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For Lucien,

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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.

268
00:23:40,458 --> 00:23:42,792
With white roses to make it up.

269
00:23:43,667 --> 00:23:45,125
Come meet my cousin,

270
00:23:45,875 --> 00:23:47,667
Louise de Bargeton.

271
00:23:47,833 --> 00:23:51,583
A literature lover from Angouléme.
Delightful, no?

272
00:23:51,750 --> 00:23:52,792
Absolutely.

273
00:23:52,958 --> 00:23:56,667
Lucien de Rubempré,
a young poet thrown alone into Paris.

274
00:23:57,250 --> 00:23:59,583
Nathan is our greatest literary hope.

275
00:23:59,750 --> 00:24:02,292
He would surely be good counsel.

276
00:24:02,708 --> 00:24:06,375
It would be a pleasure to help
the gentleman.

277
00:24:14,042 --> 00:24:16,792
Have you met any publishers?

278
00:24:17,625 --> 00:24:18,792
I have addresses.

279
00:24:20,750 --> 00:24:22,833
There's Dauriat, Delaunay...

280
00:24:23,000 --> 00:24:25,333
We could discuss it some time.

281
00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,375
I could introduce you.

282
00:24:28,375 --> 00:24:29,583
That's very kind.

283
00:24:29,750 --> 00:24:31,375
Anything for the marquise.

284
00:24:31,958 --> 00:24:33,292
Excuse me, please.

285
00:24:44,375 --> 00:24:46,542
Are you enjoying the opera, madam?

286
00:24:48,333 --> 00:24:50,292
I've never seen anything like it.

287
00:24:53,375 --> 00:24:55,792
- I feel so small.
- Who's the young man?

288
00:24:56,792 --> 00:24:58,792
A famous writer. I don't know.

289
00:25:02,625 --> 00:25:05,167
There are many things
you don't know.

290
00:25:17,500 --> 00:25:21,708
Meanwhile, the Baron du Chatelet
had quietly spread

291
00:25:21,875 --> 00:25:24,625
the truth
about Lucien's plebian origins.

292
00:25:27,542 --> 00:25:29,833
A commoner
in the box of the marquise,

293
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:33,083
one of highest figures
of restored aristocracy,

294
00:25:33,250 --> 00:25:35,250
was a guaranteed scandal.

295
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:43,125
You're leaving?

296
00:25:45,125 --> 00:25:45,958
Louise?

297
00:25:48,583 --> 00:25:49,708
Louise!

298
00:25:51,667 --> 00:25:54,250
He's a young poet I wanted to help.

299
00:25:54,417 --> 00:25:57,375
And he thanks you
by lying his way into my box?

300
00:25:57,542 --> 00:25:58,958
It's his mother's name.

301
00:25:59,125 --> 00:26:02,250
Then he has no right
to claim her name or title.

302
00:26:06,250 --> 00:26:08,167
Forgive me
if I compromised you.

303
00:26:08,833 --> 00:26:10,292
Compromise me?

304
00:26:11,125 --> 00:26:13,333
No one can compromise me.

305
00:26:13,500 --> 00:26:15,917
Worry more about
what people might say

306
00:26:16,083 --> 00:26:17,833
of your ties with him.

307
00:26:22,792 --> 00:26:25,625
Women have been banished
from salons for less.

308
00:26:29,917 --> 00:26:31,292
I've understood.

309
00:26:34,417 --> 00:26:37,000
I left money in the drawer.
It was locked!

310
00:26:37,167 --> 00:26:39,583
I'm no thief!
I don't have your key!

311
00:26:39,917 --> 00:26:42,625
No one else came in.
Money doesn't disappear!

312
00:26:42,792 --> 00:26:44,625
And I said I didn't touch it.

313
00:26:48,542 --> 00:26:50,250
Lucien took his finest quill

314
00:26:50,750 --> 00:26:54,958
and wrote a naive, sentimental letter
full of the dark dignity

315
00:26:55,125 --> 00:26:57,792
so typical of an artist of 20.

316
00:27:06,042 --> 00:27:09,542
He would never know
if Louise received his letter.

317
00:27:09,708 --> 00:27:12,083
This messy drawer of sentiments...

318
00:27:12,500 --> 00:27:14,333
it was time to close it.

319
00:27:26,333 --> 00:27:28,250
Excuse me, I'm late.

320
00:27:29,917 --> 00:27:31,708
Let's find a quieter spot.

321
00:27:32,208 --> 00:27:34,042
Afraid of being seen with me?

322
00:27:34,208 --> 00:27:35,250
No.

323
00:27:37,583 --> 00:27:39,833
The police recently put dragnets

324
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,292
across the Seine at the exit of Paris.

325
00:27:43,667 --> 00:27:45,083
You know why?

326
00:27:46,125 --> 00:27:49,792
To catch the bodies
of penniless fools who jump off bridges

327
00:27:49,958 --> 00:27:52,875
instead of returning to their provinces.

328
00:27:58,042 --> 00:28:01,333
It was folly
for Louise to bring you with her.

329
00:28:02,333 --> 00:28:03,750
A woman's folly.

330
00:28:04,833 --> 00:28:07,042
If she keeps seeing you,
her cousin

331
00:28:07,208 --> 00:28:09,375
and all society will snob her.

332
00:28:10,792 --> 00:28:12,667
She'll be an outcast.

333
00:28:13,167 --> 00:28:14,875
So think about her.

334
00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:17,750
And yourself, Mr. Chardon.

335
00:28:18,708 --> 00:28:20,583
<i>My name is Rubempré.</i>

336
00:28:20,750 --> 00:28:21,542
Rubempré?

337
00:28:25,083 --> 00:28:26,792
You have no idea

338
00:28:26,958 --> 00:28:28,958
what she and I shared.

339
00:28:30,417 --> 00:28:32,708
You dreamt it all, both of you.

340
00:28:33,417 --> 00:28:34,542
Here.

341
00:28:35,292 --> 00:28:39,000
She asked me to give you this
for your return journey.

342
00:28:43,250 --> 00:28:44,042
Money?

343
00:28:45,417 --> 00:28:47,667
She asks that you stay away.

344
00:28:50,083 --> 00:28:51,500
I don't believe you.

345
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,125
I threw some in
because your story is touching.

346
00:28:56,625 --> 00:28:57,917
Well, sort of.

347
00:29:01,208 --> 00:29:03,292
She'll never love a man like you.

348
00:29:03,667 --> 00:29:04,917
Look at yourself.

349
00:29:05,458 --> 00:29:07,417
People called you "The Turkey."

350
00:29:13,042 --> 00:29:14,417
Go home!

351
00:29:16,083 --> 00:29:18,167
In the student Latin Quarter,

352
00:29:18,958 --> 00:29:22,000
charitable souls showed Lucien
a cheap restaurant

353
00:29:22,583 --> 00:29:24,083
well known at the time.

354
00:29:27,042 --> 00:29:28,833
Bread at discretion

355
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:30,958
and a free carafe of water.

356
00:29:31,667 --> 00:29:33,375
Potatoes were king,

357
00:29:33,875 --> 00:29:36,208
and ever since
Lucien's humiliating eve,

358
00:29:36,375 --> 00:29:38,542
his only contact with aristocracy.

359
00:30:27,750 --> 00:30:29,000
Back in Angouléme,

360
00:30:29,167 --> 00:30:32,000
Lucien had devoted himself
to great writers.

361
00:30:32,167 --> 00:30:34,500
This insolent Parisian press
was novel,

362
00:30:35,167 --> 00:30:37,875
as was its cult of slogans
and provocation.

363
00:30:44,333 --> 00:30:45,375
He discovered

364
00:30:45,542 --> 00:30:48,708
these cheap papers
where opinions were made and unmade

365
00:30:48,875 --> 00:30:51,583
amid laughter or cries of rage.

366
00:30:56,125 --> 00:30:57,792
It's on the house.

367
00:30:59,583 --> 00:31:01,458
Excuse me for disturbing.

368
00:31:01,625 --> 00:31:04,375
The owner said
you wrote for newspapers.

369
00:31:05,375 --> 00:31:06,792
Could be, yes.

370
00:31:07,917 --> 00:31:10,458
I was a proofreader at a printer's.

371
00:31:10,625 --> 00:31:12,208
So I was wondering

372
00:31:12,375 --> 00:31:16,208
if you might have any
writing or copywriting jobs for me?

373
00:31:16,375 --> 00:31:17,792
Have you ever written?

374
00:31:18,292 --> 00:31:20,000
A collection of poems

375
00:31:20,167 --> 00:31:21,625
heralded in Angouléme.

376
00:31:23,167 --> 00:31:26,042
Here. I brought some articles.

377
00:31:28,667 --> 00:31:30,292
The famous Angouléme Gazette.

378
00:31:32,250 --> 00:31:33,375
Impressive.

379
00:31:38,292 --> 00:31:39,833
I need work.

380
00:31:40,375 --> 00:31:42,375
Do newspapers pay decently?

381
00:31:42,542 --> 00:31:43,375
Depends.

382
00:31:43,542 --> 00:31:46,500
I made 300 francs this week
but I've spent it all.

383
00:31:46,917 --> 00:31:49,250
300 francs
to write newspaper articles?

384
00:31:50,042 --> 00:31:52,167
- It's hard work.
- And lots of money.

385
00:31:56,875 --> 00:31:57,833
What's that?

386
00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,417
Hashish.

387
00:31:59,583 --> 00:32:01,375
With this, everyone has talent.

388
00:32:01,917 --> 00:32:03,083
No, thanks.

389
00:32:04,667 --> 00:32:05,875
What's your name?

390
00:32:06,375 --> 00:32:07,542
Lucien.

391
00:32:07,875 --> 00:32:08,667
<i>De Rubempré.</i>

392
00:32:09,583 --> 00:32:10,958
Etienne Lousteau.

393
00:32:13,333 --> 00:32:15,792
The poet was still innocent
and believed

394
00:32:15,958 --> 00:32:17,042
that in Paris,

395
00:32:17,208 --> 00:32:20,125
talent would necessarily
attract goodwill.

396
00:32:22,250 --> 00:32:23,833
Poems about marguerites?

397
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:26,083
No wonder your baroness ran off!

398
00:32:26,750 --> 00:32:30,875
The next day, like a young woodrat
impatient to leave his lair,

399
00:32:31,042 --> 00:32:34,542
he visited his new friend
in the noisy newspaper district

400
00:32:34,708 --> 00:32:36,500
near the Grands Boulevards.

401
00:32:37,083 --> 00:32:40,833
The great and worthy Parisian press
had prestigious papers

402
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:43,750
such as Le Journal des débats
and Le Siécle.

403
00:32:45,375 --> 00:32:48,917
But new laws had enabled
the creation of small periodicals

404
00:32:49,083 --> 00:32:51,792
with provocative names
such as Le Corsaire,

405
00:32:52,208 --> 00:32:54,792
Le Satan and Le Diable boiteux.

406
00:32:57,333 --> 00:33:00,167
Of Liberal leanings,
these papers lashed out

407
00:33:00,333 --> 00:33:02,292
against the Royalist government.

408
00:33:04,417 --> 00:33:07,167
Lucien couldn't know
that within press ranks,

409
00:33:07,333 --> 00:33:10,417
men needed friends,
like generals need soldiers.

410
00:33:10,583 --> 00:33:11,833
Move over!

411
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:24,750
Over here, Marguerites!

412
00:33:25,458 --> 00:33:26,500
Come on.

413
00:33:26,667 --> 00:33:29,333
Cut the nonsense,
you have articles to write!

414
00:33:29,500 --> 00:33:30,792
Have a seat.

415
00:33:30,958 --> 00:33:32,292
Lamartine, go play.

416
00:33:33,375 --> 00:33:34,542
Champagne?

417
00:33:34,917 --> 00:33:35,833
No, thank you.

418
00:33:36,000 --> 00:33:37,833
You'll have some anyhow.

419
00:33:40,625 --> 00:33:42,417
I brought you my collection.

420
00:33:42,583 --> 00:33:45,000
I'll give you names, don't worry.

421
00:33:46,083 --> 00:33:46,958
I'm not.

422
00:33:47,125 --> 00:33:48,458
Yes, you are.

423
00:33:50,208 --> 00:33:51,208
You know...

424
00:33:51,375 --> 00:33:54,000
I have great respect for journalists.

425
00:33:54,167 --> 00:33:55,083
Oh yeah?

426
00:33:55,250 --> 00:33:57,167
What exactly do you think I do?

427
00:33:57,333 --> 00:34:00,875
You report on
new books, new plays...

428
00:34:01,042 --> 00:34:01,792
new ideas.

429
00:34:04,125 --> 00:34:05,917
You enlighten people about

430
00:34:06,667 --> 00:34:07,750
art...

431
00:34:09,958 --> 00:34:10,667
the world.

432
00:34:14,333 --> 00:34:17,542
My job is to make
newspaper shareholders rich.

433
00:34:18,250 --> 00:34:20,458
And along the way, rake it in.

434
00:34:24,333 --> 00:34:25,167
Rake it in?

435
00:34:25,333 --> 00:34:27,083
Rake it in, absolutely.

436
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,375
A theater manager pays you

437
00:34:30,542 --> 00:34:31,750
for a good review.

438
00:34:32,167 --> 00:34:35,625
You then propose
a nasty article to his competitor

439
00:34:35,792 --> 00:34:37,458
and you raise the stakes,

440
00:34:37,958 --> 00:34:40,083
writing good and bad indifferently

441
00:34:40,250 --> 00:34:41,750
under different names.

442
00:34:42,417 --> 00:34:43,958
And so on and so forth...

443
00:34:44,125 --> 00:34:45,792
and you rake it in.

444
00:34:47,625 --> 00:34:49,000
They shout, they weep,

445
00:34:49,167 --> 00:34:51,833
they come here with insults or gifts

446
00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:54,167
and a controversy is launched.

447
00:34:54,333 --> 00:34:56,000
That's all they care about.

448
00:34:56,167 --> 00:34:57,375
Controversy sells.

449
00:34:57,542 --> 00:34:58,708
Tickets, books,

450
00:34:58,875 --> 00:35:00,042
what have you.

451
00:35:00,208 --> 00:35:01,750
And you find

452
00:35:02,167 --> 00:35:03,958
many writers who agree to...

453
00:35:04,125 --> 00:35:05,875
Papers pay by the line.

454
00:35:06,042 --> 00:35:08,125
By the line, cash the same day.

455
00:35:08,292 --> 00:35:11,042
Your articles are paid that evening.

456
00:35:11,208 --> 00:35:14,667
Publishers pay 6 months later,
if they pay.

457
00:35:20,458 --> 00:35:21,833
I arrived from Dijon

458
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:24,167
with a three-act comedy

459
00:35:24,708 --> 00:35:26,958
written in my backlands.

460
00:35:28,083 --> 00:35:32,458
At home, everyone said
my play was fabulous, magnificent.

461
00:35:32,625 --> 00:35:36,125
So I asked theater managers
and actors to read it.

462
00:35:36,583 --> 00:35:37,792
What happened?

463
00:35:39,292 --> 00:35:41,292
No one would even look at it.

464
00:35:43,917 --> 00:35:45,167
Why not?

465
00:35:45,500 --> 00:35:46,667
What do you think?

466
00:35:46,833 --> 00:35:49,458
If you can't grant favors
at a paper,

467
00:35:49,625 --> 00:35:50,875
you don't exist.

468
00:35:51,042 --> 00:35:53,292
If no one's afraid of you...

469
00:35:54,042 --> 00:35:55,667
no one's interested in you.

470
00:35:58,500 --> 00:35:59,750
And yet...

471
00:36:00,500 --> 00:36:01,667
I was good.

472
00:36:05,417 --> 00:36:07,333
I had a pure heart like you.

473
00:36:15,083 --> 00:36:16,667
Let's go see Dauriat.

474
00:36:17,250 --> 00:36:18,083
Who's that?

475
00:36:19,917 --> 00:36:20,875
A living poem.

476
00:36:21,292 --> 00:36:23,375
If you need me, I'm at Dauriat's.

477
00:36:23,542 --> 00:36:25,167
See you tonight at Florine's!

478
00:36:25,333 --> 00:36:26,875
You Royalist or Liberal?

479
00:36:27,042 --> 00:36:29,333
The paper's Liberal, so I'm Liberal.

480
00:36:29,500 --> 00:36:31,958
You are too.
You just don't know it yet.

481
00:36:33,958 --> 00:36:35,250
Palais-Royal, quick!

482
00:36:39,958 --> 00:36:41,917
When the Stock Exchange closed,

483
00:36:42,083 --> 00:36:45,750
hordes of young people
poured out into the Palais-Royal,

484
00:36:45,917 --> 00:36:48,250
the Capital's center of diversion.

485
00:36:48,417 --> 00:36:51,125
A closed-off, protected square

486
00:36:51,292 --> 00:36:54,125
where police never came
and pleasures abounded.

487
00:36:57,042 --> 00:37:00,708
Fashionable boutiques,
wigmakers and street entertainers

488
00:37:00,875 --> 00:37:04,083
worked alongside
restaurants, gambling dens,

489
00:37:04,250 --> 00:37:06,042
and above all, prostitutes.

490
00:37:06,750 --> 00:37:10,625
Up to 1,500 poor women
plied their trade in the Galleries.

491
00:37:13,500 --> 00:37:17,458
Each one had her name, specialty,
hours and spot...

492
00:37:17,625 --> 00:37:21,875
They were called hussies,
courtesans, Lorettes and grisettes.

493
00:37:22,417 --> 00:37:26,583
Those who collared men
from upstairs were called "half-beavers.”

494
00:37:26,750 --> 00:37:28,708
Though we never knew why.

495
00:37:29,667 --> 00:37:31,458
Professionals or part-timers,

496
00:37:31,625 --> 00:37:34,708
rates and names
were posted on the columns

497
00:37:34,875 --> 00:37:36,792
next to advertisements.

498
00:37:37,208 --> 00:37:39,042
Women's bodies were for sale,

499
00:37:39,208 --> 00:37:41,792
and people knew
these bodies could also sell

500
00:37:41,958 --> 00:37:43,583
just about anything.

501
00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:45,292
The belly of the beast.

502
00:37:46,167 --> 00:37:48,333
In this temple of commerce,

503
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:51,542
publishers had set up shop too.

504
00:37:51,708 --> 00:37:54,000
- You know him?
- We met at the Opera.

505
00:37:54,458 --> 00:37:56,042
I hear he's famous.

506
00:37:56,208 --> 00:37:57,667
A social puppet.

507
00:37:57,833 --> 00:37:58,667
Look at him.

