"Sir, do you still remember me?" "Let me think Think well." "Has my appearance changed that much as well?" "Remember." "The Marquis de Pa-ta-tras" "There you are!" "I fell down in dancing." "Pa-ta-tras!" "This is spicy" "I never recovered" "Where is it, your wit?" "Gone?" "Unfortunate loss for the salons." "But I have seen... many countries since... with roughest morals." "Yet I never stopped thinking." "But I feel I am tiring you, sir." "I'll wait for Madame de Blayac at the salon and let Monsieur rest." "I will inform her." "She is in her toilet." "I am afraid that, in his jolliness, M. De Blayac forgot himself." " Go home." " But Sir..." "You're trembling, your eyes are shiny." "You know what this means..." "Don't move." "Sir, we lack hands..." "The father is feverish." "Some say the King heals those he touches." "Men can perform miracles." "You don't believe me?" "I make you a promise." "We chase evil swamps away." "Not good living here..." "By saying masses?" "No." "No masses." "With dykes  and canals." "By planting trees, by sowing." "This country will become very beautiful, one day." "You will see." "Here you are at home." "When you see the King make him bless my medal." "Promised, Leonard." "You need my blessing." "Your mother is worried about this trip." "Keep hope." "Yes, to God." "Versailles was sanitized by the will one man." "By the will of a King" "I will stir Versailles." "The King will hear me." "Knee down!" "The hat, please" "In nomine Patri... and Filii Amen." "See you later." "One of our brightest spirits." "What a good look!" "Milletail!" "Back from America?" "I missed Versailles' poisonous air, Monsieur De Bellegarde." "Your company next to him surprises me." "I would have preferred bury him alive than dead... but God makes use of us." "Messieurs!" "We commune." "Come dinner instead." "We'll feel better in front of a poultry." "Lady Blayac will go through an austerity crisis." "Is this house of Monsieur De Blayac?" "Yes." "Are you of the family?" "I am recommended by him." "You're in luck." "He is receiving presently..." "You will recognize easily to his widow." "Adieu sir..." "His mind enlightened us in everything." " My husband held you in high esteem." " The Academy is in mourning." " He was so dedicated." " What a loss!" "My God, what a loss." "Condolences." "Your husband was a friend of my father." "Of mine too." "I travelled from Dombes country." "Is this your first stay in Versailles?" "I was born there by chance." "Ah, courtier by birth..." "We can be born in a stable without believing to be a horse." "Only God can judge us." " What do you say my friend?" " Only God ..." "God forgives thieves... when their children go hungry." "From our two meetings..." "I cannot tell which is the most pleasant." "Whom have I the honor of bleeding?" "Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy." "Marquis de Bellegarde." "Charlotte my housekeeper." "And her son Paul." "Paul is deaf-and-dumb ." "Idiot, but not nasty." "Travelers are not enough warned ... of robbery around Versailles." "The doctor assesses a blood... as a gourmet tastes wine." "Beautiful bright red." "Fluidity but... consistency." "You live in the open air... and you eat lean meats." "I live from the air of marshes and bowl fishes." "Oh?" "My God, my plans!" " Are you hydrographer?" " Yes, sir." "I came submit a project draining some marshes." " The problem is not being received but listened to." " I will appeal to common sense." "They say Maurepas is a good minister." " How is that you do not know all the ways in Versailles?" "Ah here it is!" "I bled you." "You must rest." "Two days in bed and diet with a glass of wine in the evening." "Night is for sleeping." "You suffer quite unnecessarily." "Thank you." ""Memoir for the Regent Philippe d'Orleans..." ""on the cause of epidemics in Dombes and the means to overcome them"" "by the Marquis de Gora." "Not even open!" "Will your memoir fetch any better fate?" "Thank you, sir, to avoid me disappointments." "I have seen so many provincial gentlemen!" "I will plead for my cause all heartedly." "A lock will feed a pond to regulate the flow." " His Majesty would be interested in such a hydrographic work." "The King is fond of technology things." " Tell him that fevers decimate Dombes." "He is said sensible." "That's His weakness." "This is why I will not speak of your plans to His Majesty." "As I hide from Him these projects... of Tunnel under the Channel or map travelling to India." "Maybe very valuable projects ... but expensive." "Let's drain at least the marshes." "These are the finances of the Kingdom it dries." "I am in charge of keeping the accounts." "You know the situation." "What is the price of human life?" "It is cheaper than the fate of France." "Except for the "philosophes"." "Farewell, Sir, I have work." "I will alert the King of the miseries hidden to Him." "Please, do." "These gentlemen of the right wing will lead the kingdom to bankruptcy." "My business is about military works and fortifications." "Monsieur Maurepas was old and cautious." "You are young and strong." "My