 --> 01:06:28.583
Long live the Emperor!

01:06:31.417 --> 01:06:35.250
Hustlers, merchants,
actors, writers, politicians, theatres...

01:06:35.833 --> 01:06:39.375
Everyone came to negotiate,
order an article,

01:06:39.542 --> 01:06:42.375
peddle gossip or offer bribes.

01:06:45.500 --> 01:06:46.208
Paper!

01:06:46.375 --> 01:06:47.958
A new industry was born.

01:06:48.625 --> 01:06:51.208
Editorial press
became commercial press.

01:06:51.750 --> 01:06:52.792
Paper!

01:06:53.167 --> 01:06:54.750
The paper was now a shop

01:06:54.917 --> 01:06:57.958
that sold the public
what they wanted to hear.

01:06:58.417 --> 01:07:01.750
One no longer enlightened,
one flattered opinions.

01:07:01.917 --> 01:07:03.125
Or created them.

01:07:05.000 --> 01:07:08.292
News, debate and ideas
had become goods

01:07:08.458 --> 01:07:10.333
to palm off on subscribers.

01:07:10.708 --> 01:07:11.708
Paper!

01:07:11.792 --> 01:07:14.833
Journalists became retailers of phrases,

01:07:15.000 --> 01:07:16.833
wheelers and dealers of words,

01:07:17.000 --> 01:07:20.042
brokers between artists and the public.

01:07:20.208 --> 01:07:20.917
Paper!

01:07:21.083 --> 01:07:22.458
Lucien learned fast.

01:07:22.625 --> 01:07:24.583
Very fast... He wrote furiously,

01:07:24.750 --> 01:07:26.542
with the fury of revenge.

01:07:27.750 --> 01:07:30.500
Backstage gossip, rumors,
mocking witticisms...

01:07:30.667 --> 01:07:34.333
Within days, Lucien wrote dozens
of cruel, witty articles,

01:07:34.500 --> 01:07:36.292
which became his trademark.

01:07:36.458 --> 01:07:38.458
See this? Paid the same day.

01:07:38.625 --> 01:07:39.750
That's not all...

01:07:39.917 --> 01:07:40.917
Ta-da!

01:07:43.125 --> 01:07:45.083
It's Coralie who will be happy.

01:07:56.000 --> 01:07:57.750
Is there anymore champagne?

01:07:59.375 --> 01:08:00.500
How old were you?

01:08:00.667 --> 01:08:02.458
I must've been 13 or 14.

01:08:04.458 --> 01:08:05.958
Your mother gave you...

01:08:07.208 --> 01:08:08.500
Not gave, sold!

01:08:08.667 --> 01:08:12.167
When I heard the price,
I knew I wasn't worth much.

01:08:13.875 --> 01:08:16.000
It was a small troupe.

01:08:16.417 --> 01:08:18.417
They taught me to dance.

01:08:19.208 --> 01:08:20.417
And after that?

01:08:20.583 --> 01:08:23.333
After that,
men started hanging around.

01:08:23.500 --> 01:08:26.125
Bad things
happened to the other girls.

01:08:26.667 --> 01:08:28.375
Lots of nasty business.

01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:31.167
And after that?

01:08:32.083 --> 01:08:34.875
When I turned 15,
I was hired by another troupe

01:08:35.042 --> 01:08:36.458
to do street mime.

01:08:36.625 --> 01:08:38.125
It was the fad in Paris.

01:08:39.375 --> 01:08:40.667
And there you go.

01:08:41.042 --> 01:08:42.750
That's how I met Florine.

01:08:46.125 --> 01:08:47.125
Thanks.

01:08:50.750 --> 01:08:52.625
You're too handsome for me.

01:08:53.125 --> 01:08:54.583
You'll hurt me.

01:08:55.208 --> 01:08:58.708
You'll meet a rich marquise and bam!
No more Coralie.

01:09:02.708 --> 01:09:04.750
I never made love like that.

01:09:06.125 --> 01:09:08.125
I give myself entirely.

01:09:08.750 --> 01:09:10.458
Otherwise what's the point?

01:09:13.333 --> 01:09:14.958
You're not like them.

01:09:16.750 --> 01:09:18.250
You'll do great things.

01:09:19.292 --> 01:09:21.125
I'm not smart but I can tell.

01:09:21.875 --> 01:09:23.375
I feel these things.

01:09:36.167 --> 01:09:38.458
"A Turkey held in its beak

01:09:38.625 --> 01:09:41.917
"a Cuttlefish bone as dry as could be.

01:09:42.083 --> 01:09:44.292
"The Turkey was from Angouléme,

01:09:44.458 --> 01:09:46.333
"on the banks of the Charente."

01:09:47.000 --> 01:09:50.750
"But next thing we knew,
the bird was used to make stew."

01:09:51.083 --> 01:09:53.542
Our dear baron will love this.

01:09:54.250 --> 01:09:56.833
- Lucien didn't write it.
- He didn't sign,

01:09:57.000 --> 01:09:59.292
but his name
is on the following page.

01:10:00.458 --> 01:10:03.500
The impudent boy
continues signing "de Rubempré."

01:10:08.625 --> 01:10:09.625
Do you believe

01:10:09.708 --> 01:10:12.958
him capable
of spreading awkward rumors,

01:10:13.542 --> 01:10:14.833
my dear cousin?

01:10:18.292 --> 01:10:19.542
He's above that.

01:10:20.125 --> 01:10:21.292
You think so?

01:10:30.375 --> 01:10:32.125
I feel remorse over him.

01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:35.750
Then adopt him and be done with it.

01:10:37.958 --> 01:10:41.542
Far from salons, Lucien's dignified
apprenticeship continued.

01:10:44.167 --> 01:10:45.750
Overwhelmed by the number

01:10:45.917 --> 01:10:49.167
of books to review,
the writers used their monkey

01:10:49.333 --> 01:10:52.250
as a referee and let him choose.

01:10:52.417 --> 01:10:53.708
So.

01:10:53.875 --> 01:10:55.542
Stendhal or Chateaubriand?

01:10:55.708 --> 01:10:57.458
Based on the ape's reaction

01:10:57.625 --> 01:11:00.792
they would support or trample
a play or a novel,

01:11:01.333 --> 01:11:04.250
cynically attacking the stage
and literature.

01:11:07.750 --> 01:11:08.750
In any case,

01:11:08.917 --> 01:11:11.375
someone would have to fork out.

01:11:11.542 --> 01:11:14.833
The press was
an increasingly lucrative business,

01:11:15.625 --> 01:11:17.667
and readers ever more numerous.

01:11:17.833 --> 01:11:18.875
Byron!

01:11:19.042 --> 01:11:21.917
To meet the growing demands
of new dailies,

01:11:22.083 --> 01:11:25.750
German engineers
invented the rotary printing press.

01:11:26.542 --> 01:11:30.292
It was now possible
to print 20 times more pages.

01:11:30.750 --> 01:11:33.458
Distribution jumped from a few thousand

01:11:33.625 --> 01:11:37.208
to tens of thousands,
and soon hundreds of thousands,

01:11:37.375 --> 01:11:40.125
while advertising
brought in ever more money.

01:11:41.750 --> 01:11:45.583
Advertising agencies
were created to help merchants

01:11:45.750 --> 01:11:48.500
and industrialists
find slogans and images

01:11:48.667 --> 01:11:52.375
to sell products
that readers didn't need.

01:11:53.375 --> 01:11:55.917
Singali too, stepped up the pace.

01:11:56.958 --> 01:12:00.250
To increase profits,
he invented a strange contraption

01:12:00.417 --> 01:12:02.542
baptized the "Glory Machine."

01:12:03.792 --> 01:12:05.250
Turn the crank

01:12:05.417 --> 01:12:10.417
and wooden keys hidden under seats
imitated applause.

01:12:11.167 --> 01:12:14.042
He hoped that upon hearing
this false applause,

01:12:14.208 --> 01:12:17.792
the audience
would automatically applaud too.

01:12:18.292 --> 01:12:19.667
What an invention!

01:12:21.125 --> 01:12:23.125
Lastly, for whistles and boos,

01:12:23.292 --> 01:12:27.625
he concealed horns
in dark nooks and crannies of theatres.

01:12:29.125 --> 01:12:32.542
In the end, he dropped his machines
to work manually,

01:12:32.708 --> 01:12:34.250
like a true craftsman,

01:12:34.417 --> 01:12:37.458
for he missed
the contact with his audiences.

01:12:38.083 --> 01:12:40.292
And of course, the artists.

01:12:45.125 --> 01:12:46.333
Oh, cruel!

01:12:47.917 --> 01:12:49.917
Is it now you wound my heart?

01:12:51.500 --> 01:12:53.000
What have you done?

01:12:53.417 --> 01:12:55.500
And yet I believed I was loved.

01:12:57.125 --> 01:13:00.750
My soul, long pleased
with your presence, lived for you.

01:13:01.875 --> 01:13:05.333
Where were your laws,
when first I told you?

01:13:07.042 --> 01:13:08.292
What excess...

01:13:08.458 --> 01:13:09.917
Mr. Director.

01:13:10.625 --> 01:13:12.583
- You wished to see me?
- Yes.

01:13:15.042 --> 01:13:16.417
Have we met?

01:13:16.750 --> 01:13:18.667
I certainly know who you are.

01:13:22.458 --> 01:13:25.667
Will you audition
many actresses for the role?

01:13:28.542 --> 01:13:30.333
It's a difficult role.

01:13:30.500 --> 01:13:31.917
I have no choice.

01:13:34.625 --> 01:13:36.292
One always has a choice.

01:13:38.583 --> 01:13:39.958
Wouldn't you say?

01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:44.875
My friends!

01:13:45.792 --> 01:13:46.625
Friends.

01:13:46.792 --> 01:13:49.583
To Coralie,
and her first great role.

01:14:00.000 --> 01:14:02.583
You'll play Racine too one day,
my lovely.

01:14:02.750 --> 01:14:04.500
You'll discover sentiments.

01:14:30.333 --> 01:14:32.500
You have a fine pair of boots.

01:14:33.792 --> 01:14:36.375
I believe
I've seen them somewhere.

01:14:37.250 --> 01:14:38.250
No?

01:14:45.542 --> 01:14:46.750
I'd give all I have

01:14:46.917 --> 01:14:48.375
for one look like that.

