"THE MARSEILLAISE" "A chronicle of some events that contributed to the downfall of the monarchy." "PALACE OF VERSAILLES JULY 14, 1789" "Present arms." "Forward march." "March." "Right face." "Forward march." "Forward march." "Column left." "Halt!" "Present arms." "Forward march." "March." "Column right." "Forward march." "Forward march." "I wish to speak to His Majesty." " Who is the gentleman serving today?" " Monsieur de Guémigny." "Please announce the arrival of the Duke of La Rochefoucauld Liancourt." "Good evening, Guémigny." "Could you announce my presence to His Majesty?" "I must warn you, Duke." "The hunt was toilsome today." "His Majesty is sleeping like Hercules after his labors." "I beg you, my dear Guémigny." "Hurry." " Is it serious?" " I think so." "His Majesty is not asleep." "Please, come in." "My dear La Rochefoucauld." "Good timing." "I was awakened by mild pangs of hunger." "It was the hunt." "We chased an elk, which are quite rare." "Picard, take that little table and put it on the bed." "My dear Guémigny, give me a glass of wine." "My dear Duke, why don't you pass me the chicken that my good Picard hid from me last night." "Picard thinks that because I am King, I have some pull." "You're wrong, Picard." "Thank you." "What's wrong?" "Sir, the Parisians have stormed the Bastille." "Is it a revolt, then?" "No, sir." "It's a revolution." "A VILLAGE IN PROVENCE JUNE 1790" "I saw you!" "Your Highness, I am a poor man." "Of course, it was wrong of me to shoot your pigeon, but he was devouring my harvest, and it is my only means of living." "You, over there!" "Come here." " You will be witnesses." " I didn't see anything." "No one asked if you saw anything!" "Just obey." "Take him away." "The case of Anatole Roux, a. k. a. "Mountain Goat. "" "He has committed larceny." "This is not the first time." "Last year, my guards caught you poaching on Rouret Hill." "You're very fortunate." "The land belonged to Mr. Giraud, the mayor of the village, who is present today." "His softness spared you from the gallows." "My Lord," ""a coalman is the master of his home. "" "This is a clear-cut case." "The pigeon belongs to me, and there are witnesses." "I didn't see anything." "Lords of this village, my ancestors, have bequeathed me with the right to carry out justice." "It is a rather unrewarding prerogative, but I do believe that it is my duty to carry it out without wavering." "Above all things, we are at His Majesty's service." "My good friend, your case is beyond my expertise." "I will transfer your case to the bailiff." "Come on, my Lord!" "You know how these judges are." "They have as much empathy as a rock, and they are as intelligent as an old caldron." "All they do is send you to the gallows." "Do you think it's fair to send someone to the gallows over a pigeon?" "The pigeon has nothing to do with it, but it is the symbol of the order that I have to defend." "Your symbol is a little scrawny." "Once you remove the feathers, it probably doesn't weigh much." "If we let the peasants kill our pigeons, they will soon burn our castles down." "Ah, so you do admit that it is your assets and your feudal rights you're defending." "Not really His Majesty's laws." "I am defending both." "If you eliminate these feudal rights that you bother so much, it will destroy our whole social hierarchy, based on respect for natural and divine forces." "From which you also benefit." "So little, though..." "I know how the song goes." "You want to make me think that if you lose your privileges," "I will also lose the few assets that I have, right?" "So if I want to keep my modest affluence," "I have to justify the exploitation that you live on." "So in the end the interest of the aristocrat who owns half of the region and that of Paul Giraud, former Master Chief on her Majesty's vessel, should go hand in hand?" "Here, I would much rather lose all my assets and..." "I am trapped!" "You can do what you want with me." "What are you talking about?" "Are you mad?" " You're building a fireplace?" " Yes." "It's not built right." "You're not going to tell me how to build a fireplace!" "I am a mason." "And I am a good mason." "I am so good that my pals call me Mortar." "What's wrong with my fireplace?" "The wind comes from the west." "We're not in town here." "The wind is important." "Here, I have a big one." "Who's that?" "I don't know." "By the way, who are you?" " What about you?" " We're from Marseille." "You're hiding from the King's justice?" "No, from the aristocrats' justice." "Me too." "We didn't do anything wrong, we're not criminals." " Me neither." " We are patriots." "These days, in Marseille, they send you to jail for that." "I killed a pigeon, and it was enough to send me to the gallows." "Do you know the area?" "Yes, I was born in Cadolive." "Right there, behind the hill." "The priest is a childhood friend." "So whenever he can, he brings us food." "Would you have a leather belt?" "I have one." "It's a gift from my mother." "Here." "That's going to make a great slingshot." "It's the season." "Would you happen to have any string?" " What for?" " To catch some rabbits." "There are lots of rabbits around here." "You seem to be quite a hunter!" "I know." "The Count seems to think so as well." " What's your name?" " Jean-Joseph Bomier." "I am Anatole Roux, but around here they call me Mountain Goat." " What about you?" " My name is Arnaud." "Honoré Arnaud." "I am customs officer in the port of Marseille." " So, are you staying with us?" " I would love to." "It would be a pleasure." "But we have to rebuild the fireplace." "Oh you." "This is the good life." "You want a blackbird?" "You grab your slingshot and bam!" "You have a blackbird." "You want a hare?" "You place a piece of string in the bushes, and you catch a hare." "It's just a matter of knowing and observing the mystery of nature, and that's precisely what makes it fascinating." "I'll tell you what." "I wonder why we couldn't stay here for the rest of our lives." "What about your mother?" "You don't want to see her again?" "Of course I want to see her, but when I realize how I lost my youth locked up under a roof, it gives me a stomachache." "It is as if I had lived in a closet." "I've made up my mind." "I am staying here." "What about women?" "I am old." "I don't care anymore, but you two are young." "Maybe we could go get us a pretty girl?" "Between all three of us, we could feed her." "And she would help with the cooking." "Yeah, and you would fight because one of you would want to have her for himself." "I see." "If we bring everything we don't have here... bread, salt, liquor, women..." "I am not even mentioning tobacco, which you can't do without... then it would become a city." "So we might as well go down to Marseille, get a good wash, hunt the aristocrats and the parasites and take advantage of the comfort earned by our parents' labor." "Hello, my friends!" "Hi, Fayet." "Well?" "Is that how you're keeping watch?" "Why would we keep watch?" "Nobody ever comes here." "What did you bring today?" "Everything a poor priest can find..." "bread, cheese, tobacco." "This bread is really good." "Thank God you're Arnaud's childhood friend." "He's not doing all this because we're old friends." "No." "I do it because I am also tired of starving." "Our situation could get tears of pity out of the cobblestones where we walk with our worn-out shoes." "You have to turn it over." "It is cooked on this side." "Let me do it!" "Are you cooking or am I?" "Now that he thinks he's a cook, you can't say anything to him." "What if I told you that I haven't had windows in my presbytery for a year?" "Meanwhile, the bishop lives in a palace." "He has mistresses, and he leads a life of debauchery that should make a servant of God blush." "A 22-year-old child." "What a pity." "A young aristocrat is not like the other youngsters." "When we have a baby with a woman, we give him the color of our hair, the shape of our nose." "But when an aristocrat makes love, without much more effort, he automatically gives his seed all the possibilities... politics, the military, the Church." "Therefore, the kid knows everything without having to learn." "We, the priests who only get a fraction of the tithe, we're like sergeants." "And just like our equals in the army, we have lost all hope of ever becoming officers." "I became a widower very early, all my children are dead and I am happy about it." "If the peasants were reasonable, they would stop having children." "This time your rabbit is cooked." "I think you're right." " Hey!" " Over here!" "Did you see the smoke?" "Over there... the Pichon Castle is in flames." "And over there, it's the house of my bishop." "It is also in flames." "My children, time has come for you to leave the mountain." "We need you." "All the same, I wonder what they're going to say, those aristocrats." "If someone was burning my house down," "I wouldn't be happy." "If someone sent you to the gallows for 10 years, would you be happy?" "Instead of taming us, the masters have given us bad morals." "They have made barbarians of us, because that's what they are." "They will reap what they sow." "They're like harmful animals." "It's not their fault." "God made them like that." "They have to do harm, it's in their nature." "Now that we have sophisticated weapons, we can get rid of them." "Today, I wish my children were alive." "Because y'all, the