1. English adaptation:
A. WHITELAW & W. BYRONCopy !req
2. Subtitled by TITRA-FILM ParisCopy !req
3. Your papers!Copy !req
4. It's only wood.Copy !req
5. All right.Copy !req
6. It's nothing.Copy !req
7. Firewood from Paris.Copy !req
8. Let's see anyway.Copy !req
9. Stop messing up my things!Copy !req
10. What's in there?Copy !req
11. Unload those books.Copy !req
12. Search everything.Copy !req
13. Spare no one.Copy !req
14. Follow him! Hurry!Copy !req
15. A good revolutionary is tough.Copy !req
16. "Article One.Copy !req
17. "All men are born free and equal.Copy !req
18. "Social differences...Copy !req
19. "... must be based...Copy !req
20. "... on the public good.Copy !req
21. - "The principle...
- "The goal...Copy !req
22. "The goal of political parties...Copy !req
23. "... is the good of the nation.Copy !req
24. - "Freedom...
- "... is being able to doCopy !req
25. - "whatever does not harm...
- "... others.Copy !req
26. "Therefore... the..."Copy !req
27. Maxime...Copy !req
28. No bread again!Copy !req
29. They say it's the war.Copy !req
30. Doesn't explain everything!Copy !req
31. It's a plot.Copy !req
32. By whom?Copy !req
33. The enemies of the government:Copy !req
34. starvation leads to revolt.Copy !req
35. Or it's the government.Copy !req
36. Why?Copy !req
37. Power corrupts.Copy !req
38. An old story...Copy !req
39. Be careful!Copy !req
40. Robespierre too?Copy !req
41. They're starting early this morning.Copy !req
42. Who's that?Copy !req
43. A runaway they caught.Copy !req
44. He's so handsome!Copy !req
45. Now they walk them to their deaths?Copy !req
46. Walking back'll be harder, Count!Copy !req
47. You'll have to carry your head!Copy !req
48. Break down the door!Copy !req
49. Give me your card!Copy !req
50. Who, me?Copy !req
51. Why?Copy !req
52. What have I done?Copy !req
53. Look! It's him!Copy !req
54. It's Danton!Copy !req
55. It's Danton!Copy !req
56. Long live Danton!Copy !req
57. "Despotism is killing
innocent people,Copy !req
58. "so that the guilty don't escape.Copy !req
59. "The Committee thoughtCopy !req
60. "the Republic needed
a period of despotism.Copy !req
61. "They agreed with Machiavelli:Copy !req
62. "the greater good excuses minor evils.Copy !req
63. "They felt liberty is likeCopy !req
64. "growing up: you have to suffer.Copy !req
65. "They are wrong:
to be free, men only needCopy !req
66. "to want to be free.Copy !req
67. "It's their Bastille Day right.Copy !req
68. "The last defense against despotismCopy !req
69. "is a free press.Copy !req
70. "if Moscow had one, it would be free.Copy !req
71. - "If you destroy it in France..."
- Be quiet!Copy !req
72. Has it been distributed?Copy !req
73. No, it's still at the printer's.Copy !req
74. Get going!Copy !req
75. Citizen barbers!Copy !req
76. Safety and fraternity!Copy !req
77. Fine day!Copy !req
78. Spring at last.Copy !req
79. You don't look well.Copy !req
80. True, you've been ill 5 weeks.Copy !req
81. We'll fix it. Comb!Copy !req
82. Hairpins!Copy !req
83. I'll trim it tomorrow.Copy !req
84. What are you doing?Copy !req
85. What's going on? Let me dress.Copy !req
86. Have you gone crazy?Copy !req
87. Héron, you have no right!Copy !req
88. What are theyCopy !req
89. doing to you?Copy !req
90. It's Camille Desmoulins! Arrest him!Copy !req
91. Sure, arrest me.Copy !req
92. He's innocent.Copy !req
93. We have no orders
to arrest you, Desmoulins.Copy !req
94. I don't want to look.Copy !req
95. Come back tomorrow.Copy !req
96. You're up!Copy !req
97. You're better!Copy !req
98. What luck!Copy !req
99. Danton is back.Copy !req
100. He's plotting a coup.Copy !req
101. Read it?Copy !req
102. Not yet.Copy !req
103. Desmoulins urges the people
to fight the Committees.Copy !req
104. There's talk of a take-over.Copy !req
105. By whom?Copy !req
106. Nobody says.Copy !req
107. But I think it's...Copy !req
108. Danton!Copy !req
109. Has he gone mad?Copy !req
110. We'd spare the Republic a lot,Copy !req
111. if Danton went to the guillotine.Copy !req
112. Right away!Copy !req
113. No! He's idolized!Copy !req
114. And he's not really dangerous.Copy !req
115. Damn it!Copy !req
116. If it isn't him, it's Desmoulins.Copy !req
117. Real bread, citizen?Copy !req
118. Yes. But there's no sugar.Copy !req
119. Never mind.Copy !req
120. There's no sugar.Copy !req
121. I haven't slept.Copy !req
122. I'm very tired.Copy !req
123. Danton's behind
Desmoulins' attacks on us.Copy !req
124. He has Camille in his pocket.Copy !req
125. What's our real aim?Copy !req
126. The Revolution's triumph.Copy !req
127. Right! But not any price.Copy !req
128. Why all this carnage?Copy !req
129. - There are easier ways.
- Which?Copy !req
130. Those two will be beheaded anyway.Copy !req
131. Is it really so cold?Copy !req
132. Give me my coat.Copy !req
133. Is your fever up?Copy !req
134. It'll pass.Copy !req
135. Don't ogle citizen Robespierre!Copy !req
136. Clear the hall!Copy !req
137. That's enough!Copy !req
138. Citizens! Attacks...Copy !req
139. against the government
are increasing.Copy !req
140. Desmoulins' paper callsCopy !req
141. for war on the Committees.
Danton is behind it...Copy !req
142. Sorry I'm late.Copy !req
143. Just like school.Copy !req
144. I charge Danton and his friends
with subversion.Copy !req
145. You'd deprive
the Revolution of itsCopy !req
146. best servants?Copy !req
147. You can't be serious.Copy !req
148. Go ahead!Copy !req
149. You surprise me.Copy !req
150. Danton loyal?Copy !req
151. You're mad!Copy !req
152. I remember, if you don't.Copy !req
153. You forget everything done
by the man...Copy !req
154. you're now so eager to kill.Copy !req
155. It was he who set up...Copy !req
156. our revolutionary cell...Copy !req
157. in 1790 and 1791.