508
00:37:58,833 --> 00:38:02,167
Striking poses,
playing the role of dandy.

509
00:38:03,042 --> 00:38:05,125
We received his new book today.

510
00:38:05,292 --> 00:38:07,417
Naturally, I haven't read it.

511
00:38:07,583 --> 00:38:08,208
Come on.

512
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:10,667
Clutching his poems,

513
00:38:10,833 --> 00:38:13,792
Lucien was to meet
a great Parisian publisher,

514
00:38:13,958 --> 00:38:15,500
his dream come true.

515
00:38:15,667 --> 00:38:16,917
Good day, gentlemen.

516
00:38:17,917 --> 00:38:22,833
A grocer by trade,
the most influential one was Dauriat

517
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,375
and he could neither read nor write.

518
00:38:25,542 --> 00:38:27,625
Unusual for a publisher.

519
00:38:27,792 --> 00:38:30,750
Assistants read him
manuscripts and contracts,

520
00:38:30,917 --> 00:38:32,833
but he sure could count.

521
00:38:33,792 --> 00:38:35,875
3,000! You hear me?

522
00:38:36,042 --> 00:38:38,917
I printed 3,000 copies
of his ill-fated novel.

523
00:38:39,083 --> 00:38:40,583
Ink, paper, binding...

524
00:38:41,083 --> 00:38:43,625
I already spent 1,500 francs.

525
00:38:43,792 --> 00:38:45,583
1,500, you hear me!

526
00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:47,542
The book is good. It'll sell.

527
00:38:47,708 --> 00:38:48,875
It has rave reviews.

528
00:38:49,042 --> 00:38:50,167
Speaking of which,

529
00:38:50,333 --> 00:38:53,875
you charge 150 francs
for a good write-up now?

530
00:38:54,875 --> 00:38:56,750
Where will it stop?

531
00:38:56,917 --> 00:38:59,208
- A man's gotta live.
- 150 francs!

532
00:38:59,375 --> 00:39:01,167
A good review costs.

533
00:39:01,333 --> 00:39:02,792
How do you calculate?

534
00:39:02,958 --> 00:39:04,833
You pull numbers out of a hat?

535
00:39:06,542 --> 00:39:09,542
How much will you
charge to launch Nathan?

536
00:39:09,708 --> 00:39:11,708
Where is the child prodigy?

537
00:39:11,875 --> 00:39:14,667
Right here.
You promised 4,000 copies

538
00:39:14,833 --> 00:39:17,292
and now
you won't pay for promotion?

539
00:39:17,458 --> 00:39:19,542
- What's the point?
- You serious?

540
00:39:19,917 --> 00:39:23,250
I paid Lousteau 200 francs
to sing your praises

541
00:39:23,417 --> 00:39:25,208
in his flunkey rag!

542
00:39:25,375 --> 00:39:27,667
200 francs, for the front page.

543
00:39:28,042 --> 00:39:30,083
- True or false?
- And Blondet?

544
00:39:30,250 --> 00:39:33,167
You were supposed
to pay Le Figaro to attack

545
00:39:33,333 --> 00:39:35,667
and start a controversy, but nothing.

546
00:39:35,833 --> 00:39:37,083
I need a controversy!

547
00:39:37,917 --> 00:39:41,333
How do you sell a book today
without a controversy?

548
00:39:41,917 --> 00:39:45,667
He's right. I was waiting for an attack
to write my article.

549
00:39:45,833 --> 00:39:47,042
You're a crook.

550
00:39:48,208 --> 00:39:50,042
He hasn't even opened it.

551
00:39:50,750 --> 00:39:55,083
My dear Nathan, to write a review,
best not read the book.

552
00:39:55,250 --> 00:39:57,083
You might be influenced.

553
00:39:57,250 --> 00:39:59,417
His clever remark isn't even his.

554
00:39:59,583 --> 00:40:02,083
And? I defend French spirit.

555
00:40:02,250 --> 00:40:05,500
Then write other things
than your miserable articles.

556
00:40:08,375 --> 00:40:11,167
A good word
is better than a bad book, right?

557
00:40:20,917 --> 00:40:23,250
C'mon lads, let's move on.
I'm hungry.

558
00:40:23,417 --> 00:40:25,125
Did you read it or not?

559
00:40:25,292 --> 00:40:26,583
No, he didn't.

560
00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:29,250
Of course I did.

561
00:40:29,417 --> 00:40:33,000
Out of professional conscience
and respect for the author.

562
00:40:33,167 --> 00:40:35,083
- I read it.
- We're listening.

563
00:40:36,208 --> 00:40:37,208
The book is...

564
00:40:38,542 --> 00:40:41,208
very particular.
Don't know what to think.

565
00:40:41,375 --> 00:40:42,542
You turn pages,

566
00:40:42,708 --> 00:40:45,000
phrases go by,
trying to seduce you...

567
00:40:45,167 --> 00:40:47,458
Like the hustlers outside

568
00:40:47,625 --> 00:40:49,000
in the Galleries.

569
00:40:49,167 --> 00:40:51,792
A hodgepodge of words.

570
00:40:53,125 --> 00:40:55,042
My friend and I agreed.

571
00:40:55,208 --> 00:40:56,792
And who's he?

572
00:40:57,417 --> 00:40:59,125
Where do you write?

573
00:41:00,417 --> 00:41:02,000
Lucien de Rubempré.

574
00:41:03,625 --> 00:41:05,333
And did you read his book?

575
00:41:07,833 --> 00:41:09,875
I read it, yes. Very attentively.

576
00:41:10,042 --> 00:41:11,708
You read it too?

577
00:41:12,458 --> 00:41:13,333
Yes.

578
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:14,500
Let him speak.

579
00:41:15,042 --> 00:41:16,958
Go on. We're listening.

580
00:41:18,458 --> 00:41:21,583
One says that a writer
should have something to say.

581
00:41:22,292 --> 00:41:24,792
He must also
leave certain things unsaid.

582
00:41:26,333 --> 00:41:27,958
Yet, in this book

583
00:41:28,125 --> 00:41:29,875
- as Lousteau said so well -

584
00:41:30,042 --> 00:41:30,917
all is said.

585
00:41:31,292 --> 00:41:32,667
All is exposed.

586
00:41:32,833 --> 00:41:34,292
Where is the mystery?

587
00:41:35,417 --> 00:41:39,167
The mystery is your presence here,
Mr. Chardon.

588
00:41:40,042 --> 00:41:41,375
Chardon, am I correct?

589
00:41:43,458 --> 00:41:46,917
To put it simply,
I found the gentleman's book

590
00:41:47,083 --> 00:41:49,250
a curious sum of nothingness.

591
00:41:52,792 --> 00:41:53,917
That was good.

592
00:41:54,583 --> 00:41:55,875
Nice find.

593
00:41:56,583 --> 00:41:59,250
My natural modesty
allows me to mock scorn.

594
00:41:59,667 --> 00:42:01,292
Modesty's a funny virtue.

595
00:42:01,458 --> 00:42:03,250
Think you have it, it's gone.

596
00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,833
That's all, see you Tuesday at 10:00.

597
00:42:12,708 --> 00:42:14,333
Are you Chardon or Rubempré?

598
00:42:14,500 --> 00:42:15,500
Rubempré.

599
00:42:15,667 --> 00:42:17,708
Lucien brought you his manuscript.

600
00:42:17,875 --> 00:42:20,542
Thanks, I've seen
enough wannabee writers.

601
00:42:21,042 --> 00:42:23,000
It's very original poetry.

602
00:42:23,167 --> 00:42:25,958
Poetry!
No one buys that, you fool.

603
00:42:26,125 --> 00:42:27,917
Best thing I've read in ages.

604
00:42:28,083 --> 00:42:30,750
You know many people
who buy poetry?

605
00:42:30,917 --> 00:42:32,667
Do you buy poetry, Lousteau?

606
00:42:32,833 --> 00:42:34,292
No, especially not you.

607
00:42:34,458 --> 00:42:37,083
- He's also working on a novel...
- A novel?

608
00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:39,292
There are thousands.
Why bother?

609
00:42:39,458 --> 00:42:41,542
Because literature is my life.

610
00:42:41,708 --> 00:42:44,000
No one wants books by unknowns.

611
00:42:44,167 --> 00:42:45,708
- They don't sell.
- True.

612
00:42:46,292 --> 00:42:48,208
- But...
- I only publish

613
00:42:48,375 --> 00:42:51,208
already famous authors with no risk.

614
00:42:51,375 --> 00:42:53,083
How do you become known?

615
00:42:53,250 --> 00:42:54,833
By knowing famous people.

616
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,750
Find yourself
a famous mistress or enemy.

617
00:42:57,917 --> 00:42:59,167
No doubletalk here.

618
00:42:59,333 --> 00:43:02,083
A famous enemy
who insults you in his paper.

619
00:43:02,250 --> 00:43:03,292
Like Nathan.

620
00:43:03,458 --> 00:43:04,958
He'd be a perfect enemy.

621
00:43:05,125 --> 00:43:06,208
Nathan?

622
00:43:06,375 --> 00:43:09,250
The kid needs a famous enemy,
what do you say?

623
00:43:10,417 --> 00:43:12,042
I'm too expensive for you.

624
00:43:13,167 --> 00:43:15,667
People will talk
and increase your value.

625
00:43:15,833 --> 00:43:17,000
Increase my value?

626
00:43:17,167 --> 00:43:18,333
Perfectly.

627
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:20,625
Like on the stock market.

628
00:43:21,417 --> 00:43:23,375
What about literature?

629
00:43:24,167 --> 00:43:26,708
Literature nourishes illusions.

630
00:43:26,875 --> 00:43:28,333
Your pineapple, sir.

631
00:43:28,500 --> 00:43:30,208
I believe in pineapples.

632
00:43:32,125 --> 00:43:33,208
Pineapples?

633
00:43:33,375 --> 00:43:36,458
I might invest
in a plantation outside Paris.

634
00:43:36,958 --> 00:43:38,375
A future goldmine.

635
00:43:38,875 --> 00:43:41,542
Pineapples
will save us from poetry, I hope.

636
00:43:42,042 --> 00:43:43,417
Help yourselves.

637
00:43:44,125 --> 00:43:45,083
Nathan!

638
00:43:45,250 --> 00:43:47,042
That's a great publisher?

639
00:43:47,500 --> 00:43:48,667
That grocer?

640
00:43:48,833 --> 00:43:49,875
The best.

641
00:43:50,042 --> 00:43:51,833
He met you, that's a start.

642
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:53,375
Now let him stew.

643
00:43:54,167 --> 00:43:55,708
Lousteau!

644
00:43:55,875 --> 00:43:57,167
What's he want?

645
00:43:57,792 --> 00:43:59,333
You hear about Singali?

646
00:44:02,792 --> 00:44:05,125
The Royalists
paid to hiss my sweetheart.

647
00:44:05,292 --> 00:44:06,042
Paid?

648
00:44:06,208 --> 00:44:08,833
You can pay for anything!
That's progress.

649
00:44:10,542 --> 00:44:14,375
<i>Lousteau's mistress
was a cheap Boulevard actress.</i>

650
00:44:14,542 --> 00:44:17,792
Tonight was the opening night
of her new play.

651
00:44:19,625 --> 00:44:23,042
Lucien was about
to taste another night on the town.

652
00:44:25,542 --> 00:44:27,583
Every day, tickets were for sale

653
00:44:27,750 --> 00:44:30,542
on what had been baptized
"Crime Boulevard."

654
00:44:31,333 --> 00:44:34,500
And the crimes
were those committed onstage

655
00:44:34,667 --> 00:44:37,500
in some dozen theatres
tucked in between

656
00:44:37,667 --> 00:44:39,500
street performances.

657
00:44:39,667 --> 00:44:43,750
Theatre had become
outrageously popular and profitable.

658
00:44:43,917 --> 00:44:46,708
The Funambules,
Renaissance, Variétés,

659
00:44:46,875 --> 00:44:50,542
Déjazet, Mme. Saqui, ltaliens
and Ambigu-Comique...

660
00:44:50,708 --> 00:44:53,292
Competition was fierce
amongst managers,

661
00:44:53,458 --> 00:44:55,125
and their methods ruthless.

662
00:44:55,667 --> 00:44:59,917
It was common practice
to boo a rival theatre on opening night.

663
00:45:00,292 --> 00:45:01,250
Get lost!

664
00:45:01,417 --> 00:45:05,208
For a new play, you bought critics
to protect yourself.

665
00:45:05,375 --> 00:45:07,667
Everyone did it.
Question of survival.

666
00:45:08,917 --> 00:45:12,125
Thus young journalists like Lousteau
made the law.

667
00:45:12,625 --> 00:45:13,917
Blackmail reigned.

668
00:45:14,083 --> 00:45:17,208
The Boulevard was their turf,
their hunting ground,

669
00:45:17,375 --> 00:45:19,167
and they "raked it in."”

670
00:45:19,333 --> 00:45:22,833
Singali brought his Italian hissers.
It'll be a massacre.

671
00:45:23,000 --> 00:45:25,083
- Where's Singali?
- If I knew!

672
00:45:25,250 --> 00:45:27,083
Sold out,
ladies and gentlemen.

673
00:45:29,292 --> 00:45:30,667
To protect themselves,

674
00:45:30,833 --> 00:45:34,042
managers took out
hundreds of subscriptions to papers

675
00:45:34,208 --> 00:45:36,625
and gave free boxes to journalists,

676
00:45:36,792 --> 00:45:38,417
who rented them out...

677
00:45:38,583 --> 00:45:40,083
and pocketed the earnings.

678
00:45:41,417 --> 00:45:43,708
To make up
for this loss of turnover,

679
00:45:43,875 --> 00:45:46,375
theatres sought
new ways to make money,

680
00:45:46,542 --> 00:45:48,375
like selling sweets.

681
00:45:48,542 --> 00:45:51,000
Where were you?
Everyone's in a panic.

682
00:45:51,417 --> 00:45:54,125
Florine said Matifat would pay.
What happened?

683
00:45:54,292 --> 00:45:56,417
No idea.
If they boo, we're dead!

684
00:45:56,583 --> 00:46:00,083
- We'll never recover.
- Don't worry, where's Singali?

685
00:46:00,708 --> 00:46:02,083
Inside, getting ready!

686
00:46:02,250 --> 00:46:04,833
For the most important
was the "claque."

687
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:08,708
The cheers or catcalls
ordered from professionals.

688
00:46:09,167 --> 00:46:12,125
And the most famous of all,
was Singali.

689
00:46:12,542 --> 00:46:16,000
He lambasted plays,
humiliated actresses and writers.

690
00:46:16,750 --> 00:46:18,792
He was feared by all,

691
00:46:18,958 --> 00:46:20,167
and rightly so.

692
00:46:20,333 --> 00:46:23,042
Destroy a competitor's play?
Pay Singali.

693
00:46:23,667 --> 00:46:25,000
You wanted triumph?

694
00:46:25,167 --> 00:46:27,042
Pay Singali. He did it all.

695
00:46:27,833 --> 00:46:31,917
He trained his teams prior to shows.

696
00:46:33,458 --> 00:46:36,000
His people mingled in the audience,

697
00:46:36,167 --> 00:46:38,917
impossible to spot
before disaster struck.

698
00:46:39,083 --> 00:46:40,667
You could buy anything.

699
00:46:41,208 --> 00:46:42,750
Applause, light applause,

700
00:46:42,917 --> 00:46:46,333
standing ovation,
laughter, hysterical laughter.

701
00:46:46,500 --> 00:46:48,333
Or else whistles and boos,

702
00:46:48,500 --> 00:46:50,917
even rotten tomatoes
and vegetables.

703
00:46:51,083 --> 00:46:52,292
You only had to pay.

704
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,667
Mediocre play or masterpiece?
He didn't care.

705
00:46:56,208 --> 00:46:59,708
Making ever more money
was his only concern.

706
00:47:01,250 --> 00:47:04,125
He had established his Law
on the Boulevard.

707
00:47:04,292 --> 00:47:06,250
Everyone was at his mercy,

708
00:47:06,417 --> 00:47:09,250
and he made them all pay,
one way or another.

709
00:47:09,417 --> 00:47:10,542
Have a look.

710
00:47:11,458 --> 00:47:12,917
The short bald guy.

711
00:47:13,083 --> 00:47:14,875
Bastard's preparing to strike.

712
00:47:15,375 --> 00:47:16,833
Will they whistle?

713
00:47:17,375 --> 00:47:20,125
Actresses too were obliged
to buy applause

714
00:47:20,292 --> 00:47:21,292
and above all,

715
00:47:21,458 --> 00:47:23,583
prevent boos paid by rivals.

716
00:47:25,667 --> 00:47:26,958
We'll handle it.

717
00:47:27,125 --> 00:47:28,625
You'll be fabulous.

718
00:47:28,792 --> 00:47:32,208
Necessarily helpless,
girls needed rich protectors

719
00:47:32,375 --> 00:47:35,583
to cover what were known as
"reputation” expenses.

720
00:47:36,083 --> 00:47:37,375
Most often,

721
00:47:37,542 --> 00:47:39,458
they were big textile merchants

722
00:47:39,625 --> 00:47:42,250
or newly-rich
cosmetics manufacturers.

723
00:47:42,583 --> 00:47:43,917
The luckiest girls

724
00:47:44,083 --> 00:47:46,792
became icons
for the big brand names,

725
00:47:47,333 --> 00:47:50,917
which in turn bought
advertising space in newspapers,

726
00:47:51,083 --> 00:47:54,875
whose kindly criticism and indulgence
were also remunerated.

727
00:47:56,542 --> 00:48:00,917
Advertising brought in so much income
that newspaper owners

728
00:48:01,083 --> 00:48:04,458
would stealthily
become modern-day press barons.

729
00:48:04,625 --> 00:48:06,750
And politicians had understood.

730
00:48:07,292 --> 00:48:09,542
They were happy
to make "arrangements”

731
00:48:09,708 --> 00:48:13,000
with these barons
to avoid attacks in their papers.

732
00:48:13,917 --> 00:48:17,542
Likewise interests,
shady dealings and compromises...

733
00:48:17,708 --> 00:48:21,375
But above them,
at the very top of the pyramid,

734
00:48:21,542 --> 00:48:23,417
were the financial oligarchs.

735
00:48:23,583 --> 00:48:28,125
Laffitte, Rothschild, Nucingen
and their Stock Exchange intrigues.

736
00:48:28,292 --> 00:48:33,000
In the wings, they pulled the strings
of all these puppets.