youngsters, you are going to invent a new life." "Come on." "Goodbye, my friends." "Above all, do not back down." "Goodbye, my old Mountain Goat." "Goodbye, my friend." "Bye, Mountain Goat." "I won't forget what you taught me." "Here, give me that." "You'll have weapons there." "MARSEILLE OCTOBER 1790" "Arnaud, of the Citizen Youth." "Bomier, where's your card?" "What do you need a card for?" "Don't you know us?" "I shouldn't let you in, pal." "I don't understand this bureaucracy." "Do we need a card to participate in the revolution?" "That comes from you and your comrades, the writers, the scholars." "You invented all this paperwork to feel important." "You can't bring order with disorder, my friend." "It's a shame." "People of decent background attacked the citizen Maurras, the mayor of Marseille that we just elected." "We want order in the streets!" "Absolutely." "The reactionaries must obey the law." "And the rich must pay taxes." "Us, conveyors of the Marseille port, we are disciplined workers and enemies of violence." "We stopped the riot when the populace wanted to vandalize the house of the farmer Rebuffet." "We condemn the cowardly attacks against public safety." "It is a way for reactionaries to show their contempt for the people's victory." "Bravo!" "He's right." "We have to defend ourselves." "Therefore, you have all our support!" "Citizen Moissan is going to speak." "He is going to sum up the situation." "I'm going to sum up the situation." "As the French people witness the admirable spectacle of the King and the nation united in the same love of the public good, a few conspirators are endangering the work of the revolution." "Bravo!" "Down with the aristocrats!" "We can see them behind the cashiers of the warehouses where they actively raise the price of our daily life." "We can see them in the administration, where they conspire against the decisions that are favorable to our fatherland." "We can see them in the army, right here in Marseille." "The forts of Notre Dame de la Garde," "Saint Jean and Saint Nicolas are in the hands of officers contesting the King's will and our deputies' will." "Shame on them!" "Hiding behind the cannons they have pointed on the city, these troublemakers are in control and hunt the patriots." "Send them to the gallows!" "In agreement with the new town hall, we, Citizens of Marseille, members of the new Civil Guard, members of clubs and patriotic societies, we have decided to take these forts and deliver them to the authorities that we have elected." "In novels, the sunrise is always magnificent." "That's because writers are never awake this early." "Most of the time when the sun rises, you're cold, it's gray and the colors are horrible." "I know this because I am a painter." "What do you paint?" "Portraits?" "No, I paint heroes of the Antiquity..." " Romans, Spartans..." " What?" "Patriots, you know?" "I gave up painting little shepherds and shepherdesses." "That was only good for aristocrats." "Javel, Ardisson." " I think you can go." " Come on." "How are you doing, Diogenes?" " Very good." " Okay." "Let's go." "Hey there!" " Open the door!" " What do you want?" "We're bringing you some wine." "Wine?" "Where does it come from?" "From the town of Ravel." "It's a courteous gift from the town hall to the port's garrison." "Okay, I'm coming down." "Go around and use the big door." "Come on!" "Come on, let's go!" "Come in." "Stop!" "Leave the barrel here in the corner." " Why not go further?" " It's none of your business." "Be careful." "Slowly." "You're being very cautious with this barrel." "Can't you see that it's an old barrel?" "You can't shake wine." "It'll go bad." "You seem to be two very odd birds." "Okay, you can go now." "Come on!" "Go away!" "You're not very generous." "After such an effort, you could offer us a drink." "I'm telling you to go away!" "I have instructions." "Come on!" "Shake my hand, comrade." "Ouch!" "What are you doing?" "The nation has come to take the fort!" "Be nice and give your guns to my comrades." "There." "You're very nice." "Yes, Javel." "Take it from him." "Can't you see he doesn't know what to do with it?" "You, Ardisson, guard the door." " No problem." " Come here, you two." "Here, give him your gun." "Guard the prisoners and make sure they don't escape." " And watch out, they're terrible." " Shush." "Be quiet." "This guard is in there." "Wake up!" "Help!" "Bandits!" " Shut up!" " We are being attacked by bandits!" "Don't be afraid, comrades." "We mean no harm." "Alert!" "Alert!" "Ready your bayonets!" "Let's not have a useless bloodbath." "Surrender, Citizen Sergeant." "It's better for you." "How many are you outside?" " At least 2000." " 2000?" "Well, in that case, let's surrender." " Come on, everyone." " Surrender!" "I found the keys!" " Can I go get Cugulière?" " Sure." "Hey!" "Benjamin!" "My friend!" "I'm happy to see you." "I didn't know you were a soldier." "We're friends." "We're from the same village." "We're from Aubagne!" " What are you doing here?" " Can't you see?" "Standing guard." " Who told you to?" " Nobody." "I took the initiative." " Do you have a leader?" " Yes, his name is Arnaud." "He's in there." "Come with me, I have some tobacco." " Who's that guy?" " That guy?" "Marquis de Saint-Laurent." "He is the commander of all the forts in Marseille." "He's a nice guy." "Here." "Thanks." "Hi, Marquis." "How are you?" "I have seen many odd things throughout my long career in the military, but this I have never seen this before." " How many prisoners?" " 22." " How many for political reasons?" " All of them." "We shouldn't have abolished the King's incarceration letters." " Are you Sir Arnaud?" " Citizen Arnaud." "I am in charge of all the forts in Marseille." "I represent His Majesty, the King." "I ask you to surrender your weapons and leave, you and your troop." "Cugulière!" "Bomier!" "What's wrong with you?" "My eyes hurt." "It happens to all of us in this fort." "The doctor says there is nothing to do about it." "He said it comes from the toxins oozing from the walls." "What are you doing here?" " We just took the fort." " No way!" "That's good news!" "Yes, you can say that it's good news." "What about Arnaud?" "Is he all right?" "Don't worry about Arnaud." "He's doing better than you." "Come with me." "Long live the nation!" "Long live the revolution!" "You justify these actions, which I consider to be rebellious, with words that I don't understand." "The nation?" "Citizens?" "What is all that?" "The nation is the brotherly union of all French people." "It is you, it is me." "It is the people walking in the street." "It is this fisherman on his boat." "The citizens are the people who form the nation." "But I have nothing to do with these people." "It is a new religion that I cannot accept." "All I know is serving the King." "Or what you guess is serving the King." "When a King is trapped by his conspiring subjects, when he cannot rule freely anymore, his devoted servants have no choice but to guess." "Now, a question:" "What are you going to do with me?" "I'm going to wish you a good journey to the border, a good stay in Germany, and I wish to never see you again." "Hotel guests are asked to pay their week in advance." "O, how I remember" "The pretty place where I was born" "My sister, those days in France were beautiful" "My country, be my love" "Forever forever" "My country" "Be my love forever" "Who will give me back my Hélène?" "My mountain and my great oak?" "Their memory causes me grief every day" "My country, be my love" "Forever forever" "My country, be my love Forever." "Madame, this song really moves me." "It reminds me of our Provence." "Please, excuse me." "I have tears in my eyes every time I sing it." "Madame de Saint-Laurent, the time for regrets is over." " You will see France again." " When?" "In three weeks, sir." "At last." "What about you, Mr. De Boihut?" "Will you campaign with your company or will you join the Prince's staff?" "I have asked to remain a soldier." "One thing worries me:" "My shoes are starting to be quite worn out, but it doesn't matter." "To serve His Majesty, we can go barefoot." "Dear Boihut, your shoes will make it until Paris." "This little expedition will be a cakewalk." "I can already see His Highness the Count of Artois arriving in town, sitting casually between Mademoiselle DePourprix et Madame Delage." "The doors will open in front of him and the people, on their knees, will give him the keys." "The people, delivered at last, will lovingly cheer the white flag and the lily flower." "Even if we have to fight, the revolutionaries won't hold up." "You can't fight with an army of cobblers, weavers and lawyers." "My dear friends, you're forgetting one thing." "What is that, Saint-Laurent?" "We haven't always won against the French." " They will stand their ground." " Oh, really?" "What about Rosbach during the Seven Year War?" "Did they really stand their ground against the Prussians?" "You've heard the four line poem about Marshall de Soubise." "Soubise says, a lantern in his hand burning," ""I am searching for my army but I do not see it." "It was here yesterday morning." "Did someone take it or did I misplace it?"" "Well, today these Prussians are with us." "And the Duke of Brunswick, the winner of that same Seven Year War, is our commander." "I'll tell you what, I love Prussians." "Since that blessed day that I learned that