:33:01
...I could use some elite troops
like you on my side.
:33:09
I thought that maybe...
:33:16
Colonel, Mr. DeGuyot will see you.
:33:19
- Colonel Raspeguy, sir.
- Sir.
:33:20
When my niece asked me to see you,
your name was already known to me.
:33:25
Thank you. Lovely lady, the countess.
:33:27
In this ministry, the issue is
whether you should be given...
:33:30
...another command or asked to resign.
:33:32
- I will never resign, sir.
- That's up to you.
:33:35
I have some questions to ask,
unofficially, of course. Please sit down.
:33:39
Thank you, I prefer standing.
:33:41
It's a habit I developed as a shepherd boy.
:33:45
General Melies complains that you
disobeyed his orders at Dien Bien Phu.
:33:50
Several times, sir.
The first time in order to recapture a hill.
:33:53
- Second time...
- Never mind.
:33:55
General Melies seems to have a point.
:33:57
Yes, sir, and they got the hill.
:34:01
Next, there is a story you had some
trouble at the release camp in Indochina.
:34:06
I acted in order to protect
the pride of my men.
:34:09
They wanted to disinfect us
like animals in sheep dip.
:34:13
I see.
:34:18
Here is a complaint
from the Customs Department.
:34:21
Did you really help to smuggle
contraband over the border?
:34:25
Yes. It's a tradition
of my village and my family.
:34:27
During World War II,
we smuggled French soldiers.
:34:31
- Then the criticism of you is valid.
- Yes, sir.
:34:37
The only thing in your favour
is a report from Captain Esclavier...
:34:42
...the division historian.
:34:44
In it he speaks highly both of you
and my niece's late husband.
:34:48
Esclavier is a fine scholar, sir.
:34:49
And a shrewd one.
:34:52
We can't accept his estimate
of Major de Clairefons...
:34:55
...without accepting
as equally true his estimate of Raspeguy.