737
00:48:33,833 --> 00:48:38,458
Money was the new royalty,
and no one wanted to chop its head off.

738
00:48:41,625 --> 00:48:45,667
Who could say, one day
a banker might even join the government.

739
00:48:49,042 --> 00:48:50,625
Can't we talk to Singali?

740
00:48:50,792 --> 00:48:53,292
He's been paid.
We have to pay more.

741
00:48:53,458 --> 00:48:54,625
On stage in ten!

742
00:48:54,792 --> 00:48:56,375
What do we do?

743
00:48:56,542 --> 00:48:57,500
Etienne!

744
00:48:57,667 --> 00:49:00,083
- Careful, Matifat's with Florine.
- Thanks.

745
00:49:04,417 --> 00:49:08,042
They'll trample us.
We have to pay, Mimi.

746
00:49:09,458 --> 00:49:11,542
Always more! When will it end?

747
00:49:11,708 --> 00:49:13,583
The room is full of hissers.

748
00:49:13,750 --> 00:49:15,625
Or else we cancel the show.

749
00:49:15,792 --> 00:49:19,833
- There's 2 pages in tomorrow's paper.
- We have to pay.

750
00:49:22,833 --> 00:49:25,250
- Can you chip in?
- Of course I can.

751
00:49:25,417 --> 00:49:26,542
How much?

752
00:49:27,042 --> 00:49:28,333
Let's not be crass.

753
00:49:28,500 --> 00:49:30,333
A price equal to my dignity.

754
00:49:31,333 --> 00:49:32,833
Very well, we'll pay.

755
00:49:33,375 --> 00:49:35,208
Tell Singali his money's coming.

756
00:49:35,375 --> 00:49:36,250
I'll go.

757
00:49:36,417 --> 00:49:37,708
C'mon, kids, we're late!

758
00:49:37,875 --> 00:49:39,542
Thank you, my love.

759
00:49:43,708 --> 00:49:45,500
Wel'll sit in the balcony.

760
00:49:47,083 --> 00:49:48,958
He paid up, we'll applaud.

761
00:49:49,375 --> 00:49:51,333
- Coming to Florine's?
- Why not?

762
00:49:51,500 --> 00:49:53,792
Don't you have an article
to turn in?

763
00:49:54,458 --> 00:49:56,708
I looked for you at Dauriat's.

764
00:49:57,333 --> 00:49:59,167
My friend Lucien de Rubempré.

765
00:50:00,167 --> 00:50:02,250
"A curious sum of nothingness."

766
00:50:02,792 --> 00:50:04,708
Your locution traveled quickly.

767
00:50:05,167 --> 00:50:06,917
Do you write somewhere?

768
00:50:08,000 --> 00:50:10,167
Mr. Finot runs the paper I write for.

769
00:50:10,333 --> 00:50:12,083
Where you write nonsense.

770
00:50:14,958 --> 00:50:16,583
See you at Florine's?

771
00:50:16,750 --> 00:50:18,292
-Yes.
- We need to talk.

772
00:50:18,458 --> 00:50:19,625
It's important.

773
00:50:20,167 --> 00:50:21,625
He's a cunning devil.

774
00:50:21,792 --> 00:50:23,500
Made good for a country boy.

775
00:50:44,708 --> 00:50:46,000
You don't mind?

776
00:50:47,083 --> 00:50:48,708
Matifat and your Florine.

777
00:50:48,875 --> 00:50:50,208
What can I do?

778
00:50:50,375 --> 00:50:52,125
She's a married woman.

779
00:50:52,292 --> 00:50:53,917
You learn to share.

780
00:50:57,417 --> 00:50:58,333
Take a look.

781
00:50:59,167 --> 00:51:02,292
Behold the two hundred
most noxious people in Paris.

782
00:51:02,750 --> 00:51:04,792
At least half would like me dead.

783
00:51:05,708 --> 00:51:07,125
But they'll do nothing.

784
00:51:08,750 --> 00:51:10,333
- You know why?
- No.

785
00:51:11,125 --> 00:51:12,750
Because they're afraid.

786
00:51:13,375 --> 00:51:14,792
Afraid of you?

787
00:51:16,792 --> 00:51:17,917
Of the paper.

788
00:51:19,625 --> 00:51:20,958
And rightly so.

789
00:51:21,458 --> 00:51:23,083
With all their scheming.

790
00:51:25,875 --> 00:51:27,875
One day,
you'll run into your Lady

791
00:51:28,500 --> 00:51:30,542
and you'll read fear in her eyes.

792
00:51:31,375 --> 00:51:32,917
And it will feel good.

793
00:51:36,875 --> 00:51:38,500
I won't marry him!

794
00:51:38,667 --> 00:51:39,583
She says no!

795
00:51:39,750 --> 00:51:43,333
Oh, yes she will.
Long ago in a small Spanish village,

796
00:51:43,500 --> 00:51:45,000
in the mountains...

797
00:51:46,125 --> 00:51:49,125
Her name was Coralie
and she wasn't yet 20.

798
00:51:49,875 --> 00:51:54,625
Her scarlet stockings
had become famous in only one season.

799
00:51:58,417 --> 00:52:00,583
Gazing at Coralie, Lucien was seized

800
00:52:00,750 --> 00:52:03,917
with an overwhelming desire
to throttle this world

801
00:52:04,542 --> 00:52:06,375
and bring it to its knees.

802
00:52:13,833 --> 00:52:14,750
Bravo!

803
00:52:19,542 --> 00:52:24,167
Ladies and gentlemen,
Coralie and Florine!

804
00:52:52,583 --> 00:52:54,167
Pour yourself a drink.

805
00:53:16,250 --> 00:53:17,583
We'll be right back.

806
00:53:19,083 --> 00:53:20,250
No more champagne?

807
00:53:20,417 --> 00:53:22,958
- Whose place?
- Florine's, no Matifat's.

808
00:53:23,125 --> 00:53:24,167
Go on, drink.

809
00:53:24,333 --> 00:53:27,167
I wanted to write a play called
"Enough Champagne!"

810
00:53:27,333 --> 00:53:28,125
Not bad.

811
00:53:28,292 --> 00:53:30,208
Guys, I need your articles.

812
00:53:30,375 --> 00:53:32,167
Take Blondet's on the Opera.

813
00:53:32,333 --> 00:53:33,167
Great.

814
00:53:33,792 --> 00:53:34,958
Thanks.

815
00:53:35,125 --> 00:53:36,833
We have the Déjazet...

816
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:38,917
The Opera...

817
00:53:39,250 --> 00:53:40,708
The ltaliens, good.

818
00:53:40,875 --> 00:53:43,167
- Who had the Variétés?
- Me.

819
00:53:43,708 --> 00:53:46,250
- A review?
- Summary, I didn't have time.

820
00:53:46,917 --> 00:53:47,917
What's this?

821
00:53:48,083 --> 00:53:51,000
Tomorrow's paper.
If everyone hands in their work.

822
00:54:05,958 --> 00:54:07,875
He's a friend of Lousteau?

823
00:54:10,167 --> 00:54:11,750
You sure he likes women?

824
00:54:11,917 --> 00:54:13,583
He certainly looks at them.

825
00:54:15,292 --> 00:54:16,917
He seems honest.

826
00:54:18,083 --> 00:54:19,833
You be careful, dear.

827
00:54:39,083 --> 00:54:41,792
We're not selling, we're joining forces.

828
00:54:41,958 --> 00:54:43,500
Combine two names

829
00:54:43,667 --> 00:54:45,083
and split expenses.

830
00:54:45,958 --> 00:54:48,292
We raise the cost of advertising,

831
00:54:48,458 --> 00:54:51,083
lower our price
and extend readership.

832
00:54:51,958 --> 00:54:55,000
And more readers
means more expensive ads.

833
00:54:55,167 --> 00:54:56,917
See, when you try?

834
00:54:57,958 --> 00:54:59,250
Who finances?

835
00:54:59,958 --> 00:55:01,958
Dauriat, Camusot and me.

836
00:55:02,125 --> 00:55:04,667
We need a fourth,
but I want the majority.

837
00:55:05,667 --> 00:55:08,625
Think Florine could talk to her perfumer?

838
00:55:12,708 --> 00:55:13,833
We can try.

839
00:55:16,458 --> 00:55:18,125
You'll be editor-in-chief.

840
00:55:18,542 --> 00:55:20,583
And I keep editorial control.

841
00:55:21,333 --> 00:55:23,000
I'll be even more popular.

842
00:55:23,583 --> 00:55:26,042
You?
You'd pay to sell your soul.

843
00:55:29,750 --> 00:55:32,375
- What's this?
- Pineapple fritters, sir.

844
00:55:33,917 --> 00:55:35,958
Coralie's been looking for you.

845
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:38,292
You a pimp too?

846
00:55:39,333 --> 00:55:40,917
I thought you were broke.

847
00:55:42,417 --> 00:55:43,583
There they are!

848
00:55:44,292 --> 00:55:46,542
Berthier,
you reviewing us tonight?

849
00:55:46,708 --> 00:55:47,750
Not me, gorgeous.

850
00:55:47,917 --> 00:55:49,458
I've had enough.

851
00:55:50,292 --> 00:55:51,625
Let's ask Mr. Lucien.

852
00:55:52,167 --> 00:55:53,833
Forget these scoundrels.

853
00:55:54,000 --> 00:55:55,750
What does Mr. Lucien think?

854
00:55:55,917 --> 00:55:56,667
Sure.

855
00:55:56,833 --> 00:55:59,083
Find us a nice twist, like earlier.

856
00:55:59,250 --> 00:56:00,375
Good idea.

857
00:56:00,875 --> 00:56:02,417
You don't have to.

858
00:56:02,958 --> 00:56:05,125
But it would make me awfully happy.

859
00:56:07,333 --> 00:56:09,958
Show us your stuff. You saw the play.

860
00:56:14,875 --> 00:56:16,000
Why not?

861
00:56:52,333 --> 00:56:53,667
Stylistic effects,

862
00:56:53,833 --> 00:56:57,458
suitable enthusiasm,
and the desire to seduce a girl...

863
00:56:57,833 --> 00:57:01,125
Lucien wrote his very first article.

864
00:57:02,125 --> 00:57:04,917
"The intrigue slowly unfolded,

865
00:57:05,292 --> 00:57:08,458
"though I am quite unable
to clear up the mystery.

866
00:57:09,542 --> 00:57:11,833
"Don Jose's daughter,

867
00:57:12,000 --> 00:57:14,333
"personified by a living Andalusian,

868
00:57:14,500 --> 00:57:16,542
"brings your heart into your mouth.

869
00:57:16,708 --> 00:57:19,500
"Tantalized, you long to leap onstage

870
00:57:19,667 --> 00:57:21,750
"and offer her hovel and heart."

871
00:57:21,917 --> 00:57:23,333
My, my, not bad.

872
00:57:23,958 --> 00:57:27,500
"She can be anything she chooses,
she was born to fly.

873
00:57:27,667 --> 00:57:28,500
"Can more

874
00:57:28,667 --> 00:57:31,000
"be said of a boulevard actress?"

875
00:57:33,167 --> 00:57:36,875
"Somebody asked me
how the piece was and I replied..."

876
00:57:37,625 --> 00:57:38,792
What did you reply?

877
00:57:38,958 --> 00:57:40,667
She had scarlet stockings

878
00:57:40,833 --> 00:57:42,625
and the face of first love.

879
00:57:43,125 --> 00:57:44,208
Bravo.

880
00:57:51,292 --> 00:57:52,292
Not bad.

881
00:57:56,083 --> 00:57:58,417
Gentlemen,
to your articles and lies!

882
00:58:06,375 --> 00:58:07,875
The Baron du Chatelet...

883
00:58:08,583 --> 00:58:09,625
you know him?

884
00:58:10,292 --> 00:58:12,542
Doesn't he want to be Prefect?

885
00:58:13,958 --> 00:58:16,333
Back home,
we called him "The Turkey."

886
00:58:16,500 --> 00:58:18,250
He's close to Mme. d'Espard.

887
00:58:18,417 --> 00:58:19,708
He wishes.

888
00:58:20,333 --> 00:58:21,417
D'Espard...

889
00:58:22,542 --> 00:58:24,542
is a whole other world, friends.

890
00:58:25,042 --> 00:58:27,667
The king's close circle.
Huge influence.

891
00:58:28,333 --> 00:58:30,292
You know the right people.

892
00:58:31,792 --> 00:58:33,667
They know me no longer.

893
00:58:41,500 --> 00:58:43,042
This your first smoke?

894
00:58:47,167 --> 00:58:48,125
No.

895
00:58:51,958 --> 00:58:53,292
Marguerites...

896
00:59:24,042 --> 00:59:25,208
Are you alright?

897
00:59:27,792 --> 00:59:28,458
Yes.

898
00:59:41,750 --> 00:59:42,792
Lucien?

899
00:59:45,417 --> 00:59:46,792
Are you okay?

900
00:59:47,333 --> 00:59:50,125
That evening,
maybe he had seen too much,

901
00:59:50,292 --> 00:59:51,833
drunk and heard too much.

902
00:59:55,458 --> 00:59:57,208
Paris had lifted her skirts

903
00:59:57,375 --> 01:00:00,167
to show the young poet
- like a worthy disciple -

904
01:00:01,167 --> 01:00:03,083
her terrible nudity.

905
01:00:47,500 --> 01:00:48,250
Sir.

906
01:00:48,417 --> 01:00:50,125
Sir! Wake up.

907
01:00:50,292 --> 01:00:52,792
Coralie, come to the window!

908
01:00:52,958 --> 01:00:53,625
Look!

909
01:00:53,792 --> 01:00:55,208
What's going on?

910
01:00:55,375 --> 01:00:58,125
I woke you up, darling?
I have a gift.

911
01:00:58,292 --> 01:01:01,000
Scarlet like your stockings.

912
01:01:01,167 --> 01:01:03,250
That's for me? You're crazy!

913
01:01:03,417 --> 01:01:06,250
Mr. Camusot is downstairs,
he could come up.

914
01:01:06,417 --> 01:01:07,708
Get dressed!

915
01:01:08,708 --> 01:01:10,375
Her name is Ruby.

916
01:01:10,750 --> 01:01:13,542
Wel'll go to the woods, the sun's shining!

917
01:01:14,833 --> 01:01:15,708
I'll talk to him.

918
01:01:15,875 --> 01:01:17,833
No, you won't! Not at all.

919
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:19,875
Come on.
Wait, I'll come up.

920
01:01:20,875 --> 01:01:22,250
No, no!

921
01:01:23,042 --> 01:01:23,792
Hurry.

922
01:01:25,667 --> 01:01:27,625
He won't stay long, don't move.

923
01:01:33,083 --> 01:01:34,125
Mimi?

924
01:01:34,292 --> 01:01:35,542
My sweetheart.

925
01:01:36,333 --> 01:01:38,042
- Sleeping?
- No, rehearsing.

926
01:01:38,208 --> 01:01:38,917
Already!

927
01:01:39,083 --> 01:01:40,250
Hello, Berenice.

928
01:01:40,417 --> 01:01:41,375
You're crazy.

929
01:01:45,583 --> 01:01:47,042
Hang on, one second.

930
01:01:47,208 --> 01:01:48,292
Berenice!

931
01:01:48,792 --> 01:01:50,958
What time is rehearsal today?

932
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:54,625
Can you pick up
my dress at Guérini's?

933
01:01:54,792 --> 01:01:56,208
I'll give you money.

934
01:02:00,958 --> 01:02:02,458
There are my boots!

935
01:02:02,625 --> 01:02:05,250
You said they were with your costumes.

936
01:02:05,417 --> 01:02:06,833
No, they were here.

937
01:02:07,583 --> 01:02:10,375
They're for a man's role
I'm playing soon.

938
01:02:10,542 --> 01:02:12,292
But they're much too big.

939
01:02:12,458 --> 01:02:14,833
I put newspaper inside, but they hurt.

940
01:02:16,167 --> 01:02:19,958
Will you drop me off?
I can try out my new carriage.

941
01:02:32,250 --> 01:02:35,375
I've never had one,
I don't know how to drive.

942
01:02:36,292 --> 01:02:37,625
I'll show you.

943
01:02:39,417 --> 01:02:41,000
You're completely crazy.

944
01:02:50,292 --> 01:02:51,833
I'll find you some shoes.

945
01:02:53,917 --> 01:02:55,542
Is she attached to him?

946
01:02:55,917 --> 01:02:57,417
He keeps us.

947
01:02:59,542 --> 01:03:01,917
He saved us when she was unwell.

948
01:03:05,167 --> 01:03:06,708
What an actress.

949
01:03:07,500 --> 01:03:10,708
I won't let her lose everything
for a springtime flirt.

950
01:03:15,167 --> 01:03:16,125
What size?

951
01:03:17,333 --> 01:03:20,417
Dear sister,
I beg your forgiveness, I write little.

952
01:03:21,083 --> 01:03:22,458
Time flies in Patris.

953
01:03:23,125 --> 01:03:25,292
Everything is alarmingly rapid.

954
01:03:27,292 --> 01:03:28,750
I have big news.

955
01:03:28,917 --> 01:03:31,333
I at last met a great publisher.

956
01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:35,042
His name is Dauriat
and he's interested in my poetry.

957
01:03:36,250 --> 01:03:38,625
To devote myself entirely to writing,

958
01:03:38,792 --> 01:03:41,375
I distanced myself
from Mme. de Bargeton

959
01:03:41,542 --> 01:03:43,625
and her vain society life.

960
01:03:44,500 --> 01:03:48,458
I believe our separation made her suffer,
but I had no choice.

961
01:03:48,625 --> 01:03:51,958
Without money,
one cannot join high society.

962
01:03:53,125 --> 01:03:56,542
Imagine,
I've already spent 1,800 francs.

963
01:03:56,917 --> 01:03:59,417
I must now cut back on spending.

964
01:04:00,458 --> 01:04:02,208
Paris is a bottomless pit.

965
01:04:02,375 --> 01:04:06,542
You pay for everything,
even to cross gutters when it rains!

966
01:04:07,125 --> 01:04:10,083
But you can also
make lifechanging encounters,

967
01:04:10,250 --> 01:04:14,542
ones that propel you
in unexpected and luminous directions.

968
01:04:14,958 --> 01:04:17,417
For example,
I met a brilliant journalist

969
01:04:17,583 --> 01:04:19,917
who gave me
a job in a respected paper.

970
01:04:21,167 --> 01:04:22,250
Have no fear.

971
01:04:22,417 --> 01:04:26,208
Journalism will never distract me
from my own writing

972
01:04:26,750 --> 01:04:28,167
or my poetry.