they were on our side," "I do not miss an occasion to cheer for them." "I had the pleasure and the honor to get close to His Majesty the King of Prussia in Pillnitz." "I may have told you the story already?" " Oh, yes." " What a man!" "A true Achilles, or even Agamemnon!" "You can feel his weight." "And after seeing him, even the most stubborn Jacobin could not say that all men are created equal." "Long live Prussia!" "Long live the Prussians!" "Madame, I cannot share your enthusiasm." "After claiming so loudly that we were the champions of the Catholic faith, it is a little indecent to go to bed with these heretics." "It's like a carp marrying a rabbit." "If we are rabbits, then let's not be ungrateful rabbits." "Let's show gratitude to the generous carp, without whom we would be starving." "Evidently, this hotel is not Versailles." " No." " No." "But without these heretics, we would be sleeping on the street." "And let us not forget that thanks to them, we are going back to France." "Precisely, that is what bothers me." "Two years ago, when we emigrated, everything was beautiful and pure." "We didn't talk about asking money from foreigners." "We wanted our ideas to win, ideas that, whether wrong or right, we consider inseparable from the greatness of our country." "We wanted to do that by ourselves." "Family feuds get resolved within the family." "If you invite the neighbors, chances are they are going to steal something." "My dear." "A drowning man can give his watch to the man who saves him from the river." "Your misgivings are valid for low-class people, at best:" "Peasants, craftsmen, confined within their narrow possessions." "They cannot have a larger vision." "Their biggest journey is going to the next borough, and when they marry, they marry the daughter of one of their kind." "Their children, their grand-children, will never have any other prospect." "We can understand why these people revel in the word "nation. "" "You want to know what their "nation" is?" "A group of scoundrels gathering against quality people." "I know another definition of that word "nation. "" "I heard it in Marseille, from the man who chased me out of Fort Saint-Nicolas, of which I was commander." "His name was Arnaud." "He seemed to be honest." "And yet, he was a patriot." "If there are a lot of revolutionaries like him, we will struggle." "Monsieur de Fauguerolles and you, Monsieur de Saint Laurent, we beg you to stop your historical discussion at once." "We require your presence to solve a conflict of the uttermost importance." "Let's go." "In Versailles, during the third figure of the Gavotte, do we look to the right when we go to the right or the opposite?" "It's very simple." "Here." "It's unthinkable." "I forgot." "Do you know, dear Saint Laurent?" "Pardon me, but I am not much of an expert." "Why don't you ask Boihut?" "He used to spend a lot of time at the Trianon." " Excellent idea." " M. De Boihut!" "It's very simple." "You constantly have to look in the eyes of the person in front of you, while looking over your shoulder." "VALENCIENNES APRIL 1792" "Who's there?" "Sorry, citizen." "I thought it was the Austrians." "They're not far from here." "Where do you come from?" "From the Grandes Mottes village, on the road to Mons." "Sharp shooters were shooting at the Austrians, so they burned the whole village down, and they arrested all the men." "My husband was taken and hung." "Is it true they have French people with them?" "Of course." "Aristocrats." " It's the Coblentz army." " That's not pretty." "Citizen, don't you want to rest here, with your child, by the fire?" "Aren't you ashamed to rest by the fire while people are hanging my husband and burning down my house?" "We really aren't protected in this war." "I wonder what the nation's army is doing." "I heard the Austrians were laughing real hard about you, seeing how weak you are." "Come on." " Did you hear that?" " Yes." " She's right." " Of course." " Is your ham cooked?" " No." "It's as dry as an old revolutionary." " It's an old crow." " We're lucky we found it." "If we had to count on Lafayette's supply..." "I don't like aristocrats." "They let us starve and they betray the fatherland." "What about De Rochambeau?" "Don't you know him?" "De Rochambeau?" "The General." "No, I don't have the privilege." "I know Marat, though." "One time, he came to Rouen and I spoke to him." "Well, when us Parisians arrived at Tournai, that De Rochambeau gathered us in the courtyard." "We were coming from Douai, we had walked all day, so we weren't pretty to look at." "We hadn't shaved since Paris." "You should have seen our beards." "We looked like the Wandering Jew." "Well, De Rochambeau came out of his dwelling, and wiped his mouth with his napkin." "He must have had a real good meal." "He looked at us for a while, he really took his time, as if we also had our belly full." "And he said with an expression of contempt that I will never forget," ""What do you want me to do with you?" "You're too short. "" "Short?" "Short?" " How tall are you?" " Almost 5 feet." " You're a handsome man." " I'm the tallest in my profession." " What do you do?" " I am a construction painter in a little village called Les Batignolles, near Paris." "What about you?" "I am a cooper in Darnétal, near Rouen." "See, what these gentlemen don't appreciate, is the fact that we are volunteers, and we wear the blue uniform." "It's the fact that we trust the brigade's committees, our parliament, Robespierre, Marat." "In other words, we are patriots!" "Almost all the officers are aristocrats!" "For me, anyone who has an aristocratic name is a traitor!" "If only they were content with fighting frankly on the other side." "But if they have contempt for the nation, they have less contempt for the stipend that the parliament is stupid enough to give them." ""I take the money and I betray!" That's their motto." "What is that?" "Hussards." "They're going east." " To surrender to the Austrians!" " You think so?" "It wouldn't be the first time." "Remember." "The Berchagny regiment." "It was last Tuesday." "They gave in to the Austrians." "Men and horses." "Judas!" "Rascal!" "I'll shut you up." "Go away, or we're going to start shooting." "Every horse we kill will be one less horse you will sell to the Austrians." "Come on, we have no time to lose." "Old man, if things don't change soon, between the Austrians and Paris... we'll be the only ones left." "CITY OF MARSEILLE." "FRIENDS OF THE REVOLUTION CLUB" "Citizens." "My name is Louise Vauclair." "I am a fish merchant in the customs neighborhood and I pay taxes." "I've come to tell you that on April 21st, near a town up north called Mons, my lover Antoine Givaudan..." "That old Tony!" "He's my pal." "Shut up!" "Go on, citizen." " Sit down." " My lover Antoine Givaudan... volunteer since 1791," "Sergeant in the 49th infantry regiment, was killed by the Austrians." "And the citizen Antoine Besombes, trooper in the 16th Dragons regiment, who came back wounded to Marseille and gave me the news, told me that my lover was killed as he was running away from the enemy." "Citizens." "Some of you may have known him." "If this is the case, you know that Antoine Givaudan was not scared of anything." "If he ran away, it is because he was betrayed." " I know Antoine Givaudan." " Me too." " Be quiet, my friend." " A great guy with a good heart." "I still owe him two écus that he had loaned me." " We don't care about your stories." " Citizens." "I have come to ask you if we are going to continue to send our men to get killed in a war where their biggest enemy is not in front of them but behind them." "Well said." "Down with the Austrian committee!" "Enough!" "I am not even mentioning the aristocrats in the Church who are calling for their country's defeat, because that defeat would reinstate their privileges." "I am talking about the King, about the Queen, about the parliament!" "His Majesty, Sir Veto, betrays because he's a fat coward." "Her Majesty, Madame Veto, betrays because she's Austrian... because she is arrogant and because she hates France." "She betrays because she thinks that the army of her nephew the Austrian Emperor will re-establish her absolute power." "She is forgetting that you can't rule people like a husband, and she is forgetting that we, the women, are here." "As for the parliament, they betray out of fear." "These gentlemen would like to have a revolution, but only to their benefit." "If it is to the benefit of the people, they pull the bridle and claim that it is anarchy!" "Citizens." "I just want to say a word." "Is it really the role of a woman, to come here at the pulpit and say such things?" "Yes!" "Well, I say that a woman should remain in her home!" "And you should go to the gallows!" "Get him out!" "They're talking about sending a battalion from Marseille up north." "They say it will go through Paris before going to the border." "But they have said so many things that we have become suspicious." "We need to be sure." "We need to know that our men, before offering their chest to the Austrian cannons, will have carried out justice on the criminal leaders!" "Those criminal leaders who put the interest of their caste above the interest of their country." "If we can't be sure of that, we will stand in their way." "They will be forced to stop or step on us." "I think they will stop." " I'm done." " Bravo!" "Down with the