burden makes me insensible to flattery." "In the left wing... favours are not in use." "Farewell, Sir." "However, I give you a hint:" "Write a memoir." "I promise to give it a hint." "The left wing of the castle, deals with the business of the Kingdom." "The right wing houses the Court." "It runs its own business." "I want to see the King." "Nothing else." "Nothing else?" "You amuse me." "In Versailles we call you "petitioners."" "How many are you?" "A thousand?" "Some succeed, no?" "Help me." "Introduce me to the Court." "Go back home, you will be most useful to your peasants." "Versailles is my last chance." "You all the same!" "Head full of titles, pensions and expenses." "The Court!" "The Court!" "That word bores us!" "I doubt with your qualites you can you heard." "Go back home, Sir." "And thank me." "Forgive me if I bothered you." "If I don't do a double-three, I will tell the secret of the Church!" "Oh yes, the secret" "Too bad, I wil tell." "There is no purgatory!" "I believe I recognize your obligee." "Refreshed from your province, you must have a sharpen your sight upon the Court futilities ." "It is written: "Do not judge and thou shalt not be judged."" "If the Gospels were useful in Versailles, I would be informed." "Join us." "We play ten sols per point." "My bights are my only wealth." "But...  you will value them better in bending down enough." "What are you requesting in Versailles?" "Cleaning the marshes of the Dombes." "A heaven for mosquitoes." "A farmer does not live beyond 35 years." "Poor people!" "As a misfortune never comes alone Speaking of them is boring us." "In addition to the mosquitoes  farmers also feed aristocrats." "Less fool than it seems." "This is what differentiates us." "Her Majesty the Queen!" "Ah, Blayac!" "Can I borrow you the abbot?" " Your servant, Your Majesty." "I have a game of piquet, but they are just all boring." "A sharp spirit will not be too much." "Thank you, my dear friend." "I will return him to you." "But... you were busy?" " No matter, Majesty." "Your young "hungry" seems recovered." "Does he owe it to your care?" "Allow me to hope so." "In any case, he shows a certain agility for conversation." "You do not see you much at my snacks." "When you invite me." "Do I need to invite you?" "Bring us your protégé." "Double-six" "Your first weapons can give us hope." "This little Abbot is an intimate of the Queen and he hates me." "Wit opens doors!" "You do not miss any." "Who cares about the Dombes?" "No one but you, of course." "But be patient!" "If the Court pays attention to you" "Then the Dombes will have their entries in Versailles." "I spent in eight days enough to live one year at my place." "If you stand the lack of confort" "I can offer you the dwelling." "I tried to discourage you, but if you persist, I will try help you." "Why do you do this?" "Righteousness and wit are rarely met." "Too much white yellows the teeths." "Keep your natural complexion." "A little red enhances the complexion." "Does the Countess know the King?" "Serious subjects... are displeasing and are to be banished from your comments." "I will be silent." "Be spiritual, subtle... and malicious." "And your country will heal." "No puns." "We despise them here." "It is "switching off the spirit."" "Voltaire, my reading." "Ah, Voltaire!" "Above all, never laugh of your own words!" "Oh, currants!" "I love currants." "I'd eat as many as Samson killed Philistines!" "Currants, we love them all and if Samson didn't..." "If Samson had not..." "If Samson... uh..." " Where is your land?" " In Dombes." "A land of marshes and misery." "THis is what brings me here." " The King is..." " What indigestible words!" "Serve some champagne to Monsieur Ponceludon." " Baron!" "What did you think of the English?" "They have a form of conversation they call "hiuma"... and that makes them laugh a lot." ""Hiuma"" "A form of wit?" "No, not really." "How do you translate?" "No equivalent." "All these mysteries!" "I am so curious!" "(He chuckles)" "If it makes laugh, this must be some sort of wit." "No, "wit" is not the right word." "The term lacks in French." "Give an example." "It will be faster." "I asked Lord Twickenham how many mistresses he had." "He replied, unmoved:" " When how many do you say "several"?" "This is the only example that comes to my mind." "You mean your mouth!" "How did Samson kill the Philistines?" "Samson, the Philistines, remember!" "With a donkey's jawbone." "With the jawbone of an ass, precisely!" "I'd eat as many as Samson killed Philistines!" "With the same jaw, Monsieur the abbot?" "Thus, a jawbone of an ass!" "This word would have delighted the whole Court." "Too late... by two hours." "It's no good to grow old." "In the past, I would not have missed the boat." "Repartee is hardly on time." "No, Ponceludon." "Anyway, I congratulate you." "You scored a famous point with "your mouth."" "Too bad you laughed." "A turtle... an inkwell... an amethyst... a porcelain sleigh ." "A starfish" " A book?" " No!" "Think!" "A snuffbox!" "You are wrong." "Oh an apple!" "How could I forget?" "Strange