973
01:04:28,333 --> 01:04:29,333
Lucien.

974
01:04:36,500 --> 01:04:38,292
Gentlemen!

975
01:04:39,333 --> 01:04:40,542
Meeting!

976
01:04:41,667 --> 01:04:43,083
It's the big day!

977
01:04:44,333 --> 01:04:45,458
Gentlemen.

978
01:04:46,250 --> 01:04:49,667
Today we celebrate
the union of our two beloved papers:

979
01:04:49,833 --> 01:04:51,417
Le Corsaire and Le Satan.

980
01:04:52,208 --> 01:04:54,125
Henceforth, we are called:

981
01:04:54,292 --> 01:04:56,042
Le Corsaire-Satan.

982
01:04:59,667 --> 01:05:01,542
Took clever thinking!

983
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:03,667
Comrade Lousteau here

984
01:05:03,833 --> 01:05:06,250
will be our illustrious editor-in-chief.

985
01:05:10,208 --> 01:05:13,542
Lousteau,
a great conscience of our times.

986
01:05:15,583 --> 01:05:16,833
Scoundrel.

987
01:05:17,208 --> 01:05:18,708
Your turn, Lousteau.

988
01:05:19,708 --> 01:05:21,000
Gentlemen.

989
01:05:21,167 --> 01:05:23,042
Inform your theater managers,

990
01:05:23,417 --> 01:05:24,750
publishers,

991
01:05:24,917 --> 01:05:28,292
writers, actresses,
merchants and musicians...

992
01:05:28,458 --> 01:05:29,792
The Pope if you like...

993
01:05:29,958 --> 01:05:34,875
No article in this paper
will be sold for under 150 francs!

994
01:05:37,375 --> 01:05:38,958
150 francs the article!

995
01:05:42,750 --> 01:05:45,000
Our editorial policy is simple:

996
01:05:45,167 --> 01:05:47,750
the probable
will be upheld as truth!

997
01:05:49,083 --> 01:05:52,958
There was a specific term
for a false information:

998
01:05:53,125 --> 01:05:55,042
a "canard” or duck.

999
01:05:55,208 --> 01:05:57,292
Maybe because
fake sensational news

1000
01:05:57,458 --> 01:06:00,250
was like a wild duck chase.

1001
01:06:00,875 --> 01:06:02,167
To create an event,

1002
01:06:02,333 --> 01:06:04,500
a paper could print any rumor.

1003
01:06:04,667 --> 01:06:05,792
True or false,

1004
01:06:05,958 --> 01:06:08,333
no one dwelled on such details.

1005
01:06:09,292 --> 01:06:11,208
These men had understood,

1006
01:06:11,375 --> 01:06:14,708
a fake news and its denial
were two events.

1007
01:06:15,458 --> 01:06:19,125
The only truth that mattered,
were sales figures.

1008
01:06:20,458 --> 01:06:21,792
So false information

1009
01:06:21,958 --> 01:06:24,208
or "ducks” had free reign

1010
01:06:24,375 --> 01:06:26,500
and were not yet chained down.

1011
01:06:26,667 --> 01:06:28,583
Long live the Emperor!

1012
01:06:31,417 --> 01:06:35,250
Hustlers, merchants,
actors, writers, politicians, theatres...

1013
01:06:35,833 --> 01:06:39,375
Everyone came to negotiate,
order an article,

1014
01:06:39,542 --> 01:06:42,375
peddle gossip or offer bribes.

1015
01:06:45,500 --> 01:06:46,208
Paper!

1016
01:06:46,375 --> 01:06:47,958
A new industry was born.

1017
01:06:48,625 --> 01:06:51,208
Editorial press
became commercial press.

1018
01:06:51,750 --> 01:06:52,792
Paper!

1019
01:06:53,167 --> 01:06:54,750
The paper was now a shop

1020
01:06:54,917 --> 01:06:57,958
that sold the public
what they wanted to hear.

1021
01:06:58,417 --> 01:07:01,750
One no longer enlightened,
one flattered opinions.

1022
01:07:01,917 --> 01:07:03,125
Or created them.

1023
01:07:05,000 --> 01:07:08,292
News, debate and ideas
had become goods

1024
01:07:08,458 --> 01:07:10,333
to palm off on subscribers.

1025
01:07:10,708 --> 01:07:11,625
Paper!

1026
01:07:11,792 --> 01:07:14,833
Journalists became retailers of phrases,

1027
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,833
wheelers and dealers of words,

1028
01:07:17,000 --> 01:07:20,042
brokers between artists and the public.

1029
01:07:20,208 --> 01:07:20,917
Paper!

1030
01:07:21,083 --> 01:07:22,458
Lucien learned fast.

1031
01:07:22,625 --> 01:07:24,583
Very fast... He wrote furiously,

1032
01:07:24,750 --> 01:07:26,542
with the fury of revenge.

1033
01:07:27,750 --> 01:07:30,500
Backstage gossip, rumors,
mocking witticisms...

1034
01:07:30,667 --> 01:07:34,333
Within days, Lucien wrote dozens
of cruel, witty articles,

1035
01:07:34,500 --> 01:07:36,292
which became his trademark.

1036
01:07:36,458 --> 01:07:38,458
See this? Paid the same day.

1037
01:07:38,625 --> 01:07:39,750
That's not all...

1038
01:07:39,917 --> 01:07:40,750
Ta-da!

1039
01:07:43,125 --> 01:07:45,083
It's Coralie who will be happy.

1040
01:07:56,000 --> 01:07:57,750
Is there anymore champagne?

1041
01:07:59,375 --> 01:08:00,500
How old were you?

1042
01:08:00,667 --> 01:08:02,458
I must've been 13 or 14.

1043
01:08:04,458 --> 01:08:05,958
Your mother gave you...

1044
01:08:07,208 --> 01:08:08,500
Not gave, sold!

1045
01:08:08,667 --> 01:08:12,167
When I heard the price,
I knew I wasn't worth much.

1046
01:08:13,875 --> 01:08:16,000
It was a small troupe.

1047
01:08:16,417 --> 01:08:18,417
They taught me to dance.

1048
01:08:19,208 --> 01:08:20,417
And after that?

1049
01:08:20,583 --> 01:08:23,333
After that,
men started hanging around.

1050
01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:26,125
Bad things
happened to the other girls.

1051
01:08:26,667 --> 01:08:28,375
Lots of nasty business.

1052
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:31,167
And after that?

1053
01:08:32,083 --> 01:08:34,875
When I turned 15,
I was hired by another troupe

1054
01:08:35,042 --> 01:08:36,458
to do street mime.

1055
01:08:36,625 --> 01:08:38,125
It was the fad in Paris.

1056
01:08:39,375 --> 01:08:40,667
And there you go.

1057
01:08:41,042 --> 01:08:42,750
That's how I met Florine.

1058
01:08:46,125 --> 01:08:47,083
Thanks.

1059
01:08:50,750 --> 01:08:52,625
You're too handsome for me.

1060
01:08:53,125 --> 01:08:54,583
You'll hurt me.

1061
01:08:55,208 --> 01:08:58,708
You'll meet a rich marquise and bam!
No more Coralie.

1062
01:09:02,708 --> 01:09:04,750
I never made love like that.

1063
01:09:06,125 --> 01:09:08,125
I give myself entirely.

1064
01:09:08,750 --> 01:09:10,458
Otherwise what's the point?

1065
01:09:13,333 --> 01:09:14,958
You're not like them.

1066
01:09:16,750 --> 01:09:18,250
You'll do great things.

1067
01:09:19,292 --> 01:09:21,125
I'm not smart but I can tell.

1068
01:09:21,875 --> 01:09:23,375
I feel these things.

1069
01:09:36,167 --> 01:09:38,458
"A Turkey held in its beak

1070
01:09:38,625 --> 01:09:41,917
"a Cuttlefish bone as dry as could be.

1071
01:09:42,083 --> 01:09:44,292
"The Turkey was from Angouléme,

1072
01:09:44,458 --> 01:09:46,333
"on the banks of the Charente.

1073
01:09:47,000 --> 01:09:50,750
"But next thing we knew,
the bird was used to make stew."

1074
01:09:51,083 --> 01:09:53,542
Our dear baron will love this.

1075
01:09:54,250 --> 01:09:56,833
- Lucien didn't write it.
- He didn't sign,

1076
01:09:57,000 --> 01:09:59,292
but his name
is on the following page.

1077
01:10:00,458 --> 01:10:03,500
The impudent boy
continues signing "de Rubempré.”

1078
01:10:08,625 --> 01:10:09,542
Do you believe

1079
01:10:09,708 --> 01:10:12,958
him capable
of spreading awkward rumors,

1080
01:10:13,542 --> 01:10:14,833
my dear cousin?

1081
01:10:18,292 --> 01:10:19,542
He's above that.

1082
01:10:20,125 --> 01:10:21,292
You think so?

1083
01:10:30,375 --> 01:10:32,125
I feel remorse over him.

1084
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,750
Then adopt him and be done with it.

1085
01:10:37,958 --> 01:10:41,542
Far from salons, Lucien's dignified
apprenticeship continued.

1086
01:10:44,167 --> 01:10:45,750
Overwhelmed by the number

1087
01:10:45,917 --> 01:10:49,167
of books to review,
the writers used their monkey

1088
01:10:49,333 --> 01:10:52,250
as a referee and let him choose.

1089
01:10:52,417 --> 01:10:53,708
So.

1090
01:10:53,875 --> 01:10:55,542
Stendhal or Chateaubriand?

1091
01:10:55,708 --> 01:10:57,458
Based on the ape's reaction

1092
01:10:57,625 --> 01:11:00,792
they would support or trample
a play or a novel,

1093
01:11:01,333 --> 01:11:04,250
cynically attacking the stage
and literature.

1094
01:11:07,750 --> 01:11:08,750
In any case,

1095
01:11:08,917 --> 01:11:11,375
someone would have to fork out.

1096
01:11:11,542 --> 01:11:14,833
The press was
an increasingly lucrative business,

1097
01:11:15,625 --> 01:11:17,667
and readers ever more numerous.

1098
01:11:17,833 --> 01:11:18,875
Byron!

1099
01:11:19,042 --> 01:11:21,917
To meet the growing demands
of new dailies,

1100
01:11:22,083 --> 01:11:25,750
German engineers
invented the rotary printing press.

1101
01:11:26,542 --> 01:11:30,292
It was now possible
to print 20 times more pages.

1102
01:11:30,750 --> 01:11:33,458
Distribution jumped from a few thousand

1103
01:11:33,625 --> 01:11:37,208
to tens of thousands,
and soon hundreds of thousands,

1104
01:11:37,375 --> 01:11:40,125
while advertising
brought in ever more money.

1105
01:11:41,750 --> 01:11:45,583
Advertising agencies
were created to help merchants

1106
01:11:45,750 --> 01:11:48,500
and industrialists
find slogans and images

1107
01:11:48,667 --> 01:11:52,375
to sell products
that readers didn't need.

1108
01:11:53,375 --> 01:11:55,917
Singali too, stepped up the pace.

1109
01:11:56,958 --> 01:12:00,250
To increase profits,
he invented a strange contraption

1110
01:12:00,417 --> 01:12:02,542
baptized the "Glory Machine."

1111
01:12:03,792 --> 01:12:05,250
Turn the crank

1112
01:12:05,417 --> 01:12:10,417
and wooden keys hidden under seats
imitated applause.

1113
01:12:11,167 --> 01:12:14,042
He hoped that upon hearing
this false applause,

1114
01:12:14,208 --> 01:12:17,792
the audience
would automatically applaud too.

1115
01:12:18,292 --> 01:12:19,667
What an invention!

1116
01:12:21,125 --> 01:12:23,125
Lastly, for whistles and boos,

1117
01:12:23,292 --> 01:12:27,625
he concealed horns
in dark nooks and crannies of theatres.

1118
01:12:29,125 --> 01:12:32,542
In the end, he dropped his machines
to work manually,

1119
01:12:32,708 --> 01:12:34,250
like a true craftsman,

1120
01:12:34,417 --> 01:12:37,458
for he missed
the contact with his audiences.

1121
01:12:38,083 --> 01:12:40,292
And of course, the artists.

1122
01:12:45,125 --> 01:12:46,333
Oh, cruel!

1123
01:12:47,917 --> 01:12:49,917
Is it now you wound my heart?

1124
01:12:51,500 --> 01:12:53,000
What have you done?

1125
01:12:53,417 --> 01:12:55,500
And yet I believed
I was loved.

1126
01:12:57,125 --> 01:13:00,750
My soul, long pleased
with your presence, lived for you.

1127
01:13:01,875 --> 01:13:05,333
Where were your laws,
when first I told you?

1128
01:13:07,042 --> 01:13:08,292
What excess...

1129
01:13:08,458 --> 01:13:09,917
Mr. Director.

1130
01:13:10,625 --> 01:13:12,583
- You wished to see me?
-Yes.

1131
01:13:15,042 --> 01:13:16,417
Have we met?

1132
01:13:16,750 --> 01:13:18,667
I certainly know who you are.

1133
01:13:22,458 --> 01:13:25,667
Will you audition
many actresses for the role?

1134
01:13:28,542 --> 01:13:30,333
It's a difficult role.

1135
01:13:30,500 --> 01:13:31,917
I have no choice.

1136
01:13:34,625 --> 01:13:36,292
One always has a choice.

1137
01:13:38,583 --> 01:13:39,958
Wouldn't you say?

1138
01:13:43,500 --> 01:13:44,875
My friends!

1139
01:13:45,792 --> 01:13:46,625
Friends.

1140
01:13:46,792 --> 01:13:49,583
To Coralie,
and her first great role.

1141
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,583
You'll play Racine too one day,
my lovely.

1142
01:14:02,750 --> 01:14:04,500
You'll discover sentiments.

1143
01:14:30,333 --> 01:14:32,500
You have a fine pair of boots.

1144
01:14:33,792 --> 01:14:36,375
I believe
I've seen them somewhere.

1145
01:14:37,250 --> 01:14:38,125
No?

1146
01:14:45,542 --> 01:14:46,750
I'd give all I have

1147
01:14:46,917 --> 01:14:48,375
for one look like that.

1148
01:14:48,542 --> 01:14:50,833
Accept that your role is over.

1149
01:14:51,583 --> 01:14:53,167
She needs you no longer.

1150
01:14:53,500 --> 01:14:55,458
I want her to lack for nothing.

1151
01:14:57,042 --> 01:14:58,167
For me,

1152
01:14:58,792 --> 01:15:00,458
you are nothing.

1153
01:15:01,958 --> 01:15:03,167
Listen to him.

1154
01:15:03,333 --> 01:15:06,375
Your articles amuse me.
You make me seem so cruel.

1155
01:15:06,542 --> 01:15:07,833
Glad to hear it...

1156
01:15:08,000 --> 01:15:09,125
madam.

1157
01:15:15,083 --> 01:15:16,833
She will lack for nothing.

1158
01:15:19,167 --> 01:15:20,500
Good evening.

1159
01:15:22,875 --> 01:15:24,542
A Boulevard actress

1160
01:15:24,708 --> 01:15:29,208
landing a repertoire role
made more than one person smirk.

1161
01:15:31,458 --> 01:15:35,375
The success of Lucien's articles
and Coralie's conquest

1162
01:15:35,542 --> 01:15:38,250
would have made
a more mature head spin.

1163
01:15:40,500 --> 01:15:44,667
Lucien's faux-pas was to flaunt
his victories and worse yet,

1164
01:15:44,833 --> 01:15:46,458
exhibit his happiness.

1165
01:15:50,167 --> 01:15:53,083
Coralie took Lucien to parties,
society evenings

1166
01:15:53,250 --> 01:15:56,083
and shops in vogue,
offering her lover fine suits

1167
01:15:56,542 --> 01:15:59,375
to shine by her side
among the Paris smart set.

1168
01:16:02,458 --> 01:16:05,125
She wanted to teach Lucien
to play with life,

1169
01:16:05,292 --> 01:16:06,875
like she did on stage.

1170
01:16:08,292 --> 01:16:11,625
But art and literary glory
were forgotten quests.

1171
01:17:57,375 --> 01:17:58,458
Good evening.

1172
01:17:59,833 --> 01:18:01,417
Please meet Miss Coralie.

1173
01:18:07,750 --> 01:18:09,125
You won't greet her

1174
01:18:09,292 --> 01:18:11,000
because she's an actress?

1175
01:18:12,625 --> 01:18:13,958
You applaud her onstage

1176
01:18:14,125 --> 01:18:16,125
but ignore her in real life.

1177
01:18:16,292 --> 01:18:17,583
That's enough.

1178
01:18:17,750 --> 01:18:20,875
She's not respectable enough
for people like you?

1179
01:18:26,417 --> 01:18:28,250
Tell me, my favorite enemy,

1180
01:18:28,417 --> 01:18:30,208
did Dauriat take your book?

1181
01:18:31,917 --> 01:18:34,292
I must earn my living at the paper.

1182
01:18:35,042 --> 01:18:36,292
I inherited nothing.

1183
01:18:36,833 --> 01:18:38,000
Like myself.

1184
01:18:38,542 --> 01:18:41,125
Not even a name.
We know that, Mr. Chardon.

1185
01:18:41,292 --> 01:18:42,708
<i>My name is Rubempré.</i>

1186
01:18:42,875 --> 01:18:44,500
Chardon or Rubempré,

1187
01:18:44,667 --> 01:18:46,000
you'll be forgotten.

1188
01:18:46,792 --> 01:18:48,417
Please, Lucien. Let's go.

1189
01:18:48,583 --> 01:18:51,125
You've given up your literary ambitions?

1190
01:18:52,375 --> 01:18:53,625
Don't worry for me.

1191
01:18:55,500 --> 01:18:57,333
- Come on.
- Mademoiselle.

1192
01:18:58,667 --> 01:19:00,750
You are an actress I admire.

1193
01:19:04,625 --> 01:19:06,375
May I invite you to dance?

1194
01:19:07,125 --> 01:19:08,875
Forgive me...

1195
01:19:09,667 --> 01:19:11,583
I'm no longer in the mood.

1196
01:19:13,125 --> 01:19:14,417
Good evening, Louise.

1197
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:21,208
Was it her?

1198
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:25,250
She's beautiful.

1199
01:19:27,250 --> 01:19:28,917
She looks unhappy.

1200
01:19:34,625 --> 01:19:36,333
Why'd they call you Chardon?

1201
01:19:49,042 --> 01:19:50,917
My father's name was Chardon

1202
01:19:52,250 --> 01:19:55,208
and my mother was born
Amelie de Rubempré.