01:14:48.542 --> 01:14:50.833
Accept that your role is over.

01:14:51.583 --> 01:14:53.167
She needs you no longer.

01:14:53.500 --> 01:14:55.458
I want her to lack for nothing.

01:14:57.042 --> 01:14:58.167
For me,

01:14:58.792 --> 01:15:00.458
you are nothing.

01:15:01.958 --> 01:15:03.167
Listen to him.

01:15:03.333 --> 01:15:06.375
Your articles amuse me.
You make me seem so cruel.

01:15:06.542 --> 01:15:07.833
Glad to hear it...

01:15:08.000 --> 01:15:09.125
madam.

01:15:15.083 --> 01:15:16.833
She will lack for nothing.

01:15:19.167 --> 01:15:20.500
Good evening.

01:15:22.875 --> 01:15:24.542
A Boulevard actress

01:15:24.708 --> 01:15:29.208
landing a repertoire role
made more than one person smirk.

01:15:31.458 --> 01:15:35.375
The success of Lucien's articles
and Coralie's conquest

01:15:35.542 --> 01:15:38.250
would have made
a more mature head spin.

01:15:40.500 --> 01:15:44.667
Lucien's faux-pas was to flaunt
his victories and worse yet,

01:15:44.833 --> 01:15:46.458
exhibit his happiness.

01:15:50.167 --> 01:15:53.083
Coralie took Lucien to parties,
society evenings

01:15:53.250 --> 01:15:56.083
and shops in vogue,
offering her lover fine suits

01:15:56.542 --> 01:15:59.375
to shine by her side
among the Paris smart set.

01:16:02.458 --> 01:16:05.125
She wanted to teach Lucien
to play with life,

01:16:05.292 --> 01:16:06.875
like she did on stage.

01:16:08.292 --> 01:16:11.625
But art and literary glory
were forgotten quests.

01:17:57.375 --> 01:17:58.458
Good evening.

01:17:59.833 --> 01:18:01.417
Please meet Miss Coralie.

01:18:07.750 --> 01:18:09.125
You won't greet her

01:18:09.292 --> 01:18:11.000
because she's an actress?

01:18:12.625 --> 01:18:13.958
You applaud her onstage

01:18:14.125 --> 01:18:16.125
but ignore her in real life.

01:18:16.292 --> 01:18:17.583
That's enough.

01:18:17.750 --> 01:18:20.875
She's not respectable enough
for people like you?

01:18:26.417 --> 01:18:28.250
Tell me, my favorite enemy,

01:18:28.417 --> 01:18:30.208
did Dauriat take your book?

01:18:31.917 --> 01:18:34.292
I must earn my living at the paper.

01:18:35.042 --> 01:18:36.292
I inherited nothing.

01:18:36.833 --> 01:18:38.000
Like myself.

01:18:38.542 --> 01:18:41.125
Not even a name.
We know that, Mr. Chardon.

01:18:41.292 --> 01:18:42.708
<i>My name is Rubempré.</i>

01:18:42.875 --> 01:18:44.500
Chardon or Rubempré,

01:18:44.667 --> 01:18:46.000
you'll be forgotten.

01:18:46.792 --> 01:18:48.417
Please, Lucien. Let's go.

01:18:48.583 --> 01:18:51.125
You've given up your literary ambitions?

01:18:52.375 --> 01:18:53.625
Don't worry for me.

01:18:55.500 --> 01:18:57.333
- Come on.
- Mademoiselle.

01:18:58.667 --> 01:19:00.750
You are an actress I admire.

01:19:04.625 --> 01:19:06.375
May I invite you to dance?

01:19:07.125 --> 01:19:08.875
Forgive me...

01:19:09.667 --> 01:19:11.583
I'm no longer in the mood.

01:19:13.125 --> 01:19:14.417
Good evening, Louise.

01:19:20.000 --> 01:19:21.208
Was it her?

01:19:24.000 --> 01:19:25.250
She's beautiful.

01:19:27.250 --> 01:19:28.917
She looks unhappy.

01:19:34.625 --> 01:19:36.333
Why'd they call you Chardon?

01:19:49.042 --> 01:19:50.917
My father's name was Chardon

01:19:52.250 --> 01:19:55.208
and my mother was born
Amelie de Rubempré.

01:19:57.917 --> 01:20:00.000
I want to carry my mother's name.

01:20:07.917 --> 01:20:09.542
It doesn't matter to me.

01:20:11.042 --> 01:20:12.583
You have only one name...

01:20:13.625 --> 01:20:15.042
that of my love.

01:21:20.208 --> 01:21:21.833
I'm sick, Lucien.

01:21:24.250 --> 01:21:26.333
They call it consumption.

01:21:28.542 --> 01:21:30.208
A sort of tuberculosis.

01:21:37.917 --> 01:21:39.875
We need to create beauty.

01:21:46.000 --> 01:21:47.958
Everything's rotten, everywhere.

01:21:50.750 --> 01:21:52.792
We must fight for beauty.

01:22:04.000 --> 01:22:05.750
I don't want your poetry.

01:22:05.917 --> 01:22:07.125
It's wasted money.

01:22:07.583 --> 01:22:09.708
Lucien is with the paper now.

01:22:10.333 --> 01:22:12.542
Trying to intimidate me,
you upstart?

01:22:13.083 --> 01:22:15.875
It's unsellable.
I'd be a laughing stock.

01:22:16.292 --> 01:22:19.083
Literature is important to many people.

01:22:19.708 --> 01:22:21.542
A world view, love of beauty...

01:22:21.958 --> 01:22:23.792
If only for a few readers.

01:22:24.208 --> 01:22:25.542
One single reader.

01:22:25.708 --> 01:22:27.250
- One single reader?
- Yes.

01:22:27.417 --> 01:22:28.917
You're out of your mind.

01:22:29.250 --> 01:22:31.333
Your Marguerites can wilt.

01:22:31.500 --> 01:22:33.458
What language must I say it in?

01:22:33.625 --> 01:22:34.792
You, come here.

01:22:37.917 --> 01:22:40.000
We need to talk about Berthier.

01:22:40.167 --> 01:22:42.208
- What?
- He's kicking up trouble.

01:22:42.375 --> 01:22:44.583
Thanks.
Review this, as agreed.

01:22:45.542 --> 01:22:47.500
- Do your job.
- Of course.

01:23:03.125 --> 01:23:05.208
He'll publish your Marguerites.

01:23:07.625 --> 01:23:10.250
- I have my conditions.
- Of course.

01:23:12.000 --> 01:23:13.625
I'd like to talk to you.

01:23:15.875 --> 01:23:17.333
I know your poems.

01:23:20.500 --> 01:23:21.792
Louise...

01:23:22.542 --> 01:23:25.250
spoke of you and Angouléme
the other night

01:23:25.667 --> 01:23:27.333
with great emotion.

01:23:27.833 --> 01:23:29.625
She read us your work.

01:23:31.042 --> 01:23:32.958
Certain things were excellent.

01:23:34.583 --> 01:23:35.625
Honestly.

01:23:41.292 --> 01:23:42.833
She's a wounded woman.

01:23:44.208 --> 01:23:45.958
She wishes you no harm.

01:23:46.708 --> 01:23:48.708
How could she harm me now?

01:23:50.333 --> 01:23:52.125
By sending you to trick me?

01:23:55.375 --> 01:23:57.417
Don't imagine enemies everywhere.

01:23:57.583 --> 01:23:59.250
You have none, perhaps?

01:23:59.833 --> 01:24:01.750
Only the necessary ones.

01:24:04.083 --> 01:24:06.333
What matters to me is creation.

01:24:06.667 --> 01:24:08.208
And to you too, I know.

01:24:09.833 --> 01:24:11.375
The scheming,

01:24:11.542 --> 01:24:13.333
the endless gossip...

01:24:13.500 --> 01:24:15.292
Empty noise, hot air.

01:24:15.458 --> 01:24:17.750
Learn to look upon it as a game.

01:24:18.583 --> 01:24:19.583
Lucien?

01:24:20.750 --> 01:24:21.958
Ready to go?

01:24:24.333 --> 01:24:25.917
See you soon, I hope.

01:24:27.125 --> 01:24:28.833
You want revenge on Dauriat?

01:24:32.458 --> 01:24:34.583
Nathan's book is coming out.

01:24:35.000 --> 01:24:37.417
Dauriat's gambling on it.
Big time.

01:24:37.750 --> 01:24:38.917
Knock yourself out.

01:24:41.917 --> 01:24:43.625
Nathan came to talk with me.

01:24:44.083 --> 01:24:47.083
Of course.
He wants everyone to like him.

01:24:47.250 --> 01:24:49.875
He's afraid of the reviews
and he should be.

01:24:50.375 --> 01:24:52.542
He talk about
the "love of art," etc.?

01:24:52.708 --> 01:24:54.583
He tried the same with me.

01:24:55.292 --> 01:24:56.708
Knock yourself out.

01:25:12.042 --> 01:25:13.500
Envied by many,

01:25:13.667 --> 01:25:17.292
Nathan had become
a prominent literary figure in no time.

01:25:17.875 --> 01:25:20.583
His insolent youth
and style seduced all.

01:25:20.750 --> 01:25:24.542
People fought over his friendship
and Royalist network,

01:25:24.708 --> 01:25:26.458
even if some only saw in him

01:25:26.625 --> 01:25:29.125
false glory
built on press reviews.

01:25:55.208 --> 01:25:56.708
Coming along?

01:26:02.958 --> 01:26:05.042
I can't demolish this book.

01:26:05.875 --> 01:26:07.208
It has power...

01:26:07.792 --> 01:26:08.833
emotion.

01:26:09.667 --> 01:26:11.292
Nathan has true talent.

01:26:12.250 --> 01:26:13.708
He's inspired...

01:26:14.333 --> 01:26:15.583
sincere.

01:26:15.750 --> 01:26:17.833
- Never conventional.
- Spare me.

01:26:18.000 --> 01:26:21.208
He's always the right distance
from his subjects.

01:26:21.667 --> 01:26:23.833
Listen to his last words.

01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:28.125
"I now stop hoping and begin living."

01:26:31.875 --> 01:26:33.292
It's almost Corneille.

01:26:33.458 --> 01:26:35.667
He probably stole it from him.