Remember that!Copy !req
158. And the Champ de Mars massacre?Copy !req
159. He led the people like sheep.Copy !req
160. Then he ran away.Copy !req
161. Let's stop all this.Copy !req
162. We recall Mirabeau's
letter denouncing...Copy !req
163. Danton's plotting.Copy !req
164. Why trust a traitor's word?Copy !req
165. Lawyer's tricks!Copy !req
166. You can't base such
a serious chargeCopy !req
167. on rumors alone.Copy !req
168. I insist we call citizen AmarCopy !req
169. of the Security Committee.Copy !req
170. In no case can ICopy !req
171. allow Danton to go on trial.Copy !req
172. Afraid, Robespierre?Copy !req
173. I know it's easier to kill him,
but I say his good faith...Copy !req
174. is beyond question.Copy !req
175. Killing this defenseless man
is senseless.Copy !req
176. Defenseless!Copy !req
177. His only weapon was that paper.Copy !req
178. Was?Copy !req
179. I had the paper closed down.Copy !req
180. Desmoulins will replace
it with another.Copy !req
181. Then we'll...Copy !req
182. Get rid of him.Copy !req
183. No, we'll win him over.Copy !req
184. He's a great propagandist.Copy !req
185. Citizen Amar...Copy !req
186. You do have evidence
against Danton!Copy !req
187. Go on!Copy !req
188. Read it!Copy !req
189. What?Copy !req
190. Praying?Copy !req
191. I want what I'm about
to say kept quiet.Copy !req
192. Citizens... Like you,
I doubt Danton's good faith.Copy !req
193. That's better!Copy !req
194. And yet,Copy !req
195. I am absolutely against...Copy !req
196. his execution.Copy !req
197. Justice is divine,
and so inaccessible.Copy !req
198. The Revolutionary Tribunal
can't be Justice.Copy !req
199. It can only punish
the nation's enemies,Copy !req
200. not clamp down on criminals.Copy !req
201. These men are guilty of crimes.Copy !req
202. The ax will fall on Fabre
and his friends.Copy !req
203. Danton's the guiltiest,
but we won't touch him.Copy !req
204. The bourgeoisie would join
the counter-revolution.Copy !req
205. The Convention would rise...Copy !req
206. against us.Copy !req
207. We'd shake the people's faith
in the Revolution.Copy !req
208. In that case,Copy !req
209. we'd have to rule by terror.Copy !req
210. You know what that is?Copy !req
211. Terror is merely despair.Copy !req
212. I'm afraid, Billaud.Copy !req
213. So afraid of the terror that...Copy !req
214. I'm ready for any compromise
to avoid it,Copy !req
215. any humiliation, any lie.Copy !req
216. The traitor Danton
must be granted a favor...Copy !req
217. he doesn't deserve: amnesty.Copy !req
218. For the country's good,
we must be abject.Copy !req
219. We can't afford to be just.Copy !req
220. About time you came!Copy !req
221. You're back!Copy !req
222. Yes, I was bored.Copy !req
223. I've come for my orders.Copy !req
224. What orders?Copy !req
225. Here's what I say:
first free the prisoners.Copy !req
226. I'll summon our fighting men,Copy !req
227. we'll raid the Convention,
kill the leaders.Copy !req
228. I wish you luck!Copy !req
229. But Robespierre's on the move.Copy !req
230. In an hour the Committee
will grab us.Copy !req
231. You're vulnerable.Copy !req
232. Why? What have I done?Copy !req
233. Suppose they talk
of the Supreme Judge,Copy !req
234. and mention your name.
They'll say...Copy !req
235. you want to be dictator.Copy !req
236. One rumor, and you've had it.Copy !req
237. Who'd dare condemn me?Copy !req
238. The Committee, of course!Copy !req
239. Robespierre's cured.Copy !req
240. That absurd Committee?Copy !req
241. You're so sure of yourself!Copy !req
242. Use your head!Copy !req
243. I have all Paris behind me.Copy !req
244. It's now or never!
Believe me!Copy !req
245. I'm surprised
you're still free.Copy !req
246. Suspicious!
I get it: you're my friend.Copy !req
247. They can't arrest you.Copy !req
248. I have a thing Robespierre lacks:
my newspaper.Copy !req
249. It gives me more influence
than that faker.Copy !req
250. That reassure you?Copy !req
251. Georges!Copy !req
252. The paper's been closed.Copy !req
253. Am I reassured!
We're screwed!Copy !req
254. At least say hello.Copy !req
255. How are you, Lucille?Copy !req
256. Maybe we've gone too far.Copy !req
257. If you're scared, run to Robespierre,
tell him I made you write.Copy !req
258. Stop it! I did my duty.Copy !req
259. I showed people the terror
must end.Copy !req
260. Now you must move,
or what I did was pointless.Copy !req
261. We must act at once!Copy !req
262. Why?Copy !req
263. The printer...Copy !req
264. I know.Copy !req
265. Want to live?Copy !req
266. Sure. Why shouldn't I?
Don't you?Copy !req
267. We must strike!Copy !req
268. It's politics, not butcherry.
Use your heads.Copy !req
269. Robespierre's trying
to salvage his prestige.Copy !req
270. He jails the printer and
grabs the paper. He hopes...Copy !req
271. we'll show our hand.
So we do nothing.Copy !req
272. We must stay calm.
Understand? Calm.Copy !req
273. Philippeaux wants you.Copy !req
274. Who's he? Liberal? Moderate?Copy !req
275. A spotless record. He's ideal.Copy !req
276. Danton's wrong. How can
I persuade him to act?Copy !req
277. You're for a fight too?Copy !req
278. Not yet.Copy !req
279. I'm wondering too.Copy !req
280. I'd like to know what you want.Copy !req
281. Me too.Copy !req
282. You'd end the terror?Copy !req
283. You'd topple the regime?Copy !req
284. I'd join you if I trusted
your motives.Copy !req
285. Don't you believe me?Copy !req
286. Why?Copy !req
287. You invented
the Revolutionary Tribunal.Copy !req
288. You voted to kill the king.Copy !req
289. So did you.Copy !req
290. This leads nowhere.Copy !req
291. Did I ask for your help?Copy !req
292. He wants to back you.
The center's with him.Copy !req
293. If you don't abuse your power.Copy !req
294. I don't want power.Copy !req
295. So you say now.Copy !req
296. I don't want power.
I'm 35 and look 60.Copy !req
297. I'm tired... I'd like to quit.Copy !req
298. First I must end the terror:Copy !req
299. I'm partly to blame for it.Copy !req
300. That's fine,
but we know each other.Copy !req
301. It's true,
politics has made you rich.Copy !req
302. Easy does it.Copy !req
303. It's you who asked
to talk to me.Copy !req
304. Not now.Copy !req
305. Make it short.
What do you want?Copy !req
306. Disarm the Public Safety
Committee,Copy !req
307. without a fight.