1203
01:19:57,917 --> 01:20:00,000
I want to carry my mother's name.

1204
01:20:07,917 --> 01:20:09,542
It doesn't matter to me.

1205
01:20:11,042 --> 01:20:12,583
You have only one name...

1206
01:20:13,625 --> 01:20:15,042
that of my love.

1207
01:21:20,208 --> 01:21:21,833
I'm sick, Lucien.

1208
01:21:24,250 --> 01:21:26,333
They call it consumption.

1209
01:21:28,542 --> 01:21:30,208
A sort of tuberculosis.

1210
01:21:37,917 --> 01:21:39,875
We need to create beauty.

1211
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:47,958
Everything's rotten, everywhere.

1212
01:21:50,750 --> 01:21:52,792
We must fight for beauty.

1213
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:05,750
I don't want your poetry.

1214
01:22:05,917 --> 01:22:07,125
It's wasted money.

1215
01:22:07,583 --> 01:22:09,708
Lucien is with the paper now.

1216
01:22:10,333 --> 01:22:12,542
Trying to intimidate me,
you upstart?

1217
01:22:13,083 --> 01:22:15,875
It's unsellable.
I'd be a laughing stock.

1218
01:22:16,292 --> 01:22:19,083
Literature is important to many people.

1219
01:22:19,708 --> 01:22:21,542
A world view, love of beauty...

1220
01:22:21,958 --> 01:22:23,792
If only for a few readers.

1221
01:22:24,208 --> 01:22:25,542
One single reader.

1222
01:22:25,708 --> 01:22:27,250
- One single reader?
-Yes.

1223
01:22:27,417 --> 01:22:28,917
You're out of your mind.

1224
01:22:29,250 --> 01:22:31,333
Your Marguerites can wilt.

1225
01:22:31,500 --> 01:22:33,458
What language must I say it in?

1226
01:22:33,625 --> 01:22:34,792
You, come here.

1227
01:22:37,917 --> 01:22:40,000
We need to talk about Berthier.

1228
01:22:40,167 --> 01:22:42,208
- What?
- He's kicking up trouble.

1229
01:22:42,375 --> 01:22:44,583
Thanks.
Review this, as agreed.

1230
01:22:45,542 --> 01:22:47,500
- Do your job.
- Of course.

1231
01:23:03,125 --> 01:23:05,208
He'll publish your Marguerites.

1232
01:23:07,625 --> 01:23:10,250
- I have my conditions.
- Of course.

1233
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:13,625
I'd like to talk to you.

1234
01:23:15,875 --> 01:23:17,333
I know your poems.

1235
01:23:20,500 --> 01:23:21,792
Louise...

1236
01:23:22,542 --> 01:23:25,250
spoke of you and Angouléme
the other night

1237
01:23:25,667 --> 01:23:27,333
with great emotion.

1238
01:23:27,833 --> 01:23:29,625
She read us your work.

1239
01:23:31,042 --> 01:23:32,958
Certain things were excellent.

1240
01:23:34,583 --> 01:23:35,625
Honestly.

1241
01:23:41,292 --> 01:23:42,833
She's a wounded woman.

1242
01:23:44,208 --> 01:23:45,958
She wishes you no harm.

1243
01:23:46,708 --> 01:23:48,708
How could she harm me now?

1244
01:23:50,333 --> 01:23:52,125
By sending you to trick me?

1245
01:23:55,375 --> 01:23:57,417
Don't imagine enemies everywhere.

1246
01:23:57,583 --> 01:23:59,250
You have none, perhaps?

1247
01:23:59,833 --> 01:24:01,750
Only the necessary ones.

1248
01:24:04,083 --> 01:24:06,333
What matters to me is creation.

1249
01:24:06,667 --> 01:24:08,208
And to you too, I know.

1250
01:24:09,833 --> 01:24:11,375
The scheming,

1251
01:24:11,542 --> 01:24:13,333
the endless gossip...

1252
01:24:13,500 --> 01:24:15,292
Empty noise, hot air.

1253
01:24:15,458 --> 01:24:17,750
Learn to look upon it as a game.

1254
01:24:18,583 --> 01:24:19,583
Lucien?

1255
01:24:20,750 --> 01:24:21,958
Ready to go?

1256
01:24:24,333 --> 01:24:25,917
See you soon, I hope.

1257
01:24:27,125 --> 01:24:28,833
You want revenge on Dauriat?

1258
01:24:32,458 --> 01:24:34,583
Nathan's book is coming out.

1259
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:37,417
Dauriat's gambling on it.
Big time.

1260
01:24:37,750 --> 01:24:38,917
Knock yourself out.

1261
01:24:41,917 --> 01:24:43,625
Nathan came to talk with me.

1262
01:24:44,083 --> 01:24:47,083
Of course.
He wants everyone to like him.

1263
01:24:47,250 --> 01:24:49,875
He's afraid of the reviews
and he should be.

1264
01:24:50,375 --> 01:24:52,542
He talk about
the "love of art," etc.?

1265
01:24:52,708 --> 01:24:54,583
He tried the same with me.

1266
01:24:55,292 --> 01:24:56,708
Knock yourself out.

1267
01:25:12,042 --> 01:25:13,500
Envied by many,

1268
01:25:13,667 --> 01:25:17,292
Nathan had become
a prominent literary figure in no time.

1269
01:25:17,875 --> 01:25:20,583
His insolent youth
and style seduced all.

1270
01:25:20,750 --> 01:25:24,542
People fought over his friendship
and Royalist network,

1271
01:25:24,708 --> 01:25:26,458
even if some only saw in him

1272
01:25:26,625 --> 01:25:29,125
false glory
built on press reviews.

1273
01:25:55,208 --> 01:25:56,708
Coming along?

1274
01:26:02,958 --> 01:26:05,042
I can't demolish this book.

1275
01:26:05,875 --> 01:26:07,208
It has power...

1276
01:26:07,792 --> 01:26:08,833
emotion.

1277
01:26:09,667 --> 01:26:11,292
Nathan has true talent.

1278
01:26:12,250 --> 01:26:13,708
He's inspired...

1279
01:26:14,333 --> 01:26:15,583
sincere.

1280
01:26:15,750 --> 01:26:17,833
- Never conventional.
- Spare me.

1281
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:21,208
He's always the right distance
from his subjects.

1282
01:26:21,667 --> 01:26:23,833
Listen to his last words.

1283
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:28,125
"I now stop hoping and begin living."

1284
01:26:31,875 --> 01:26:33,292
It's almost Corneille.

1285
01:26:33,458 --> 01:26:35,667
He probably stole it from him.

1286
01:26:36,083 --> 01:26:37,292
I can't insult him.

1287
01:26:37,750 --> 01:26:40,750
Of course you can.
It's a question of perspective.

1288
01:26:41,500 --> 01:26:43,583
- Meaning?
- I'll tell you a story.

1289
01:26:45,000 --> 01:26:49,750
One day, two critics were in a boat
on the Sea of Galilee.

1290
01:26:50,458 --> 01:26:51,583
Suddenly,

1291
01:26:52,167 --> 01:26:53,500
Christ appeared

1292
01:26:53,958 --> 01:26:56,125
and started walking on the water.

1293
01:26:56,917 --> 01:27:01,125
One critic says to the other:
"See that? He can't even swim."

1294
01:27:04,292 --> 01:27:06,625
A book is moving? Call it sentimental.

1295
01:27:06,792 --> 01:27:08,625
Classic? It's academic.

1296
01:27:08,792 --> 01:27:10,750
Funny? Superficial.

1297
01:27:11,292 --> 01:27:13,667
Intelligent? It's pretentious.

1298
01:27:13,833 --> 01:27:17,167
If it's inspired,
call it sensationalism.

1299
01:27:17,333 --> 01:27:18,167
And so on.

1300
01:27:20,500 --> 01:27:23,458
Well-constructed? It's predictable.

1301
01:27:24,083 --> 01:27:27,250
The author has style?
He has nothing to say.

1302
01:27:30,458 --> 01:27:32,375
You can criticize the length.

1303
01:27:32,542 --> 01:27:33,833
That always smarts.

1304
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:35,458
It's always too long.

1305
01:27:35,625 --> 01:27:37,875
Confused, not controlled.

1306
01:27:38,042 --> 01:27:39,500
What's the point?

1307
01:27:39,667 --> 01:27:41,958
Does the author even know himself?

1308
01:27:42,750 --> 01:27:44,625
And yet control lacks fantasy.

1309
01:27:44,792 --> 01:27:47,125
But fantasy means incoherency.

1310
01:27:50,333 --> 01:27:51,542
Go on, get going.

1311
01:27:52,125 --> 01:27:53,750
We'll take care of Nathan.

1312
01:27:53,917 --> 01:27:57,125
Lucien's thirst for avenge
on Dauriat, Chételet, Louise,

1313
01:27:57,292 --> 01:27:59,250
Angouléme and potatoes

1314
01:27:59,417 --> 01:28:01,583
replaced
conscience and inspiration

1315
01:28:01,750 --> 01:28:03,667
as he set out to destroy Nathan.

1316
01:28:04,667 --> 01:28:07,083
This dark, solitary pleasure

1317
01:28:07,250 --> 01:28:11,042
allowed one to wound
an absent foe with a pen stroke.

1318
01:28:11,875 --> 01:28:15,333
Despite the simplistic vulgarity
of this mocking wit,

1319
01:28:15,500 --> 01:28:17,833
certain papers thrived on it.

1320
01:28:24,792 --> 01:28:27,625
"So please tell Nathan d'Anastazio

1321
01:28:27,792 --> 01:28:30,125
"not to jump off a bridge quite yet,

1322
01:28:30,292 --> 01:28:32,917
"for he still has
multitudes to disappoint.”

1323
01:28:35,083 --> 01:28:37,917
- An admirable show of bad faith.
- Thank you.

1324
01:28:42,167 --> 01:28:43,583
What's wrong?

1325
01:28:44,292 --> 01:28:46,792
I can't tell
if it's good or bad anymore.

1326
01:28:46,958 --> 01:28:48,667
It doesn't matter.

1327
01:28:48,833 --> 01:28:51,250
What we write is forgotten at once.

1328
01:28:51,417 --> 01:28:52,958
They'll wrap fish with it.

1329
01:28:57,083 --> 01:28:59,583
It's possible to write works that last.

1330
01:29:00,542 --> 01:29:03,500
Defend ideas
and sentiments you believe in.

1331
01:29:05,292 --> 01:29:07,917
- I'm sure that Nathan...
- Forget Nathan!

1332
01:29:08,333 --> 01:29:09,708
He's a puppet.

1333
01:29:11,833 --> 01:29:12,583
Like us.

1334
01:29:12,750 --> 01:29:14,417
Right, like us.

1335
01:29:18,333 --> 01:29:20,208
Dauriat will have an attack.

1336
01:29:31,125 --> 01:29:32,167
The next day,

1337
01:29:32,333 --> 01:29:36,292
Lucien had his scathing review
delivered to Dauriat.

1338
01:29:39,417 --> 01:29:40,667
Before publication,

1339
01:29:40,833 --> 01:29:44,125
Lousteau and Lucien
wanted to kindly inform Dauriat

1340
01:29:44,292 --> 01:29:46,917
of a conspiracy against his pet writer.

1341
01:29:53,292 --> 01:29:55,458
Lucien wrote this piece of drivel?

1342
01:29:55,625 --> 01:29:56,542
Of course.

1343
01:30:10,708 --> 01:30:14,125
Lucien let the publishing sultan
wait a good hour.

1344
01:30:14,292 --> 01:30:17,083
Some supposed
"urgent” business to settle.

1345
01:30:20,333 --> 01:30:22,708
I brought you back your article.

1346
01:30:23,792 --> 01:30:25,208
How very mean.

1347
01:30:25,792 --> 01:30:27,333
You've made progress.

1348
01:30:27,792 --> 01:30:29,125
You think so?

1349
01:30:31,292 --> 01:30:33,625
I lack education,
but I finally grasped

1350
01:30:33,792 --> 01:30:35,625
the beauty of your Marguerites.

1351
01:30:37,667 --> 01:30:40,583
I changed my mind: I'll buy your poems.

1352
01:30:42,208 --> 01:30:43,875
How awkward.

1353
01:30:44,458 --> 01:30:46,750
I've received other offers.

1354
01:30:46,917 --> 01:30:48,625
Yes, I can imagine.

1355
01:30:48,792 --> 01:30:51,583
People must be fighting
to publish poetry.

1356
01:30:52,250 --> 01:30:55,333
But take heed, if I buy your book,

1357
01:30:55,500 --> 01:30:57,708
you're one of the family.

1358
01:30:57,875 --> 01:31:01,458
This means you will never attack
my writers again.

1359
01:31:02,125 --> 01:31:04,208
I must keep my independence.

1360
01:31:04,375 --> 01:31:05,917
Your independence?

1361
01:31:06,708 --> 01:31:09,083
I've bribed every critic in Paris,

1362
01:31:09,250 --> 01:31:11,292
don't speak of independence.

1363
01:31:13,333 --> 01:31:14,708
Excuse me...

1364
01:31:15,375 --> 01:31:16,875
I have work.

1365
01:31:18,708 --> 01:31:20,458
You call this work?

1366
01:31:22,917 --> 01:31:24,625
May I show you out?

1367
01:31:25,500 --> 01:31:27,667
If we do business together,

1368
01:31:27,833 --> 01:31:31,417
I want my say about the paper,
typeface and illustrations.

1369
01:31:31,583 --> 01:31:32,250
Yes...

1370
01:31:32,417 --> 01:31:34,667
I heard you started out in printing.

1371
01:31:34,833 --> 01:31:36,833
I was an orphan, I had to work.

1372
01:31:38,458 --> 01:31:39,958
How moving.

1373
01:31:40,750 --> 01:31:43,000
Have you thought of making a novel?

1374
01:31:43,167 --> 01:31:44,000
Yes!

1375
01:31:44,167 --> 01:31:46,042
"The Orphan of Angouléme."

1376
01:31:46,375 --> 01:31:49,875
Flung into Paris,
he lost his footing and drowned.

1377
01:31:50,042 --> 01:31:54,458
But no fool,
he observed and learned.

1378
01:31:56,458 --> 01:31:59,250
Yet would he remember
his nobler ambitions?

1379
01:32:01,500 --> 01:32:02,583
Let's go.

1380
01:32:03,417 --> 01:32:04,750
Dauriat?

1381
01:32:05,500 --> 01:32:07,792
Have you bothered to open my book?

1382
01:32:08,500 --> 01:32:10,167
For my peace of mind.

1383
01:32:10,333 --> 01:32:13,667
Forget your peace of mind, young man.

1384
01:32:13,833 --> 01:32:17,000
You have influential friends
and famous enemies.

1385
01:32:17,167 --> 01:32:20,000
In Paris,
people speak of your cruel articles.

1386
01:32:20,167 --> 01:32:22,625
You've made it, you're in the limelight.

1387
01:32:22,792 --> 01:32:24,000
Part of the show.

1388
01:32:24,833 --> 01:32:26,625
- Part of the show?
-Yes.

1389
01:32:27,083 --> 01:32:29,083
What if I had a sudden urge

1390
01:32:29,250 --> 01:32:31,667
to write a favorable article
about Nathan.

1391
01:32:33,333 --> 01:32:35,042
200 francs... paid outright.

1392
01:32:35,208 --> 01:32:37,000
Come now, 200 francs...

1393
01:32:37,167 --> 01:32:39,667
Niceties are harder to write
than slander.

1394
01:32:39,833 --> 01:32:41,542
Oh, yes!

1395
01:32:41,958 --> 01:32:45,292
Especially
for an independent spirit like you.

1396
01:32:46,167 --> 01:32:47,917
Make me another proposal.

1397
01:32:48,542 --> 01:32:50,292
Let's say 250.

1398
01:32:51,583 --> 01:32:52,833
Let's say 500.

1399
01:32:53,292 --> 01:32:54,417
5007

1400
01:32:56,125 --> 01:32:58,000
No one's paid that.

1401
01:32:59,417 --> 01:33:00,750
It's my price.

1402
01:33:03,250 --> 01:33:06,167
Okay, 500.
But with a front-page spot.

1403
01:33:06,708 --> 01:33:08,000
Alright.

1404
01:33:09,625 --> 01:33:11,292
But I'll do it for free.

1405
01:33:13,375 --> 01:33:15,625
Out of respect for literature.

1406
01:33:17,292 --> 01:33:18,208
Tell Nathan.

1407
01:33:19,208 --> 01:33:21,875
You will need him like he needs you.

1408
01:33:26,167 --> 01:33:29,750
Lucien let his quill
express his sincere admiration

1409
01:33:29,917 --> 01:33:33,000
for this novel
he would've liked to write himself.

1410
01:33:41,917 --> 01:33:42,917
The next day,

1411
01:33:43,083 --> 01:33:44,833
Lucien's laudatory article

1412
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:48,167
was on the front page
of the famous Le Corsaire-Satan.

1413
01:33:49,417 --> 01:33:51,375
The controversy was launched.

1414
01:33:57,333 --> 01:33:59,708
People went wild over this new critic

1415
01:34:00,375 --> 01:34:02,792
who rose above partisan quarrels

1416
01:34:03,500 --> 01:34:07,167
for love of beauty
and with no ulterior motives.

1417
01:34:09,042 --> 01:34:11,750
More astonishing, a Royalist deputy

1418
01:34:11,917 --> 01:34:15,250
even cited a phrase
from Lucien's article at the Chamber.

1419
01:34:15,792 --> 01:34:19,000
The comedy played
at the National Assembly too.

1420
01:34:19,167 --> 01:34:22,500
Rubempré's name
was on everyone's lips.

1421
01:34:24,333 --> 01:34:26,375
Lucien was now a reputed journalist,

1422
01:34:26,542 --> 01:34:28,333
a Parisian figure,

1423
01:34:28,500 --> 01:34:31,458
with all the extras
inherent to this status.

1424
01:34:36,958 --> 01:34:38,208
My, my.

1425
01:34:41,083 --> 01:34:43,208
The Marguerites wasted no time.

1426
01:34:47,792 --> 01:34:49,042
You're here!

1427
01:34:49,792 --> 01:34:52,250
We're not finished decorating yet.

1428
01:34:52,625 --> 01:34:54,625
He'll have to write fast.

1429
01:34:54,792 --> 01:34:57,083
Camusot got us six months' credit.

1430
01:34:57,250 --> 01:34:58,375
Bravo.