01:26:36.083 --> 01:26:37.292
I can't insult him.

01:26:37.750 --> 01:26:40.750
Of course you can.
It's a question of perspective.

01:26:41.500 --> 01:26:43.583
- Meaning?
- I'll tell you a story.

01:26:45.000 --> 01:26:49.750
One day, two critics were in a boat
on the Sea of Galilee.

01:26:50.458 --> 01:26:51.583
Suddenly,

01:26:52.167 --> 01:26:53.500
Christ appeared

01:26:53.958 --> 01:26:56.125
and started walking on the water.

01:26:56.917 --> 01:27:01.125
One critic says to the other:
"See that? He can't even swim."

01:27:04.292 --> 01:27:06.625
A book is moving? Call it sentimental.

01:27:06.792 --> 01:27:08.625
Classic? It's academic.

01:27:08.792 --> 01:27:10.750
Funny? Superficial.

01:27:11.292 --> 01:27:13.667
Intelligent? It's pretentious.

01:27:13.833 --> 01:27:17.167
If it's inspired,
call it sensationalism.

01:27:17.333 --> 01:27:18.333
And so on.

01:27:20.500 --> 01:27:23.458
Well-constructed? It's predictable.

01:27:24.083 --> 01:27:27.250
The author has style?
He has nothing to say.

01:27:30.458 --> 01:27:32.375
You can criticize the length.

01:27:32.542 --> 01:27:33.833
That always smarts.

01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:35.458
It's always too long.

01:27:35.625 --> 01:27:37.875
Confused, not controlled.

01:27:38.042 --> 01:27:39.500
What's the point?

01:27:39.667 --> 01:27:41.958
Does the author even know himself?

01:27:42.750 --> 01:27:44.625
And yet control lacks fantasy.

01:27:44.792 --> 01:27:47.125
But fantasy means incoherency.

01:27:50.333 --> 01:27:51.542
Go on, get going.

01:27:52.125 --> 01:27:53.750
We'll take care of Nathan.

01:27:53.917 --> 01:27:57.125
Lucien's thirst for avenge
on Dauriat, Chételet, Louise,

01:27:57.292 --> 01:27:59.250
Angouléme and potatoes

01:27:59.417 --> 01:28:01.583
replaced
conscience and inspiration

01:28:01.750 --> 01:28:03.667
as he set out to destroy Nathan.

01:28:04.667 --> 01:28:07.083
This dark, solitary pleasure

01:28:07.250 --> 01:28:11.042
allowed one to wound
an absent foe with a pen stroke.

01:28:11.875 --> 01:28:15.333
Despite the simplistic vulgarity
of this mocking wit,

01:28:15.500 --> 01:28:17.833
certain papers thrived on it.

01:28:24.792 --> 01:28:27.625
"So please tell Nathan d'Anastazio

01:28:27.792 --> 01:28:30.125
"not to jump off a bridge quite yet,

01:28:30.292 --> 01:28:32.917
"for he still has
multitudes to disappoint."

01:28:35.083 --> 01:28:37.917
- An admirable show of bad faith.
- Thank you.

01:28:42.167 --> 01:28:43.583
What's wrong?

01:28:44.292 --> 01:28:46.792
I can't tell
if it's good or bad anymore.

01:28:46.958 --> 01:28:48.667
It doesn't matter.

01:28:48.833 --> 01:28:51.250
What we write is forgotten at once.

01:28:51.417 --> 01:28:52.958
They'll wrap fish with it.

01:28:57.083 --> 01:28:59.583
It's possible to write works that last.

01:29:00.542 --> 01:29:03.500
Defend ideas
and sentiments you believe in.

01:29:05.292 --> 01:29:07.917
- I'm sure that Nathan...
- Forget Nathan!

01:29:08.333 --> 01:29:09.708
He's a puppet.

01:29:11.833 --> 01:29:12.583
Like us.

01:29:12.750 --> 01:29:14.417
Right, like us.

01:29:18.333 --> 01:29:20.208
Dauriat will have an attack.

01:29:31.125 --> 01:29:32.167
The next day,

01:29:32.333 --> 01:29:36.292
Lucien had his scathing review
delivered to Dauriat.

01:29:39.417 --> 01:29:40.667
Before publication,

01:29:40.833 --> 01:29:44.125
Lousteau and Lucien
wanted to kindly inform Dauriat

01:29:44.292 --> 01:29:46.917
of a conspiracy against his pet writer.

01:29:53.292 --> 01:29:55.458
Lucien wrote this piece of drivel?

01:29:55.625 --> 01:29:56.625
Of course.

01:30:10.708 --> 01:30:14.125
Lucien let the publishing sultan
wait a good hour.

01:30:14.292 --> 01:30:17.083
Some supposed
"urgent" business to settle.

01:30:20.333 --> 01:30:22.708
I brought you back your article.

01:30:23.792 --> 01:30:25.208
How very mean.

01:30:25.792 --> 01:30:27.333
You've made progress.

01:30:27.792 --> 01:30:29.125
You think so?

01:30:31.292 --> 01:30:33.625
I lack education,
but I finally grasped

01:30:33.792 --> 01:30:35.625
the beauty of your Marguerites.

01:30:37.667 --> 01:30:40.583
I changed my mind: I'll buy your poems.

01:30:42.208 --> 01:30:43.875
How awkward.

01:30:44.458 --> 01:30:46.750
I've received other offers.

01:30:46.917 --> 01:30:48.625
Yes, I can imagine.

01:30:48.792 --> 01:30:51.583
People must be fighting
to publish poetry.

01:30:52.250 --> 01:30:55.333
But take heed, if I buy your book,

01:30:55.500 --> 01:30:57.708
you're one of the family.

01:30:57.875 --> 01:31:01.458
This means you will never attack
my writers again.

01:31:02.125 --> 01:31:04.208
I must keep my independence.

01:31:04.375 --> 01:31:05.917
Your independence?

01:31:06.708 --> 01:31:09.083
I've bribed every critic in Paris,

01:31:09.250 --> 01:31:11.292
don't speak of independence.

01:31:13.333 --> 01:31:14.708
Excuse me...

01:31:15.375 --> 01:31:16.875
I have work.

01:31:18.708 --> 01:31:20.458
You call this work?

01:31:22.917 --> 01:31:24.625
May I show you out?

01:31:25.500 --> 01:31:27.667
If we do business together,

01:31:27.833 --> 01:31:31.417
I want my say about the paper,
typeface and illustrations.

01:31:31.583 --> 01:31:32.250
Yes...

01:31:32.417 --> 01:31:34.667
I heard you started out in printing.

01:31:34.833 --> 01:31:36.833
I was an orphan, I had to work.

01:31:38.458 --> 01:31:39.958
How moving.

01:31:40.750 --> 01:31:43.000
Have you thought of making a novel?

01:31:43.167 --> 01:31:44.000
Yes!

01:31:44.167 --> 01:31:46.042
"The Orphan of Angouléme."

01:31:46.375 --> 01:31:49.875
Flung into Paris,
he lost his footing and drowned.

01:31:50.042 --> 01:31:54.458
But no fool,
he observed and learned.

01:31:56.458 --> 01:31:59.250
Yet would he remember
his nobler ambitions?

01:32:01.500 --> 01:32:02.583
Let's go.

01:32:03.417 --> 01:32:04.750
Dauriat?

01:32:05.500 --> 01:32:07.792
Have you bothered to open my book?

01:32:08.500 --> 01:32:10.167
For my peace of mind.

01:32:10.333 --> 01:32:13.667
Forget your peace of mind, young man.

01:32:13.833 --> 01:32:17.000
You have influential friends
and famous enemies.

01:32:17.167 --> 01:32:20.000
In Paris,
people speak of your cruel articles.

01:32:20.167 --> 01:32:22.625
You've made it, you're in the limelight.

01:32:22.792 --> 01:32:24.000
Part of the show.

01:32:24.833 --> 01:32:26.625
- Part of the show?
- Yes.

01:32:27.083 --> 01:32:29.083
What if I had a sudden urge

01:32:29.250 --> 01:32:31.667
to write a favorable article
about Nathan.

01:32:33.333 --> 01:32:35.042
200 francs... paid outright.

01:32:35.208 --> 01:32:37.000
Come now, 200 francs...

01:32:37.167 --> 01:32:39.667
Niceties are harder to write
than slander.

01:32:39.833 --> 01:32:41.542
Oh, yes!

01:32:41.958 --> 01:32:45.292
Especially
for an independent spirit like you.

01:32:46.167 --> 01:32:47.917
Make me another proposal.

01:32:48.542 --> 01:32:50.292
Let's say 250.

01:32:51.583 --> 01:32:52.833
Let's say 500.

01:32:53.292 --> 01:32:54.417
5007

01:32:56.125 --> 01:32:58.000
No one's paid that.

01:32:59.417 --> 01:33:00.750
It's my price.

01:33:03.250 --> 01:33:06.167
Okay, 500.
But with a front-page spot.

01:33:06.708 --> 01:33:08.000
Alright.

01:33:09.625 --> 01:33:11.292
But I'll do it for free.

01:33:13.375 --> 01:33:15.625
Out of respect for literature.

01:33:17.292 --> 01:33:18.292
Tell Nathan.

01:33:19.208 --> 01:33:21.875
You will need him like he needs you.

01:33:26.167 --> 01:33:29.750
Lucien let his quill
express his sincere admiration

01:33:29.917 --> 01:33:33.000
for this novel
he would've liked to write himself.

01:33:41.917 --> 01:33:42.917
The next day,

01:33:43.083 --> 01:33:44.833
Lucien's laudatory article

01:33:45.000 --> 01:33:48.167
was on the front page
of the famous Le Corsaire-Satan.

01:33:49.417 --> 01:33:51.375
The controversy was launched.

01:33:57.333 --> 01:33:59.708
People went wild over this new critic

01:34:00.375 --> 01:34:02.792
who rose above partisan quarrels

01:34:03.500 --> 01:34:07.167
for love of beauty
and with no ulterior motives.

01:34:09.042 --> 01:34:11.750
More astonishing, a Royalist deputy

01:34:11.917 --> 01:34:15.250
even cited a phrase
from Lucien's article at the Chamber.

01:34:15.792 --> 01:34:19.000
The comedy played
at the National Assembly too.