pastime!" "Children have their brain wet and very fluid" "As we grow old... this organ becomes callous." "And .." "memory deteriorates." "I classify all the witty words:" ""Humorous Projection" "Spicy Allusion"" ""pun", "paradox"..." "Your "your mouth" for instance is a "Humorous Projection"" "I had a strange dream: my head on the block, the executioner told me..." ""A good pun and you're safe."" "This dream we all had it at the Court." "Do not laugh like this with all your teeths." "It is infinitely coarse." "(He practices to laugh his mouth closed)" "Is Monsieur de Montalieri not pleased with you?" "Your letter worried me." "This place is excellent, Mathilde." "This reference of a preceptor will serve your ambitions later." "The knight is satisfied of the education of his children." "But..." "It would be indecent that I linger at Madame de Montalieri." "Mon-Sieur de Montalieri  will access twice a month to his wife's room  who will not be allowed to evade without breaking the contract." "The breach of it  would end the payment of the 2,000 pounds annuity ... the Mon-Sieur de Montalieri consents to his future wife." "Have you well thought about it, Mathilde?" "And the dependencies I requested?" "For my research." "See the attachment, Mademoiselle de Bellegarde." "My future... cares about its interests and I concur." "But I add a condition close to my heart:" "My betrothed must... neither before nor after marriage... and under no circumstances, appear at the Court." "If she does, our contract will be canceled." "Mademoiselle de Bellegarde, do you subscribe to this new condition?" "My daughter hates the corruption of the Court." "Don't you, Mathilde?" "I do not date this union..." "Given the fact Madame de Montalieri has not passed away yet." "How is she?" "Yesterday, the unfortunate did not recognize me." "Quick Help Me!" "It is not tight enough." " Do you know. .." "... what is the pressure?" "3 ounces per square inch." "I studied Pascal." "The crab lives under water." "the girl at her parents'" "And your peasants die of fever." " What fat of is it?" " From otter." "Why?" "Tar the seams." "And then, we should see when moving." "Turn yourself." "Do you like this Montalieri?" "If I love him?" "I do not believe in love." " Why this marriage?" " What else to choose?" "Misery or the convent?" "My works are very expensive." "One day, you will take a lover." "You can see now." "Do not look at your feet!" "Now, the "flip."" "Flip!" "Flip!" "If at least, the tyranny of the mind had delivered us from genealogists." "For months, I expect the King." "My family has been deprived of a title it ever owned." "I alerted my cousin the bishop of Caen." "I believe my audience is coming soon." "Good for you." "This is important because I claim as assessor to the Académie." "Very lucrative position." "But in the meantime, you will smile, I'm in discomfort." "This is unfortunate." "I will sign you a bill." "I am myself in need." "Without indiscretion what are you applying for?" "A position of engineer to drain the marshes." "Do you have supports?" "No." "Some spirit?" "Education and candidness make for it." "Best for you is to reach to the King." "But for that, you must certify your lineage since 1399." "We are affiliated to the House of Savoy." "I see." "Too little evidence for the title of "Marquis de Villars."" "We always carried it." "However, I need the birth certificate... of Sigismund, Marquis de Villars dead in 1507." "Our castle burned in around 1680..." "maybe some documents..." "Castles always burn." "Write to his parish." "They may have the baptism certificate." "Look." "Galvani was right." "I have redone the experiment 100 times." "The electricity is acting on animal spirits." "You know, electricity and spirit are perhaps only one thing." "What a thin skin!" "It looks like legs." "You are admiring... my masterpiece." "This underwater dress is pure madness!" "Mathilde was born when Rousseau published his Émile." "I always let her free of her choices." "But this marriage?" "Does she really want it?" "No constraint." "I told you." "Thank you." "Excuse me." "This missive exceeds my expectations." "The Duke de Guines invites us." "Wit opens doors" "(Paul yells)" "Thank you, Paul." "Excuse me, sir, is this boy deaf-dumb?" "Yes." "And retarded." " I can help him." "I welcome his kind in my hospital." "They have a language ..." "He is very well with us." "I am Charles Michel de l'Epée." "I'm glad." "Excuse me." "The age and the lineage!" "My genealogy is clear, Sir:" "We are cousins." "Because my aunt's name is Ballencourt." "Ballencourt...?" "From Mérignac?" " Ballencourt du Tilleul." "But this is the same family." "Look at our grandfather." "Isn't there some likeness?" ""Our" grandfather?" "His is probably between the legs of yours." "Answer, sir!" "The post of Assessor could not befall a man short of spirit." "That it "befell to me" not, this would be extravagant!" ""Befell to me"?" "!" "You would "flay" the tongue." "and you would "proctor" the Académie!" "Pretty usual." "We entrust the harem to the eunuque." "The guard, over there." "He