Only you can do it.Copy !req
308. Frankly, you disgust me,Copy !req
309. but I'll back you.Copy !req
310. I'm flattered.
How will you do it?Copy !req
311. With armed men, if need be.Copy !req
312. Worried?Copy !req
313. Like everyone.Copy !req
314. Your really want to act?Copy !req
315. Strike, I told you.Copy !req
316. No one can control
an insurrection.Copy !req
317. Robespierre has one weakness.Copy !req
318. His secret police.
It's hated.Copy !req
319. Bourdon, in the Convention today,Copy !req
320. attack a top secret agent.Copy !req
321. Héron?Copy !req
322. Yes. Talk about informers, searches.Copy !req
323. The nation will support you.Copy !req
324. It will say we're it's
last hope for freedom.Copy !req
325. Is that enough?Copy !req
326. They'll calm down and
so will Robespierre. Go on.Copy !req
327. Georges is right.Copy !req
328. Always heed your wife.
It's the start of a new era.Copy !req
329. Get going.Copy !req
330. Then it's back to our modest,
quiet lives.Copy !req
331. Yours will be quiet
and ours modest.Copy !req
332. If you see poverty as
a revolutionary virtue,Copy !req
333. go and join Robespierre.Copy !req
334. And you change printers.Copy !req
335. What is more destructive,Copy !req
336. more anti-Républican,Copy !req
337. than this invisible police...Copy !req
338. and its informers,Copy !req
339. that infiltrate everywhere,
spreading lies...Copy !req
340. and threats...Copy !req
341. endanger individual liberty,Copy !req
342. force fathers to mistrust
their soons,Copy !req
343. and think they're all-powerful...Copy !req
344. This police, headed...Copy !req
345. by an ex-criminal
named Héron...Copy !req
346. who, under the cloak...Copy !req
347. of public service.Copy !req
348. settles private scores,Copy !req
349. and openly favors the rogues
he recruits, I demand...Copy !req
350. Where's he rushing to?Copy !req
351. The Committee. As soon as Héron
was mentioned...Copy !req
352. I demand Héron's arrest.Copy !req
353. The Convention voted
to arrest Héron.Copy !req
354. Our best man? Lose him
and we lose control of Paris.Copy !req
355. There's your defenseless Danton!Copy !req
356. I want to see him today.Copy !req
357. That traitor?Copy !req
358. Arrange the meeting.Copy !req
359. This session is ended.Copy !req
360. You'd lower yourself
to ask Danton to receive you?Copy !req
361. It's for the country's good.Copy !req
362. I'd stoop to anything for it.Copy !req
363. The Public Safety Committee's
washed up.Copy !req
364. Long live Danton!Copy !req
365. I've come from the Committee.Copy !req
366. Some accuse you of treason.Copy !req
367. Just me?Copy !req
368. The others too. All of them.Copy !req
369. Robespierre agrees?Copy !req
370. Don't know yet.
I'm going.Copy !req
371. Afraid?Copy !req
372. I'd rather not be seen
with you.Copy !req
373. jailed for demanding liberty.Copy !req
374. Change all that.Copy !req
375. Only blue flowers.
He only likes blue.Copy !req
376. Turbot à la flunkey,
it's called now.Copy !req
377. What a creature!Copy !req
378. First the stuffed cucumber?
Then vol-au-vent...Copy !req
379. With Convention sauce,Copy !req
380. once known as caper sauce.Copy !req
381. Refugee quails with onions.Copy !req
382. That's it!Copy !req
383. And fruit à la Royal Runaway.Copy !req
384. Satisfied?Copy !req
385. Perfectly, thanks.Copy !req
386. You should have given him
a bad time, not all this.Copy !req
387. A gesture. It's now or never.Copy !req
388. Leave me alone.
You go home.Copy !req
389. I want to see him humiliated.Copy !req
390. Go home!
You too, Bourdon.Copy !req
391. Certainly not!Copy !req
392. I must know how to vote
in the Convention.Copy !req
393. I said go home.Copy !req
394. Everybody out!Copy !req
395. Now that's blue. Fine!Copy !req
396. Get rid of all these people.Copy !req
397. Quick! I need to be alone.Copy !req
398. Right away!Copy !req
399. You dared say that?Copy !req
400. Clear out, all of you!Copy !req
401. Are you mad?Copy !req
402. Security!Copy !req
403. Good evening.
I kept you waiting. Sorry.Copy !req
404. No matter.
We're so rarely alone together.Copy !req
405. you and I.Copy !req
406. Are you all right?Copy !req
407. Fine, thanks.Copy !req
408. Look... Want some?Copy !req
409. How about this?Copy !req
410. A quail?Copy !req
411. It's not poisoned.Copy !req
412. Delicious!Copy !req
413. Sit down.Copy !req
414. Really not hungry?Copy !req
415. No, thanks.Copy !req
416. What do you want?Copy !req
417. To be frank with you.Copy !req
418. Haven't you always been?Copy !req
419. Why did you attack Héron?Copy !req
420. Why did you arrest Dessenne?
And ban the paper?Copy !req
421. I must protect the government.Copy !req
422. They say you're plotting.Copy !req
423. It's not true, you know.Copy !req
424. I'm pure as snow.Copy !req
425. Your many enemies want your death.Copy !req
426. You, too?Copy !req
427. Stop attacking me,
and I swear you'll be safe.Copy !req
428. I'm not safe now?Copy !req
429. I thought you didn't drink.Copy !req
430. To our understanding.Copy !req
431. What do you want?Copy !req
432. You're frank.Copy !req
433. State publicly that you're joining us.Copy !req
434. I can't.Copy !req
435. I don't approve of the government.
It's my right.Copy !req
436. But not to proclaim it.
Specially you!Copy !req
437. I can't stoop to the government.Copy !req
438. You think you're above it?Copy !req
439. Unique people are above the masses.Copy !req
440. Like you, I despise the Committees.
But I say so.Copy !req
441. No one must divide us, you and I.Copy !req
442. No Committee, government, no one.Copy !req
443. Divided, we'll both fall.Copy !req
444. No one can go along
with your reign of terror.Copy !req
445. The people, our strength,
will destroy the Revolution.Copy !req
446. Who's to blame?Copy !req
447. Not I, and certainly not you.Copy !req
448. If we're not to blame,
then it's fate.Copy !req
449. I never believed in fate.Copy !req
450. Neither did I.Copy !req
451. We really believe
in the same ideals.Copy !req
452. No longer.Copy !req
453. We fought a revolution...Copy !req
454. in the name of fairness
and equality.Copy !req
455. Now you chop off any head
that stands out. Was that our goal?Copy !req
456. I'm the people's only defense.Copy !req
457. Against whom?Copy !req
458. Men who grow rich from
the Revolution. Right?Copy !req
459. You want men to act like
the heroes of novels.Copy !req
460. We're made of flesh and blood!Copy !req
461. You want to raise us
to heights whereCopy !req
462. we can't breatheCopy !req
463. You isolate the Revolution,
you freeze it.Copy !req
464. Even die-hards back away.Copy !req
465. What should I do?Copy !req
466. Come back to earth. Right away.Copy !req
467. Stop the revolutionary impetus
and you kill the revolution.Copy !req
468. People want to eat
and sleep in peace.Copy !req
469. Without bread, there's no law,
freedom, justice.Copy !req
470. To hell with the Committees!Copy !req
471. I admire you.Copy !req
472. I'd love to follow you,
but not just anywhere...Copy !req
473. I want to provide normal
living conditions...Copy !req