01:34:19.167 --> 01:34:22.500
Rubempré's name
was on everyone's lips.

01:34:24.333 --> 01:34:26.375
Lucien was now a reputed journalist,

01:34:26.542 --> 01:34:28.333
a Parisian figure,

01:34:28.500 --> 01:34:31.458
with all the extras
inherent to this status.

01:34:36.958 --> 01:34:38.208
My, my.

01:34:41.083 --> 01:34:43.208
The Marguerites wasted no time.

01:34:47.792 --> 01:34:49.042
You're here!

01:34:49.792 --> 01:34:52.250
We're not finished decorating yet.

01:34:52.625 --> 01:34:54.625
He'll have to write fast.

01:34:54.792 --> 01:34:57.083
Camusot got us six months' credit.

01:34:57.250 --> 01:34:58.375
Bravo.

01:34:59.125 --> 01:35:00.625
- Where's Lucien?
- Upstairs.

01:35:00.792 --> 01:35:03.500
He has a surprise.
We're expecting a crowd.

01:35:03.667 --> 01:35:04.750
Do you like it?

01:35:04.917 --> 01:35:07.458
This is my first real home.

01:35:08.625 --> 01:35:10.458
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

01:35:14.792 --> 01:35:16.167
Ask for the paper!

01:35:16.708 --> 01:35:17.917
Here it is.

01:35:18.417 --> 01:35:19.708
The paper.

01:35:19.875 --> 01:35:22.750
The paper, ask for today's paper.

01:35:22.917 --> 01:35:25.083
We have plenty of copies!

01:35:25.250 --> 01:35:26.375
The paper!

01:35:27.417 --> 01:35:29.375
Here it is, today's paper.

01:35:29.542 --> 01:35:31.167
Go on, read the paper.

01:35:31.625 --> 01:35:33.333
The paper, ladies and gents.

01:35:33.792 --> 01:35:35.375
Glory to the paper.

01:35:40.208 --> 01:35:41.208
Madam?

01:35:42.542 --> 01:35:44.500
Don't forget, read the paper.

01:35:44.667 --> 01:35:45.708
Bravo!

01:35:49.542 --> 01:35:50.792
To Paris!

01:35:53.292 --> 01:35:54.792
And...

01:35:54.958 --> 01:35:56.208
to our loves!

01:36:04.583 --> 01:36:06.500
I believe the time has come

01:36:06.667 --> 01:36:08.625
to truly baptize Lucien.

01:36:10.250 --> 01:36:11.625
Kneel down,

01:36:12.125 --> 01:36:16.125
my good, proud knight,
fearless and without principles.

01:36:16.292 --> 01:36:17.708
<i>None at alt</i>

01:36:20.375 --> 01:36:21.792
In the name

01:36:22.167 --> 01:36:23.875
of Bad Faith,

01:36:24.042 --> 01:36:27.417
False Rumors and Advertising,

01:36:28.292 --> 01:36:30.167
I baptize thee

01:36:30.333 --> 01:36:31.625
Journalist!

01:36:42.500 --> 01:36:43.792
Free applause!

01:36:50.417 --> 01:36:52.500
Fifty francs to open, my friends.

01:36:52.667 --> 01:36:53.667
Friends?

01:36:53.792 --> 01:36:55.083
Friends don't exist!

01:36:55.792 --> 01:36:57.500
Manner of speaking.

01:37:04.042 --> 01:37:05.250
Amusing, isn't it?

01:37:05.417 --> 01:37:06.500
Very.

01:37:06.667 --> 01:37:08.292
I didn't think you'd come.

01:37:09.625 --> 01:37:12.083
I was touched
by what you wrote about me.

01:37:12.250 --> 01:37:13.542
It was sincere.

01:37:16.750 --> 01:37:18.708
How is your release looking?

01:37:20.167 --> 01:37:22.083
Quite well, actually.

01:37:22.250 --> 01:37:24.292
My Royalist friends support me,

01:37:24.708 --> 01:37:26.375
or so they claim.

01:37:26.958 --> 01:37:29.667
And thanks to you,
Liberals should spare me.

01:37:30.958 --> 01:37:33.250
Literature comes out the winner.

01:37:35.542 --> 01:37:36.750
I owe you one.

01:37:44.750 --> 01:37:46.583
I bring a message for you.

01:37:47.375 --> 01:37:48.625
From Louise.

01:37:50.833 --> 01:37:52.375
I saw her this afternoon.

01:37:55.792 --> 01:37:59.708
The paper will soon attack Chatelet,
his clique and their ideas.

01:38:00.208 --> 01:38:01.417
I can do nothing.

01:38:01.583 --> 01:38:04.875
Louise could care less
about Chatelet... or politics.

01:38:08.167 --> 01:38:09.750
She'd like to see you.

01:38:10.917 --> 01:38:13.792
She takes a great risk proposing this.

01:38:13.958 --> 01:38:15.458
You're their béte noire.

01:38:15.625 --> 01:38:17.042
I certainly hope so.

01:38:19.417 --> 01:38:22.583
She can help you
with something close to your heart.

01:38:24.292 --> 01:38:25.458
Which is?

01:38:26.875 --> 01:38:28.500
She'll tell you.

01:38:54.917 --> 01:38:56.500
The meeting with Louise

01:38:56.667 --> 01:38:58.625
took place far from prying eyes.

01:39:00.292 --> 01:39:03.250
The same eyes
which had condemned their couple.

01:39:05.750 --> 01:39:07.542
- Lucien.
- Hello, Nathan.

01:39:07.708 --> 01:39:08.708
How are you?

01:39:08.792 --> 01:39:10.417
Do you live here?

01:39:10.583 --> 01:39:13.500
No, it belongs to a friend.

01:39:13.667 --> 01:39:15.708
A discreet patron of arts.

01:39:15.875 --> 01:39:17.417
I come here on occasion

01:39:17.583 --> 01:39:19.167
to scribble a few pages.

01:39:20.250 --> 01:39:21.250
I see.

01:39:22.083 --> 01:39:23.125
Come.

01:39:25.708 --> 01:39:27.708
She's waiting for you, in there.

01:39:41.542 --> 01:39:43.875
All these books
make me think of you.

01:39:48.500 --> 01:39:50.208
Do you still enjoy reading?

01:39:52.000 --> 01:39:53.708
It's become my profession.

01:39:54.958 --> 01:39:55.958
I know.

01:39:56.667 --> 01:39:58.292
I know your paper.

01:39:59.250 --> 01:40:01.625
I didn't know
you could be so severe.

01:40:04.750 --> 01:40:07.792
But the Turkey du Chatelet
made us all laugh.

01:40:07.958 --> 01:40:10.792
Everyone secretly
passed around his caricature.

01:40:12.125 --> 01:40:13.833
I thought he was your friend.

01:40:14.000 --> 01:40:15.417
I thought so too.

01:40:16.333 --> 01:40:19.417
Then I understood he was only acting.

01:40:19.875 --> 01:40:23.708
In truth, he wanted
my cousin's backing at Court.

01:40:25.125 --> 01:40:26.708
And he succeeded.

01:40:27.292 --> 01:40:30.458
He will be named Prefect of Charente.

01:40:31.583 --> 01:40:33.292
He'll soon go home.

01:40:35.167 --> 01:40:37.667
Perhaps we're condemned
to our provinces.

01:40:39.667 --> 01:40:41.583
You and I found a way out.

01:40:42.958 --> 01:40:45.250
What madness to have left together.

01:40:48.458 --> 01:40:50.167
I was lost, Lucien.

01:40:51.375 --> 01:40:52.500
I was alone.

01:40:54.583 --> 01:40:56.208
I too, was afraid.

01:40:57.875 --> 01:40:59.250
And I hurt you.

01:41:01.042 --> 01:41:03.208
Now I wish to appease your rancor.

01:41:03.375 --> 01:41:05.250
I wish to make amends.

01:41:08.083 --> 01:41:10.917
I can help you
recover your name and title.

01:41:15.583 --> 01:41:18.833
But the sole manner
to obtain a patent from the king

01:41:19.000 --> 01:41:22.000
is in exchange for favors rendered.

01:41:23.792 --> 01:41:25.375
What kind of favors?

01:41:25.542 --> 01:41:26.750
Lucien,

01:41:26.917 --> 01:41:29.000
stop attacking our friends.

01:41:30.250 --> 01:41:32.833
I know you better than anyone.

01:41:34.042 --> 01:41:35.917
Circumstances made you an enemy,

01:41:36.083 --> 01:41:38.250
but deep down you're one of us.

01:41:39.125 --> 01:41:40.417
I know you are.

01:41:50.875 --> 01:41:53.167
I often miss the countryside.

01:41:54.208 --> 01:41:56.042
I'm weary of Paris.

01:42:01.458 --> 01:42:04.000
We had something beautiful back there.

01:42:24.125 --> 01:42:26.083
I learned everything from you.

01:42:28.667 --> 01:42:30.042
Even grief.

01:42:36.042 --> 01:42:38.208
How is your pretty sweetheart?

01:42:39.125 --> 01:42:41.792
Everyone says
she's a marvelous actress.

01:42:45.250 --> 01:42:46.917
I'm very much in love.

01:42:59.583 --> 01:43:02.208
Will she get her own poems too?

01:43:29.833 --> 01:43:32.458
The viscount went out.
He left a letter.

01:43:33.542 --> 01:43:34.792
Dear Lucien,

01:43:35.250 --> 01:43:38.000
many great men started out
with two names.

01:43:38.583 --> 01:43:41.375
Poquelin aka Moliere,
Arouet aka Voltaire,

01:43:41.542 --> 01:43:42.958
Bonaparte aka Napoleon.

01:43:44.333 --> 01:43:46.583
The first a preface of the second.

01:43:47.333 --> 01:43:48.792
<i>Chardon or Rubempré,</i>

01:43:48.958 --> 01:43:51.292
I recognized my passion in you.

01:43:51.708 --> 01:43:54.583
Let me protect you
from this Parisian comedy

01:43:54.750 --> 01:43:56.958
which makes us into unwilling actors.

01:43:58.458 --> 01:44:00.208
I must warn you,

01:44:00.375 --> 01:44:03.458
behind the scenes,
a critical time is approaching.

01:44:04.083 --> 01:44:06.708
In high spheres,
one speaks of new laws

01:44:06.875 --> 01:44:08.958
to strangle the opposition press.