1431
01:34:59,125 --> 01:35:00,625
- Where's Lucien?
- Upstairs.

1432
01:35:00,792 --> 01:35:03,500
He has a surprise.
We're expecting a crowd.

1433
01:35:03,667 --> 01:35:04,750
Do you like it?

1434
01:35:04,917 --> 01:35:07,458
This is my first real home.

1435
01:35:08,625 --> 01:35:10,458
- Congratulations.
- Thank you.

1436
01:35:14,792 --> 01:35:16,167
Ask for the paper!

1437
01:35:16,708 --> 01:35:17,917
Here it is.

1438
01:35:18,417 --> 01:35:19,708
The paper.

1439
01:35:19,875 --> 01:35:22,750
The paper, ask for today's paper.

1440
01:35:22,917 --> 01:35:25,083
We have plenty of copies!

1441
01:35:25,250 --> 01:35:26,375
The paper!

1442
01:35:27,417 --> 01:35:29,375
Here it is, today's paper.

1443
01:35:29,542 --> 01:35:31,167
Go on, read the paper.

1444
01:35:31,625 --> 01:35:33,333
The paper, ladies and gents.

1445
01:35:33,792 --> 01:35:35,375
Glory to the paper.

1446
01:35:40,208 --> 01:35:41,042
Madam?

1447
01:35:42,542 --> 01:35:44,500
Don't forget, read the paper.

1448
01:35:44,667 --> 01:35:45,708
Bravo!

1449
01:35:49,542 --> 01:35:50,792
To Paris!

1450
01:35:53,292 --> 01:35:54,792
And...

1451
01:35:54,958 --> 01:35:56,208
to our loves!

1452
01:36:04,583 --> 01:36:06,500
I believe the time has come

1453
01:36:06,667 --> 01:36:08,625
to truly baptize Lucien.

1454
01:36:10,250 --> 01:36:11,625
Kneel down,

1455
01:36:12,125 --> 01:36:16,125
my good, proud knight,
fearless and without principles.

1456
01:36:16,292 --> 01:36:17,708
<i>None at alt</i>

1457
01:36:20,375 --> 01:36:21,792
In the name

1458
01:36:22,167 --> 01:36:23,875
of Bad Faith,

1459
01:36:24,042 --> 01:36:27,417
False Rumors and Advertising,

1460
01:36:28,292 --> 01:36:30,167
I baptize thee

1461
01:36:30,333 --> 01:36:31,625
Journalist!

1462
01:36:42,500 --> 01:36:43,792
Free applause!

1463
01:36:50,417 --> 01:36:52,500
Fifty francs to open, my friends.

1464
01:36:52,667 --> 01:36:53,625
Friends?

1465
01:36:53,792 --> 01:36:55,083
Friends don't exist!

1466
01:36:55,792 --> 01:36:57,500
Manner of speaking.

1467
01:37:04,042 --> 01:37:05,250
Amusing, isn't it?

1468
01:37:05,417 --> 01:37:06,500
Very.

1469
01:37:06,667 --> 01:37:08,292
I didn't think you'd come.

1470
01:37:09,625 --> 01:37:12,083
I was touched
by what you wrote about me.

1471
01:37:12,250 --> 01:37:13,542
It was sincere.

1472
01:37:16,750 --> 01:37:18,708
How is your release looking?

1473
01:37:20,167 --> 01:37:22,083
Quite well, actually.

1474
01:37:22,250 --> 01:37:24,292
My Royalist friends support me,

1475
01:37:24,708 --> 01:37:26,375
or so they claim.

1476
01:37:26,958 --> 01:37:29,667
And thanks to you,
Liberals should spare me.

1477
01:37:30,958 --> 01:37:33,250
Literature comes out the winner.

1478
01:37:35,542 --> 01:37:36,750
I owe you one.

1479
01:37:44,750 --> 01:37:46,583
I bring a message for you.

1480
01:37:47,375 --> 01:37:48,625
From Louise.

1481
01:37:50,833 --> 01:37:52,375
I saw her this afternoon.

1482
01:37:55,792 --> 01:37:59,708
The paper will soon attack Chatelet,
his clique and their ideas.

1483
01:38:00,208 --> 01:38:01,417
I can do nothing.

1484
01:38:01,583 --> 01:38:04,875
Louise could care less
about Chatelet... or politics.

1485
01:38:08,167 --> 01:38:09,750
She'd like to see you.

1486
01:38:10,917 --> 01:38:13,792
She takes a great risk proposing this.

1487
01:38:13,958 --> 01:38:15,458
You're their béte noire.

1488
01:38:15,625 --> 01:38:17,042
I certainly hope so.

1489
01:38:19,417 --> 01:38:22,583
She can help you
with something close to your heart.

1490
01:38:24,292 --> 01:38:25,458
Which is?

1491
01:38:26,875 --> 01:38:28,500
She'll tell you.

1492
01:38:54,917 --> 01:38:56,500
The meeting with Louise

1493
01:38:56,667 --> 01:38:58,625
took place far from prying eyes.

1494
01:39:00,292 --> 01:39:03,250
The same eyes
which had condemned their couple.

1495
01:39:05,750 --> 01:39:07,542
- Lucien.
- Hello, Nathan.

1496
01:39:07,708 --> 01:39:08,625
How are you?

1497
01:39:08,792 --> 01:39:10,417
Do you live here?

1498
01:39:10,583 --> 01:39:13,500
No, it belongs to a friend.

1499
01:39:13,667 --> 01:39:15,708
A discreet patron of arts.

1500
01:39:15,875 --> 01:39:17,417
I come here on occasion

1501
01:39:17,583 --> 01:39:19,167
to scribble a few pages.

1502
01:39:20,250 --> 01:39:21,250
I see.

1503
01:39:22,083 --> 01:39:23,125
Come.

1504
01:39:25,708 --> 01:39:27,708
She's waiting for you, in there.

1505
01:39:41,542 --> 01:39:43,875
All these books
make me think of you.

1506
01:39:48,500 --> 01:39:50,208
Do you still enjoy reading?

1507
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:53,708
It's become my profession.

1508
01:39:54,958 --> 01:39:55,958
I know.

1509
01:39:56,667 --> 01:39:58,292
I know your paper.

1510
01:39:59,250 --> 01:40:01,625
I didn't know
you could be so severe.

1511
01:40:04,750 --> 01:40:07,792
But the Turkey du Chatelet
made us all laugh.

1512
01:40:07,958 --> 01:40:10,792
Everyone secretly
passed around his caricature.

1513
01:40:12,125 --> 01:40:13,833
I thought he was your friend.

1514
01:40:14,000 --> 01:40:15,417
I thought so too.

1515
01:40:16,333 --> 01:40:19,417
Then I understood he was only acting.

1516
01:40:19,875 --> 01:40:23,708
In truth, he wanted
my cousin's backing at Court.

1517
01:40:25,125 --> 01:40:26,708
And he succeeded.

1518
01:40:27,292 --> 01:40:30,458
He will be named Prefect of Charente.

1519
01:40:31,583 --> 01:40:33,292
He'll soon go home.

1520
01:40:35,167 --> 01:40:37,667
Perhaps we're condemned
to our provinces.

1521
01:40:39,667 --> 01:40:41,583
You and I found a way out.

1522
01:40:42,958 --> 01:40:45,250
What madness to have left together.

1523
01:40:48,458 --> 01:40:50,167
I was lost, Lucien.

1524
01:40:51,375 --> 01:40:52,500
I was alone.

1525
01:40:54,583 --> 01:40:56,208
I too, was afraid.

1526
01:40:57,875 --> 01:40:59,250
And I hurt you.

1527
01:41:01,042 --> 01:41:03,208
Now I wish to appease your rancor.

1528
01:41:03,375 --> 01:41:05,250
I wish to make amends.

1529
01:41:08,083 --> 01:41:10,917
I can help you
recover your name and title.

1530
01:41:15,583 --> 01:41:18,833
But the sole manner
to obtain a patent from the king

1531
01:41:19,000 --> 01:41:22,000
is in exchange for favors rendered.

1532
01:41:23,792 --> 01:41:25,375
What kind of favors?

1533
01:41:25,542 --> 01:41:26,750
Lucien,

1534
01:41:26,917 --> 01:41:29,000
stop attacking our friends.

1535
01:41:30,250 --> 01:41:32,833
I know you better than anyone.

1536
01:41:34,042 --> 01:41:35,917
Circumstances made you an enemy,

1537
01:41:36,083 --> 01:41:38,250
but deep down you're one of us.

1538
01:41:39,125 --> 01:41:40,417
I know you are.

1539
01:41:50,875 --> 01:41:53,167
I often miss the countryside.

1540
01:41:54,208 --> 01:41:56,042
I'm weary of Paris.

1541
01:42:01,458 --> 01:42:04,000
We had something beautiful back there.

1542
01:42:24,125 --> 01:42:26,083
I learned everything from you.

1543
01:42:28,667 --> 01:42:30,042
Even grief.

1544
01:42:36,042 --> 01:42:38,208
How is your pretty sweetheart?

1545
01:42:39,125 --> 01:42:41,792
Everyone says
she's a marvelous actress.

1546
01:42:45,250 --> 01:42:46,917
I'm very much in love.

1547
01:42:59,583 --> 01:43:02,208
Will she get her own poems too?

1548
01:43:29,833 --> 01:43:32,458
The viscount went out.
He left a letter.

1549
01:43:33,542 --> 01:43:34,792
Dear Lucien,

1550
01:43:35,250 --> 01:43:38,000
many great men started out
with two names.

1551
01:43:38,583 --> 01:43:41,375
Poquelin aka Moliere,
Arouet aka Voltaire,

1552
01:43:41,542 --> 01:43:42,958
Bonaparte aka Napoleon.

1553
01:43:44,333 --> 01:43:46,583
The first a preface of the second.

1554
01:43:47,333 --> 01:43:48,792
<i>Chardon or Rubempré,</i>

1555
01:43:48,958 --> 01:43:51,292
I recognized my passion in you.

1556
01:43:51,708 --> 01:43:54,583
Let me protect you
from this Parisian comedy

1557
01:43:54,750 --> 01:43:56,958
which makes us into unwilling actors.

1558
01:43:58,458 --> 01:44:00,208
I must warn you,

1559
01:44:00,375 --> 01:44:03,458
behind the scenes,
a critical time is approaching.

1560
01:44:04,083 --> 01:44:06,708
In high spheres,
one speaks of new laws

1561
01:44:06,875 --> 01:44:08,958
to strangle the opposition press.

1562
01:44:09,792 --> 01:44:13,000
Some papers have started
selling out in secret.

1563
01:44:15,417 --> 01:44:18,667
You're better than
those godless, lawless hacks.

1564
01:44:21,333 --> 01:44:23,292
You will choose the right path.

1565
01:44:24,083 --> 01:44:25,250
Your friend,

1566
01:44:25,417 --> 01:44:26,708
Nathan.

1567
01:44:29,292 --> 01:44:31,583
I propose a toast to the theatre

1568
01:44:32,417 --> 01:44:34,167
and to journalism!

1569
01:44:48,208 --> 01:44:50,000
Come with us, Mimi.

1570
01:44:53,500 --> 01:44:54,667
Too hot in here!

1571
01:45:12,000 --> 01:45:13,125
So.

1572
01:45:13,292 --> 01:45:14,042
I received

1573
01:45:14,208 --> 01:45:18,250
a request for a genealogical study
of the title "de Rubempré.”

1574
01:45:19,667 --> 01:45:21,083
It was my mother's name.

1575
01:45:21,583 --> 01:45:22,833
And your father's?

1576
01:45:24,958 --> 01:45:26,167
I wish to forget it.

1577
01:45:28,500 --> 01:45:31,458
I am informed
of your influential support.

1578
01:45:31,917 --> 01:45:34,292
Very impressive!
The Marquise d'Espard.

1579
01:45:36,500 --> 01:45:37,958
And a Baroness...

1580
01:45:38,750 --> 01:45:40,083
de Bargeton...

1581
01:45:40,833 --> 01:45:42,000
whom I do not know.

1582
01:45:43,250 --> 01:45:45,542
I shall try to do them proud.

1583
01:45:48,083 --> 01:45:51,500
After examining
your degree of noble lineage,

1584
01:45:51,958 --> 01:45:55,167
your request will be sent
to the Justice Minister,

1585
01:45:55,333 --> 01:45:58,042
who will transmit it
to the king's chamber

1586
01:45:58,667 --> 01:46:01,708
with a favorable or unfavorable notice.

1587
01:46:05,083 --> 01:46:07,042
How long will the study take?

1588
01:46:07,208 --> 01:46:10,500
That depends upon
the quality of the documents we find.

1589
01:46:11,792 --> 01:46:15,833
And on concrete proof
that you have rallied to our side.

1590
01:46:20,333 --> 01:46:21,417
In the meanwhile,

1591
01:46:21,583 --> 01:46:24,500
I advise you
to cease writing for a paper

1592
01:46:24,667 --> 01:46:26,292
hostile to the government.

1593
01:46:28,292 --> 01:46:32,042
The Justice Minister
would be particularly sensible.

1594
01:46:36,542 --> 01:46:37,750
I understand.

1595
01:46:42,167 --> 01:46:46,333
Pretexting personal work,
Lucien delivered his last articles,

1596
01:46:46,500 --> 01:46:48,875
but stopped going to the paper.

1597
01:46:49,292 --> 01:46:51,125
He now literally had

1598
01:46:51,292 --> 01:46:53,042
"nobler" ambitions.

1599
01:46:56,292 --> 01:46:58,125
Already dangerously in debt,

1600
01:46:58,292 --> 01:47:02,417
Coralie continued her mad spending
to offer her beloved journalist

1601
01:47:02,583 --> 01:47:04,667
an aristocratic dandy's wardrobe.

1602
01:47:04,833 --> 01:47:06,292
Shoulder: 14.

1603
01:47:06,917 --> 01:47:09,250
She knew
that only shallow people

1604
01:47:09,417 --> 01:47:11,583
do not judge by appearances.

1605
01:47:12,292 --> 01:47:15,792
Suits from Staub's,
Madam Irlande shirts,

1606
01:47:15,958 --> 01:47:18,292
Verdier canes and Farelli boots.

1607
01:47:18,458 --> 01:47:21,958
They needed the latest fashion,
whatever the cost.

1608
01:47:22,750 --> 01:47:26,958
For dress is essential
when you want to pretend you're rich.

1609
01:47:27,125 --> 01:47:29,750
And the best way
to become rich later on.

1610
01:47:31,208 --> 01:47:33,333
The Count de Rubempré.

1611
01:47:34,625 --> 01:47:38,750
We saw him with Countess Coralie
from the National Theater.

1612
01:47:39,542 --> 01:47:41,917
She will perform Racine.
What talent!

1613
01:47:42,458 --> 01:47:44,083
And she must go rehearse.

1614
01:47:44,250 --> 01:47:45,167
Hang on.

1615
01:47:47,042 --> 01:47:48,750
It's an actor's trick.

1616
01:47:49,458 --> 01:47:50,958
Elegant men all do this.

1617
01:47:51,125 --> 01:47:52,292
It's the fashion.

1618
01:47:52,458 --> 01:47:53,375
Oh yes?

1619
01:47:55,583 --> 01:47:57,458
Coralie dressed Lucien,

1620
01:47:57,625 --> 01:48:01,208
but was never invited
to his aristocrat society parties.

1621
01:48:01,375 --> 01:48:05,167
For this crowd still refused
to receive an actress, a hussy.

1622
01:48:05,625 --> 01:48:07,708
She stayed
home alone with Racine,

1623
01:48:07,875 --> 01:48:10,292
wishing to honor his sublime text.

1624
01:48:20,000 --> 01:48:22,958
Salon doors opened before Lucien,

1625
01:48:23,125 --> 01:48:25,833
who thought he'd been banned forever.

1626
01:48:26,208 --> 01:48:27,625
Mr. Lucien Chardon.

1627
01:48:32,875 --> 01:48:34,875
Marquise de Contades.

1628
01:48:44,333 --> 01:48:46,042
Baron du Chatenay.

1629
01:48:56,750 --> 01:48:58,583
Excuse me.

1630
01:49:02,000 --> 01:49:04,417
Lucien's new friend Nathan
promoted him

1631
01:49:04,583 --> 01:49:07,125
among these
idle and rich young aristocrats

1632
01:49:07,292 --> 01:49:09,167
known as "free-livers."”

1633
01:49:09,667 --> 01:49:10,875
<i>De Rubempré.</i>

1634
01:49:11,042 --> 01:49:13,500
His entrance into this caste

1635
01:49:13,667 --> 01:49:16,292
was noticed
by those he had earlier scorned.

1636
01:49:16,458 --> 01:49:19,292
Duke Martin Lassalle,
but between us "Jean-Lou."

1637
01:49:19,458 --> 01:49:22,000
Blinded by his desire for a title,

1638
01:49:22,167 --> 01:49:26,333
did he not perceive
their cold and inhumane smiles?

1639
01:49:26,500 --> 01:49:27,833
We're all here.

1640
01:49:29,208 --> 01:49:31,417
Lucien's an exciting writer.

1641
01:49:31,583 --> 01:49:33,625
His poetry will soon be published.

1642
01:49:34,875 --> 01:49:36,167
Excuse me.

1643
01:49:58,875 --> 01:50:02,625
Monsieur, I haven't
received your Marguerites yet.

1644
01:50:04,042 --> 01:50:06,125
The book hasn't been printed.

1645
01:50:06,292 --> 01:50:07,750
Louise said the contrary.

1646
01:50:07,917 --> 01:50:10,167
You won't forget me?

1647
01:50:10,833 --> 01:50:12,792
Who could forget you, madam?

1648
01:50:14,667 --> 01:50:15,875
Come with me.

1649
01:50:16,042 --> 01:50:17,708
Everyone wants to meet you.

1650
01:50:21,875 --> 01:50:22,958
Here you are.

1651
01:50:23,875 --> 01:50:25,875
A promise is a promise.

1652
01:50:27,792 --> 01:50:30,833
No doubt annoyed
by Louise's rise in Paris society,

1653
01:50:31,250 --> 01:50:35,000
<i>the Marquise d'Espard
lavished attentions on Lucien,</i>

1654
01:50:35,167 --> 01:50:36,625
the man of the moment.

1655
01:50:37,417 --> 01:50:41,000
My friends, you know
that this house adores rare birds.

1656
01:50:41,167 --> 01:50:45,167
Tonight, two young poets
shall brighten our sky.

1657
01:50:46,500 --> 01:50:48,167
Gentlemen, we're listening.

