:03:03
I am not a noble.
:03:06
You have a fief in Provence.
:03:08
I have some land.
:03:11
Take this down, citizen.
:03:13
All my ancestors exercised
the honest occupation of farmer.
:03:22
Your children emigrated.
:03:25
When I last saw them,
they were 6 and 4 years old.
:03:30
But if they have emigrated,
:03:33
I abhor them and abandon them
to public anathema.
:03:37
As you can see, I don't believe it.
:03:41
I spent 15 years in prisons,
the victim of royal despotism.
:03:47
On what grounds?
:03:50
The reign of the arbitrary
:03:53
blindly struck out at all lovers of liberty.
:03:58
But I know how precious your time is.
:04:02
You've read my letter of 18 Ventôse?
:04:06
I was vice-president of the Pike Section.
:04:09
I represented it at the Convention.
:04:13
I penned a eulogy to Marat...
:04:15
You speak and write a good deal.
:04:20
You're a man of letters, you say.
:04:26
You know this book?
:04:34
"The libertine's frenzy only increased...
:04:38
"He opened a closet
containing several whips,
:04:41
"withdrew one with a steel tip,
:04:46
"which made me tremble..."
:04:48
No.
:04:52
The printer was judged.
:04:55
He was guillotined.
:04:59
Did you know?