01:44:09.792 --> 01:44:13.000
Some papers have started
selling out in secret.

01:44:15.417 --> 01:44:18.667
You're better than
those godless, lawless hacks.

01:44:21.333 --> 01:44:23.292
You will choose the right path.

01:44:24.083 --> 01:44:25.250
Your friend,

01:44:25.417 --> 01:44:26.708
Nathan.

01:44:29.292 --> 01:44:31.583
I propose a toast to the theatre

01:44:32.417 --> 01:44:34.167
and to journalism!

01:44:48.208 --> 01:44:50.000
Come with us, Mimi.

01:44:53.500 --> 01:44:54.667
Too hot in here!

01:45:12.000 --> 01:45:13.125
So.

01:45:13.292 --> 01:45:14.042
I received

01:45:14.208 --> 01:45:18.250
a request for a genealogical study
of the title "de Rubempré."

01:45:19.667 --> 01:45:21.083
It was my mother's name.

01:45:21.583 --> 01:45:22.833
And your father's?

01:45:24.958 --> 01:45:26.167
I wish to forget it.

01:45:28.500 --> 01:45:31.458
I am informed
of your influential support.

01:45:31.917 --> 01:45:34.292
Very impressive!
The Marquise d'Espard.

01:45:36.500 --> 01:45:37.958
And a Baroness...

01:45:38.750 --> 01:45:40.083
de Bargeton...

01:45:40.833 --> 01:45:42.000
whom I do not know.

01:45:43.250 --> 01:45:45.542
I shall try to do them proud.

01:45:48.083 --> 01:45:51.500
After examining
your degree of noble lineage,

01:45:51.958 --> 01:45:55.167
your request will be sent
to the Justice Minister,

01:45:55.333 --> 01:45:58.042
who will transmit it
to the king's chamber

01:45:58.667 --> 01:46:01.708
with a favorable or unfavorable notice.

01:46:05.083 --> 01:46:07.042
How long will the study take?

01:46:07.208 --> 01:46:10.500
That depends upon
the quality of the documents we find.

01:46:11.792 --> 01:46:15.833
And on concrete proof
that you have rallied to our side.

01:46:20.333 --> 01:46:21.417
In the meanwhile,

01:46:21.583 --> 01:46:24.500
I advise you
to cease writing for a paper

01:46:24.667 --> 01:46:26.292
hostile to the government.

01:46:28.292 --> 01:46:32.042
The Justice Minister
would be particularly sensible.

01:46:36.542 --> 01:46:37.750
I understand.

01:46:42.167 --> 01:46:46.333
Pretexting personal work,
Lucien delivered his last articles,

01:46:46.500 --> 01:46:48.875
but stopped going to the paper.

01:46:49.292 --> 01:46:51.125
He now literally had

01:46:51.292 --> 01:46:53.042
"nobler" ambitions.

01:46:56.292 --> 01:46:58.125
Already dangerously in debt,

01:46:58.292 --> 01:47:02.417
Coralie continued her mad spending
to offer her beloved journalist

01:47:02.583 --> 01:47:04.667
an aristocratic dandy's wardrobe.

01:47:04.833 --> 01:47:06.292
Shoulder: 14.

01:47:06.917 --> 01:47:09.250
She knew
that only shallow people

01:47:09.417 --> 01:47:11.583
do not judge by appearances.

01:47:12.292 --> 01:47:15.792
Suits from Staub's,
Madam Irlande shirts,

01:47:15.958 --> 01:47:18.292
Verdier canes and Farelli boots.

01:47:18.458 --> 01:47:21.958
They needed the latest fashion,
whatever the cost.

01:47:22.750 --> 01:47:26.958
For dress is essential
when you want to pretend you're rich.

01:47:27.125 --> 01:47:29.750
And the best way
to become rich later on.

01:47:31.208 --> 01:47:33.333
The Count de Rubempré.

01:47:34.625 --> 01:47:38.750
We saw him with Countess Coralie
from the National Theater.

01:47:39.542 --> 01:47:41.917
She will perform Racine.
What talent!

01:47:42.458 --> 01:47:44.083
And she must go rehearse.

01:47:44.250 --> 01:47:45.250
Hang on.

01:47:47.042 --> 01:47:48.750
It's an actor's trick.

01:47:49.458 --> 01:47:50.958
Elegant men all do this.

01:47:51.125 --> 01:47:52.292
It's the fashion.

01:47:52.458 --> 01:47:53.458
Oh yes?

01:47:55.583 --> 01:47:57.458
Coralie dressed Lucien,

01:47:57.625 --> 01:48:01.208
but was never invited
to his aristocrat society parties.

01:48:01.375 --> 01:48:05.167
For this crowd still refused
to receive an actress, a hussy.

01:48:05.625 --> 01:48:07.708
She stayed
home alone with Racine,

01:48:07.875 --> 01:48:10.292
wishing to honor his sublime text.

01:48:20.000 --> 01:48:22.958
Salon doors opened before Lucien,

01:48:23.125 --> 01:48:25.833
who thought he'd been banned forever.

01:48:26.208 --> 01:48:27.625
Mr. Lucien Chardon.

01:48:32.875 --> 01:48:34.875
Marquise de Contades.

01:48:44.333 --> 01:48:46.042
Baron du Chatenay.

01:48:56.750 --> 01:48:58.583
Excuse me.

01:49:02.000 --> 01:49:04.417
Lucien's new friend Nathan
promoted him

01:49:04.583 --> 01:49:07.125
among these
idle and rich young aristocrats

01:49:07.292 --> 01:49:09.167
known as "free-livers."”

01:49:09.667 --> 01:49:10.875
<i>De Rubempré.</i>

01:49:11.042 --> 01:49:13.500
His entrance into this caste

01:49:13.667 --> 01:49:16.292
was noticed
by those he had earlier scorned.

01:49:16.458 --> 01:49:19.292
Duke Martin Lassalle,
but between us "Jean-Lou."

01:49:19.458 --> 01:49:22.000
Blinded by his desire for a title,

01:49:22.167 --> 01:49:26.333
did he not perceive
their cold and inhumane smiles?

01:49:26.500 --> 01:49:27.833
We're all here.

01:49:29.208 --> 01:49:31.417
Lucien's an exciting writer.

01:49:31.583 --> 01:49:33.625
His poetry will soon be published.

01:49:34.875 --> 01:49:36.167
Excuse me.

01:49:58.875 --> 01:50:02.625
Monsieur, I haven't
received your Marguerites yet.

01:50:04.042 --> 01:50:06.125
The book hasn't been printed.

01:50:06.292 --> 01:50:07.750
Louise said the contrary.

01:50:07.917 --> 01:50:10.167
You won't forget me?

01:50:10.833 --> 01:50:12.792
Who could forget you, madam?

01:50:14.667 --> 01:50:15.875
Come with me.

01:50:16.042 --> 01:50:17.708
Everyone wants to meet you.

01:50:21.875 --> 01:50:22.958
Here you are.

01:50:23.875 --> 01:50:25.875
A promise is a promise.

01:50:27.792 --> 01:50:30.833
No doubt annoyed
by Louise's rise in Paris society,

01:50:31.250 --> 01:50:35.000
<i>the Marquise d'Espard
lavished attentions on Lucien,</i>

01:50:35.167 --> 01:50:36.625
the man of the moment.

01:50:37.417 --> 01:50:41.000
My friends, you know
that this house adores rare birds.

01:50:41.167 --> 01:50:45.167
Tonight, two young poets
shall brighten our sky.

01:50:46.500 --> 01:50:48.167
Gentlemen, we're listening.

01:50:52.167 --> 01:50:53.167
For her.

01:50:56.042 --> 01:50:59.125
The earth is to sun,
what man is to angels

01:50:59.583 --> 01:51:03.167
One made of splendor,
the other of mire

01:51:03.333 --> 01:51:06.542
Heavenly bodies are sun,
stars warm rapture

01:51:06.708 --> 01:51:09.750
Around the pure spheres,
shall gravitate devils

01:51:09.917 --> 01:51:12.750
In the dark shadows,
where the mind perceives all

01:51:12.917 --> 01:51:15.542
Paradise sun tows
the condemned planet fraught

01:51:16.292 --> 01:51:19.583
Angels in the stars,
fallible and seduced

01:51:19.750 --> 01:51:22.458
Can become human,
poor dwellers of darkness

01:51:23.083 --> 01:51:25.250
Whispered the wind
high on the mountain

01:51:25.417 --> 01:51:27.375
All dark globes moan,

01:51:28.208 --> 01:51:30.125
all earth is a prison

01:51:30.875 --> 01:51:32.917
Where life shall weep,

01:51:33.375 --> 01:51:35.167
until awakening day

01:51:35.542 --> 01:51:38.625
Fallen from sun's grace,
spirit is locked away.

01:51:40.500 --> 01:51:41.875
Magnificent.

01:51:44.708 --> 01:51:48.708
For several weeks,
Lucien's life was one long party.

01:51:48.875 --> 01:51:50.625
A moment outside of time.

01:51:51.708 --> 01:51:55.167
And his success in journalism
was no less impressive.

01:51:57.625 --> 01:51:59.833
He gave into a powerful current,

01:52:00.000 --> 01:52:03.083
a whirlwind
of pleasure and staggering debts.

01:52:05.542 --> 01:52:09.208
His new passion, gambling,
allowed him to play with

01:52:09.375 --> 01:52:12.458
this golden youth
and ape their mannerisms.

01:52:12.625 --> 01:52:14.750
Without the family riches.

01:52:16.250 --> 01:52:17.833
He lived from day to day

01:52:18.000 --> 01:52:20.042
and his chase after a noble title

01:52:20.208 --> 01:52:23.792
sometimes seemed
a pretext to do nothing with his life.

01:52:24.208 --> 01:52:25.500
Simply play.

01:52:31.042 --> 01:52:34.875
Nathan watched his favorite rival
dissipate his talent

01:52:35.042 --> 01:52:37.875
in a frivolous life devoid of creation.

01:52:41.417 --> 01:52:42.458
But perhaps,

01:52:42.625 --> 01:52:46.917
to be a complete writer,
one must experience everything

01:52:47.083 --> 01:52:50.333
before imposing
one's own particular illusion.