anarchist!" "Down with Robespierre!" "Long live Robespierre!" "Your Robespierre has no eloquence and no dignity." "If you want to know, he's a Republican." "Robespierre?" "No eloquence?" "No dignity?" "Wait a second." "We'll see." "Silence!" "Citizens, we are all free men." "I ask you to respect this place." "We are the Friends of the Constitution." "A free pulpit where Jacobin tradition demands that everybody be able to express themselves." "I call citizen Moissan." "Citizens," "I am going to explain why the city of Marseille has decided to send up north a volunteer battalion." "This battalion, just like any other federal battalion coming from all over the country, will go and represent the will of the nation in front of the King and the parliament." "The city of Marseille will demand of every volunteer to swear to go to Paris first, to meet the patriotic groups and the authorities of other regions and to only leave the capital once the patriotic ministers are reinstated." "Severe measures against priests who refuse to comply, against foreign agents and princes, against speculators." "And other enemies of the revolution." "It is only after accomplishing this objective necessary for the sake of the fatherland, that our federal troops will leave to fight the foreign enemy at the border." "The foreign enemy to the gallows!" "To answer the accusations of our opponents, who without a doubt will paint a very dark picture of us... the city of Marseille has decided to only enroll in the battalion citizens who can prove to be entirely honorable." "Volunteers will have to prove that they have never been convicted, and that they have enough resources for their family to live while they're gone." "They will have to prove that they have no debt, since this expedition should not be a way to escape one's responsibilities." "They will have to have served either in the army, the national guard or one of the civil battalions." "Citizens, we are opening the first enrollment registry." "Heroes of the South!" "Saviors of the North!" "Answer the call of the fatherland!" "Yes, we will succeed!" "We will put the aristocrats to the gallows" "Yes, we will succeed" "Yes, we will hang those aristos!" "Yes, we will succeed!" "We will put the aristocrats to the gallows" "Yes, we will succeed!" "Yes, we will hang those aristos!" "Yes, we will succeed!" "We will put the aristocrats to the gallows" "Yes, we will succeed!" "Yes, we will hang those aristos!" "Don't stay here, Bomier." "They're waiting for us out there." " Aren't you coming, Bomier?" " No." " You're not leaving?" " No." "You're going to let us go to Paris by ourselves?" "You're not alone." "There's 500 of you." " It's your mother." " It's Marie." " Maybe." " I don't understand." "Jean-Joseph Bomier, my old fighting companion, one of the liberators of this city." "You had so many projects." "You were dreaming of open spaces, of sacrifice to the fatherland." "Now that the moment has come to act on it, you're giving up." "You were making fun of Louis XVI's weakness for his wife, and you're doing the same thing?" "You're giving up your honor and your dignity for a woman." "Farewell, Bomier." "It is as if my brother had died." "Here, we are proud to speak French" "Auntie, all the young men are leaving." " Where?" " Paris." "I heard that all the young men of Marseille were going to Paris." "I know." " You're not eating?" " No." "But we made you some tomatoes, the way you like them." "I am not hungry." "What about you?" "You're not eating?" "I will eat after you." "You're the head of this household, the only man in the house." "What would your poor father say if he saw a woman at the table while you're eating?" "These old customs are out of date." "Please, sit down." "When you're my age, you're set in your ways." "Why aren't you eating?" "Is it that you're going to Paris but you don't know how to tell me?" "No." "I'm not going." "I am happy to see that you've become reasonable." "Where would all this agitation lead you?" "Why fight people that are stronger, richer, better armed than you?" "It's David against Goliath." "Believe me, there will always be rich people and poor people." "Your friends won't change anything about that." "But then, if it isn't because you're leaving... why aren't you eating?" "Are you in trouble?" "Yes." "Because of that creature?" "What's wrong with Clemence?" "If you don't understand, then you're blind!" "Only men go look for something that they already have at home." "What did she do to you this time?" " She left again?" " Yes." "But I don't care." "And she took some money from you?" "She didn't take it." "I gave it to her." "She said she wanted to buy a business." "So I am in debt now." "I can't leave because they won't take you in the battalion if you're in debt." "All my best friends..." "Arnaud, Cugulière, Garnier, Moissan, Ardisson... the best men in town." "They're like brothers to me." "They are all leaving, and I am staying here." "And believe me, they are going to see a lot in Paris." "You know, strange things are going to happen there." "Meanwhile, I will be here tormenting myself, looking at these roofs, this little street, that little piece of sea over there." "I won't be able to handle it, because I have already seen them too much." "Well, listen." "It's very simple." "Write to your uncle in Cassis." "Since he takes care of our possessions, tell him to sell our vineyard." "He has money." "Maybe he will buy it himself." "You're the head of this household." "You can do whatever you want." "Thank you, Mom." "I'm going to register right away." "There are so many of us, and they will only take 500." "Auntie." "Please close the window." "Let's dance the Carmagnole, I love the sound of the cannon" "Madame Veto had promised to cut every Parisian's throat" "But her plan didn't succeed, thanks to our cannoneers" "Let's dance the Carmagnole, I love the sound of the cannon." "You swear to be committed to the revolution?" " Yes." " You swear you have no debt?" "Let's dance the Carmagnole, I love the sound of the cannon." " Can you sign me up?" " Hey, old pal." " Well, hello!" " I'm here to sign up." "You have to stand in line." "Where are you going, Bomier?" "Get out of here!" "Quiet!" " You have your certificate?" " Yes, here." "How come you're not signed up yet?" " I was delayed." " Me too." "I was in Avignon." "I was doing a painting for the town hall." "I painted Brutus killing the traitor Caesar." "Move move." "I painted 1500 residents of Avignon, dressed up as Roman soldiers." "You can recognize every single one of them." "I think we're right on time." "They already have 450 men." "If they weren't so picky, they could send more than 100,000 men to Paris." "Move, move." " What's going on in there?" " I don't know." "There is a banquet to honor the Montpellier delegates." "Apparently, the federal troops are already set to go over there." "Too bad we're not leaving with them." "I heard that around Tarrascon, there is an army of 50,000 aristocrats, well-armed and lead by Capellans." " Capellans?" " Yes, dissident priests." "You really think there's 50,000 of them?" " At least." " Move." "Don't close the door." "We want to hear what they're saying." "Arise, you children of the fatherland The day of glory has come..." " Who's singing?" " Mireur from Montpellier." " What is he singing?" " I don't know." "Move move." "...has raised its bloody flag" "Do you hear, in the countryside" "The howling of these fierce soldiers?" " Good bye, then, Bomier." " Good bye, Javel." "Next." "Jean-Joseph Bomier." " You have your certificates?" " Yes." "Here they are." "Do you swear you have no debt?" "Do you swear your family can live during your absence?" "I swear it on the nation." "Arnaud, Bomier is signing up." "Cugulière, I am happy to see you." "I knew you would come back." "Sign up, citizen." "What are you waiting for?" "Let an impure blood flow in our veins..." "I like that song Mireur was singing but it's not exactly the way things are." "Come on, Bomier." "Row to the right." "Why say, "To arms, citizens, form your battalions"" "when they're making it difficult for citizens to actually form their battalion just because they're poor or in debt?" "Stop talking, pal." "You'll talk tomorrow." "Yeah, that's some revolution!" "A revolution where the glory of serving the fatherland is reserved for citizens who pay taxes." "Let it grow a little bit, the revolution is still in its childhood." "The rich started it, the poor will finish it." " Yes, but when?" " I don't know." "We may not live until then." "That song Mireur was singing, where does it come from?" "He heard a workers choir sing it in Montpellier." "They learned it from a Jewish peddler who heard it in Strasbourg." "It's called "The Hymn of the Rhine Army. "" "But who wrote it?" "The soldiers of the Rhine army or the Jewish peddler?" "None of them." "I think it's a guy called Desile, or Delisle." "He's an engineering officer." " Where is he from?" " I don't know, pal." "Well, he's certainly not from the South." "There's something in that song that smells like the North." "Something barbaric and pretentious that I don't like." " Well, what do you like?" " Hey, I am not a musician, but it seems to me that a song should be written" " according to the rules of harmony." " Rules of harmony?" "That's for aristocrats." "To me, that hymn was deeply touching." "It's like the echo