Marie Antoinette Page #11

Madame.

Just not today.

Give me a little time,

I'll be braver then.

Just a little time, but not today,

not now.

Madame, we have our orders.

The child will be well enough.

Let him go,

or the guards will take him.

Don't let me go...

Let him go, madame.

You're distressing him uselessly.

Calm yourself for his sake.

Don't cry, darling.

Don't cry.

There's...

There's nothing to be afraid of.

Mother's a great crybaby,

isn't she?

But you are a man.

You have to be very brave.

Sister will get your coat and hat.

And these gentlemen

will be very kind to you, I'm sure.

Won't you?

And soon we'll all...

Soon we'll be together again.

Stand up, dear.

Okay, darling.

Say goodbye to your sister.

May God take care of you, my baby.

Yes, yes.

We're ready, aren't we, dear?

Goodbye, Mama.

Mama, mama!

Mama!

You are Jean Laporte,

journalist from Marseille?

Passport in order. Pass on.

And these, Your Excellency?

Stay where you are.

There's someone on the terrace.

Fersen, in heaven's name.

Why did you come? It's death.

There's a warrant out for your arrest.

Were you seen? Watch the door.

If you were found,

you'd be torn to pieces.

Here, in this room, I told her

how as a boy I'd dreamed...

Why are you here?

There's no hope abroad,

no help from Austria, none from Europe.

But here. Here there must be a way,

with money, with audacity.

Audacity? Man, people are crazed

with fear.

- The scum.

- No one is safe.

Your enemy drops a slip of paper

into a box tonight...

...and tomorrow you're on your way

to the guillotine.

The leaders

are at each other's throats.

Yesterday, the citizen Orlans

was arrested.

Adored Philippe galit.

He'll go to the scaffold.

That is good to hear.

Tomorrow, Danton will follow him.

It's chaos.

All that is good, I tell you.

In a mad world, one can do a mad act

and win with it.

But you must help me.

You, her friend, her countryman.

We must act, rally our friends, bribe.

I have money. Devise a plan.

Fersen, the woman in the Conciergerie

is not the woman you remember.

I've loved her since she was a child.

But if it were in my power

to save her life, I wouldn't lift my hand.

Nothing has been spared her, nothing.

- Her own son...

- The child?

They brought him into court today.

She seemed to live again

at the sight of him.

Into court?

They put into his mouth

the foulest charge...

...a child could bring

against his mother.

I saw her heart break.

You saw her? Where?

She was brought to trial three days ago,

convicted less than an hour since.

She'll be executed in the morning.

I am Count Fersen, who planned

the escape of the royal family.

I came to Paris with a plan

to rescue the queen.

I was too late. I am here to surrender.

Why? Why do you tell me this?

Isn't there blood enough shed,

that I should want yours?

I'm asking a kindness of you...

...for which I'll exchange

everything I posses. My life.

- Let me speak to the queen.

- Are you insane?

For months she has waited

in darkness and silence...

...without a sign

that any friend remembered.

And now she is alone, waiting to die,

without a friendly hand, a word of pity.

You have my sympathy, monsieur.

I have forgotten your name.

Give me 10 minutes

to tell her she's not forgotten.

- Impossible.

- Ten minutes, five, a moment.

Is there no mercy for the dying?

A word, a look,

in exchange for my life.

Is it time?

I hardly knew you.

My eyes, you know.

It's been so dark here.

It isn't that I've forgotten, you know.

I just feel so little now.

So little.

He looked so small in that big chair...

...whispering the lies they'd told him.

When he's older...

...do you think

he'll know I understood?

If he remembers, he will know.

You mustn't feel badly, I...

I don't think I'll be afraid.

It's quick, they say.

Don't be sad.

Don't be sad, my darling. We...

We will never say goodbye.

- Oh, Marie.

- We...

We just have to leave each other

for a little while, that's all.

- Austrian!

- Shut up!

Oh, Mama, think of it.

I shall be queen.

I shall be queen of France.

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