01:53:21.333 --> 01:53:22.958
And these too.

01:53:28.667 --> 01:53:30.125
How long will this go on?

01:53:30.875 --> 01:53:32.750
I forbid you to say anything.

01:53:33.458 --> 01:53:35.458
I can't worry him right now.

01:53:36.000 --> 01:53:39.792
Once he has his title,
he'll have protectors and an allowance.

01:53:40.417 --> 01:53:42.208
You don't understand.

01:53:43.208 --> 01:53:44.667
Neither do you, love.

01:53:51.000 --> 01:53:52.042
Lousteau!

01:53:56.667 --> 01:53:57.792
Get out.

01:54:00.667 --> 01:54:01.667
Out!

01:54:05.500 --> 01:54:08.042
You dared change my article
on Ducange?

01:54:08.458 --> 01:54:10.875
We couldn't find you. Dauriat paid.

01:54:11.667 --> 01:54:12.875
I don't get it.

01:54:13.750 --> 01:54:15.958
- I can't write what I want?
- He paid.

01:54:16.125 --> 01:54:17.667
Dauriat paid! Are you deaf?

01:54:17.833 --> 01:54:19.625
I don't give a damn.

01:54:20.667 --> 01:54:22.625
I'm fed up
of your two-cent schemes.

01:54:22.792 --> 01:54:26.000
Where are your articles?
You were paid.

01:54:26.167 --> 01:54:28.417
You think you're an aristocrat now?

01:54:28.583 --> 01:54:31.667
Where's your loyalty to me,
the paper, shareholders?

01:54:31.833 --> 01:54:33.750
I hear the paper's for sale.

01:54:33.917 --> 01:54:37.042
- We'll be screwed. Is that loyal?
- I'll sue you!

01:54:37.667 --> 01:54:39.000
Is the paper for sale?

01:54:39.167 --> 01:54:42.042
Things are sold and bought.
You're clueless!

01:54:42.208 --> 01:54:44.000
Still fresh from Angouléme.

01:54:46.875 --> 01:54:48.542
Who do you think you are?

01:54:49.042 --> 01:54:52.250
You bought a race horse
to play baron with Nathan?

01:54:52.417 --> 01:54:56.292
Your vests and flowered suspenders...
You're pathetic.

01:54:56.458 --> 01:54:59.083
Coralie comes crying to us
that you're broke.

01:54:59.250 --> 01:55:00.750
Don't talk about her.

01:55:00.917 --> 01:55:02.083
I forbid you!

01:55:02.250 --> 01:55:04.167
Without us, you'd be nothing!

01:55:04.333 --> 01:55:05.542
Nothing.

01:55:05.708 --> 01:55:07.042
A breeze.

01:55:15.250 --> 01:55:16.917
You'd be where without me?

01:55:17.083 --> 01:55:18.792
At the bottom of the Seine.

01:55:41.708 --> 01:55:42.875
Hello, mademoiselle.

01:55:49.208 --> 01:55:51.042
Thank you for receiving me.

01:55:56.792 --> 01:55:58.583
Lucien doesn't know I'm here.

01:56:03.000 --> 01:56:04.750
He's spoken of you often.

01:56:07.125 --> 01:56:08.500
With great respect.

01:56:10.708 --> 01:56:12.500
You're not like the others.

01:56:14.958 --> 01:56:16.583
How may I help you?

01:56:18.875 --> 01:56:20.542
I've read his poems.

01:56:21.250 --> 01:56:22.667
You shared love.

01:56:25.250 --> 01:56:26.625
The love of literature.

01:56:31.083 --> 01:56:34.833
His book isn't even published
and he's spent his advance.

01:56:35.958 --> 01:56:37.625
He has no notion of reality.

01:56:38.542 --> 01:56:41.292
- He can't hold onto money.
- He's an artist.

01:56:43.667 --> 01:56:44.792
Exactly.

01:56:46.292 --> 01:56:49.417
I've heard that
the Court makes official orders

01:56:49.583 --> 01:56:51.667
to help artists
who support Royalists.

01:56:53.792 --> 01:56:56.042
Could you speak to your friends?

01:56:59.750 --> 01:57:01.125
I can ask around.

01:57:03.125 --> 01:57:05.083
You understand, it's pressing.

01:57:06.542 --> 01:57:09.792
In the meantime,
I could put a sum at your disposal.

01:57:10.500 --> 01:57:11.833
It would be our secret.

01:57:12.333 --> 01:57:13.375
No.

01:57:14.500 --> 01:57:16.250
I believe in work, madam.

01:57:17.208 --> 01:57:20.083
You're paid for your work,
whatever that is.

01:57:23.750 --> 01:57:26.083
He needs to find inspiration again.

01:57:27.667 --> 01:57:29.750
The desire to create beauty.

01:57:32.208 --> 01:57:33.667
You're very right.

01:57:35.875 --> 01:57:37.625
You're beautiful.

01:57:42.708 --> 01:57:44.958
I envy your manners and elegance.

01:57:49.750 --> 01:57:51.458
You won't take him from me?

01:57:57.000 --> 01:57:58.542
Because I'd die.

01:58:24.833 --> 01:58:26.167
She's gone.

01:58:30.458 --> 01:58:32.583
Please do not say she's a good girl.

01:58:35.625 --> 01:58:37.083
They don't have a penny.

01:58:38.583 --> 01:58:40.000
As expected.

01:58:46.250 --> 01:58:47.250
Gentlemen.

01:58:48.292 --> 01:58:49.750
Gentlemen!

01:58:52.250 --> 01:58:56.167
The time has come
to restore a fine and noble idea...

01:58:58.000 --> 01:58:59.000
Journalism.

01:59:05.042 --> 01:59:06.542
Let us publish

01:59:06.708 --> 01:59:09.875
a newspaper
that is upright and responsible.

01:59:10.542 --> 01:59:11.917
Let us be dignified

01:59:12.250 --> 01:59:13.458
and honorable.

01:59:14.042 --> 01:59:17.833
We shall never give into money,
trickery, self-serving gifts

01:59:18.000 --> 01:59:19.000
or bribery.

01:59:19.542 --> 01:59:21.333
In short, the corruption

01:59:22.083 --> 01:59:23.792
that dishonors our mission.

01:59:25.208 --> 01:59:27.250
As such, I've chosen the title:

01:59:28.083 --> 01:59:29.417
Le Réveil.

01:59:31.750 --> 01:59:35.792
Le Réveil, our Awakening!
Moral, social, political and artistic.

01:59:38.292 --> 01:59:39.458
Only...

01:59:39.625 --> 01:59:42.375
Only our subscribers can buy us!

01:59:43.458 --> 01:59:45.875
Pleased with his role too,

01:59:46.042 --> 01:59:49.083
the director would be implicated
a few years later

01:59:49.250 --> 01:59:51.333
in a dark palm-greasing affair.

01:59:51.500 --> 01:59:55.500
Tried in court and dragged through
the mud by the press,

01:59:55.667 --> 01:59:59.292
he screamed outrage
at these journalists who posed as judges.

02:00:01.792 --> 02:00:04.417
The Liberal Corsaire-Satan
had its ducks,

02:00:04.583 --> 02:00:06.417
the Royalist Le Réveil, pigeons.

02:00:07.083 --> 02:00:09.750
Carrier pigeons
left Paris in the morning

02:00:10.500 --> 02:00:12.667
and arrived
that afternoon in London.

02:00:13.500 --> 02:00:17.167
The false information
spread via this feathered network

02:00:17.333 --> 02:00:21.542
underwent a spectacular
and profitable acceleration.

02:00:29.917 --> 02:00:33.208
Lucien was paid by the line,
Coralie by performance.

02:00:33.375 --> 02:00:36.125
But he had not yet written
for his new paper

02:00:36.292 --> 02:00:38.125
and she was still rehearsing.

02:00:38.667 --> 02:00:41.208
They had new stiff-lipped guests:

02:00:41.375 --> 02:00:42.500
bailiffs.

02:00:43.625 --> 02:00:46.667
I'll go back to the Boulevard
and show my legs.

02:00:47.250 --> 02:00:48.750
If I have to, I will.

02:00:49.125 --> 02:00:50.125
Doesn't matter.

02:00:50.458 --> 02:00:52.083
That's not what matters.

02:01:09.333 --> 02:01:11.250
You can't take this from us.

02:01:14.958 --> 02:01:16.125
Don't worry.

02:01:18.458 --> 02:01:20.167
The bastard betrayed us.

02:01:20.333 --> 02:01:22.250
He signed with the Royalists.

02:01:22.417 --> 02:01:24.208
With the Royalists!

02:01:27.667 --> 02:01:30.167
That's enough.
It's time to destroy him.

02:01:30.667 --> 02:01:32.375
Strike where it hurts.

02:01:32.750 --> 02:01:34.250
His particle, his name.

02:01:34.958 --> 02:01:36.125
His turnarounds.

02:01:36.292 --> 02:01:37.958
- His lifestyle.
- Nathan.

02:01:38.125 --> 02:01:39.125
His whore.

02:01:39.167 --> 02:01:41.000
Careful, D'Espard backs him.

02:01:41.167 --> 02:01:42.750
You're wrong.

02:01:44.500 --> 02:01:46.583
She despises him as much as we do.

02:01:47.875 --> 02:01:50.000
Those women are noxious.

02:01:50.708 --> 02:01:52.542
And D'Espard most of all.

02:01:53.083 --> 02:01:54.542
Why'd I help that wretch?

02:01:55.583 --> 02:01:58.083
Maybe you enjoyed playing big brother.

02:02:01.542 --> 02:02:05.000
At least he had ambition.
What do you have besides me?

02:02:06.208 --> 02:02:07.208
What?

02:02:18.083 --> 02:02:19.417
My dear friends...

02:02:20.375 --> 02:02:21.750
Friends don't exist.

02:02:22.542 --> 02:02:25.042
Before day's end
you will understand me.

02:02:25.667 --> 02:02:26.958
Farewell, madam.

02:02:27.125 --> 02:02:29.583
O heavens! What words!
Oh, remain.

02:02:30.250 --> 02:02:33.083
Prince, all too deeply
I hide my pain from you.

02:02:33.250 --> 02:02:35.875
You see before you
a queen distraught, who

02:02:36.042 --> 02:02:38.208
heart-stricken,
simply requests a word.