of my own thoughts." "I don't know what you see in that song." "I think it's a passing trend, and in two weeks everybody will have forgotten about it." "To arms, citizens, form your battalions" "March march!" "Let an impure blood flow in our veins!" "To arms, citizens, form your battalions" "March march!" "Let an impure blood flow in our veins!" "Sacred love of the fatherland" "Support and guide our avenging arms" "Liberty, cherished liberty" "Join the struggle with your defenders" "Under our flags, let victory" "Hurry to your manly tone" "So that in death your enemies" "See your triumph and our glory!" "To arms, citizens" "Form your battalions" " March march!" " You're singing?" "Yes, I am singing just to join in." " Let an impure blood..." " Gathering!" "Flow in our veins!" "Gathering!" "At attention!" "Present arms!" "At attention!" "Rest!" "To arms!" "Okay." " Do you understand?" " Yes." "Let's go." "One two three." "What do they want, this gang of slaves..." "Horde, not gang!" "Horde, gang..." "I don't see the difference." " Anyway." " Come on." "One two three..." "What do they want, this horde of slaves" "Of traitors and conjugatorial kings?" "Conspiratorial, dimwit!" "Conspiratorial, conjugatorial... see?" "This song is full of words that we can't pronounce." "I give up." "Sir, I am the oldest priest in town." "I wanted to tell you that I will pray for your success." "Do you see that Capellan who is talking to Moissan?" "Yes." "It's the vanguard of the reactionary army." "No kidding!" "His poisonous language is more dangerous than that of the sirens." "Javel, you are an incorrigible pessimist." "Why would a man be reactionary just because he is wearing a priest outfit?" "You have no right to forget what the priests have done for the revolution." "We are going to charge soon." "The best soldier is the one who remains calm and collected while he charges." "If your moves are hurried, you can spill your powder on the ground." "Watch out." "One." "Arm your weapon." "Your left hand is placed on the first barrel, your right hand on the handle and your arm against the butt." "Two." "Open the chamber." "Three." "Take the bullet." "Four." "Tear the bullet." "Five." "Initiate." "Just put enough powder to fill up the chamber." "May I remind you that this is what gives power to your weapon." "The powder that isn't in the chamber will not be in the barrel to push your bullet." "Then, close the paper of your bullet between your thumb and your forefinger." "Six." "Close the chamber." "Seven." "Put your weapon at your left side." "Eight." "Put the bullet in the barrel." "Nine." "Pull out the stick in two movements." "10." "Move it back and forth twice in the barrel." "11." "Put the stick back." "12." "Carry your weapon." "Do you understand?" "You need boots of the right size, and a good bundle of hay inside of them." "With that, your feet will smell like roses when you get to Paris." "What are you talking about?" "If newspapers weren't so expensive..." "there's nothing better than paper." "All this is a joke." "The best is a good candle, nicely melted." "The most important is to grease the space in between your toes, and then you walk as if you had wings." "Look at the bushes I found." "Just like in Marseille." "We also have a federal soldier in Montalban." "There's only one, and it's my nephew." "He went to Paris." "In secret, obviously, because of our reactionary town hall." "Since you're going there, can you give him a message?" "Yes, but where will I find him?" "In Paris!" "His name is Besson." "Jules... just like me." "He is easy to recognize." "He is tall and blond and has freckles." "Ah, okay." "And what is the message?" "First, I would like you to give him these 20 francs." "Once you've crushed Sir Veto, before you go do the same thing to the Austrians at the border," "I want him to have a feast!" "It will be done, I promise." "What's the second message?" "I would like you to teach him the hymn of the people of Marseille, that you and your comrades were singing earlier." "Ah, the "Hymn of the Rhine Army"?" "You like it that much?" "Yes, and for us it will always remain the hymn of the people of Marseille." "Well, I will teach him." "I promise." "To me, the most beautiful verse is the one that was written in our honor by a good teacher in Vienne..." ""We shall enter in the pit when our elders will no longer be there. "" "Hey, Arnaud, you want some roasted pig?" "You should have seen all those youngsters reciting what they had written the night before." "It happened in front of the temple of Augustus and Livy." "Give me some roasted pig, Cugulière." "Here, Mr. Livy." "My friends, it was so beautiful." "Here." "I will make a painting of it." "I will call it "The France of Tomorrow in Front of the Remains of Ancient Rome. "" "What are we waiting for?" "I heard a cannon had fallen in a hole." "A cannon in a hole?" "That's unlikely." "They're only saying that to reassure us." "What do you think?" " I think we have arrived." " Where?" "In front of the Capellan army." " Sure." " Yes!" "We are all sitting here on this bench, and all of a sudden, they will all come out of the forest when we expect them the least." "A cannon in a hole?" "That has to be a joke." " Maybe it's a famous hole." " An aristocratic hole?" "You're right, actually." "This is a royalist district." "They leave the roads in these horrible conditions to prove that ever since we abolished the corvée labor it is impossible to travel in France." "They always use the same tactics." "They try to show the people that the measures taken by the revolution are causing disarray in public life." "Arnaud, your pants are torn." "Give them to me, I will sew them." "And if we have to leave, I won't have any pants... a sans-culotte!" "And Javel will make a painting out of it!" "Let it go!" " Go ahead!" " Sergeant!" "You will be at the vanguard with Massu." "Yes, Sir." "The body is not damaged." "It's only the wheels." "If we take care of it, we can use it again." "Say, who knows what they will say in Paris when they hear our Marseille hymn?" "Moissan's idea to sing it as we come into town may be very dangerous." "Dangerous?" "I've always told you... this hymn will unite all French people." "It will be like a new federation." "And when the Parisians hear these magnificent lyrics, they will do what everybody else did." "They will cheer and they will sing with us!" "The Queen will be terrified and go back to her country on the Danube..." " With the Croats..." " Sure, with the Crabs." "The King will remove his veto and recall the patriot ministers, and in two weeks, we will be eating sausages and sauerkraut in Vienna, the capital of Austria!" "The Croats only eat candles." "How ignorant!" "Say, Bomier." "Didn't you say that this hymn was a passing trend?" "That everybody would forget it in two weeks?" "Did I say that?" "Where?" "And When?" "Near the Chateau d'If, the last time we went fishing on a boat, Mr. Bomier." "Precisely, Mr. Arnaud." "I do remember it quite well." "I even told you that this hymn was like the echo of my own thoughts." "How long have we been walking?" " 25 days." " It feels like a century." "At least." "Be patient." "We'll be there soon." "Who knows?" "Since we left, a counter-revolution may have happened." "You think so?" "What?" "You think that Robespierre is going to welcome you on the Faubourg Saint Antoine?" "Not a chance!" "The Austrian Emperor will welcome us with his army of Jesuits and Janissaries." "And over there in Paris, we won't be able to go hide in the mountains!" "Say, Arnaud, do you remember when we were in the mountains with Mountain Goat?" "It was so beautiful." "What's going on in Paris?" "What's going on?" "Where are the Dauphinois?" " I lost the Dauphinois." " Citizen!" "I think you lost your head!" "Citizen, please leave this stage." "It is reserved for the federal troops of Brittany." "Is that equality?" "Why would the Brittons have the right to this stage and not me?" "Why you and not the Brittons?" "If everyone was like you, it wouldn't be pretty!" "Aren't you ashamed, citizen?" "You're taking the place of our brothers who came all the way from their province." "HERE LIES THE BASTILLE" "...the bloody flag is raised" "Do you hear, in the countryside" "The howling of these ferocious soldiers?" "They are coming into our arms" "To cut the throats of our sons and wives" "To arms, citizens!" "Form your battalions!" "March march!" "Let an impure blood flow in our veins!" "Well, it's not a painting, it's a mural!" " What about me?" " Come on, one more time!" "Isn't it natural?" " This is good wine, citizen!" " It's from Argenteuil." " I have a small vineyard." " More!" " What about Robespierre?" " It's simple." "If you want to see him, go to the Jacobins Club." "Citizen, we have organized a banquet in a cafe on the Champs-Elysees." "Tell your companions." "Those who accept our brotherly invitation will be most welcome." "Citizen, your greeting is heart-warming." " Our whole staff will be there." " Wonderful." "The sun shines in Paris as well!" "Citizen, you cannot imagine the extraordinary enthusiasm that we have encountered on the road." "So the journey went well?" "For example, in a region called..." " They are real patriots, then?" " Oh, yes." "That's for sure." "I hadn't found any tomatoes since Marseille." "So, this is the Champs-Elysees." "What a funny name!" "That's what they used to