is watching us!" "Obviously." "This is a walk for romantics." "Our coldness is noticeable" "Take the romantic look." "Mathilde, imagine your best years... with a libidinous elderly." "He is a very learned man." "With so many lessons on reproduction, perhaps will you have children." "I have better to do than having children." "Not you?" " I try to prevent the livings from dying." " You are wrong." "Versailles salons cannot save children:" "because a rotten tree does not bear good fruits." "Have you stopped foraging?" "Nearly." "You think I am heartless?" "You are young." "At your age, you believe you need no one." "The harvest is good." "We can go back." "Hurry up!" "You look like a bee carrying pollen." "They did not have any seed." "You disapprove I surrender to this man to complete my destiny?" " How will this variety be called?" "You do not answer." "You are judging me." "This is the vital fire that runs through your nerves which link you to me." "Nothing else." "The sitting." "I almost forgot!" "We will resume tomorrow." "It is getting dark." "When one gives you the rhyme, you declare the verse." "Careful!" "An unwitty "bout-rimé" could harm you severely." "A good word could come by chance." "Work is the enemy of inspiration." "Be bold but wisely." "Beware of the abbot:" "He is a snake." "When silent, he's watching you." "When he speaks, it's too late." ""WORRY..." "ANY."" ""LONG..." "COMMUNION. "" "Call!" "Alexandrines." "I expected in these places to see the King too LONG." "Hearing him speaking to him and teaching me his WORRY." "But it's like Jesus in the COMMUNION." "One eats, drinks Him but you can see ANY." "Wonderful vivacity" "Your turn, Baron." ""CONDUCT..." "STRAIGHT. "" ""TEMPER..." "SUMMER."" "Can I see your fan?" "It is from Flanders!" "What an admirable work!" "Call." "Octosyllables!" "Always faithful to his CONDUCT," "The Abbot." "without losing his TEMPER," "Can do two puns STRAIGHT" "One in winter the other in SUMMER." "Sorry, I am invited to the chocolate of Comte d'Artois." "You're leaving?" "The joust carries on." "Madame!" "The Abbot relies more on memory than his fame spirit." "The price of your discretion?" "No worries:" "Your process will not be... leaked!" "We should use skins of marine mammals." "If needed, I will order some." "They come from Nouvelle-France." "This will be expensive." "You forget that my fortune is done." " I came swimming here." " You know how to swim?" "I will teach you, it's easy." "Have you ever seen a drowned?" "This is most horrible." "Do not be afraid of the water." "It'll become your enemy" "It is ridiculous!" "There are boats, bridges." "Why swimming?" "For pleasure." "There must be carps here." "How are women at the Court?" "They say they powder their whole body." "Many married old wealthy fishes but few know how to swim." "Maybe have they no choice?" "It is also said the supplicants... fight each other to eat in the Princes' hands." "True?" "You've changed." "It seems this comedy pleases you." "You will become like them." "What are you doing?" "We float thanks to the law of Archimedes." "Just tell me how we move forward." "Push the water with your arms and legs like frogs." "I keep to my first opinion!" "It is against nature!" "I waited over an hour!" "And this gentleman bypasses me." "I consider your patience as a proof of nobility." "Your case tolerates no delay, I was told." "Everything is arranged." "But..." "And the birth certificate?" "Were we looking too much at, High nobility would end as commoners." "Here are your titles, in proper form." "Good luck." "I am grateful." "This is to the comtesse de Blayac, you should reward your gratefulness." "Piety of children is paramount." "We neglect it so much nowadays." "Your parish will not be forgotten." "Forgive me my Father." "Other business calls me." " Let the Holy spirit guides you." "How to tell my gratitude?" "Leave it." "I am angry to have been surprised in my charities." "They prove your good heart." "and your discretion." "I am attributed spirit but little heart." "You judge." "It is said art and technique interest you?" "Since you came in." "Talk me about the project you are concerned with." "In my country, clay prevents rainwater from seeping" "so that dripping..." "So much mud in my living room!" "What about these new machines?" "The King is keen, you will speak better than me." "True He talks often about it." "Poverty is everywhere." "I'm going." "I abused you." "There is abuse only when you are ungrateful." "Sit down." "And let's talk." "It is said Mademoiselle de Bellegarde is charming." "But nobody sees her." "A head-to-head is more embarrassing than outrageous." "You judge me as clumsy... because, in me is fighting the respect I owe you... and the desire you inspire me." "You are such a Gothic!" "Where is the witty man gone?" "What happened to your presence of mind?" "Don't be cruel." "Maybe in other situations, I would have been flattered by your tender words." "It is not the first time that my bedroom leads to the King's salons." "You offend me!" "Leave your pride." "Accept to be