02:02:38.708 --> 02:02:40.125
Thanks for coming.

02:02:43.792 --> 02:02:45.500
Things are looking good.

02:02:48.042 --> 02:02:50.292
They'll attack her on opening night.

02:02:50.667 --> 02:02:52.292
They want to destroy her.

02:02:53.583 --> 02:02:55.417
I've heard nothing.

02:02:57.417 --> 02:02:58.917
How much do you want?

02:02:59.792 --> 02:03:02.333
People say
you're going through bad times.

02:03:03.667 --> 02:03:05.417
I have money to pay you.

02:03:05.583 --> 02:03:06.875
I will have...

02:03:07.917 --> 02:03:11.125
I trust you, but people are talking.

02:03:11.292 --> 02:03:12.500
Don't worry.

02:03:13.875 --> 02:03:15.042
I have protectors.

02:03:15.833 --> 02:03:17.375
I have a new paper.

02:03:19.042 --> 02:03:20.750
I heard you changed sides.

02:03:20.917 --> 02:03:22.625
Mind you, I won't judge.

02:03:22.792 --> 02:03:25.500
I've spent my life
selling to the highest bidder.

02:03:33.625 --> 02:03:35.417
I want a grand opening.

02:03:37.625 --> 02:03:39.250
Don't worry, Mommy's here.

02:03:39.417 --> 02:03:41.750
We'll offer your princess a triumph.

02:03:43.625 --> 02:03:45.375
I saw her start out.

02:03:46.833 --> 02:03:48.333
She was sweet.

02:04:04.625 --> 02:04:06.167
Come in, Lucien.

02:04:09.625 --> 02:04:11.125
Something to drink?

02:04:13.208 --> 02:04:14.542
Close the door, please.

02:04:22.125 --> 02:04:26.167
Lousteau tells me you never turned in
articles you were paid for.

02:04:26.333 --> 02:04:27.958
Very well paid, moreover.

02:04:30.583 --> 02:04:33.500
He wants to send bailiffs,
make a scandal...

02:04:33.667 --> 02:04:34.667
sue you.

02:04:36.750 --> 02:04:38.750
That won't give him talent.

02:04:39.208 --> 02:04:40.542
You make a point.

02:04:42.125 --> 02:04:44.208
He wants to crush you.

02:04:46.250 --> 02:04:47.333
But he's small fry.

02:04:47.500 --> 02:04:49.042
A second fiddle.

02:04:49.833 --> 02:04:50.875
Right?

02:04:54.208 --> 02:04:56.917
Are you still close
to the Marquise d'Espard?

02:04:59.083 --> 02:05:01.667
She received me in her home.

02:05:02.542 --> 02:05:03.792
Impressive.

02:05:05.458 --> 02:05:08.333
Then I might
have a favor to ask of you.

02:05:09.375 --> 02:05:10.833
A big one.

02:05:11.792 --> 02:05:13.667
You'd do a big favor for me?

02:05:15.208 --> 02:05:16.583
I need allies.

02:05:18.083 --> 02:05:20.750
- I know your influence.
- Then you'll help.

02:05:21.958 --> 02:05:25.167
I want to regroup a paper,
an advertising firm

02:05:25.333 --> 02:05:26.667
and a news agency.

02:05:27.917 --> 02:05:29.708
Form a sort of group,

02:05:30.375 --> 02:05:31.667
an association.

02:05:31.833 --> 02:05:34.042
I need to find backers

02:05:34.417 --> 02:05:35.708
and invest.

02:05:38.083 --> 02:05:39.875
As my English friends say:

02:05:40.042 --> 02:05:42.292
"Free enterprise shall be

02:05:42.833 --> 02:05:44.542
"the freedom of the free fox"

02:05:44.708 --> 02:05:46.167
"in a free chicken-coop."

02:05:51.250 --> 02:05:54.167
I have no desire
to be devoured like a hen.

02:05:55.167 --> 02:05:56.542
You either. Am I wrong?

02:05:58.833 --> 02:05:59.917
No.

02:06:00.792 --> 02:06:04.417
The State seeks to control everything,
slow things down.

02:06:04.583 --> 02:06:07.083
They're afraid of the new press.

02:06:07.958 --> 02:06:10.333
They're lost.
We must reassure them.

02:06:11.042 --> 02:06:13.500
I can't quarrel
with you and your friends

02:06:13.958 --> 02:06:15.833
over a clown like Lousteau.

02:06:16.333 --> 02:06:17.333
You understand?

02:06:19.958 --> 02:06:20.958
Yes.

02:06:21.042 --> 02:06:22.500
I can be generous.

02:06:25.333 --> 02:06:27.292
Here's what I propose.

02:06:27.458 --> 02:06:31.833
You write me a few
of your famous satiric articles

02:06:32.333 --> 02:06:34.250
to pay back what you owe me.

02:06:35.042 --> 02:06:37.125
And we'll forget this silly story.

02:06:37.292 --> 02:06:38.292
How's that?

02:06:38.875 --> 02:06:40.167
Anonymous. No name.

02:06:40.333 --> 02:06:42.208
Name? What name?

02:06:42.583 --> 02:06:45.042
Chardon or Rubempré?
No one knows.

02:06:49.333 --> 02:06:53.167
That very day, Finot sent Lucien
a list of personalities

02:06:53.333 --> 02:06:55.167
to attack in his articles.

02:06:57.125 --> 02:06:58.458
He had met some

02:06:58.625 --> 02:07:00.375
in society salons.

02:07:01.583 --> 02:07:02.292
Never mind,

02:07:02.458 --> 02:07:04.083
his quill raced,

02:07:04.250 --> 02:07:07.167
anonymous,
as if no longer part of him.

02:07:08.375 --> 02:07:13.083
Smear campaigns were a new game
on the journalistic scene.

02:07:15.000 --> 02:07:16.000
By giving Finot

02:07:16.125 --> 02:07:18.000
the articles he owed him,

02:07:18.167 --> 02:07:20.042
Lucien signed his death warrant.

02:07:28.000 --> 02:07:29.292
Perfect.

02:07:29.458 --> 02:07:30.500
He took the bait.

02:07:31.042 --> 02:07:32.292
We have him.

02:07:33.583 --> 02:07:36.125
<i>To Lucien de Rubempré.</i>

02:07:45.958 --> 02:07:47.250
Lucien.

02:07:49.250 --> 02:07:50.625
Come in, my friend.

02:07:51.333 --> 02:07:52.583
I have your money.

02:07:54.750 --> 02:07:56.167
The rest tomorrow.

02:07:56.750 --> 02:07:58.042
Don't worry,

02:07:58.458 --> 02:08:00.083
we'll give her a triumph.

02:08:10.042 --> 02:08:13.542
For all ambitious men,
there comes a terrible moment

02:08:13.708 --> 02:08:17.667
when an unknown mysterious power
puts them to severe tests,

02:08:17.833 --> 02:08:20.333
punishments too long postponed.

02:08:21.042 --> 02:08:23.292
Their entangled lives unravel

02:08:23.458 --> 02:08:25.875
and misfortune appears on all fronts.

02:08:29.083 --> 02:08:33.375
Unless born rich,
every man has his fatal week.

02:08:34.583 --> 02:08:37.417
For Lucien,
this cruel moment was here.

02:08:38.458 --> 02:08:42.125
He would see men
and events turn against him.

02:08:47.333 --> 02:08:50.708
I hear you joined a new paper
that defends our ideas.

02:08:53.125 --> 02:08:55.708
My decision
was late but sincere, madam.

02:08:56.542 --> 02:09:00.333
There is talk of making Lucien
Rapporteur at the Chamber.

02:09:00.792 --> 02:09:04.125
A quite well-paid official appointment.

02:09:04.292 --> 02:09:07.917
You would be able
to devote yourself to your writing,

02:09:08.083 --> 02:09:09.250
to your works.

02:09:11.042 --> 02:09:13.417
And to your pretty young lady.

02:09:13.583 --> 02:09:16.500
I hear she has great talent.
You too, Louise?

02:09:19.333 --> 02:09:20.667
She's a beautiful soul.

02:09:21.667 --> 02:09:24.542
She's real, she's vibrant.
You would like her.

02:09:24.708 --> 02:09:27.125
Perhaps,
we could receive her one day.

02:09:27.750 --> 02:09:29.250
After all, why not?

02:09:31.042 --> 02:09:32.208
Nathan could

02:09:32.708 --> 02:09:36.750
write her portrait
in your paper to launch the play.

02:09:37.958 --> 02:09:39.833
Playing Racine has merit.

02:09:40.000 --> 02:09:41.542
He's the blood of France.

02:09:44.042 --> 02:09:46.083
It's a worthy idea.

02:09:47.083 --> 02:09:50.208
Racine too
was born into the bourgeoisie.

02:09:51.000 --> 02:09:53.542
He was ennobled
by virtue of his genius

02:09:54.333 --> 02:09:55.792
and intrigue.

02:09:56.208 --> 02:09:58.333
Compromise is timeless, is it not?

02:10:01.167 --> 02:10:03.333
Thank goodness, there's love.

02:10:08.958 --> 02:10:10.042
To love.

02:10:10.208 --> 02:10:12.000
To love.

02:10:31.208 --> 02:10:33.458
What have they done to us?

02:10:39.125 --> 02:10:40.417
I don't know.

02:11:12.792 --> 02:11:14.583
Let me help you.

02:11:44.833 --> 02:11:46.667
Harder!

02:12:53.292 --> 02:12:54.500
Louise's money

02:12:54.667 --> 02:12:58.167
was used to pay for applause
at Coralie's premiére.

02:12:58.333 --> 02:13:02.125
Singali had sworn
to make the chandeliers tremble.

02:13:09.375 --> 02:13:12.292
Everyone who had entered
Lucien's Parisian life,

02:13:12.458 --> 02:13:15.375
his human comedy,
was present that evening.

02:13:15.542 --> 02:13:17.500
Swathed in their finery,

02:13:17.667 --> 02:13:19.583
with faces like stage masks.

02:13:20.458 --> 02:13:24.833
In this social scene,
the worst often had the best seats.

02:13:25.667 --> 02:13:28.458
All society
had arranged to be there,

02:13:28.625 --> 02:13:30.667
for the lovers' grand eve.

