:26:04
Help me, Blanchard.
I will be grateful.
:26:07
I'm asking for a big favour.
:26:09
You're a French
and I'm a Roman nobleman
:26:13
but gratitude
is the same everywhere
:26:16
in Rome as in Paris.
:26:18
We haven't known each other long,
but I know you like me.
:26:22
Help me, please.
:26:24
If you had been born in my place,
would you have made the revolution?
:26:28
No, but at least
I would have fought for it.
:26:31
Every man has to have a purpose
in the life, an ideal.
:26:36
I like you, but you speak
like a "Franzoso".
:26:40
It is not easy to be born
in a family like mine
:26:44
here in Rome, wih the Pope,
the Cardinals and the Holy Office.
:26:48
When I was a boy, I had ideas.
:26:53
I wanted to be a scientist,
an explorer.
:26:57
but I couldn't tell anyone!
:26:59
My father never spoke to me.
He only said: "Study and pray".
:27:02
And my mother only told me to pray!
:27:05
When my father died,
I stayed with my mother,
:27:08
and a preceptor taught me
the catechism.
:27:11
He used to spank me with a wand.
:27:13
My butt was as red
as a watermelon!
:27:17
I found some comfort in reading.
I had books everywhere.
:27:21
Here too.
Look, there are many books.
:27:23
In summer
I used to meet other children here.
:27:27
We all read a lot. Some read
the classics, others read books of adventure.
:27:32
Then at night we dreamt.
:27:33
Everything is still the same,
Don Quixote, Voltaire.
:27:37
- Have you read Voltaire?
- Yes, I have. Why?
:27:42
...I get easily bored
:27:45
and so I annoy the others.
:27:47
I've always liked to make jokes,
and I still do.
:27:50
When I go to sleep I am tired
but I start again the morning after.
:27:53
I only make jokes now,
what else could I do, in Rome?
:27:58
There are churches, domes, roofs,
cats, beggars...