474. for 80% of the people. That's all.Copy !req
475. Come off it...
Don't make speeches here!Copy !req
476. What?Copy !req
477. That's not all you want!Copy !req
478. Men shouldn't stay
in power too long.Copy !req
479. You aspire to power?Copy !req
480. I don't have to. I've got it.Copy !req
481. The only real power:
from the man in the street.Copy !req
482. I understand him, he understands me.
Never forget that.Copy !req
483. I won't. But don't you forget...Copy !req
484. that to make him happy,
I'll stop at nothing.Copy !req
485. You want to make him happy!Copy !req
486. You know nothing of the people!Copy !req
487. How could you know? Look at you!Copy !req
488. You don't drink, you're powdered.Copy !req
489. Swords make you faint, and they say
you've never had a woman!Copy !req
490. Who do you speak for?Copy !req
491. Make men happy! You're not a man!Copy !req
492. I'll show you the people!
Let's take a walk through the streets.Copy !req
493. I'm sorry.Copy !req
494. I've always been brutal and clumsy.Copy !req
495. I said to myself last night:
for he and I to feud...Copy !req
496. To be enemies...
makes no sense at all.Copy !req
497. We must stop it at once.Copy !req
498. Then do what I ask.Copy !req
499. How?Copy !req
500. Do what I ask. Join us.Copy !req
501. I went to the country
to think things over.Copy !req
502. Frankly, I'd rather be...Copy !req
503. executed, than be an executioner.Copy !req
504. You're drunk!Copy !req
505. If you insist...Copy !req
506. You see this head?Copy !req
507. See it? Feel it?Copy !req
508. You'll have to cut it off!Copy !req
509. I'm sorry. This was a mistake.Copy !req
510. Wait!Copy !req
511. My witnesses heard everything.Copy !req
512. That's why I said nothing.Copy !req
513. Where did he go?Copy !req
514. Now I've got him!Copy !req
515. I've got him!Copy !req
516. So I had it all wrong?Copy !req
517. Now you see:
the Committees must end.Copy !req
518. You were wrong about Robespierre.Copy !req
519. We must hurry to the meeting.Copy !req
520. No point. Your plan is childish.Copy !req
521. It's now or never!Copy !req
522. No more blood! That's my goal!Copy !req
523. That's my goal.Copy !req
524. You're telling me?Copy !req
525. yes, you.Copy !req
526. Your friends' blood will flow!Copy !req
527. Good to see you!Copy !req
528. How's your mom?Copy !req
529. Worse than ever.Copy !req
530. This is Sophie... from Nantes.Copy !req
531. Go to your meeting.Copy !req
532. I can't come tonight.
It was just to get rid of him.Copy !req
533. You coming?Copy !req
534. What happened?Copy !req
535. Say something.Copy !req
536. Tell me!Copy !req
537. It's war. Danton forced the issue.Copy !req
538. Robespierre is due for a lesson.Copy !req
539. Tell me what happened,
everything they said...Copy !req
540. I couldn't hear well.Copy !req
541. It scares me... For 3 months...Copy !req
542. I've had a foreboding...Copy !req
543. Is your husband in?Copy !req
544. I'm glad you came.Copy !req
545. Why?Copy !req
546. You've changed a lot.Copy !req
547. You're like a stranger now...Copy !req
548. I've aged, if that's what you mean.Copy !req
549. That's not it, but...Copy !req
550. Is he really in danger?Copy !req
551. Yes, he is.Copy !req
552. You're my only hope. Tell me...Copy !req
553. Why did you reject him?Copy !req
554. The opposite happened. Truly.Copy !req
555. Really? Then I misunderstood...Copy !req
556. How could you?
Camille was your friend.Copy !req
557. That's why I came.Copy !req
558. I said I was in to no one.Copy !req
559. We must talk. It's serious...Copy !req
560. Why bother!Copy !req
561. You're in grave danger.
I came to warn you.Copy !req
562. You don't realize,
your life's at stake.Copy !req
563. Your friend Danton is using you.Copy !req
564. He's exploiting your talent.Copy !req
565. He's only out for himself.
That's not friendship!Copy !req
566. It's a dubious alliance.Copy !req
567. Stop!Copy !req
568. You don't scare me. A freedom
fighter isn't afraid to die.Copy !req
569. Maybe he has to.Copy !req
570. By advocating charity and tolerance,Copy !req
571. you hoped to save
oiyr country. Right?Copy !req
572. But you're aiding subversion.Copy !req
573. Which is Danton's goal.Copy !req
574. You must understand.Copy !req
575. So what should I do?Copy !req
576. Make a speech tomorrow:Copy !req
577. Take back all your attacks.Copy !req
578. Then, in the next issue of your paper,Copy !req
579. retract what you said
in previous issues.Copy !req
580. You're a real slut!Copy !req
581. Danton threw you out,
so you crawl to me!Copy !req
582. You're terrified!Copy !req
583. Remember...Copy !req
584. Burning a newspaper...Copy !req
585. is no answer.Copy !req
586. It's your last chance.Copy !req
587. Listen to me or you're through.Copy !req
588. You must believe me.Copy !req
589. I swear it's true.Copy !req
590. Get out!Copy !req
591. What happened, you must tell me!Copy !req
592. Why did the two of them meet?Copy !req
593. If Danton and Robespierre disagreedCopy !req
594. for so long, it's too late now.Copy !req
595. He's not here yet? Good.Copy !req
596. No, but you're 10 minutes late.Copy !req
597. What joy, you remind me
of my youth.Copy !req
598. Forgive my lateness.Copy !req
599. Spoken like a king to his ministers!Copy !req
600. Then how should I speak?Copy !req
601. In one hour, at 3.30.Copy !req
602. the police must arrest Danton.Copy !req
603. Tonight?Copy !req
604. It's madness!Copy !req
605. Out of the question!Copy !req
606. His accomplices too!Copy !req
607. Without preparing the people?Copy !req
608. It's political suicide!Copy !req
609. We'll be defeated!Copy !req
610. The Committee must
prepare public opinion.Copy !req
611. Let me have my say.
Robespierre...Copy !req
612. Danton has the bankers' support.
You told us that.Copy !req
613. It will be the Committee's death
and Danton's triumph.Copy !req
614. You're right. Danton has
support everywhere.Copy !req
615. It won't work.Copy !req
616. I wish to speak.Copy !req
617. Not about that!Copy !req
618. We must strike swiftly.Copy !req
619. Give him 3 days and he'll get
gold from the bankers.Copy !req
620. He'll raise an army and spread
leaflets all over Paris.Copy !req
621. He'll address the Convention.Copy !req
622. You all know he's a great orator.Copy !req
623. We must do it tonight...
or never.Copy !req
624. You're right.Copy !req
625. If it panics the Convention,
I'll step in.Copy !req
626. We need an indictment.Copy !req
627. Who'll write it?Copy !req
628. It's already done.Copy !req
629. Read it!Copy !req
630. First I want to read it again.Copy !req
631. We need the approval of the
Public Safety Committee.Copy !req
632. Out of the question!Copy !req
633. Call them in.Copy !req
634. Are they still here?Copy !req
635. The session's just ending...Copy !req
636. Ask them to come in.Copy !req
637. What changed your mind?Copy !req
638. Who besides Danton?Copy !req
639. Here's my list:
Lacroix, Philippeaux...Copy !req
640. Entirely innocent!Copy !req
641. Their intentions may be!
We're judging facts!Copy !req
642. Legendre?
Bourdon?Copy !req