call the passage to death in Antiquity." "Really?" "So, where are the dead people?" "Look over there." "They're waiting for us in that cafe." "I don't know if they're dead, but they sure look like they belong in the afterlife!" "There they are!" "Down with revolutionaries!" "Sing, everybody!" "Yes, we will succeed, we will send the revolutionaries to the gallows" "Yes, we will succeed, we will hang those revolutionaries." "They're aristocrats." "Don't respond to them." "They're just trying to provoke us." "FRIENDS OF THE CONSTITUTION" "Comrades, what ever you do, don't respond to them." "Remain calm and collected." "Sit down, citizens." "Citizen waiter, I will have candied apples." " What's that?" " Tomatoes, of course." " Tomatoes?" " There's no room." " We want to see them!" " They're over there." "They're eating." "We will send them to the gallows." "Watch my feet!" "Yes, we will succeed..." "I cannot imagine these rascals laying down their law on the Champs-Elysees." " Long live the nation!" " Long live the King!" "We want the soldiers from Marseille!" " They asked for it!" " Let's go!" "Citizens, let's get away from here." " I'll go with you." " No." "We live too far from here." " Next to the Faubourg Saint Antoine." " It's all right!" "I can't leave you alone, defenseless, here in Paris." "There are more bandits here than in the Cuges Forest." "Stop, citizen, and I will stop as well." "I would like to ask you a question." "Why are we fighting?" "You're wearing the National Guard uniform, too." "Yes, but you're a Republican." "I believe in order." "If you believe in order, why did you disrupt our fraternal banquet?" "Fraternal banquet?" "Defend yourself, you wretched anarchist!" "Wait for us!" "Here we come!" "Long live the King!" "You can tell your master that if he keeps using his veto power, we won't throw him in a small pool like this." "We'll throw him in the Port of Marseille with all the sharks!" "Death to the aristocrats!" "I'll kill all of them!" "I'll beat them up!" "I'll beat them up!" " Take your coat back." " No, I don't want it." "Very well." "Say, does it often rain like this in your city?" "Yes." "Well, people who sell umbrellas must be rich!" "What about Marseille?" "It never rains in Marseille." "It's a coach!" "Let's take it!" " Come on, we can't afford it!" " No, it's all right!" "Let me pay for it!" "Come on." "We're rich in Marseille." "Don't move, I'll go get it." "Coachman!" "Coachman!" "Open the gate!" "Open!" "Long live the nation!" "Let's see what kind of bird is going to come out of this egg." "What do you think?" "Sir?" "Monsieur Leroux." "My lord, my fear is that from this egg a bird won't emerge, but a dangerous reptile." "How do you know, Monsieur Leroux?" "Madame, may I remind you a few of the sentences that this Monsieur Brunswick," "General in Chief of the armies invading France, has directed to our population in the name of the Emperor of Austria, the King of Prussia, and more seriously..." "in our own name!" ""The inhabitants of cities, boroughs and villages, who would dare defend themselves against the imperial and royal troops... will be prosecuted at once according to martial law." "Their house will be demolished or burned. "" "It seems shocking to me that our person should be mentioned in a manifesto containing such threats to our subjects." "Evil minds will inevitably draw conclusions that will definitely not increase our popularity." ""The city of Paris is summoned, without exception, to surrender at once and without delay to the King." "We will hold personally responsible the members of parliament, of the department, the district... "" "Everybody, then." ""... if the Tuileries Castle were to be broken into or insulted." "Vengeance will be carried out in an exemplary and memorable fashion, for the city of Paris will be subjected to military execution and to a total and devastating subversion. "" ""Subversion"?" "What a funny word." "Unfortunately, he makes himself clear." "He goes straight to the point." "You told me, Madame, that we could assume the author of this little literary masterpiece was" "Monsieur de Limon, former servant of my brother in Provence and currently in exile." "Quite frankly, I don't like his style." "As for the true authors of this manifesto, who are hiding behind him, they are fools." "They're burning torches too close to a barrel of powder." " Do you know them, then?" " Better than you think." "We must therefore ask the question:" "Yes or no, should the parliament be made aware of this manifesto and should we make it public?" "Gentlemen, I would like to have your opinion." "This is why I have gathered you here." "My lord, this manifesto is the work of some of your most sincere and perceptive friends." "Its distribution will make the healthy part of our population very happy." "Pardon me if I speak about my private life, but I went to my broker yesterday and, naturally, we talked about the war." "He said to me, "Sir, I would prefer to see the Prussians camp on the Louis XV Square while our economy crashes than have a victory which would reinforce the audacity of those who cause disarray. "" "My lord, I am ardently in favor of publishing this manifesto, which will terrify your rebellious subjects." "Or will it make them angry?" "And this time, the very existence of the monarchy will be at stake." "You are right, Leroux." "The curtain is about to rise on the last act of the tragedy, and I think we should announce it." "In times of war, the best defense is attacking." "I long to get out of this phony situation." "A King who isn't really a King." "Subjects who recognize themselves as such but do not obey anymore." "A war that we have to wage against our natural allies." "Our own parents, in which those we call enemies, are fighting to protect our person!" "These reoccurring desertions, these hateful compromises with men that we hate... principles that are blasphemous to us." "Let the revolt come!" "The sooner, the better." "They can storm the castle." "This time, we're ready to welcome them." "De La Chesnaye has confirmed it to me." "We have ammunition, we can count on the the Swiss's loyalty, and the best Parisian sections are with us." "The revolutionaries may enter the castle, but they will not come out of here alive." "And because for them as well as for us, the most active elements... dare I say the best... are the ones who intuitively always put themselves at the forefront." "This extermination will put an end to this dark comedy." "The problem is that in this play we are also actors, which is a much less comfortable position than that of a spectator." "Our dear Austrian cousin has the best situation." "What is at stake for him?" "Not his head, in any case." "What a nice prospect for this young braggart, to enter Paris triumphantly, like a deus ex machina!" "What really bothers me about all this is that I will be forced to take him hunting." "Well, isn't it natural?" "He's a horrible shot." "I found out through His Majesty, your brother, alas deceased, and his minister, Cohn, a respectable gentleman, but who has always been against this war." "How can you give any credit to a man who brushes his teeth?" "In public!" "And he does it everyday!" "Well, I am convinced that this strange habit is very healthy!" "We wash our hands." "Why not our teeth?" "If I wasn't so preoccupied with all our troubles," "I would like to try this brushing myself." "In any case, my nephew Francis II, Emperor of Austria, is a good shot." "No, he is not." "People don't know how to hunt nowadays." "What is the point of these expeditions where beaters bring you the animal, like pins in front of a ball?" "Madame!" "Your Majesty, you must have very little affection for me to criticize one of my relatives in public that way." "I beg you to forgive me, even if I am unforgivable." "Hunting is to blame." "I have such a passion for this sport that I forget my manners and my tenderness." "Gentlemen, gentlemen, please have someone take Brunswick's manifesto to the parliament." "NEWSPAPER DEBATES AND EDICTS" "THE SANS-CULOTTES NEWSPAPER" "THE REAL COUNTER-REVOLUTION Or the people from Marseille in Paris" "ABBOT MAURY'S ALMANAC" "ACTS OF THE APOSTLES" "THE FRENCH PATRIOT" "What an outrage!" "The Brunswick manifesto finally wakes up the nation!" "Citizens, the sandmen will try to seduce you." "Run away." "THE ANTl-MARAT A periodical publication of a society of letters." "All respectable people applaud Monsieur de Brunswick and his manifesto!" "In a few days, we will all attend to the magnificent galas that the King will have in honor of the Emperor..." "REVOLUTIONS IN PARIS DEDICATED TO THE NATION ...In the name of this constitution that the Revolution has forced upon the King." "Louis XVI often refers to the constitution." "We now heed the constitution and seek his eradication." "August 4, 1792" "FRIENDS OF THE PEOPLE" "OR THE PARISIAN PUBLICIST POLITICAL, FREE AND OBJECTIVE PAPER" "BY A PATRIOTIC SOCIETY" "Written by M. Marat Paris, August 3, 1792" "National Parliament Reading of M. De Brunswick manifesto with a letter from the King." "News from the war." "For a long time now, France, lacking currency and exhausted by royal taxes, riddled with fanatical traitors and counter-revolutionary civil servants, torn apart by divisions and betrayed by its generals, is surrounded by 500,000 satellites," "despots conspiring with Louis XVI to