guided." "Conceal better your concealment." "so I could abandon myself with not too much disgrace." "If you had only learned this this evening, you wouldn't have wasted your time." "Mathilde!" "Paul, quick!" "De Beauve stayed 14 minutes." "We'll do better." "Without Paul, you were dead." "I restrict you not to go down!" ""Restrict"?" "Who allows you?" "My father never dared this word." "What do you care if I die?" "I am thinking a second widowhood would kill your husband." "Did you know his wife is dead at last?" "Yes, you will soon be married." "After a decent mourning, obviously!" "He is a gentle and patient man." "His children love me." "I keep it." "If you want to immerse your scarecrow, come see me." "Do you think this marriage doesn't cost me?" "I doubt." "You are a cold-blooded animal." "The company of fishes will suit you well!" "The helmet!" "Bring it back to me!" "I will be very lonely when she is gone." "Don't you have a party waiting for you?" "I have no fortune." "What would I offer?" "My fight against marsh fever?" "Not a beautiful life for a young woman!" "Only a woman makes us happy." "For her, the tears of a man are never ridiculous." "Attach the gray horse, the rider hat." "The King chooses us." "Do we stand a chance?" "Quieter!" "Some are waiting for months in vain." "Such as Baron de Guéret." "I still prefer my putrid swamps." ""His is between the legs of yours " pleased Artois." "Will this be enough?" "Yes." "Unfortunately, "the harem to the eunuque" is spreading..." "Madame de Ferrasse." "Madame de Blancfagot." "Monsieur de Tilly." "Monsieur de Bouchardol d'Aiguillère." "Bishop  d' Artimont." "Monsieur de Larousseur." "Monsieur I'abbé de Vilecourt." "Monsieur de Champvallon." "Monsieur Ponceludon de Malavoy." "Now, error is no longer an option." "A real Jesus!" "Baron de Guéret!" "Sir, lend me your shoe!" " I would be ridiculous." " Mercy!" "Your shoe!" "Stand up!" "We are watched!" "Louis of France, remember that it is nobility that made thee king" "The old provincial nobility which you humiliate... which you banish ... while you award a Red Indian with the cordon de St Louis!" "Come, your spot is not here." "The Sioux people are our friend." "Imagine, half-naked with a name such as "Stinking Bear"!" "But look at this man." "Soon we nearly would be ridiculous." "Ah, Madame de Blayac!" "You rarely see you." "Here is the Abbot of Vilecourt." "Oh yes, "the harem to the eunuque."" "Baron Ponceludon de Malavoy." "I heard of you." "Mademoiselle de Cléricourt." "There!" "It's nothing." "This is the idiot of Marquis de Bellegarde" "She has arrived." "Let her come in." "Mademoiselle de Bellegarde!" "Your father praises you to us." "But he is hiding yiou." "Will you one day honor the Court with your presence?" "Madame... you demanded that my father tells Paul to go." "I ask pardon." "No, the damage is done." "He is a poor mute-dumb." "He will be much better with his fellow-creatures." "He has always lived among us." "You did not come to see me to talk about this poor fellow?" "Thank you." "You have a lot of rate with me." "I am very attached to your father." "I can do much for my close friends." "When the time comes, I will prove it." "Madame..." "Paul?" "You are but a child!" "Forget about thiis idiot." "How is Mr. Ponceludon de Malavoy?" "What a brilliant conversationalist" "The best in the world." "Adieu, madame." "Your father told us you were learned." "He forgot your beauty." "You probably have a lot of spirit?" "No, madame." "Paul!" "(Bellegarde )" " He will be very well over there." "You said these places were like prisons!" "The abbot of I'Epée left me a good impression." "They say his hospice is excellent." "More straw less whip..." "Mathilde!" "The Countess insists." "Courtesy obliges me." "Courtesy!" "Why is this look?" "Everything smiles at you." "You forget this Ponceludon!" "He saw us cheat." "He could in one word make me ridiculous before the King." " Do not worry." " Yes!" "He will never reach the King's table." "I'll make it my business." "Do you think I lost my claws?" "How about a dinner?" "It will be served a stinging ridicule to Mr. Ponceludon de Malavoy." "Yes .. ." "Iis this yours?" "The comtesse de Blayac will not come to your appointment." "She will play piquet at Madame de Lamballe's" "Between two hearts the shortest path is not the straight line  Mr.the engineer." "I will remember your geometry." "Adieu." "There will be tomorrow at her place a dinner of wits." "She expects you... alone!" "Baron!" "I have nothing to inspire passion, I concede." "But at thirty, Mathilde will be ... a rich widow... very rich!" "With her whole life ahead." "... at the battle of Fontenoy, a young drummer... whose right side of the brain was taken away by a bullet... had time to exclaim laughing:" ""Ah, but where is my head?"" "This is a "Humorous Projection"" "A team, at this hour?" "This is for me." "A date. is it not?" "I'll leave the lantern lighted." "You will put it out when back." "Good evening." "My God!" "We are thirteen at table!" "We will have to invite a varlet among us." "The cure would be