643. Innocents puppets. Let's avoid
a bloodbath, please!Copy !req
644. The first humane
words of the night.Copy !req
645. All right. Let's spare them.
Desmoulins?Copy !req
646. Desmoulins is my friend.Copy !req
647. I'll abide by your decision.Copy !req
648. But maybe we should
give him an extra dayCopy !req
649. to think it over.Copy !req
650. Impossible.Copy !req
651. Very well. Those 3 will
be jailed with Danton.Copy !req
652. We just ordered
Westermann's arrest.Copy !req
653. He was recruiting fighting men.Copy !req
654. Good. The Public Safety Committee
just decided...Copy !req
655. to arrest Danton and
3 of his accomplices.Copy !req
656. You want to arrest him. When?Copy !req
657. Tonight.Copy !req
658. You're mad!Copy !req
659. We're in a hurry.
We need your approval.Copy !req
660. If we refuse?Copy !req
661. You're the secret police.Copy !req
662. You can arrest deputies.Copy !req
663. It's our privilege.
Not yours!Copy !req
664. You can delegate it to us.Copy !req
665. That's illegal.Copy !req
666. Not if you agree to it.Copy !req
667. Calm down, Vadier.Copy !req
668. Sure you know what you're doing?Copy !req
669. It's a heavy responsibility
to bear.Copy !req
670. The responsibility is all ours!Copy !req
671. Write!Copy !req
672. We, of the Public Safety Committee,Copy !req
673. and of the Security Committee,Copy !req
674. have agreed that Danton...Copy !req
675. Who else?Copy !req
676. Lacroix.Copy !req
677. Philippeaux.Copy !req
678. Desmoulins.Copy !req
679. All of them members
of the Convention,Copy !req
680. are under arrest,Copy !req
681. and are to be imprisoned in...Copy !req
682. Luxembourg jail.Copy !req
683. Sign it.Copy !req
684. Your signatures please.Copy !req
685. Lindet, you didn't sign.Copy !req
686. I was elected to aid
revolutionaries,Copy !req
687. not to kill them.Copy !req
688. The session is ended.Copy !req
689. I said you were great
and I'd die for you.Copy !req
690. I take it all back!
All of it!Copy !req
691. I was blind as a bat.
Now my eyes have been opened.Copy !req
692. What are you talking about?Copy !req
693. What are you trying to tell me?Copy !req
694. Robespierre came to see you?Copy !req
695. How do you know?Copy !req
696. Don't talk about him.
You have no right.Copy !req
697. I hope you needed his advice.Copy !req
698. I refused.Copy !req
699. You find out we're doomed and
reject your salvation.Copy !req
700. Why doomed?Copy !req
701. If Robespierre came to see you,
the decree's been signed.Copy !req
702. What decree?Copy !req
703. Our arrest!Copy !req
704. You're the only man alive
that monster still holds dear.Copy !req
705. He tried to save you.
It's over.Copy !req
706. What are they afraid of?Copy !req
707. They didn't mind your insults.Copy !req
708. But they can't stand
your public disapproval.Copy !req
709. What did you do?Copy !req
710. I refused to shake hands:
my death warrant.Copy !req
711. You don't mean that.Copy !req
712. Why did you refuse?Copy !req
713. His hand's too bloody.Copy !req
714. Fight back!
The people are behind you.Copy !req
715. Can we complete the list?Copy !req
716. Renaudin...Copy !req
717. Royer Collard...Copy !req
718. Ségur...Copy !req
719. Cross him off.Copy !req
720. Sourboul...Copy !req
721. Can we depend on him?Copy !req
722. Cross him off.Copy !req
723. Vinot...Copy !req
724. Not him. Is that all?Copy !req
725. No one else you're sure of?Copy !req
726. That's enough.Copy !req
727. No, we only have 7 jurors.Copy !req
728. And?Copy !req
729. We need 12, by law.Copy !req
730. Haven't you got 12?Copy !req
731. Only 7.Copy !req
732. If you don't have 12,
then 7 will do.Copy !req
733. Add some hoodlums
to the indicted.Copy !req
734. Chabot, Fabre, Basire...Copy !req
735. Charge?Copy !req
736. Anti-patriotic activities.Copy !req
737. Know them?Copy !req
738. Fabre, Chabot, Basire,
Delaunay, Guzman,Copy !req
739. the Frey brothers,
Dedricksen.Copy !req
740. Round them up at once.Copy !req
741. Fabre?Copy !req
742. Get up.Copy !req
743. He's sick.
Don't take him away.Copy !req
744. That all?Copy !req
745. The Public Safety Committee
just met.Copy !req
746. Lindet sent me to warn you.Copy !req
747. Run for it!Copy !req
748. Come on!Copy !req
749. What do you want?Copy !req
750. There's money in the cache.Copy !req
751. Take it.Copy !req
752. But watch out: our dear
Republic may grab it.Copy !req
753. Coming!Copy !req
754. Citizen Danton,
you're under arrest!Copy !req
755. Here's the warrant.Copy !req
756. "By order of the
Security Council,Copy !req
757. "you are to arrest...
and remove to..."Copy !req
758. I know... I know!Copy !req
759. "... citizen Danton..."Copy !req
760. Is it still raining?Copy !req
761. I wont need a coat.Copy !req
762. Let's go!Copy !req
763. Citizens!Copy !req
764. Danton has been arrested!Copy !req
765. Danton was arrested last night.Copy !req
766. The terror strikes again!Copy !req
767. We must act!Copy !req
768. We could be arrested any minute.Copy !req
769. Make way!Copy !req
770. Bourdon, go to the podium.Copy !req
771. I can't... I don't know...Copy !req
772. It's now or never!Copy !req
773. Scared? Look, he's shaking!Copy !req
774. You go!Copy !req
775. I'm a lousy speaker.Copy !req
776. Legendre, you go!Copy !req
777. All right,
I'll put down my name.Copy !req
778. I wish to speak.Copy !req
779. Citizens, the session is open!Copy !req
780. Speak up!Copy !req
781. We just learned...Copy !req
782. with amazement, that 4 deputies,Copy !req
783. of the Convention,
were arrested last night.Copy !req
784. Including Danton.Copy !req
785. Long live Danton!Copy !req
786. I demand...Copy !req
787. that they be heard in this House.Copy !req
788. So you may decide...Copy !req
789. if personal enmity...Copy !req
790. or jealousy aren't behind...Copy !req
791. this monstrous decision!Copy !req
792. Put down Citizen
Robespierre's name.Copy !req
793. Get down!
Clear the podium!Copy !req
794. It's not his turn.Copy !req
795. Whose turn is it?Copy !req
796. Yours!Copy !req
797. You have no right!Copy !req
798. Get down!Copy !req
799. Down with the dictator!Copy !req
800. Back me up!Copy !req
801. It's been ages since
our debates...Copy !req
802. were fired with such passion!Copy !req
803. True, the question's important.Copy !req
804. In short, it means:Copy !req
805. are some people
above the Republic?Copy !req
806. Legendre demandsCopy !req
807. that the accused come
to the podium.Copy !req
808. We all do! Let's hear Danton!Copy !req
809. You are willing to grant this manCopy !req
810. what you've refused to others.
On what grounds?Copy !req
811. Does Legendre mean that DantonCopy !req
812. should be above the law?Copy !req
813. He deserves some consideration.Copy !req
814. So say we all. Let's hear Danton!Copy !req
815. The RepublicCopy !req
816. was built by all the people.Copy !req
817. Which of us dares to say:Copy !req
818. the king's arrest was my doing alone.Copy !req
819. No merit gives the right
to claim privilege.Copy !req
820. This is sure: to us,
no one is privileged.Copy !req
821. hearing a defendant is no favor.