enslave us once again." "The satellites are the Austrians, the Prussians and the Capellans." " Their bold chief..." "... is Brunswick." "Excuse me, it is the Count of Artois." "Sorry, but the general-in-chief of the invading armies is the Duke of Brunswick, a Freemason and spy for the Pope." "Fine." "Whatever you want." ""Their fearless chief, helped by the Tuileries Committee, summons us to surrender to our old tyrant and return to our chains. "" "Sure!" ""My dear compatriots, do not let them fool you." "Hold Louis XVI hostage, as well as his wife, his son, his ministers... all your disloyal representatives." "These are the traitors that the nation needs to bring to justice, but first they have to be immolated for the people's sake." "After that, the nation can see to the eradication of the disgraceful Capet and the punishment of all conspirators. "" "It is signed "The Friend of the People. "" "Long live Marat." "Long live the Friend of the People." "Capet is a funny name." "Not funnier than Bomier!" "Why wouldn't the King's name be Capet?" "Arnaud, any news?" "I went to the Jacobins with Garnier, Phillibert and the other delegates." "Tell him I send my regards, and then sign it." "So?" "I heard that Robespierre and Danton have been working at Duplaix's house day and night." "There were meetings in all sections all day long." "I even heard that Santerre, in the Faubourg Saint Antoine, wanted to march right away." "If it wasn't for Robespierre, who is against unprepared action, that would have been it." "We would be fighting right now." "In the Mauconseil section, they did even better." "They announced their intentions to overthrow the king." "So what have we decided?" " What have we decided?" " It's very simple." "If the King doesn't withdraw his veto and doesn't take measures that would benefit the National Defense, we will give the parliament a week to declare his eradication, following the process stated in the constitution." ""We" who?" "I haven't decided anything." "They always use the word "we. "" ""We" means the people who represent you, the people you elected." "Members of the central committee of all the federates in the country." "In agreement with the bureau of communication of the revolutionary sections in Paris." "What if parliament doesn't do it?" "Then, we'll attack the castle." "In military language, this is called an ultimatum." "Come and get it!" "It's going to get cold." " Why are you in such a hurry?" " Potatoes again?" "Not a lot, though." "These are the last ones from the sack that was given to us by the Lost Children section." "Whether or not it's a lot, I've had enough." "I refuse to eat roots." "I am neither a pig nor a native of the colonies." "Don't you know that this precious tuber can be cooked 20 different ways?" "All equally delicious." "It not only provides us with flour, starch, medicine but also a savory liquor." "The King Louis XVI himself, while not a very good politician, is a man of refined taste, and he only eats potatoes." "Hey, Bomier." "If you don't want them, give them to me." "No, I'll eat them out of revolutionary discipline." "If you want to eat other things, it is very simple." "All you need to do is take the daily 30 sous offered by the parliament to those of us who will leave Paris immediately." "30 sous a day to betray our fatherland, especially after such a long journey..." "that's not enough." "Moissan was right to refuse." "Ah, so you sometimes agree with your leaders, Sir Bomier." "It does happen, Sir Arnaud." "Well, I say that in this parliament, a group of traitors are handling the affairs." "We would be justified in sending them to the gallows." "This money is personally offered by the Austrian emperor." "This man Brunswick, who is not naive, probably told him," ""François, my friend, with those people from Marseille here, you will never get to Paris. "" "Do you have any salt?" "That's all you want, now that we don't pay the salt tax anymore." " Here." " Hey, not too much." "Today is August 3rd." "Let's say a week... four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten." "Okay." "Those of us who haven't starved to death by August 10th will have a good chance of dying on that day." "Sit down, citizen." "Look, it's the soldiers from Marseille." "Yes!" "Citizens!" "Our show continues with "The King and the Nation. "" "Bravo!" "That's the King!" "Long live the nation!" "Madame, madame, the nation" "I beg you to let me put my arms around you" "So I can give you a kiss" "Sir King, it is impossible for me to let you hold me" "Something between us has died" "And an abyss separates us..." "Shush, listen!" "What this abyss you speak of?" "The Brunswick Manifesto." "So, Jean-Joseph, are you going to launch the attack after tomorrow?" "Yes." "And on the 10th, you will break into the Tuileries." "Yes." "What about the 11th?" "What will you do then?" "On the 11th?" "I am leaving to go to the border." "And once the war is over, will you go back to Marseille to be with your mother?" "No, I would like to settle down in Paris." "I am a good mason, so good that my pals call me "Mortar. "" "You may not know what a mortar is, up here in the North." "It's the little wooden bowl where we masons mix sand, water and cement." "Bomier?" "Were you asleep?" "No." "I was daydreaming." "You were daydreaming?" "Well, you seem to do that a lot lately." "You know, I don't get you anymore." "You've been walking around with Louison for over a week, and you haven't even kissed her yet." "I wouldn't dare." "My poor friend, I feel bad for you." "Nothing to feel bad about." "It's been heaven." "What has?" "Looking at her." "Today, I kept staring at a little crease she has just behind her ear." "A lovely little crease." "I love her with all my heart." "I didn't see much of that shadow theatre play, you know?" "It was good anyway." "I really had a wonderful time." "If we survive this ordeal," "I'd like to marry her." "But who knows if she'd want to?" "Attention!" "At ease!" "Comrades!" "The Comrade Garnier, our delegate to the central committee of the town hall, has just told us that as we speak our comrades of the French theatre section are standing by to give the signal." "It will be a round of cannon fire from the Saint Michel bridge." "Immediately after, all the patriot churches in Paris will toll their bells." "This will be the call to arms for all citizens of the revolutionary sections and the federates." "United with the forces posted at the French Theater on Faubourg Saint-Marceau and the Brittons, we will take our position at the door of the castle." "Before we attack, we will wait for our good Santerre to bring us reinforcement from the Faubourg Saint-Antoine section, the Montreuil section and the King of Sicily." "We have to avoid a bloodbath at all cost." "For a revolutionary, pacifist action is a much more effective weapon than a firearm." "We will speak to the Swiss and the French Guard, these poor men forced to defend a lost cause." "If they resist, we will do our duty, but we will spare them as much as we can." "But keep in mind that regardless of your personal fate in the battle, the sun will set tomorrow on a country purified from treason and ready to face the foreign invader." "Order arms!" "I would like to see Louison again." "Madame, we have two solutions:" "Either we charge or we take a defensive posture." "Take a defensive posture." "Those are His Majesty's orders." "In this case, the best is to let them force open the gates of the castle." "Once the factions are in the courtyard, we will fire all our cannons." "That will annihilate most of them." "In case there are survivors, or in case they convince our cannoneers to join them, all these windows are guarded with our best men." "They are at an advantageous position to shoot and kill." "With a little luck, we can hope that very few of the attackers come out of this alive." "We have to be on the side of the law." "Entering this courtyard will be the very proof of their disobedience." "Come with me to see His Majesty." "Come on, gentlemen!" "Make way!" "Madame, we are in a good position, but you cannot ignore the fact that all these people are hampering our defense efforts." "Sir, these words are inappropriate." "I can speak for all of them." "Long live the Queen!" "They will march in front, from behind..." "any way you want." "They are ready to do whatever it takes." "They are trustworthy men." "Long live the Queen!" "My Lord, you're eating in spite of the circumstances?" "Why shouldn't I?" "The stomach is an organ which ignores political nuances." "I asked for tomatoes." "People have been talking a lot about this vegetable since the people from Marseille have arrived in Paris." "I wanted to try it." "Well, madame, do you want to know what I think of it?" "It is an excellent dish, and we were wrong to disregard it." "My Lord, don't you want to address the troops?" "It might be good to revitalize their enthusiasm." "That is the decision I just came to with these gentlemen." "Picard." "Sir, your wig is crooked." "Picard." "Good ol' Picard has been on edge today." "Everything he does is wrong." "Picard." "Thanks." "I'll be back." "Monsieur de la Chesnaye," "Monsieur de Maillardoz, Monsieur de Backman," "Adjunct-General Denay, please come with me." "Long live the King!" "O Richard, O my King" "The universe has forsaken thee" "On this earth, I am the only one" "Who cares for you" "I