worse than the disease." "A servant among us!" "We would be ridiculous!" "Then one of us must go..." "Up to the least titled to go." "I propose instead a joust." "The one who had the least spirit before the supper, will leave the table." "A tournament of wits!" "The gauntlet is thrown." "Let the champions clash!" "How is your wife?" "To inquire about the wife by the husband... is like inquiring of yesterday's fashion." "I sleep at Clermont once a month to avoid rumours  in case my wife  would be pregnant." "Sleeping with her husband  this is a desire of a pregnant woman!" "Why leaving Clermont?" "The good company is like elsewhere." "And the bad one is... excellent." "For my part..." "I do not frequent the ladies of the night anymore." "They are just as depraved ... as well-manered women.." "It is easier to die for a woman than to find one who deserves it." "I only marry virgins." "An expensive treasure all men have the key of." "Have you noticed almost all confessors of women become archbishops?" "Women have spirit more with than men." "When the sinner is foolish, the penance is for the confessor." "Spirit is just... to get bored... with those who have none." "They say that a man with spirit  who keeps silent... does not think less." "A fool who keeps silent, does not think more." "Do not decry the boring people:" "Plain gives relief to the mountain." "Wait!" "M. Ponceludon has not spoken yet ." "The mind is like money:" "The less you have, the better satisfied you are." ""The spirit is the opposite of money, the less one has, the more one is satisfied"." "Voltaire." "Better understand what we plunder." "The joult is over." "I am very hungry." "Let me served with the valets." "One judges a man by his company." "We are wrong." "Judas had excellent company." "Sorry to miss your wedding." "You can not wait not seeing me anymore?" "Yes." "I know, throwing yourself at a man's head, is displeasing him." "Do not give up water flowers for me." "Who says giving up?" "We would unite our forces!" "You will share my life in a land crumbling with debts?" "Your dreams wouild not resist ." "If only I had not met you!" "I would have kept pretending to ignore I was bought." "The painter awaits you." "After the pose, will we be walking, for last time?" "I want to stop off the night before." "Could you not confess me your love?" "We are alike." "We sacrifice all to our projects." "(He remembers) "Could you not confess me your love?"" " You are so Gothic!" "Where is the wit man?" ""You've changed." "You will become like them."" ""You will be most useful to your peasants."" ""A misfortune never comes alone." "They bore me"." ""These are the finances of the Kingdom it dries."" ""Do you think this marriage doesn't cost me?"" ""I have seen so many provincial gentlemen!"" "? "The beautiful mind... ? "in the century of Marot... ?"The gifts from Heaven, are going for the rich prize." "? "To great lords, he gave relation." "? "Leading sometimes to noble amusement," "? "And what is more," "? "boiled the pot." "? "Now gone is the time," "? "when a good word," "? "Stanza or a ten-line poem" "?" "one's share was paid."" "What are you doing here?" "You give up a 2000 pounds pension?" "You have lost your mind!" "I break the contract." "On a whim?" "Ask forgiveness to Montalieri." "No father, my decision is made." "Marrying Montalieri has become unbearable." "It is Ponceludon, is it not?" "The cuts don't yield any more." "I sold the 5 acres of woods." "It took to buy a horse and redo the bridge." "Poor Grégoire!" "You will inherit but these ruins." "Tell me about Versailles." " Have you seen the King?" " He is very busy, but has... a pleasant word for everyone." "Little Léonard is feverish." "Since when?" "About two weeks." "He drank water from the marshes." "Have you drank from the marshes?" "See, Léonard." "The King blessed it for you." "He wants to say... he loves all the little children of France." "The priest will say prayers, now." "God will hear them." "What does God want with sending us this curse?" "Draining the swamp would do." "Do not blame yourself." "It cost you to move the Court about our fate." "Is our cause moving forward in Versailles?" "Yes..." "But pray anyway, you never know." ""I am all that is, all that was, all that will be."" "The Egyptians, who engraved these words... believed that there is only one effect... whose we can ask what is its cause?" "But the universe arose to these pagans as... a very powerful cause." "Histrion!" "We still have great theologians." "...the primal cause must be necessary, absolute, perfect!" "Thus there cannot be two perfect beings." "because two do not make one!" "The perfect being can not be... divided!" "What is by itself... cannot change." "Time measures change." "The infinitely perfect does not change!" "Unity." "Immutability, Eternity, it is..." "It's Him!" "It is God!" ""Causa sui"!" "His Own Cause!" "Bravo, Vilecourt!" "We are enlightened!" "Bravo!" "This is nothing." "I demonstrated tonight... the existence of God." "But..." "I could as easily prove the opposite if Your Majesty desires