It's only justice.Copy !req
822. Justice?Copy !req
823. Don't you trust
the Revolutionary Tribunal?Copy !req
824. The Tribunal is irreproachable.
We all trust it.Copy !req
825. We'll seeCopy !req
826. if the Convention's firme enough
to bring Danton to justice,Copy !req
827. or if it contests St. Just's report.Copy !req
828. We must challenge the indictment.Copy !req
829. No, you're right.Copy !req
830. Never fear: France is with you!Copy !req
831. So Danton's partisans...Copy !req
832. think he deserves
special treatment?Copy !req
833. If so, abolish
the Public Safety Committee...Copy !req
834. and try us.Copy !req
835. We're for the Committees!Copy !req
836. Long live the Committees!Copy !req
837. Every day,
the world is watching us.Copy !req
838. We must show no weakness,
no moral cowardice.Copy !req
839. What would become of France...Copy !req
840. if we lost the trust of the French?Copy !req
841. I want men beside me...Copy !req
842. who are upright and fair.Copy !req
843. Innocence, that prime virtue,Copy !req
844. should not and cannot
fear public scrutiny.Copy !req
845. Right! Bravo, Robespierre!Copy !req
846. I propose that Legendre's
motion be rejected.Copy !req
847. Then St. Just will read the indictment.Copy !req
848. Who's for Robespierre's motion?Copy !req
849. Who's opposed?Copy !req
850. Me, I'm opposed.Copy !req
851. Have you gone mad?
If Danton falls, we all do.Copy !req
852. Idiots! You'll be massacred!Copy !req
853. Such statements make you
guilty in my eyes.Copy !req
854. What's that?Copy !req
855. The Convention has confirmed
its faith in the Committees.Copy !req
856. Only the guilty tremble.Copy !req
857. This will destroy you, Robespierre.Copy !req
858. Now we have the standard argument:Copy !req
859. and even if,Copy !req
860. by the most obscure laws
of Providence,Copy !req
861. a criminal's fall must bring me down
with him, what of it?Copy !req
862. To revolutionaries,Copy !req
863. danger can't outweigh duty.Copy !req
864. I never said I put
Danton above the law.Copy !req
865. I never suspected you.Copy !req
866. I wish to speak! Silence!Copy !req
867. For a long time,
I was fooled by Danton.Copy !req
868. Today, at last,Copy !req
869. I see my mistake.Copy !req
870. We should prove our trust
in the Committees.Copy !req
871. We should approve the indictmentCopy !req
872. without hearing St. Just's report.Copy !req
873. Stop sniveling or I'll ask
for another cell.Copy !req
874. Don't leave me alone. I'd go mad.Copy !req
875. Shame on you!Copy !req
876. I've gone to pieces.Copy !req
877. You'll die in 5 days.Copy !req
878. Admit it and give up hope.Copy !req
879. When death is sure,
you stop suffering.Copy !req
880. We can win the case.Copy !req
881. No. It's a political trial.Copy !req
882. It has nothing to do with justice.Copy !req
883. I don't want to die.
I've a right to live.Copy !req
884. Man has the rights he can defend.Copy !req
885. There's Georges!Copy !req
886. I was afraid you weren't here.Copy !req
887. Hey, there! Wine for
the people's delegates. Quick!Copy !req
888. You're crying.Copy !req
889. You haven't understood.Copy !req
890. Understood?Copy !req
891. We had to let ourselves be jailed.Copy !req
892. Why?Copy !req
893. To open the people's eyes
about the Committees.Copy !req
894. There's no other way.
That's why I let it happen.Copy !req
895. Where are the glasses?Copy !req
896. Not even glasses!Copy !req
897. Not bad...Copy !req
898. The convention approved the charges.Copy !req
899. The cowards!Copy !req
900. We're to go to the main jail.Copy !req
901. We've had it.Copy !req
902. Why? We still have our heads.Copy !req
903. Our fists, teeth, claws to fight with.Copy !req
904. But Georges!Copy !req
905. A political trial a duel.Copy !req
906. We'll accuse the government.
And let the people judge.Copy !req
907. If we can make people doubt...Copy !req
908. We'll be executed anyway.Copy !req
909. No! You forget I'm an orator.Copy !req
910. The public follows me when I talk.Copy !req
911. It's often fickle.Copy !req
912. Without defense witnesses,
we won't talk.Copy !req
913. With them, we can win.Copy !req
914. Desmoulins!Copy !req
915. You've a visitor.Copy !req
916. Who? My wife?Copy !req
917. What's up?Copy !req
918. Follow me.Copy !req
919. It's Robespierre.Copy !req
920. He'll save you.Copy !req
921. Well, go on!Copy !req
922. No one's stopping you.Copy !req
923. Go on!Copy !req
924. We'll die, but you needn't
die with us.Copy !req
925. What'll I do?Copy !req
926. Go on! He's come for you.Copy !req
927. Go, I tell you!Copy !req
928. Tell the gentleman
I won't see him.Copy !req
929. I can't tell him that.Copy !req
930. Then say that...Copy !req
931. he isn't home.Copy !req
932. People of France!
Why are these swine here?Copy !req
933. Trying me with thieves!Copy !req
934. We, the spearhead of the Revolution,
tried as criminals!Copy !req
935. What's the idea?Copy !req
936. You haven't the floor yet.Copy !req
937. They won't shut...Copy !req
938. Keep him out.
He mustn't take notes.Copy !req
939. Quiet, please!Copy !req
940. Why can't I take notes?
Is the Committee crazy?Copy !req
941. I'm a reporter from Rheims.Copy !req
942. Down with the Committees!Copy !req
943. You are accused of joiningCopy !req
944. to bribe elected delegates,Copy !req
945. and foster a revolt of the nobility...Copy !req
946. with gold stolen from
the East India Company...Copy !req
947. by your crooked financial schemes.Copy !req
948. Desmoulins, Philippeaux, Danton...Copy !req
949. are just as guilty...Copy !req
950. as those whose crimes
I have just described.Copy !req
951. You call this tissue
of calumnies an indictment!Copy !req
952. Give it to them, Georges!Copy !req
953. Shall I dirty my mouth replying?Copy !req
954. We're with you!Copy !req
955. The accused won't reply? No matter.Copy !req
956. Let us talk!Copy !req
957. Nothing to add to the defense?Copy !req
958. Add? We haven'tCopy !req
959. spoken yet.Copy !req
960. So?Copy !req
961. Has the jury heard enough?Copy !req
962. You're in a hurry, Fouquier.
Did I say I'd finished?Copy !req
963. Don't address the public!Copy !req
964. It's against the law.Copy !req
965. I founded the tribunal,
so I ought to know the rules.Copy !req
966. All right. You may speak.Copy !req
967. For the last time!Copy !req
968. Yes! The last time. France...Copy !req
969. Don't address the public.Copy !req
970. For 5 years, I've been your chief,Copy !req
971. my name is on every page
of your history. Right?Copy !req
972. Long live Danton!Copy !req
973. You're accused of selling out...Copy !req
974. A man like me is beyond price.Copy !req
975. I'll adjourn...Copy !req
976. Don't expect me to be cool.
I'll take all day if need be.Copy !req
977. And I'll be heard.Copy !req
978. The law bars addressing the public.
Back to your seat!Copy !req
979. This trial is starting, not ending.Copy !req
980. The braver the man, the harder
they try to destroy him.Copy !req
981. Go on, Danton!Copy !req
982. Listen!Copy !req
983. To ruin a man,
throw the book at him.Copy !req
984. An old trick, but it's been refined.Copy !req
985. You ignore the law to serve it.Copy !req
986. It's makes those in power thinkCopy !req
987. that they have nothing to fear.Copy !req
988. The just have always
hampered politics,Copy !req
989. especially today.Copy !req
990. Why must I be killed?
Only I can tell you.Copy !req
991. It's because I'm sincere.
Because I tell the truth.Copy !req
992. I scare them. That's why they want
to murder a good man.Copy !req
993. Guards! That reporter!Copy !req
994. From Rheims.Copy !req
995. No notes!Copy !req
996. Down with the Tribunal!Copy !req
997. I'm an inventor
of the people's justice.Copy !req
998. Do you think you can pervert
it without my noticing?Copy !req
999. This is another of your tricks.Copy !req
1000. Mixing us with hoodlums so
the people think we're thieves.Copy !req
1001. Congratulations! A great idea.
Pity I noticed it.Copy !req
1002. What a parody of justice!Copy !req
1003. And where are our witnesses?Copy !req
1004. People of France,
you're the Tribunal!Copy !req
1005. Bring in our accusers...
the Committees.Copy !req
1006. No. You haven't the right.Copy !req
1007. Let it all be public, and you decide!Copy !req
1008. Quiet!Copy !req
1009. Panis, run to the Convention.Copy !req
1010. We want the Committees.Copy !req
1011. Say we're being muzzled. Run!Copy !req
1012. Count on me!Copy !req
1013. Oust the Committees.Copy !req
1014. Justice? It's a massacre.Copy !req
1015. Why are you here?Copy !req
1016. You let him go on and on.