1658
01:50:52,167 --> 01:50:53,000
For her.

1659
01:50:56,042 --> 01:50:59,125
The earth is to sun,
what man is to angels

1660
01:50:59,583 --> 01:51:03,167
One made of splendor,
the other of mire

1661
01:51:03,333 --> 01:51:06,542
Heavenly bodies are sun,
stars warm rapture

1662
01:51:06,708 --> 01:51:09,750
Around the pure spheres,
shall gravitate devils

1663
01:51:09,917 --> 01:51:12,750
In the dark shadows,
where the mind perceives all

1664
01:51:12,917 --> 01:51:15,542
Paradise sun tows
the condemned planet fraught

1665
01:51:16,292 --> 01:51:19,583
Angels in the stars,
fallible and seduced

1666
01:51:19,750 --> 01:51:22,458
Can become human,
poor dwellers of darkness

1667
01:51:23,083 --> 01:51:25,250
Whispered the wind
high on the mountain

1668
01:51:25,417 --> 01:51:27,375
All dark globes moan,

1669
01:51:28,208 --> 01:51:30,125
all earth is a prison

1670
01:51:30,875 --> 01:51:32,917
Where life shall weep,

1671
01:51:33,375 --> 01:51:35,167
until awakening day

1672
01:51:35,542 --> 01:51:38,625
Fallen from sun's grace,
spirit is locked away.

1673
01:51:40,500 --> 01:51:41,875
Magnificent.

1674
01:51:44,708 --> 01:51:48,708
For several weeks,
Lucien's life was one long party.

1675
01:51:48,875 --> 01:51:50,625
A moment outside of time.

1676
01:51:51,708 --> 01:51:55,167
And his success in journalism
was no less impressive.

1677
01:51:57,625 --> 01:51:59,833
He gave into a powerful current,

1678
01:52:00,000 --> 01:52:03,083
a whirlwind
of pleasure and staggering debts.

1679
01:52:05,542 --> 01:52:09,208
His new passion, gambling,
allowed him to play with

1680
01:52:09,375 --> 01:52:12,458
this golden youth
and ape their mannerisms.

1681
01:52:12,625 --> 01:52:14,750
Without the family riches.

1682
01:52:16,250 --> 01:52:17,833
He lived from day to day

1683
01:52:18,000 --> 01:52:20,042
and his chase after a noble title

1684
01:52:20,208 --> 01:52:23,792
sometimes seemed
a pretext to do nothing with his life.

1685
01:52:24,208 --> 01:52:25,500
Simply play.

1686
01:52:31,042 --> 01:52:34,875
Nathan watched his favorite rival
dissipate his talent

1687
01:52:35,042 --> 01:52:37,875
in a frivolous life devoid of creation.

1688
01:52:41,417 --> 01:52:42,458
But perhaps,

1689
01:52:42,625 --> 01:52:46,917
to be a complete writer,
one must experience everything

1690
01:52:47,083 --> 01:52:50,333
before imposing
one's own particular illusion.

1691
01:53:21,333 --> 01:53:22,958
And these too.

1692
01:53:28,667 --> 01:53:30,125
How long will this go on?

1693
01:53:30,875 --> 01:53:32,750
I forbid you to say anything.

1694
01:53:33,458 --> 01:53:35,458
I can't worry him right now.

1695
01:53:36,000 --> 01:53:39,792
Once he has his title,
he'll have protectors and an allowance.

1696
01:53:40,417 --> 01:53:42,208
You don't understand.

1697
01:53:43,208 --> 01:53:44,667
Neither do you, love.

1698
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:52,042
Lousteau!

1699
01:53:56,667 --> 01:53:57,792
Get out.

1700
01:54:00,667 --> 01:54:01,375
Out!

1701
01:54:05,500 --> 01:54:08,042
You dared change my article
on Ducange?

1702
01:54:08,458 --> 01:54:10,875
We couldn't find you. Dauriat paid.

1703
01:54:11,667 --> 01:54:12,875
I don't get it.

1704
01:54:13,750 --> 01:54:15,958
- I can't write what I want?
- He paid.

1705
01:54:16,125 --> 01:54:17,667
Dauriat paid! Are you deaf?

1706
01:54:17,833 --> 01:54:19,625
I don't give a damn.

1707
01:54:20,667 --> 01:54:22,625
I'm fed up
of your two-cent schemes.

1708
01:54:22,792 --> 01:54:26,000
Where are your articles?
You were paid.

1709
01:54:26,167 --> 01:54:28,417
You think you're an aristocrat now?

1710
01:54:28,583 --> 01:54:31,667
Where's your loyalty to me,
the paper, shareholders?

1711
01:54:31,833 --> 01:54:33,750
I hear the paper's for sale.

1712
01:54:33,917 --> 01:54:37,042
- We'll be screwed. Is that loyal?
- I'll sue you!

1713
01:54:37,667 --> 01:54:39,000
Is the paper for sale?

1714
01:54:39,167 --> 01:54:42,042
Things are sold and bought.
You're clueless!

1715
01:54:42,208 --> 01:54:44,000
Still fresh from Angouléme.

1716
01:54:46,875 --> 01:54:48,542
Who do you think you are?

1717
01:54:49,042 --> 01:54:52,250
You bought a race horse
to play baron with Nathan?

1718
01:54:52,417 --> 01:54:56,292
Your vests and flowered suspenders...
You're pathetic.

1719
01:54:56,458 --> 01:54:59,083
Coralie comes crying to us
that you're broke.

1720
01:54:59,250 --> 01:55:00,750
Don't talk about her.

1721
01:55:00,917 --> 01:55:02,083
I forbid you!

1722
01:55:02,250 --> 01:55:04,167
Without us, you'd be nothing!

1723
01:55:04,333 --> 01:55:05,542
Nothing.

1724
01:55:05,708 --> 01:55:07,042
A breeze.

1725
01:55:15,250 --> 01:55:16,917
You'd be where without me?

1726
01:55:17,083 --> 01:55:18,792
At the bottom of the Seine.

1727
01:55:41,708 --> 01:55:42,875
Hello, mademoiselle.

1728
01:55:49,208 --> 01:55:51,042
Thank you for receiving me.

1729
01:55:56,792 --> 01:55:58,583
Lucien doesn't know I'm here.

1730
01:56:03,000 --> 01:56:04,750
He's spoken of you often.

1731
01:56:07,125 --> 01:56:08,500
With great respect.

1732
01:56:10,708 --> 01:56:12,500
You're not like the others.

1733
01:56:14,958 --> 01:56:16,583
How may I help you?

1734
01:56:18,875 --> 01:56:20,542
I've read his poems.

1735
01:56:21,250 --> 01:56:22,667
You shared love.

1736
01:56:25,250 --> 01:56:26,625
The love of literature.

1737
01:56:31,083 --> 01:56:34,833
His book isn't even published
and he's spent his advance.

1738
01:56:35,958 --> 01:56:37,625
He has no notion of reality.

1739
01:56:38,542 --> 01:56:41,292
- He can't hold onto money.
- He's an artist.

1740
01:56:43,667 --> 01:56:44,792
Exactly.

1741
01:56:46,292 --> 01:56:49,417
I've heard that
the Court makes official orders

1742
01:56:49,583 --> 01:56:51,667
to help artists
who support Royalists.

1743
01:56:53,792 --> 01:56:56,042
Could you speak to your friends?

1744
01:56:59,750 --> 01:57:01,125
I can ask around.

1745
01:57:03,125 --> 01:57:05,083
You understand, it's pressing.

1746
01:57:06,542 --> 01:57:09,792
In the meantime,
I could put a sum at your disposal.

1747
01:57:10,500 --> 01:57:11,833
It would be our secret.

1748
01:57:12,333 --> 01:57:13,375
No.

1749
01:57:14,500 --> 01:57:16,250
I believe in work, madam.

1750
01:57:17,208 --> 01:57:20,083
You're paid for your work,
whatever that is.

1751
01:57:23,750 --> 01:57:26,083
He needs to find inspiration again.

1752
01:57:27,667 --> 01:57:29,750
The desire to create beauty.

1753
01:57:32,208 --> 01:57:33,667
You're very right.

1754
01:57:35,875 --> 01:57:37,625
You're beautiful.

1755
01:57:42,708 --> 01:57:44,958
I envy your manners and elegance.

1756
01:57:49,750 --> 01:57:51,458
You won't take him from me?

1757
01:57:57,000 --> 01:57:58,542
Because I'd die.

1758
01:58:24,833 --> 01:58:26,167
She's gone.

1759
01:58:30,458 --> 01:58:32,583
Please do not say she's a good girl.

1760
01:58:35,625 --> 01:58:37,083
They don't have a penny.

1761
01:58:38,583 --> 01:58:40,000
As expected.

1762
01:58:46,250 --> 01:58:47,125
Gentlemen.

1763
01:58:48,292 --> 01:58:49,750
Gentlemen!

1764
01:58:52,250 --> 01:58:56,167
The time has come
to restore a fine and noble idea...

1765
01:58:58,000 --> 01:58:59,000
Journalism.

1766
01:59:05,042 --> 01:59:06,542
Let us publish

1767
01:59:06,708 --> 01:59:09,875
a newspaper
that is upright and responsible.

1768
01:59:10,542 --> 01:59:11,917
Let us be dignified

1769
01:59:12,250 --> 01:59:13,458
and honorable.

1770
01:59:14,042 --> 01:59:17,833
We shall never give into money,
trickery, self-serving gifts

1771
01:59:18,000 --> 01:59:18,958
or bribery.

1772
01:59:19,542 --> 01:59:21,333
In short, the corruption

1773
01:59:22,083 --> 01:59:23,792
that dishonors our mission.

1774
01:59:25,208 --> 01:59:27,250
As such, I've chosen the title:

1775
01:59:28,083 --> 01:59:29,417
Le Réveil.

1776
01:59:31,750 --> 01:59:35,792
Le Réveil, our Awakening!
Moral, social, political and artistic.

1777
01:59:38,292 --> 01:59:39,458
Only...

1778
01:59:39,625 --> 01:59:42,375
Only our subscribers can buy us!

1779
01:59:43,458 --> 01:59:45,875
Pleased with his role too,

1780
01:59:46,042 --> 01:59:49,083
the director would be implicated
a few years later

1781
01:59:49,250 --> 01:59:51,333
in a dark palm-greasing affair.

1782
01:59:51,500 --> 01:59:55,500
Tried in court and dragged through
the mud by the press,

1783
01:59:55,667 --> 01:59:59,292
he screamed outrage
at these journalists who posed as judges.

1784
02:00:01,792 --> 02:00:04,417
The Liberal Corsaire-Satan
had its ducks,

1785
02:00:04,583 --> 02:00:06,417
the Royalist Le Réveil, pigeons.

1786
02:00:07,083 --> 02:00:09,750
Carrier pigeons
left Paris in the morning

1787
02:00:10,500 --> 02:00:12,667
and arrived
that afternoon in London.

1788
02:00:13,500 --> 02:00:17,167
The false information
spread via this feathered network

1789
02:00:17,333 --> 02:00:21,542
underwent a spectacular
and profitable acceleration.

1790
02:00:29,917 --> 02:00:33,208
Lucien was paid by the line,
Coralie by performance.

1791
02:00:33,375 --> 02:00:36,125
But he had not yet written
for his new paper

1792
02:00:36,292 --> 02:00:38,125
and she was still rehearsing.

1793
02:00:38,667 --> 02:00:41,208
They had new stiff-lipped guests:

1794
02:00:41,375 --> 02:00:42,500
bailiffs.

1795
02:00:43,625 --> 02:00:46,667
I'll go back to the Boulevard
and show my legs.

1796
02:00:47,250 --> 02:00:48,750
If I have to, I will.

1797
02:00:49,125 --> 02:00:50,042
Doesn't matter.

1798
02:00:50,458 --> 02:00:52,083
That's not what matters.

1799
02:01:09,333 --> 02:01:11,250
You can't take this from us.

1800
02:01:14,958 --> 02:01:16,125
Don't worry.

1801
02:01:18,458 --> 02:01:20,167
The bastard betrayed us.

1802
02:01:20,333 --> 02:01:22,250
He signed with the Royalists.

1803
02:01:22,417 --> 02:01:24,208
With the Royalists!

1804
02:01:27,667 --> 02:01:30,167
That's enough.
It's time to destroy him.

1805
02:01:30,667 --> 02:01:32,375
Strike where it hurts.

1806
02:01:32,750 --> 02:01:34,250
His particle, his name.

1807
02:01:34,958 --> 02:01:36,125
His turnarounds.

1808
02:01:36,292 --> 02:01:37,958
- His lifestyle.
- Nathan.

1809
02:01:38,125 --> 02:01:39,000
His whore.

1810
02:01:39,167 --> 02:01:41,000
Careful, D'Espard backs him.

1811
02:01:41,167 --> 02:01:42,750
You're wrong.

1812
02:01:44,500 --> 02:01:46,583
She despises him as much as we do.

1813
02:01:47,875 --> 02:01:50,000
Those women are noxious.

1814
02:01:50,708 --> 02:01:52,542
And D'Espard most of all.

1815
02:01:53,083 --> 02:01:54,542
Why'd I help that wretch?

1816
02:01:55,583 --> 02:01:58,083
Maybe you enjoyed playing big brother.

1817
02:02:01,542 --> 02:02:05,000
At least he had ambition.
What do you have besides me?

1818
02:02:06,208 --> 02:02:06,917
What?

1819
02:02:18,083 --> 02:02:19,417
My dear friends...

1820
02:02:20,375 --> 02:02:21,750
Friends don't exist.

1821
02:02:22,542 --> 02:02:25,042
Before day's end
you will understand me.

1822
02:02:25,667 --> 02:02:26,958
Farewell, madam.

1823
02:02:27,125 --> 02:02:29,583
O heavens! What words!
Oh, remain.

1824
02:02:30,250 --> 02:02:33,083
Prince, all too deeply
I hide my pain from you.

1825
02:02:33,250 --> 02:02:35,875
You see before you
a queen distraught, who

1826
02:02:36,042 --> 02:02:38,208
heart-stricken,
simply requests a word.

1827
02:02:38,708 --> 02:02:40,125
Thanks for coming.

1828
02:02:43,792 --> 02:02:45,500
Things are looking good.

1829
02:02:48,042 --> 02:02:50,292
They'll attack her on opening night.

1830
02:02:50,667 --> 02:02:52,292
They want to destroy her.

1831
02:02:53,583 --> 02:02:55,417
I've heard nothing.

1832
02:02:57,417 --> 02:02:58,917
How much do you want?

1833
02:02:59,792 --> 02:03:02,333
People say
you're going through bad times.

1834
02:03:03,667 --> 02:03:05,417
I have money to pay you.

1835
02:03:05,583 --> 02:03:06,875
I will have...

1836
02:03:07,917 --> 02:03:11,125
I trust you, but people are talking.

1837
02:03:11,292 --> 02:03:12,500
Don't worry.

1838
02:03:13,875 --> 02:03:15,042
I have protectors.

1839
02:03:15,833 --> 02:03:17,375
I have a new paper.

1840
02:03:19,042 --> 02:03:20,750
I heard you changed sides.

1841
02:03:20,917 --> 02:03:22,625
Mind you, I won't judge.

1842
02:03:22,792 --> 02:03:25,500
I've spent my life
selling to the highest bidder.

1843
02:03:33,625 --> 02:03:35,417
I want a grand opening.

1844
02:03:37,625 --> 02:03:39,250
Don't worry, Mommy's here.

1845
02:03:39,417 --> 02:03:41,750
We'll offer your princess a triumph.

1846
02:03:43,625 --> 02:03:45,375
I saw her start out.

1847
02:03:46,833 --> 02:03:48,333
She was sweet.

1848
02:04:04,625 --> 02:04:06,167
Come in, Lucien.

1849
02:04:09,625 --> 02:04:11,125
Something to drink?

1850
02:04:13,208 --> 02:04:14,542
Close the door, please.

1851
02:04:22,125 --> 02:04:26,167
Lousteau tells me you never turned in
articles you were paid for.

1852
02:04:26,333 --> 02:04:27,958
Very well paid, moreover.

1853
02:04:30,583 --> 02:04:33,500
He wants to send bailiffs,
make a scandal...

1854
02:04:33,667 --> 02:04:34,292
sue you.

1855
02:04:36,750 --> 02:04:38,750
That won't give him talent.

1856
02:04:39,208 --> 02:04:40,542
You make a point.

1857
02:04:42,125 --> 02:04:44,208
He wants to crush you.

1858
02:04:46,250 --> 02:04:47,333
But he's small fry.

1859
02:04:47,500 --> 02:04:49,042
A second fiddle.

1860
02:04:49,833 --> 02:04:50,875
Right?

1861
02:04:54,208 --> 02:04:56,917
Are you still close
to the Marquise d'Espard?

1862
02:04:59,083 --> 02:05:01,667
She received me in her home.

1863
02:05:02,542 --> 02:05:03,792
Impressive.

1864
02:05:05,458 --> 02:05:08,333
Then I might
have a favor to ask of you.

1865
02:05:09,375 --> 02:05:10,833
A big one.

1866
02:05:11,792 --> 02:05:13,667
You'd do a big favor for me?

1867
02:05:15,208 --> 02:05:16,583
I need allies.

1868
02:05:18,083 --> 02:05:20,750
- I know your influence.
- Then you'll help.

1869
02:05:21,958 --> 02:05:25,167
I want to regroup a paper,
an advertising firm

1870
02:05:25,333 --> 02:05:26,667
and a news agency.

1871
02:05:27,917 --> 02:05:29,708
Form a sort of group,

1872
02:05:30,375 --> 02:05:31,667
an association.

1873
02:05:31,833 --> 02:05:34,042
I need to find backers

1874
02:05:34,417 --> 02:05:35,708
and invest.

1875
02:05:38,083 --> 02:05:39,875
As my English friends say:

1876
02:05:40,042 --> 02:05:42,292
"Free enterprise shall be

1877
02:05:42,833 --> 02:05:44,542
"the freedom of the free fox

1878
02:05:44,708 --> 02:05:46,167
"in a free chicken-coop."

1879
02:05:51,250 --> 02:05:54,167
I have no desire
to be devoured like a hen.

1880
02:05:55,167 --> 02:05:56,542
You either. Am I wrong?

1881
02:05:58,833 --> 02:05:59,917
No.

1882
02:06:00,792 --> 02:06:04,417
The State seeks to control everything,
slow things down.

1883
02:06:04,583 --> 02:06:07,083
They're afraid of the new press.

