:25:22
Good. Very good.
:25:26
Dr. Royer-Collard,
welcome to Charenton.
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This may feel
a little awkward, my friend,
:25:33
but it needn't be.
:25:35
I've come merely
to oversee your work here.
Understood ?
:25:39
- Of course.
- It's a formality. Truly.
:25:43
Well, you're a man of science,
and I'm a man of God.
:25:47
Charenton stands to profit
from us both, I'm certain.
:25:50
I shall need an office on the grounds,
somewhere to store my things.
:25:54
- This way.
- If you don't mind my asking,
:25:56
why has the emperor taken
such sudden interest in my-
:26:00
in our affairs ?
:26:03
It seems a particular
patient of yours...
has captured his fancy.
:26:13
I understand
he practices the very crimes
he preaches in his fiction.
:26:18
Certainly not here.
:26:20
- There were a few
indiscretions in his youth.
- "Indiscretions" ?
:26:24
Abbe, please,
I have read his case history.
:26:27
At 16, he violated
a servant girl with a crucifix.
:26:31
After six months in a dungeon,
he mutilated a prostitute,
:26:34
carving her flesh with a razor
and cauterizing the wounds
with hot wax.
:26:39
I hope you'll judge him
by his progress here,
:26:41
- No !
- not his past reputation.
:26:43
I can't go on like this.
Why should this be happening to me ?
:26:48
Once again, gentlemen.
:26:50
I'm just a lowly cobbler.
:26:53
I have been all my life.
:26:55
And with this shoe,
I'm asking you to be a cobbler's wife.