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will be absent from this assembly.

Permanently.

Mr. President. May l introduce

the new deputy from Saint-Denis?

Why, yes.

This man is a traitor! Andre Moreau!

- Arrest him! l demand his arrest!

- No!

Excuse me, but has not every member

of this assembly...

been granted the privilege

of immunity from arrest?

Yes. That is true.

Are his credentials in order?

Quite in order.

You may take your seat.

You may take your seat, Deputy Moreau.

With the President's permission, l now

would like to address a few remarks...

to a notorious swordsman

on the bench's opposite.

One who in his arrogance and pride...

did not scruple to murder

a son of France...

whose only crime

was that he loved liberty.

De Maynes, where are you?

The Marquis de Maynes

is absent from the assembly...

having been ordered by Her Majesty

the Queen to inspect the orphanage...

for young ladies of noble birth

at Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

Deputy Moreau, you'll take your seat.

The assembly will continue the roll call.

You, Moreau. My name is du Rouge.

l'm the deputy from Soissons.

How do you do?

Do you hear me?

l dislike your face.

- l not only hear you, l agree with you.

- Wait.

Your cheeks are pale.

They need more color.

That's better.

Moreau, your honor demands satisfaction.

- lt does?

- Emphatically.

Behind the cathedral. At 6:00?

Deputy Cavalier,

representing the Vendme district?

Present.

Deputy Vignon from the Louvre district

of the city of Paris?

Deputy du Rouge,

representing the Soissons district?

Moreau!

Mr. President, the deputy from Soissons...

will be absent

from this assembly permanently.

And now, perhaps,

l may get some response...

from that high-and-mighty lord...

who makes his blade a tool for butchery!

De Maynes! Stand up!

The Marquis de Maynes is absent

from the assembly...

having been ordered

by Her Majesty the Queen...

to report upon the waterworks

at Versailles.

Waterworks.

My name is De Crillons

from Chteau Thierry.

Your face revolts me.

- Your eyes are pig's eyes, and your ears...

- All right.

Behind the cathedral at 6:00.

Deputy de Nicolay,

in representing the Moulin district?

Present.

Deputy De Crillons,

representing the Chteau Thierry district?

Mr. President,

the deputy from Chteau Thierry...

will be absent from the assembly

for three months, so the doctor said.

Now may l ask,

what pressing assignment...

robs us of the presence

of the Marquis de Maynes today?

He is absent from the assembly having

been ordered by Her Majesty the Queen...

to survey

the royal partridge preserves at Trianon.

Partridge preserves.

My friend Chabrillaine. l know, my face.

lt reminds you of a bos taurus horrendus.

- What's that?

- An Ethiopian ox.

Behind the cathedral at 6:00.

Moreau?

This morning. l'm lucky to be alive.

- Where can l find him?

- The assembly adjourned for a month...

but l know where he lives.

l thought you'd be interested. Tomorrow?

Tonight. l shall sleep

much better when l know Moreau is dead.

Noel?

Well?

- You don't like it.

- But l do, very much.

No, you don't.

And l had it made especially for tonight.

- Tonight?

- Yes. Where shall we go?

l thought perhaps Souchet's,

and then the opera.

- My dear, l'm afraid tonight is impossible.

- lmpossible? But you promised.

"The first night l return, we go out,"

you said. Don't you remember?

Not altogether. l'm sorry,

but something has come up.

No. First an orphanage,

then a waterworks...

then some ridiculous peacocks...

- Partridges.

- Now something comes up.

- l don't believe it.

- l assure you it's absolutely true.

There's a woman behind it,

that's what there is.

- Maybe two women.

- Aline, this is absurd.

Just when we were going to be married.

Noel, how could you?

Aline. Please?

lf l promised, l promised.

What are they playing

tonight at the opera?

- Orpheus and Eurydice.

- l went last night. Wretched performance.

Very depressing.

Now, if you want a gay evening...

there's only one answer,

the Ambige Theater.

The Ambige?

What are they playing there?

Wait till you see Scaramouche.

You'll love him.

Hideous, but hilarious.

You should see him without the mask.

The most magnificently ugly fellow

l've ever set eyes on.

Ladies and gentlemen,

we are singularly honored tonight.

We have with us

that most chivalrous gentleman...

Noel, Marquis de Maynes.

Noel, l feel faint.

Would you take me home, please?

Going so soon, my lord?

l assure you, the best is yet to come.

You may turn your back

on Scaramouche, my lord...

but surely you will not run away from...

Andre Moreau.

Scaramouche, you have given

your last performance.

Why don't you come and take it?

lt's only l, Andre.

Are all things clear to souls in paradise?

lf so...

God grant the boy understands

my failure...

and forgives it.

- l cannot.

- You will.

Never!

He stood there waiting...

neither asking or expecting mercy.

l could not do it.

l looked into his eyes...

Why?

Before all the saints in heaven, why?

When you were a boy at home...

how many, many times did you ask us:

"Who am l? And how did l come to live...

"in the house of the de Valmorins?

"And if you are not my father...

"tell me, who is?"

l learned the answer months ago.

My father was Armand de Gavrillac.

No. Armand de Gavrillac

pretended to be your father.

Actually, he was covering an indiscretion

of his closest friend...

who was your real father.

Then who was my father?

You are the natural son

of the late Marquis de Maynes.

De Maynes, the father of Noel de Maynes...

the man whose life you could not take.

You couldn't kill your own brother.

My brother, Noel!

My tender, loving...

Then she is not...

Not your sister.

- Aline is not...

- No.

So now you can feel about her

the way she feels about you.

Yes, l know she loves you.

Not the way l did,

but then she's not like me.

She doesn't listen

to other people's conversations.

And she's the marrying kind...

which somehow l don't seem to be.

l like the Gavrillac girl. She's a lady.

But never mind. l like her.

Be nice to her, Scaramouche.

l said be nice to her, you clod, not to me.

Go on, get out of here.

Beautiful.

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