Shut him up!Copy !req
1017. You think it's easy!Copy !req
1018. We want more energy from you.Copy !req
1019. Energy?Copy !req
1020. Come into the court and you'll see.Copy !req
1021. Never mind. We know
what's happening.Copy !req
1022. We know what you're saying.Copy !req
1023. And not saying.Copy !req
1024. Spying on me? Bravo!Copy !req
1025. You're not firm enough.Copy !req
1026. What are you talking about?Copy !req
1027. You don't understand.Copy !req
1028. We'll let them have
their witnesses:Copy !req
1029. we can't refuse.Copy !req
1030. No witnesses!Copy !req
1031. Then I guarantee nothing.
You do do as you wish.Copy !req
1032. We really can't bar
their witnesses?Copy !req
1033. No. Not right away.Copy !req
1034. But you're running this trial.Copy !req
1035. I'm running it? Fine.Copy !req
1036. Now go away.Copy !req
1037. Get the hell out!Copy !req
1038. Let me run it.Copy !req
1039. Is it the Danton affair?Copy !req
1040. Why do you ask?Copy !req
1041. I've never seen you like this.Copy !req
1042. Leave me alone.Copy !req
1043. Not until you've told me all.Copy !req
1044. The Danton affair is a dilemma:Copy !req
1045. if we lose the trial,Copy !req
1046. the Revolution is sunk.Copy !req
1047. If we win, it's the same.Copy !req
1048. I shouldn't say it.Copy !req
1049. They're out to hurt you?Copy !req
1050. No... not openly.Copy !req
1051. Don't leave without eating.Copy !req
1052. Don't leave without eating.Copy !req
1053. It makes no sense.Copy !req
1054. Just sheaves?Copy !req
1055. There'll be lots of fruits and cartsCopy !req
1056. of olives from Avignon.Copy !req
1057. For peace and joy...Copy !req
1058. Serenity...Copy !req
1059. To celebrate the Supreme Being.Copy !req
1060. Try this...Copy !req
1061. Simple and rustic...Copy !req
1062. No, it's like a martyr's frond.Copy !req
1063. We're in trouble!Copy !req
1064. The trial's going badly!Copy !req
1065. Danton's exciting the gallery.Copy !req
1066. He's so sure of himself,
he's attacking us.Copy !req
1067. We want Danton's death.Copy !req
1068. You justify the verdict!Copy !req
1069. Silence him, any way you can.Copy !req
1070. The public will lynch us!Copy !req
1071. What's more...Copy !req
1072. The accused want witnesses.Copy !req
1073. Yesterday, we sent a letter...Copy !req
1074. I know.Copy !req
1075. Where is it?Copy !req
1076. Did you send it... or not?Copy !req
1077. The Convention will answer itCopy !req
1078. after I tell them what I think of it.Copy !req
1079. We can't wait.Copy !req
1080. They'll say no, anyway.Copy !req
1081. Barère... you approve?Copy !req
1082. You can't do that.Copy !req
1083. If we back off, we're all sunk.Copy !req
1084. I'm a judge.Copy !req
1085. I'm not yourCopy !req
1086. private executioner.Copy !req
1087. You're an executioner!Copy !req
1088. Not my private one. The people's!Copy !req
1089. You serve justice!Copy !req
1090. We send you the Republic's enemies.Copy !req
1091. Don't judge them!Copy !req
1092. Destroy them!Copy !req
1093. It's against the law.Copy !req
1094. When the Republic's at stake,Copy !req
1095. we can do anything.Copy !req
1096. Say another word,Copy !req
1097. and you'll be arrested.Copy !req
1098. We'll talk later...Copy !req
1099. Later...Copy !req
1100. David!Copy !req
1101. When will you finish "The Oath"?Copy !req
1102. Fabre wasn't there.Copy !req
1103. Yes, he was.Copy !req
1104. He was on the list.Copy !req
1105. He wasn't there.Copy !req
1106. He's a traitor. Remove him.Copy !req
1107. Are you a close friend of Danton?Copy !req
1108. Identify me! Obey the law!Copy !req
1109. A mere formality!Copy !req
1110. Like this whole trial!Copy !req
1111. Danton,Copy !req
1112. you've already testified! Be quiet.Copy !req
1113. I've only begun.Copy !req
1114. This trial won't be overCopy !req
1115. until I've finished.Copy !req
1116. People of France!Copy !req
1117. I appeal to you!Copy !req
1118. Only you may judge me.Copy !req
1119. Where are our witnesses?Copy !req
1120. I want them! Here!Copy !req
1121. The two Committees must be triedCopy !req
1122. by public opinion.Copy !req
1123. And after we've both spoken,Copy !req
1124. you, the people,Copy !req
1125. will decide who's guilty:Copy !req
1126. Me, or the omnipotent Committee!Copy !req
1127. Stop addressing the audience!Copy !req
1128. I'm accused of conspiracy.Copy !req
1129. I admit to it.Copy !req
1130. I have conspired.Copy !req
1131. In my heart, with myself,
I conspired.Copy !req
1132. I conspired for peace,Copy !req
1133. amnesty, respect for the Law,Copy !req
1134. for public order.Copy !req
1135. I conspired for happiness
and justice.Copy !req
1136. These errors,Copy !req
1137. because apparently
that's what they are,Copy !req
1138. I admit to them, proudly.Copy !req
1139. But I admit only to them...Copy !req
1140. Another error:
being popular and strong.Copy !req
1141. When only anonymityCopy !req
1142. one a long life
and slyness guarantee.Copy !req
1143. To survive, don't be loved.Copy !req
1144. That's one of our new laws!Copy !req
1145. All the more powerfulCopy !req
1146. for being unwritten.Copy !req
1147. The people love
woe to strong men.Copy !req
1148. Long live mediocre,Copy !req
1149. taciturn,Copy !req
1150. bitter men,
huddled in their offices.Copy !req
1151. The Revolution is like Saturn,Copy !req
1152. devouring its children.Copy !req
1153. Why must we,Copy !req
1154. what fate propels us,Copy !req
1155. to condemn and not forgive?Copy !req
1156. Why all this bloodshed,Copy !req
1157. when will it stop,Copy !req
1158. if it ever does?Copy !req
1159. I tried to dampenCopy !req
1160. the Revolution's fire.Copy !req
1161. And I still do
I think I was right.Copy !req
1162. In your cold eyes,Copy !req
1163. I read my death.Copy !req
1164. You decided that before
entering this room.Copy !req
1165. I wonder: was I wrong?Copy !req
1166. Other men disagree with me.Copy !req
1167. Their idealism knows no bounds.Copy !req
1168. Everywhere, they see onlyCopy !req
1169. speculators,Copy !req
1170. villains and traitors!Copy !req
1171. Revolutionary principlesCopy !req
1172. have made them forget
the Revolution!Copy !req
1173. They've set up a dictatorship,
worse than the old one.Copy !req
1174. Fearing the return of tyrants,
they've become tyrants!Copy !req
1175. Fouquier, you said the people
wanted blood.Copy !req
1176. Liar! Lies!Copy !req
1177. Not the people, you want blood!Copy !req
1178. The people want only
to live in peace.Copy !req
1179. Don't saddle them with
your thirst for blood!Copy !req
1180. Danton, you betrayed yourself!Copy !req
1181. Only a conspirator,Copy !req
1182. an enemy of the government,Copy !req
1183. could thus insultCopy !req
1184. the People's Tribunal.Copy !req
1185. The people have only
one dangerous enemy:Copy !req
1186. the government!Copy !req
1187. Stop the trial! Free Danton!Copy !req
1188. Call the guards.Copy !req
1189. I've been wounded 7 times.
In the chest!Copy !req
1190. Shoot me in the back!Copy !req
1191. Don't abandon your defenders!Copy !req
1192. Let me through!Copy !req
1193. Free Danton!Copy !req
1194. Freedom gets silenced here,Copy !req
1195. and you do nothing!Copy !req
1196. Come here!Copy !req
1197. They arrested you, too!Copy !req
1198. So there is some justice!Copy !req
1199. The creator of the Tribunal is to die!Copy !req
1200. I'll die, but so will you!Copy !req
1201. Right! Spit at him!Copy !req
1202. How can you pack living
people in like this!Copy !req
1203. Where is he?Copy !req
1204. Here.Copy !req
1205. Did he confess?Copy !req
1206. I lied... I never said this.Copy !req
1207. I did it to avoid a catastrophe.Copy !req
1208. What catastrophe?Copy !req
1209. Sign the statement.Copy !req
1210. Sign it!Copy !req
1211. It wasn't a plot.Copy !req
1212. Then what was it?Copy !req
1213. Just this...Copy !req
1214. Lucie Desmoulins wantedCopy !req
1215. to gather Danton's friends.Copy !req
1216. Such a list amounts to a plot.Copy !req
1217. It wasn't a plot.Copy !req
1218. Sign your deposition...Copy !req
1219. If you don't want do die...Copy !req
1220. We've discovered a plot.Copy !req
1221. All Paris is in it.Copy !req
1222. What plot?Copy !req
1223. Desmoulins' wife
and Danton's friends.Copy !req
1224. Lots of support...Copy !req
1225. Tomorrow they plannedCopy !req
1226. to surround the court.Copy !req
1227. We're cooked.Copy !req
1228. Well, Robespierre?Copy !req
1229. This trial was your mad idea.Copy !req
1230. What now, Maximilien Robespierre?Copy !req
1231. What do you want?Copy !req
1232. - What do you want?