so." "You'll end up in the Bastille, you "philosophe"!" "It' was just a wit." "What impiety!" "Before the King" "A braggy philosophe, I always said so!" "So close yet so far..." " Ah, Madame!" "The King seems lacking spirit, today." "Will you plead my cause?" " Impossible." " The line was witty!" "I do not understand my failure..." "The art is to shine yet staying at your place." ""Baron, More than a woman would blush to so compromise herself." ""And you are leaving, without even taking one's leave." ""Know that I have sacrificed for you the abbé Vilecourt..." ""- my confessor " ""... ulcerated with praises I tired my entourage of..." ""about you." ""I would forgive you for putting my salvation in jeopardy..." ""if a sign from you indemnified me." ""Our gender..." "" would be helpless if it didn't govern the affairs of the kingdom." ""I've tried with success." ""For I have made of you the best absentee at the Court of Versailles."" "Who rings at this hour?" "Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy asks to see you." "Bring him in, quick!" "This is already done." "... the child died in my arms." "This is horrible..." "To your canals!" "To your locks!" "Madame..." "What are you doing?" "You called me?" "Palpitations..." "getting better." "Sorry to have bothered you so early this morning." "But I was afraid." "The important thing is to be reassured." "Does this happen often?" "(?" "he sings a Mozart aria)" "We are among friends, I believe." "Allow me to withdraw." "Watch the heart of Madame." "Her palpitations worry me." "What are you looking, dear friend?" "You look like a devil before the cross." "Is Mathilde here?" "Mademoiselle de Bellegarde?" "You were away... when she broke up with Montalieri." "What a schemer!" "Be patient... you won't have the right to complain about it." "Why is the deaf-mute isolated... unable to communicate with others?" "Is he not impressed as we are, by objects?" " What a bore!" " Why does he remain stupid  why do we become intelligent?" "Because it is written:"In the beginning was the Word"!" "Plato has Socrates say:" ""Deprived of voice, if we wanted to show us things," ""we would try, like the dumbs," ""to indicate them with the hands, the head..." ""and the body."" "Here is Simon  son of a merchant, 25, deaf-mute by birth." "He joined us when he was 15." "Thanks to sign language, he can read  write and count." "He has the soul of an artist." "Here, Antoine, Pierre Thérèse, 19." "She does - in her head - 4 digit calculations!" "She is very pious." "Here is Paul, 17, a subject  an outstanding subject!" "He succeeded signing .. ." "... in less than 2 months!" "He already chats!" "Next Spring, I will unite  Thérèse and Paul before God." "How dare you ridicule marriage with these creatures!" "One day I saw play "Romeo and Juliet "... with a monkey and a poodle!" "Does the future groom know at least how to read time on this clock?" "It is 3 minutes ahead." "Bravo, Paul!" "Louder Mademoiselle!" "He did not hear you!" "Ask him, my father, what is the use of a violin?" ""Watteau the painter preferred seeing than hearing it. "" "Do they suffer... from their disgrace?" "What did he answer?" "It is impossible to translate in our language." "... This is a "gesture of mind"!" "How do you say "bravo" in your language?" "Like this!" "Stand up, my friend!" "Here is Signor Panella!" "You need a Court dress, my dear." " But I do not need anything!" "Tomorrow at 11 am, be at the bottom of the staircase of Diane." "The King and his courtiers will catch you." "The ball is in your court." "I leave him to you, Signor Panella." "It is very nice... (the King) Mme de Blayac, is he whom you told me about?" "M. Ponceludon de Malavoy." "This is good." "It is said you are a man of much spirit." " Sir..." " Yes!" "The Countess is not short of oraise." "Show us that." "Give us a word, off the cuff." "About me, for example." "Sir, the King is not a subject!" ""The King is not a subject"!" "Admirable!" "Is it a pun?" "No, Your Majesty." "This is a play on words." "This deserves to stay." "Let him join us!" "Come here, Baron Ponceludon de Malavoy." "Come, you who are engineer." "Beautiful design, Sir." "However, if you allow me, putting here... a ratchet wheel, we could keep  the height between the shots." "What a find!" "What didn't you think of it, Chevernoy?" "You have an interesting hydrographic project?" "To drain Dombes which are very unsanitary, Majesty." "Would you come talk to me?" "See my secretary." "Gentlemen..." "Canon-Ponceludon!" "Both have an ass bigger than the mug." "Pardon?" "I said: your ass is bigger than your mug!" "You will justify this, Sir." "Forgive me." "I could not decide myself not to see you." "I'm listening" "Mathilde... whatever could happen to me," "reserve me some of your friendship." "My friendship matters to you then?" "The dress seems now tight." "Have you succeeded?" "Promise me to be careful." "I did not know about your break with Montalieri." "Once informed, have you tried to force my door?" "You say that I enjoyed the Countess to bow to the King?" "If the life of your people