02:14:27.875 --> 02:14:29.250
Prince,

02:14:29.417 --> 02:14:31.708
all too deeply
I hide my pain from you.

02:14:32.917 --> 02:14:35.250
You see before you
a queen distraught, who,

02:14:35.417 --> 02:14:37.708
heart-stricken,
requests but a word.

02:14:38.000 --> 02:14:40.833
You fear, you say,
my peace be disturbed,

02:14:41.333 --> 02:14:44.500
yet your cruel refusal brings pain,

02:14:44.667 --> 02:14:47.417
excites my grief,
my anger, my disdain.

02:14:49.125 --> 02:14:52.083
If to you my peace
seems a precious prize,

02:14:52.792 --> 02:14:54.875
were I ever dear to your eyes...

02:14:56.250 --> 02:14:57.250
Ready?

02:14:57.750 --> 02:14:59.250
It will be fabulous.

02:15:01.708 --> 02:15:03.625
You fear not to disobey me?

02:15:03.792 --> 02:15:05.583
If I speak, you would hate me.

02:15:05.750 --> 02:15:07.042
Speak!

02:15:07.208 --> 02:15:08.708
Heavens, such violence!

02:15:08.875 --> 02:15:10.542
She gave herself entirely,

02:15:10.708 --> 02:15:13.792
expressing the truth
of a woman truly in love

02:15:13.958 --> 02:15:15.875
under her actress's mask.

02:15:18.167 --> 02:15:21.458
Facing a room
whose hostility was palpable,

02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:24.792
the cold audience
took her means away.

02:15:26.083 --> 02:15:29.500
Applause and flowers
were unnecessary for her pride,

02:15:29.667 --> 02:15:31.333
but vital to fight.

02:15:31.500 --> 02:15:32.250
What?

02:15:32.417 --> 02:15:35.083
Rome is suspicious of a reigning queen.

02:15:35.250 --> 02:15:36.667
You must part.

02:15:37.417 --> 02:15:38.417
Tomorrow.

02:15:43.083 --> 02:15:44.292
Must part!

02:15:44.833 --> 02:15:46.375
Alas, Phenice!

02:15:47.417 --> 02:15:48.792
Madam...

02:15:49.125 --> 02:15:51.208
With such poignant sincerity,

02:15:51.375 --> 02:15:55.208
the Boulevard actress
found unexpected intonations...

02:15:56.292 --> 02:15:57.583
even heartrending ones.

02:15:57.750 --> 02:15:58.875
Titus abandons me!

02:15:59.042 --> 02:16:00.708
Titus who swore to me.

02:16:01.125 --> 02:16:03.042
No, I cannot believe.

02:16:03.208 --> 02:16:05.750
He parts not from me,
but from his glory.

02:16:05.917 --> 02:16:06.750
He is innocent,

02:16:06.917 --> 02:16:08.583
so they destroy me...

02:16:51.083 --> 02:16:52.458
Singali!

02:17:00.583 --> 02:17:01.792
Singali!

02:17:12.792 --> 02:17:15.625
Faithful to his principles,
Singali sold out

02:17:15.792 --> 02:17:18.625
to the highest bidder
at the last minute.

02:17:21.667 --> 02:17:23.000
Let me go!

02:17:23.167 --> 02:17:25.708
Who was Lucien
in this world of ambition?

02:17:25.875 --> 02:17:29.083
A child chasing after
vain pleasures and delights,

02:17:29.625 --> 02:17:31.417
sacrificing everything to them.

02:17:31.583 --> 02:17:33.500
Like a moth drawn to light,

02:17:33.667 --> 02:17:35.500
a slave of circumstances.

02:17:36.042 --> 02:17:39.125
His conscience
would be a heartless hangman.

02:17:57.875 --> 02:17:59.125
The next day,

02:17:59.292 --> 02:18:03.583
Lousteau &amp; Co. merrily
tore Coralie's performance to shreds.

02:18:03.750 --> 02:18:05.292
The mob was unleashed.

02:18:05.458 --> 02:18:08.000
How dare this Boulevard actress

02:18:08.167 --> 02:18:11.875
play a great tragic role,
the essence of French genius?

02:18:12.042 --> 02:18:13.292
She was a nothing.

02:18:13.458 --> 02:18:16.375
May she go back
to her vulgar scarlet stockings!

02:18:18.625 --> 02:18:21.792
To humiliate Lucien,
Coralie had to be sacrificed,

02:18:21.958 --> 02:18:24.083
ridiculed, lapidated in public.

02:18:25.500 --> 02:18:26.667
And there was more.

02:18:29.750 --> 02:18:33.292
Finot had promised
Lucien's articles would be anonymous,

02:18:33.458 --> 02:18:36.625
but his signature
appeared on the attacks against

02:18:36.792 --> 02:18:39.042
the Justice Minister and Royalists.

02:18:41.125 --> 02:18:44.500
- I was tricked.
- Is this your signature?

02:18:45.667 --> 02:18:48.458
- It was a trap!
- Who are you, sir?

02:18:48.625 --> 02:18:51.208
A weathervane? A breeze?

02:18:52.167 --> 02:18:53.167
Look.

02:18:53.875 --> 02:18:56.583
The patent to recover your title.

02:18:57.083 --> 02:18:59.917
It was to be signed
by the king's own hand.

02:19:00.083 --> 02:19:01.500
This "official" document

02:19:02.083 --> 02:19:04.958
was merely a piece of paper
lying on the desk.

02:19:05.542 --> 02:19:06.917
But by tearing it up,

02:19:07.083 --> 02:19:10.333
Lucien had the illusion
of being master of his destiny.

02:19:11.625 --> 02:19:12.417
For never

02:19:12.583 --> 02:19:15.042
had there been any question

02:19:15.208 --> 02:19:18.125
of Lucien obtaining
his precious name and title.

02:19:21.750 --> 02:19:24.583
The marquise
had dreamed up this cruel game

02:19:24.750 --> 02:19:26.958
to make
Lucien betray his friends.

02:19:27.125 --> 02:19:28.583
And she had succeeded.

02:19:31.083 --> 02:19:33.500
Yet betrayal meant nothing,
to anyone.

02:19:33.667 --> 02:19:35.833
As if evil,
an entity unto itself,

02:19:36.000 --> 02:19:38.500
raced along
with reckless abandon.

02:19:43.292 --> 02:19:46.542
Meanwhile,
the Royalists voted new laws

02:19:46.708 --> 02:19:48.750
to silence the opposition press.

02:19:48.917 --> 02:19:51.708
It was the end
of the small papers and an era.

02:19:52.167 --> 02:19:53.333
I'm a journalist!

02:19:53.500 --> 02:19:55.292
We'll teach you to shut up!

02:20:01.208 --> 02:20:02.917
The police would discover

02:20:03.083 --> 02:20:06.083
the scams and expose
their underground economy.

02:20:07.208 --> 02:20:09.125
What about freedom of the press?

02:20:09.292 --> 02:20:10.958
The mainstream press

02:20:11.125 --> 02:20:14.958
shouted its indignation
over such scandalous practices.

02:20:15.458 --> 02:20:17.667
This press, ever as independent,

02:20:17.833 --> 02:20:20.875
carried on its Holy mission
to enlighten readers.

02:20:21.042 --> 02:20:22.375
I want champagne!

02:20:22.958 --> 02:20:24.625
By burning paper supplies,

02:20:24.792 --> 02:20:27.875
the State hoped
to reduce small papers to silence.

02:20:29.417 --> 02:20:33.500
For what future was there
for a newspaper without paper or ink?

02:20:51.667 --> 02:20:53.833
Ailing, Coralie remained dignified,

02:20:54.667 --> 02:20:56.792
her lungs eaten away by disease.

02:21:07.792 --> 02:21:11.167
Rejected by papers of all leanings
and now penniless,

02:21:11.333 --> 02:21:14.208
Lucien found jobs
writing common advertisements

02:21:14.375 --> 02:21:15.667
for 10 francs a piece.

02:21:17.125 --> 02:21:19.750
"For you, madam,
the new Macassar oil...

02:21:19.917 --> 02:21:21.833
"A heavenly scent...

02:21:22.417 --> 02:21:25.542
"Buy sweet violet soap
to wash clothes..."

02:21:25.708 --> 02:21:27.292
"Springtime in your closets."

02:21:28.833 --> 02:21:31.208
Buy, buy, ever more...

02:21:31.833 --> 02:21:34.083
A new world was dawning.

02:21:43.375 --> 02:21:44.583
Several weeks later,

02:21:44.750 --> 02:21:47.542
Matifat used his growing influence

02:21:47.708 --> 02:21:50.042
to secure Coralie's role for Florine.

02:21:50.208 --> 02:21:52.833
He had bought
the Royalist paper, Le Révell,

02:21:53.000 --> 02:21:54.958
and made Nathan editor.

02:21:55.667 --> 02:21:56.667
Florine's voice

02:21:56.750 --> 02:21:58.917
was flat,
her gestures mechanical,

02:21:59.750 --> 02:22:01.750
but with Singali's paid applause

02:22:01.917 --> 02:22:04.708
and indulgent reviews,
the farce worked.

02:23:01.125 --> 02:23:04.125
Lucien could not
afford a tomb for Coralie.

02:23:04.625 --> 02:23:07.375
Cemetery plots
had become prohibitive,

02:23:07.542 --> 02:23:11.292
for property speculation
had extended even to graveyards.

02:23:13.833 --> 02:23:17.417
Even eternal rest had a price.

02:23:45.250 --> 02:23:47.083
I thought you were my friend.

02:23:56.208 --> 02:23:57.583
I am, Lucien.

02:24:03.833 --> 02:24:05.708
I bring you back to writing.

02:24:05.875 --> 02:24:07.208
To yourself.

02:24:11.417 --> 02:24:13.500
Maybe one day, you'll thank me.

02:24:27.417 --> 02:24:29.125
Lucien left Paris

02:24:30.292 --> 02:24:31.500
and returned home.

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On this sad day,
I began writing his story.

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The story I just told you.

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The story

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of his lost illusions.

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He had known this lake
since childhood.

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As he entered the cold water,

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he did not know
if he wanted to cleanse himself or die.

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He stayed there for a moment.

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He would stop hoping

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and start living.

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"I think of all those
who must find inner force

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"after the time of disenchantment."

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Adaptation: Julie Meyer

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