1884
02:06:07,958 --> 02:06:10,333
They're lost.
We must reassure them.

1885
02:06:11,042 --> 02:06:13,500
I can't quarrel
with you and your friends

1886
02:06:13,958 --> 02:06:15,833
over a clown like Lousteau.

1887
02:06:16,333 --> 02:06:17,167
You understand?

1888
02:06:19,958 --> 02:06:20,583
Yes.

1889
02:06:21,042 --> 02:06:22,500
I can be generous.

1890
02:06:25,333 --> 02:06:27,292
Here's what I propose.

1891
02:06:27,458 --> 02:06:31,833
You write me a few
of your famous satiric articles

1892
02:06:32,333 --> 02:06:34,250
to pay back what you owe me.

1893
02:06:35,042 --> 02:06:37,125
And we'll forget this silly story.

1894
02:06:37,292 --> 02:06:38,167
How's that?

1895
02:06:38,875 --> 02:06:40,167
Anonymous. No name.

1896
02:06:40,333 --> 02:06:42,208
Name? What name?

1897
02:06:42,583 --> 02:06:45,042
Chardon or Rubempré?
No one knows.

1898
02:06:49,333 --> 02:06:53,167
That very day, Finot sent Lucien
a list of personalities

1899
02:06:53,333 --> 02:06:55,167
to attack in his articles.

1900
02:06:57,125 --> 02:06:58,458
He had met some

1901
02:06:58,625 --> 02:07:00,375
in society salons.

1902
02:07:01,583 --> 02:07:02,292
Never mind,

1903
02:07:02,458 --> 02:07:04,083
his quill raced,

1904
02:07:04,250 --> 02:07:07,167
anonymous,
as if no longer part of him.

1905
02:07:08,375 --> 02:07:13,083
Smear campaigns were a new game
on the journalistic scene.

1906
02:07:15,000 --> 02:07:15,958
By giving Finot

1907
02:07:16,125 --> 02:07:18,000
the articles he owed him,

1908
02:07:18,167 --> 02:07:20,042
Lucien signed his death warrant.

1909
02:07:28,000 --> 02:07:29,292
Perfect.

1910
02:07:29,458 --> 02:07:30,500
He took the bait.

1911
02:07:31,042 --> 02:07:32,292
We have him.

1912
02:07:33,583 --> 02:07:36,125
<i>To Lucien de Rubempré.</i>

1913
02:07:45,958 --> 02:07:47,250
Lucien.

1914
02:07:49,250 --> 02:07:50,625
Come in, my friend.

1915
02:07:51,333 --> 02:07:52,583
I have your money.

1916
02:07:54,750 --> 02:07:56,167
The rest tomorrow.

1917
02:07:56,750 --> 02:07:58,042
Don't worry,

1918
02:07:58,458 --> 02:08:00,083
we'll give her a triumph.

1919
02:08:10,042 --> 02:08:13,542
For all ambitious men,
there comes a terrible moment

1920
02:08:13,708 --> 02:08:17,667
when an unknown mysterious power
puts them to severe tests,

1921
02:08:17,833 --> 02:08:20,333
punishments too long postponed.

1922
02:08:21,042 --> 02:08:23,292
Their entangled lives unravel

1923
02:08:23,458 --> 02:08:25,875
and misfortune appears on all fronts.

1924
02:08:29,083 --> 02:08:33,375
Unless born rich,
every man has his fatal week.

1925
02:08:34,583 --> 02:08:37,417
For Lucien,
this cruel moment was here.

1926
02:08:38,458 --> 02:08:42,125
He would see men
and events turn against him.

1927
02:08:47,333 --> 02:08:50,708
I hear you joined a new paper
that defends our ideas.

1928
02:08:53,125 --> 02:08:55,708
My decision
was late but sincere, madam.

1929
02:08:56,542 --> 02:09:00,333
There is talk of making Lucien
Rapporteur at the Chamber.

1930
02:09:00,792 --> 02:09:04,125
A quite well-paid official appointment.

1931
02:09:04,292 --> 02:09:07,917
You would be able
to devote yourself to your writing,

1932
02:09:08,083 --> 02:09:09,250
to your works.

1933
02:09:11,042 --> 02:09:13,417
And to your pretty young lady.

1934
02:09:13,583 --> 02:09:16,500
I hear she has great talent.
You too, Louise?

1935
02:09:19,333 --> 02:09:20,667
She's a beautiful soul.

1936
02:09:21,667 --> 02:09:24,542
She's real, she's vibrant.
You would like her.

1937
02:09:24,708 --> 02:09:27,125
Perhaps,
we could receive her one day.

1938
02:09:27,750 --> 02:09:29,250
After all, why not?

1939
02:09:31,042 --> 02:09:32,208
Nathan could

1940
02:09:32,708 --> 02:09:36,750
write her portrait
in your paper to launch the play.

1941
02:09:37,958 --> 02:09:39,833
Playing Racine has merit.

1942
02:09:40,000 --> 02:09:41,542
He's the blood of France.

1943
02:09:44,042 --> 02:09:46,083
It's a worthy idea.

1944
02:09:47,083 --> 02:09:50,208
Racine too
was born into the bourgeoisie.

1945
02:09:51,000 --> 02:09:53,542
He was ennobled
by virtue of his genius

1946
02:09:54,333 --> 02:09:55,792
and intrigue.

1947
02:09:56,208 --> 02:09:58,333
Compromise is timeless, is it not?

1948
02:10:01,167 --> 02:10:03,333
Thank goodness, there's love.

1949
02:10:08,958 --> 02:10:10,042
To love.

1950
02:10:10,208 --> 02:10:12,000
To love.

1951
02:10:31,208 --> 02:10:33,458
What have they done to us?

1952
02:10:39,125 --> 02:10:40,417
I don't know.

1953
02:11:12,792 --> 02:11:14,583
Let me help you.

1954
02:11:44,833 --> 02:11:46,667
Harder!

1955
02:12:53,292 --> 02:12:54,500
Louise's money

1956
02:12:54,667 --> 02:12:58,167
was used to pay for applause
at Coralie's premiére.

1957
02:12:58,333 --> 02:13:02,125
Singali had sworn
to make the chandeliers tremble.

1958
02:13:09,375 --> 02:13:12,292
Everyone who had entered
Lucien's Parisian life,

1959
02:13:12,458 --> 02:13:15,375
his human comedy,
was present that evening.

1960
02:13:15,542 --> 02:13:17,500
Swathed in their finery,

1961
02:13:17,667 --> 02:13:19,583
with faces like stage masks.

1962
02:13:20,458 --> 02:13:24,833
In this social scene,
the worst often had the best seats.

1963
02:13:25,667 --> 02:13:28,458
All society
had arranged to be there,

1964
02:13:28,625 --> 02:13:30,667
for the lovers' grand eve.

1965
02:14:27,875 --> 02:14:29,250
Prince,

1966
02:14:29,417 --> 02:14:31,708
all too deeply
I hide my pain from you.

1967
02:14:32,917 --> 02:14:35,250
You see before you
a queen distraught, who,

1968
02:14:35,417 --> 02:14:37,708
heart-stricken,
requests but a word.

1969
02:14:38,000 --> 02:14:40,833
You fear, you say,
my peace be disturbed,

1970
02:14:41,333 --> 02:14:44,500
yet your cruel refusal brings pain,

1971
02:14:44,667 --> 02:14:47,417
excites my grief,
my anger, my disdain.

1972
02:14:49,125 --> 02:14:52,083
If to you my peace
seems a precious prize,

1973
02:14:52,792 --> 02:14:54,875
were I ever dear to your eyes...

1974
02:14:56,250 --> 02:14:57,125
Ready?

1975
02:14:57,750 --> 02:14:59,250
It will be fabulous.

1976
02:15:01,708 --> 02:15:03,625
You fear not to disobey me?

1977
02:15:03,792 --> 02:15:05,583
If I speak, you would hate me.

1978
02:15:05,750 --> 02:15:07,042
Speak!

1979
02:15:07,208 --> 02:15:08,708
Heavens, such violence!

1980
02:15:08,875 --> 02:15:10,542
She gave herself entirely,

1981
02:15:10,708 --> 02:15:13,792
expressing the truth
of a woman truly in love

1982
02:15:13,958 --> 02:15:15,875
under her actress's mask.

1983
02:15:18,167 --> 02:15:21,458
Facing a room
whose hostility was palpable,

1984
02:15:22,000 --> 02:15:24,792
the cold audience
took her means away.

1985
02:15:26,083 --> 02:15:29,500
Applause and flowers
were unnecessary for her pride,

1986
02:15:29,667 --> 02:15:31,333
but vital to fight.

1987
02:15:31,500 --> 02:15:32,250
What?

1988
02:15:32,417 --> 02:15:35,083
Rome is suspicious of a reigning queen.

1989
02:15:35,250 --> 02:15:36,667
You must part.

1990
02:15:37,417 --> 02:15:38,208
Tomorrow.

1991
02:15:43,083 --> 02:15:44,292
Must part!

1992
02:15:44,833 --> 02:15:46,375
Alas, Phenice!

1993
02:15:47,417 --> 02:15:48,792
Madam...

1994
02:15:49,125 --> 02:15:51,208
With such poignant sincerity,

1995
02:15:51,375 --> 02:15:55,208
the Boulevard actress
found unexpected intonations...

1996
02:15:56,292 --> 02:15:57,583
even heartrending ones.

1997
02:15:57,750 --> 02:15:58,875
Titus abandons me!

1998
02:15:59,042 --> 02:16:00,708
Titus who swore to me.

1999
02:16:01,125 --> 02:16:03,042
No, I cannot believe.

2000
02:16:03,208 --> 02:16:05,750
He parts not from me,
but from his glory.

2001
02:16:05,917 --> 02:16:06,750
He is innocent,

2002
02:16:06,917 --> 02:16:08,583
so they destroy me...

2003
02:16:51,083 --> 02:16:52,458
Singali!

2004
02:17:00,583 --> 02:17:01,792
Singali!

2005
02:17:12,792 --> 02:17:15,625
Faithful to his principles,
Singali sold out

2006
02:17:15,792 --> 02:17:18,625
to the highest bidder
at the last minute.

2007
02:17:21,667 --> 02:17:23,000
Let me go!

2008
02:17:23,167 --> 02:17:25,708
Who was Lucien
in this world of ambition?

2009
02:17:25,875 --> 02:17:29,083
A child chasing after
vain pleasures and delights,

2010
02:17:29,625 --> 02:17:31,417
sacrificing everything to them.

2011
02:17:31,583 --> 02:17:33,500
Like a moth drawn to light,

2012
02:17:33,667 --> 02:17:35,500
a slave of circumstances.

2013
02:17:36,042 --> 02:17:39,125
His conscience
would be a heartless hangman.

2014
02:17:57,875 --> 02:17:59,125
The next day,

2015
02:17:59,292 --> 02:18:03,583
Lousteau & Co. merrily
tore Coralie's performance to shreds.

2016
02:18:03,750 --> 02:18:05,292
The mob was unleashed.

2017
02:18:05,458 --> 02:18:08,000
How dare this Boulevard actress

2018
02:18:08,167 --> 02:18:11,875
play a great tragic role,
the essence of French genius?

2019
02:18:12,042 --> 02:18:13,292
She was a nothing.

2020
02:18:13,458 --> 02:18:16,375
May she go back
to her vulgar scarlet stockings!

2021
02:18:18,625 --> 02:18:21,792
To humiliate Lucien,
Coralie had to be sacrificed,

2022
02:18:21,958 --> 02:18:24,083
ridiculed, lapidated in public.

2023
02:18:25,500 --> 02:18:26,667
And there was more.

2024
02:18:29,750 --> 02:18:33,292
Finot had promised
Lucien's articles would be anonymous,

2025
02:18:33,458 --> 02:18:36,625
but his signature
appeared on the attacks against

2026
02:18:36,792 --> 02:18:39,042
the Justice Minister and Royalists.

2027
02:18:41,125 --> 02:18:44,500
- I was tricked.
- Is this your signature?

2028
02:18:45,667 --> 02:18:48,458
- It was a trap!
- Who are you, sir?

2029
02:18:48,625 --> 02:18:51,208
A weathervane? A breeze?

2030
02:18:52,167 --> 02:18:52,875
Look.

2031
02:18:53,875 --> 02:18:56,583
The patent to recover your title.

2032
02:18:57,083 --> 02:18:59,917
It was to be signed
by the king's own hand.

2033
02:19:00,083 --> 02:19:01,500
This "official” document

2034
02:19:02,083 --> 02:19:04,958
was merely a piece of paper
lying on the desk.

2035
02:19:05,542 --> 02:19:06,917
But by tearing it up,

2036
02:19:07,083 --> 02:19:10,333
Lucien had the illusion
of being master of his destiny.

2037
02:19:11,625 --> 02:19:12,417
For never

2038
02:19:12,583 --> 02:19:15,042
had there been any question

2039
02:19:15,208 --> 02:19:18,125
of Lucien obtaining
his precious name and title.

2040
02:19:21,750 --> 02:19:24,583
The marquise
had dreamed up this cruel game

2041
02:19:24,750 --> 02:19:26,958
to make
Lucien betray his friends.

2042
02:19:27,125 --> 02:19:28,583
And she had succeeded.

2043
02:19:31,083 --> 02:19:33,500
Yet betrayal meant nothing,
to anyone.

2044
02:19:33,667 --> 02:19:35,833
As if evil,
an entity unto itself,

2045
02:19:36,000 --> 02:19:38,500
raced along
with reckless abandon.

2046
02:19:43,292 --> 02:19:46,542
Meanwhile,
the Royalists voted new laws

2047
02:19:46,708 --> 02:19:48,750
to silence the opposition press.

2048
02:19:48,917 --> 02:19:51,708
It was the end
of the small papers and an era.

2049
02:19:52,167 --> 02:19:53,333
I'm a journalist!

2050
02:19:53,500 --> 02:19:55,292
We'll teach you to shut up!

2051
02:20:01,208 --> 02:20:02,917
The police would discover

2052
02:20:03,083 --> 02:20:06,083
the scams and expose
their underground economy.

2053
02:20:07,208 --> 02:20:09,125
What about freedom of the press?

2054
02:20:09,292 --> 02:20:10,958
The mainstream press

2055
02:20:11,125 --> 02:20:14,958
shouted its indignation
over such scandalous practices.

2056
02:20:15,458 --> 02:20:17,667
This press,
ever as independent,

2057
02:20:17,833 --> 02:20:20,875
carried on its Holy mission
to enlighten readers.

2058
02:20:21,042 --> 02:20:22,375
I want champagne!

2059
02:20:22,958 --> 02:20:24,625
By burning paper supplies,

2060
02:20:24,792 --> 02:20:27,875
the State hoped
to reduce small papers to silence.

2061
02:20:29,417 --> 02:20:33,500
For what future was there
for a newspaper without paper or ink?

2062
02:20:51,667 --> 02:20:53,833
Ailing, Coralie remained dignified,

2063
02:20:54,667 --> 02:20:56,792
her lungs eaten away by disease.

2064
02:21:07,792 --> 02:21:11,167
Rejected by papers of all leanings
and now penniless,

2065
02:21:11,333 --> 02:21:14,208
Lucien found jobs
writing common advertisements

2066
02:21:14,375 --> 02:21:15,667
for 10 francs a piece.

2067
02:21:17,125 --> 02:21:19,750
"For you, madam,
the new Macassar oil...

2068
02:21:19,917 --> 02:21:21,833
"A heavenly scent...

2069
02:21:22,417 --> 02:21:25,542
"Buy sweet violet soap
to wash clothes...

2070
02:21:25,708 --> 02:21:27,292
"Springtime in your closets."

2071
02:21:28,833 --> 02:21:31,208
Buy, buy, ever more...

2072
02:21:31,833 --> 02:21:34,083
A new world was dawning.

2073
02:21:43,375 --> 02:21:44,583
Several weeks later,

2074
02:21:44,750 --> 02:21:47,542
Matifat used his growing influence

2075
02:21:47,708 --> 02:21:50,042
to secure Coralie's role for Florine.

2076
02:21:50,208 --> 02:21:52,833
He had bought
the Royalist paper, Le Révell,

2077
02:21:53,000 --> 02:21:54,958
and made Nathan editor.

2078
02:21:55,667 --> 02:21:56,583
Florine's voice

2079
02:21:56,750 --> 02:21:58,917
was flat,
her gestures mechanical,

2080
02:21:59,750 --> 02:22:01,750
but with Singali's paid applause

2081
02:22:01,917 --> 02:22:04,708
and indulgent reviews,
the farce worked.

2082
02:23:01,125 --> 02:23:04,125
Lucien could not
afford a tomb for Coralie.

2083
02:23:04,625 --> 02:23:07,375
Cemetery plots
had become prohibitive,

2084
02:23:07,542 --> 02:23:11,292
for property speculation
had extended even to graveyards.

2085
02:23:13,833 --> 02:23:17,417
Even eternal rest had a price.

2086
02:23:45,250 --> 02:23:47,083
I thought you were my friend.

2087
02:23:56,208 --> 02:23:57,583
I am, Lucien.

2088
02:24:03,833 --> 02:24:05,708
I bring you back to writing.

2089
02:24:05,875 --> 02:24:07,208
To yourself.

2090
02:24:11,417 --> 02:24:13,500
Maybe one day, you'll thank me.

2091
02:24:27,417 --> 02:24:29,125
Lucien left Paris

2092
02:24:30,292 --> 02:24:31,500
and returned home.

2093
02:24:38,208 --> 02:24:41,833
On this sad day,
I began writing his story.

2094
02:24:43,500 --> 02:24:45,542
The story I just told you.

2095
02:24:46,292 --> 02:24:47,167
The story

2096
02:24:48,500 --> 02:24:50,167
of his lost illusions.

2097
02:25:22,458 --> 02:25:25,875
He had known this lake
since childhood.

2098
02:25:30,125 --> 02:25:31,958
As he entered the cold water,

2099
02:25:32,125 --> 02:25:35,875
he did not know
if he wanted to cleanse himself or die.

2100
02:25:38,375 --> 02:25:40,292
He stayed there for a moment.

2101
02:25:42,500 --> 02:25:44,458
He would stop hoping

2102
02:25:45,250 --> 02:25:47,000
and start living.

2103
02:25:59,708 --> 02:26:04,417
"I think of all those
who must find inner force

2104
02:26:04,583 --> 02:26:07,667
"after the time of disenchantment.”

2105
02:29:50,083 --> 02:29:52,583
Adaptation: Julie Meyer

2106
02:29:52,750 --> 02:29:55,083
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