- You ask that?Copy !req
1233. We've won against Danton.Copy !req
1234. What do you mean?Copy !req
1235. Open your eyes.Copy !req
1236. You've all saved your heads.Copy !req
1237. You've escaped.Copy !req
1238. - Escaped? How?
- Listen:Copy !req
1239. any plotCopy !req
1240. is the Convention's worry.Copy !req
1241. If it's threatened,
it'll have to obey the Committee.Copy !req
1242. We must move fastCopy !req
1243. - to get this decree.
- What decree?Copy !req
1244. Danton must be barred from
speaking at the trial.Copy !req
1245. Tell the Convention of the plot.Copy !req
1246. I can't. I'm exhausted.Copy !req
1247. I'll go, and I'll get the decree.Copy !req
1248. Danton wants to call witnesses.Copy !req
1249. - It's out of the question.
- Right!Copy !req
1250. You know we're innocent.Copy !req
1251. But you don't care.Copy !req
1252. You're following your orders.Copy !req
1253. Fouquier knows which orders.Copy !req
1254. What are they? Confess!Copy !req
1255. So I too am to haveCopy !req
1256. the kiss of steel.Copy !req
1257. But mark my words:Copy !req
1258. you can behead us,Copy !req
1259. but he who gave the order,Copy !req
1260. will soon be rotting beside me.Copy !req
1261. He knows that if he kills me
he'll die of it.Copy !req
1262. You want to murder me
without a trace.Copy !req
1263. You won't let reporters take notes.Copy !req
1264. The clerks are sitting idly:Copy !req
1265. they've also been toldCopy !req
1266. to write nothing.Copy !req
1267. It must all disappear.Copy !req
1268. Am I to vanish too?Copy !req
1269. No! I won't!Copy !req
1270. I'll keep on talkingCopy !req
1271. because I'm immortal!Copy !req
1272. For I am the people,Copy !req
1273. the people are with me!Copy !req
1274. You murderers...Copy !req
1275. will be judged by the people.Copy !req
1276. I'm talking,Copy !req
1277. and I'll go on talking.Copy !req
1278. Maybe the air will holdCopy !req
1279. the echo of my voice.Copy !req
1280. Delegates of the Nation!Copy !req
1281. here is the Convention's latest decree.Copy !req
1282. It has voted the following decree:Copy !req
1283. the Tribunal will conduct
the trial without interruption.Copy !req
1284. Any defendant opposing itCopy !req
1285. will leave the courtroom at once.Copy !req
1286. We have unearthed a plotCopy !req
1287. to free the accused
and end the Republic.Copy !req
1288. The Desmoulins woman
is in the streetsCopy !req
1289. buying up the people.Copy !req
1290. And beware:Copy !req
1291. agents of subversion
are in this room.Copy !req
1292. It's a lie!Copy !req
1293. They want to kill Lucille.Copy !req
1294. If you interrupt, I'll throw you out.Copy !req
1295. I ask you:
have we opposed the court?Copy !req
1296. Or insulted it?Copy !req
1297. From time to time.Copy !req
1298. Bravo, Georges!Copy !req
1299. Thank God it's over.Copy !req
1300. Glorious Tribunal, nest of thieves,Copy !req
1301. blackmailers and pimps,Copy !req
1302. I have one thing to tell you:Copy !req
1303. you're not fit to spit at!Copy !req
1304. In obedience to the decree,Copy !req
1305. I order DantonCopy !req
1306. to leave the court.Copy !req
1307. Take him away!Copy !req
1308. Murderers!Copy !req
1309. You won't silence us!Copy !req
1310. Lacroix, out!Copy !req
1311. I'll order myself out.Copy !req
1312. Me too. We could have
started this way.Copy !req
1313. Now go screw yourselves;Copy !req
1314. Having convicted them of plotting,Copy !req
1315. with Fabre and the others,Copy !req
1316. are they guilty of selling their votesCopy !req
1317. in a plot to slanderCopy !req
1318. the nation's representativesCopy !req
1319. and destroy the government?Copy !req
1320. We will now read the sentence.Copy !req
1321. Lacroix, Danton, Hérault,
Phillippeaux, Westermann,Copy !req
1322. Desmoulins and the rest
are condemned to death.Copy !req
1323. Their goods are confiscated.Copy !req
1324. Execution is to take place
within 24 hours,Copy !req
1325. and notice posted
throughout the country.Copy !req
1326. Without me it'll collapse.Copy !req
1327. There'll be nothing but terror.Copy !req
1328. The Revolution is shamed!Copy !req
1329. Hiding your fear?Copy !req
1330. No! I'm hiding nothing.Copy !req
1331. I'm scared too.Copy !req
1332. I thought I could look death
in the eye, but I can't.Copy !req
1333. It will all collapse in 3 months.Copy !req
1334. 3 months, no more.Copy !req
1335. No, wait.Copy !req
1336. I don't feel well.Copy !req
1337. Just when you're entering history?Copy !req
1338. Let him be.Copy !req
1339. Careful, I'll cut you.Copy !req
1340. I remember what
old Doc Guillotin said:Copy !req
1341. you feel nothing
when the blade drops.Copy !req
1342. Just a pleasantly cool sensation.Copy !req
1343. I'm a fraud. For years I yelledCopy !req
1344. "long live virtue". Then I got caught.Copy !req
1345. We do what we can.Copy !req
1346. I was had by the civilians.Copy !req
1347. Hurry up!Copy !req
1348. I had a short but happy life.Copy !req
1349. I've no regrets.Copy !req
1350. - All set?
- Yes.Copy !req
1351. You'll follow me soon.
You'll be forgotten.Copy !req
1352. Your house shall be razed.Copy !req
1353. Show the people my head.
It's worth it.Copy !req
1354. It's over, Maxime.
The people let it happen.Copy !req
1355. You must become dictator now.Copy !req
1356. No! I feel...Copy !req
1357. that everything I've lived for...Copy !req
1358. has collapsed forever.Copy !req
1359. I don't understand.Copy !req
1360. The Revolution...Copy !req
1361. is off course.Copy !req
1362. How can you say that?Copy !req
1363. I don't know what I'm saying.Copy !req
1364. You admit a dictatorship is needed.Copy !req
1365. Then the nation can't govern itself,Copy !req
1366. and democracy is an illusion.Copy !req
1367. I'm crazy!Copy !req
1368. No, desperate.Copy !req
1369. So blow your brains out.Copy !req
1370. Good idea...Copy !req
1371. It would end my troubles.Copy !req
1372. I just want to sleep.Copy !req
1373. Go out quietly.Copy !req
1374. My brother has learned
something for you.Copy !req
1375. "Article One: All men are born...Copy !req
1376. "... free and equalCopy !req
1377. "... in law.Copy !req
1378. "Social differences must be
based on the public good.Copy !req
1379. "Article Two:Copy !req
1380. "the goal of political parties...Copy !req
1381. "... is to safeguard...Copy !req
1382. "... man's inalienable rights.Copy !req
1383. "Article Three:Copy !req
1384. "sovereignty resides in the people.Copy !req
1385. "No group or individual may rule...Copy !req
1386. "... without their express consent.Copy !req
1387. "Article Four:Copy !req
1388. "freedom is the right to do
anything not harmful to others.Copy !req
1389. "Man's natural rights
are limited only...Copy !req
1390. "... by what assures to others
in society...Copy !req
1391. "... the exercise of those rights.Copy !req
1392. "Only the law can set such limits."Copy !req