is at that price, I would have approved." "Your reason is foolproof." "I'll try to be straightforward in the future." "Why these instruments, Sir?" "I attend a duel tomorrow." "Ponceludon and Colonel de Chevernoy." "Mathilde!" "If something bad were to happen to you, I'd die." "Go away!" "Go to St Bauzile tomorrow where I have a home." "I will join you there." "If you do not do it for me, do it for your peasants." "You must live for them." "Please pack my luggage." "Victor will harness the coach." "You will only return for the appointment with the King..." ""Madame," ""If I am killed, take my hat and my spurs to my mother..."" "Stop me there!" "... " the rest to the poor, except the court dress-coat which would ... "add ridicule to their miseries."" " I have to take you to St Bauzile!" " I know, I know!" "Do not worry Victor." "You can go back." " Go!" ""The intriguing lover and poisonous conversationalist will eventually end brainless by a pistol shot." ""What moral can we learn from it?" ""Maybe was I wrong to believe that fruits would come from a rotten tree?" ""The lover has no regrets." ""Thanks to your courtisan passion, I have known you" ""If you lost some of your credit for my businesses," ""your remembering of me, will protect me from rancour."" "Since apologies were not made, let's proceed to drawing lot." "Chevernoy shoots first." ""We parted ourselves without passion and left..." ""... without regrets." ""But I trust Madame that between the two..." ""sensuality will give way to friendship."" "(Requiem music)" "Ponceludon killed Chevernoy." "Is he with you?" "No, Madame." "He left the meadow with Mademoiselle de Bellegarde." "He will pay for this!" "I hear visitors!" " The baronne de Boisjolii..." "Baron de Malenval, chevalier de Milletaill..." "So soon!" "They came to the show to see me suffer." "Well, tell them that I am suffering." "(Baroness)" " Suffering?" " Smallpox?" " No." "She was ridiculed by a slob." " A favorite "slob" of the King!" "Soon we will greet us!" "He just made a faux pas." "I know the Comtesse." "For me, when a dog is rabid, we ring the bell!" "You have beaten the time of Chevalier de Beauve!" "You will get water." "Come back up!" "I love you, Grégoire!" "(Grégoire laughs.)" "Her Majesty cannot receive a man who killed... one of his officers to a duel  at least for the moment." "We would all have washed our honor." "You have done your duty." "You are too strong, Mathilde." "Versailles will not bring you anything." "Your country needs us." "Would I give up so close?" "We will harvest." "Fevers will recede." "I will see the King." "My appointment is postponed, that's all!" "You're not one of them." "I'm always very well in Court." "Do you doubt?" ""Lovers of the mysteries of Fall, People of spirit are not surprised ..." ""we see ladies and leaves wirling at the ball..." ""And fools staying at the doorstep."" "We are invited." "And if you were to go by the bed of a countess again?" "Mathilde!" "You will be my companion tomorrow." "This is the red beak." "This is the red beak." "Can I borrow him for this dance?" "You wear my colours  in remembrance of the pleasures you gave me?" "The trip, now!" "Here!" "(He shouts.)" "How to nominate this dancer?" "Accept the title of..." ""Marquis des Antipodes"!" " Such a title is worthy." " Such as the people of these regions  they dance upside down." " Marquis des Antipodes !" "How ingenious!" "Worthy of a Voltaire!" "We'll know who you are." "The hiror of masks  will inform us." "Ha!" "Ha!" "Ha!" "Do not bother." "Tomorrow, children will die of the ridicule spatterng me tonight." "You envy the biting spirit of Voltaire?" "The great man would have wept!" "Because he had a ridiculous sensitivity to human misery." "Who will be the next victim?" "Who will receive such a clever stroke... that a family wil fall into poverty?" "You?" "Maybe you?" "Unless you have the pleasure of a good word spit in the face of your neighbor." "Monsieur!" "Remove your mask!" "Everyone here would like to know the author of "Marquis des Antipodes"!" "I return to my rotten country." "My place is there." "I'll do canals, dikes." "I will dig the vase with my hands, if necessary." "In 1794, the French aristocrats flee to England to avoid the Revolution." "Oh!" "The wit, monsieur, was the air we were breathing." "Bloated eloquence of Danton and Saint-Just... replaced beautiful wit." "Oh!" "You will be well here." "On a clear day, you can see the French coast." "Grégoire and Mathilde remained there." "She helps to drain the Landes ... I mean..." "Dombes." "I don't know anymore." "Oh!" "May the torment spare them!" "What are your talents?" "I can teach French children sciences..." "physics... physiology..." "My hat!" "It is lost!" "This is better than the head." ""Hiuma" ?" "Ah, 'l'humour!" "This is wonderful." "I noted in this book all witticisms." "I classed them: "Humorous Projection" "spicy trifle"..." ""paradox", "brocade"..." "The first attempt of draining the Dombes started in 1793 by the Convention, at the initiative of Citizen Grégoire Ponceludon, hydrographic engineer."