alone in the universe" "Want to break your chains" "When all the rest abandon you" "O Richard, O my King." "Long live the King!" "Long live the King!" "Long live the King!" "Present arms!" "Goodness!" "What is His Majesty doing over there?" "Long live the nation!" "Long live the nation!" "Down with the King!" "Down with the veto!" "Yes, down with the veto!" "Come this way, my Lord." "You cretin!" "I'll teach you good manners!" "Get out of here!" "Leave us alone." "Otherwise, I swear that we will open the gates, get the other sections and turn the artillery against the castle!" "Back off, or I'll pierce your stomach with my sword!" "I forbid you to insult my men." "They only take orders from me." "Come on, gentlemen." "Long live the nation!" "Long live the nation!" "Please, my son, I beg you." "Stop rolling around on the floor." "You're always sitting down on the carpet." "It's a very ugly habit that you will have to break." "Sister..." "Picard, this crooked wig is bothering me." "Please, adjust it." "My Lord, the members of the Paris department, of which I am the prosecutor trustee, would like to talk to Your Majesty without any other witnesses but his family." "The King's ministers must stand at his side." "If it is the wish of the King." "My Lord, His Majesty has no time to lose." "Your last refuge is the national parliament." "It is the only place that the people respect these days." "The department thinks you should go there at once." "Let's go." "Picard." "You won, Monsieur Roederer." "No, madame, His Majesty's common sense won." "Monsieur Roederer, can you guarantee that my brother will be safe?" "Yes, madame, with my life." "I will walk directly in front of the King." "But, sir, are we alone?" "Is there nothing we can do?" "Yes, madame." "Alone." "It is vain to act, impossible to resist." "All of Paris is marching in the streets." "My Lord, I will ask you to come alone, without anyone from your court." "Your only entourage will be the members of the department, who will surround the royal family." "Only say the word." "Monsieur Roederer, can the ministers follow him?" "Yes, sir." "They'll have their place in the national parliament." "What about Mademoiselle de Tourzelle, sir?" " My children's tutor." " Of course, madame." "As for you, ladies, it is impossible for me to get you out of the palace." "It is beyond my powers." "Allow me to give you some advice before I leave." "If the people storm the castle, as they always do, thieves and murderers will take advantage of the situation." "Put yourself under the protection of the organized revolution forces, the Paris sections or the regional federates." "The King and his family shall go to the parliament alone with the ministers and the department as their only entourage, as well as eight guards." "Please clear the way." "Gentlemen." " Monsieur de la Chesnaye." " Yes?" "The King is abandoning us." "What will become of us?" "What are we going to do?" "Gentlemen, you can go immediately to the post you were assigned." "I must warn you that if you leave your post again," "I will have you executed." "Gentlemen." "We must rejoice in the departure of His Majesty." "Free from the duty of protecting the royal family, we will be able to thoroughly carry out our mission." "This battle must be the last." "The time has come for victory or death." "Let us hope it will be victory." "There's plenty of leaves." "They're falling early this year." "Heave-ho!" "Hey, you Marseille people!" "What are you waiting for, the apocalypse?" "Let's go attack the castle." "Down with the tyrant!" "Down with the tyrant!" "He's right." "What are we waiting for?" "That's true." "How must we look?" "We're standing here doing nothing." "We look like dimwits, that's how we look." "Well, my friends." "You're in such a hurry to fight?" "You're forgetting that behind these doors is the National Guard, honest citizens of the city of Paris." "I will avoid firing the first shot." " You're right, son." " I wouldn't have thought of it." " That Arnaud is terrible." " That's true." "There are also people in there who have mothers, fathers, uncles, children, feelings..." "Are you thinking about Louison?" "Yes, I am." "Heave-ho!" "Comrades!" "We need to take this opportunity." "Attention!" "Present arms!" " Forward march!" " Forward march!" "Attack!" "Hey!" "Come and join us!" "Long live the nation!" "Brothers, let us avoid unnecessary bloodshed." "March with us." "Surrender to the nation." "He's right!" "Do not fight for a lost cause!" "Come and join the party of the people!" "It is your party!" "It would be a dishonor!" "That's right, a dishonor!" "If you surrender, you will be safe." "If you fight, it will be terrible." "Gentlemen, I think it is time for us to do our duty, however painful it may be." "Give the order to shoot." "Oh, hey!" "Didn't you hear what Arnaud said earlier?" " Come with us!" " We are Swiss." "The Swiss surrender only in death." "We do not deserve such an outrage." "We will not leave our posts and we will not disarm!" "Well, if I were you, I would leave my post and go up to your mountains behind the Mont Blanc." "See, I'm familiar with the mountains." "I lived up there for three months with Arnaud, and I liked it." "Are you wounded?" "Just go!" "Don't worry about me!" "The bastards!" "They got you!" "Wait!" "Just leave me here." "You must be crazy if you think I am going to leave you." "Wait, my hat!" "Behind you!" "Let's go through the courtyard!" "Dear Jesus!" "Long live the King!" "Halt!" "Ready, aim... fire!" "Charge!" "Here, we honor the name of citizen." "He's wounded." "Over here, men." "Halt!" "Ready, aim... fire!" " Ready your bayonet!" " Charge!" "I am sure she will come." "She is such a patriot." "At the Bastille, she was loading her father's shotgun." " How old is this handsome little guy?" " Seven months." "What a beautiful child!" "Is he healthy?" "My little man is teething, so he screams a lot at night." "I want to scream as well." "LITTLE SAINT-ANTOINE DISTRICT" "Comrades, I think they need us." "Don't worry, pal." "It's nothing." "Farewell, brother." "When you go back down there, say hi to the mountain for me." "Louison!" "It's Bomier!" "What about Bomier?" "He's wounded." "Over here." "Poor Bomier." "He's not doing well." "Even I think he's done for." "But don't tell him." "Take him in your arms and honor his one last wish." "I won't return to the castle." "I won't get to the border." "I'll never see Marseille again." "My poor mother." "She will be so worried." "Tell my friends I spent the 20 francs that the federate from Montalban gave me, but I have no regrets." "I am happy I did." "Prepare arms!" "Fire!" "Charge!" "Long live the nation!" "To arms, citizens!" "Form your battalions." "I refuse to wear this." " As you wish, citizen." " I am not a citizen." "I am Jean-Paul D'Offenberg." "Prepare arms." "Fire!" "Prepare arms." "Fire!" "March, citizen." "Look." "Prepare arms." "Ready." "Fire!" "THIEF" " Prepare arms." " Stop!" "Listen, citizens." "The insurrectionary Commune of Paris has declared itself sole representative of the people and has placed us, the Department of Paris, in charge of expressing its decision to cease all executions of Swiss guards, aristocrats and anyone else accused of opening fire on the people." "The culprits will be immediately sent to special tribunals, composed of judges and jurors elected by the Parisian sections." " What about the King?" " He will be tried as well." "At the request of the Paris Commune," "Parliament has declared his temporary eradication until the meeting of a national convention elected by all French people, regardless of their wealth." "The Paris Commune declares that the fatherland is in danger and they are ready to keep the country safe by all means necessary." "My goodness, my feet have never been so cold!" "Say, is that Valmy Hill much further?" "It's the hill where we are supposed to meet the 54th infantry brigade, the former Roussillon brigade." "It's probably that little mound over there with a windmill." "Oh yeah?" "What about the Prussians?" "Where are they?" "They must be behind it." " You see the cannonade over there?" " Yes." "They're trying to get on the road to Chalon." "What happens if they do take the road to Chalon?" "Well, then..." "they'll continue on to Paris." "That would be the end of our revolution, and our Bomier will have died in vain." "No, not in vain." "Even if the Prussian cannons obliterate us today, they will never erase what we brought to the world." "See, before we came along, people were looking at liberty like a man in love with a woman, standing before her, prohibited from even speaking to her." "And suddenly, thanks to us, that man can take his beloved into his arms." "Of course, she isn't his mistress yet." "He will have to struggle before he can claim his victory." "But now that they know each other, even if they are separated, they will find each other again one day." "Javel!" "What do you have to say about that?" "I say that these 20,000 slaves and 5,000 traitors over there will never defeat 20 million free men." "Long live liberty!" "Attention!" "Present arms!" "Forward march!" "THE END" "At Valmy, the French resisted all the attacks of the famous Prussian infantry." "The great German poet Goethe witnessed their victory." "This tale will end with a quote from him." ""Here, today, a new era has begun in the history of the world. ""