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00:01:30Eight o'clock
00:01:39Your broth
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00:01:46Otherwise, it won't do you any good.
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00:03:16I have the asparagus you ordered. They are very beautiful. Pick them this morning.
00:03:21And my strawberries?
00:03:40I already told you that it causes itching.
00:03:46Oh madam, there you are at last.
00:03:48What's going on?
00:03:49Monsieur de Fontenelle got up again in the middle of the night to go and look at those damned stars.
00:03:53And I found him asleep in his study.
00:03:56Honestly, madam, I wonder what he hopes for.
00:03:59If he believes that the inhabitants of the Moon will signal him to come up.
00:04:02So he convinced you that the Moon was inhabited?
00:04:04No, not the Moon.
00:04:07But wait, we're getting lost in all these celestial bodies.
00:04:13In any case, I think the inhabitants of the sky are tired of being watched.
00:04:18With those glasses, they look like rifles.
00:04:21Monsieur de Fontenelle may be a great scholar, but there are some things one simply doesn't do at his age.
00:04:24Madam, only you, his little niece, can reason with him.
00:04:32What would I tell him, he is reason itself?
00:04:34Goodbye, dear.
00:04:36At most, he could contain his gluttony.
00:04:44Ah, my dear niece.
00:04:46Good morning, Uncle.
00:04:49You look great.
00:04:50I am delighted.
00:04:51Isn't there any cheese?
00:04:57You won't have dinner if you eat cheese at this hour.
00:05:00Neuver, we're back from your ringing.
00:05:01I know all too well that you won't just take one piece.
00:05:06You will witness that after 95 years, I am condemned to die of starvation in my own home.
00:05:12And don't skip the kitchen.
00:05:13Indeed.
00:05:14And didn't you notice what was being prepared for dinner?
00:05:18Asparagus, Uncle.
00:05:19Praise be to God.
00:05:20It's strange how eating asparagus seems to you to be an advanced form of happiness.
00:05:25You talk about happiness as if I knew its secrets.
00:05:29Isn't that the truth?
00:05:31I do believe that the secrets of happiness are not unknown to you.
00:05:38You call simple precautions secrets.
00:05:41Give me one.
00:05:42But the simplest thing is to take care of yourself in all circumstances.
00:05:46The measure of happiness that has been given to us is quite small, my dear niece.
00:05:55So I'm careful not to lose anything.
00:06:05And was it one of your precautions not to get married?
00:06:10Please excuse me.
00:06:10A pertinent question.
00:06:19In the knots of the anthem, what good is it for me to get involved?
00:06:24I am one, that should be enough.
00:06:27If there were two of me, my condition would be worse.
00:06:31That's enough of me to make me furious.
00:06:35Your mastery of epigrams gets you out of any situation.
00:06:39Nevertheless, you know how to make women adore you.
00:06:42Maybe.
00:06:43But we marry them.
00:06:45And besides, we know them.
00:06:46Marriage is a natural thing, though.
00:06:48No, sorry, the plan.
00:06:50I say, the idea of getting married must have crossed your mind.
00:06:55Some peas, yes, in the morning.
00:06:56Voltaire is said to have told the King of Prussia that you were
00:07:13the most universal spirit that the century of Louis XIV embodied.
00:07:18Compliments weren't in his nature,
00:07:20I deduce that something bad must have happened to him.
00:07:24The cold, perhaps.
00:07:26I am always amazed that my sessions at the academy
00:07:31don't tire you out any more.
00:07:33Why do you want to?
00:07:35No more enemies, please.
00:07:36It seems you have forgotten what Mr. Boileau and La Bruyère said about you that was unpleasant.
00:08:01It is not worth forgetting my childhood at its root among my adversaries.
00:08:05I forgave them and it did me a lot of good.
00:08:09No, today I only blame them for all being dead.
00:08:15Take care, always so kindly, dear child.
00:08:19Well, for me, it's the gentleman I find too kind.
00:08:31He doesn't hold a grudge against anyone and is content with everything.
00:08:34I sometimes wonder if these are manifestations of immense kindness.
00:08:38or no kindness at all.
00:08:40Sometimes I have trouble getting the dust off it.
00:08:50He scares me.
00:08:52I believe Mr. de Fontenelle was even more impressed by his uncle than you were.
00:08:56I understand.
00:08:57Being the nephew of the great Corneille is quite a situation.
00:09:01For you too, madam.
00:09:04Oh, little niece of Corneille's nephew, that's a discreet place.
00:09:08But what are you doing?
00:09:34The gentleman had had enough.
00:09:35How could he have had enough?
00:09:37Ah yes, he doesn't want to see it anymore, that trunk.
00:09:3960 years old, apparently.
00:09:40But it's full.
00:09:42Oh yes, for sure, madam, it's full.
00:09:44You can really feel it when you're wearing it.
00:09:46That's exactly what the gentleman didn't want to read.
00:09:48But what are you talking about, Simon?
00:09:50Those are the gentleman's newspapers that are in this trunk.
00:09:52Well, I'm not saying no.
00:09:53I say that he never wanted to read them.
00:09:55Who told you this nonsense?
00:09:58It is...
00:09:59That's him.
00:10:01Who is he?
00:10:02Mr. de Fontenelle.
00:10:07It's amusing, but it doesn't hold water.
00:10:09Why wouldn't he have read them?
00:10:12The gentleman would not want us to repeat what he told only to us.
00:10:15Repeat it anyway, madam is asking you to.
00:10:17Well, he didn't read them because he suspected they weren't saying anything good about him in them.
00:10:22He was even being attacked.
00:10:23After all, that's pretty much in keeping with his style.
00:10:33Never go looking for anything that might spoil your mood.
00:10:37That's him all over, indeed.
00:10:39Clear out!
00:10:40Come on!
00:10:41And you'll be sweeping again!
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00:11:12That's everyone.
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00:12:12My age demands temperance.
00:12:14What a great deal!
00:12:15What is age when glory surpasses us?
00:12:18Would you nevertheless accept a few fricative girls?
00:12:21Go this way.
00:12:25Monsieur de Fontenelle has identified you as being the most witty members of the Assembly.
00:12:29The most witty person in Madame Geoffrin's salon.
00:12:33This is Mrs. Geoffrin.
00:12:35Monsieur de Fontenelle surpasses us all, Vallière.
00:12:37Instead, tell him what your conversation was like during dinner.
00:12:41What were you arguing about?
00:12:43We thought it was very difficult for a woman to detect feelings beneath gallant behavior.
00:12:50Mr. de Vallière argued that this was yet another trial of men's sincerity.
00:12:54So, what did the past century think about it?
00:12:56Well, I...
00:12:57I do not observe feelings the way I observe planets.
00:13:02You don't have to observe what you are simply given to feel?
00:13:06Certainly, but it is presumptuous to claim that I have already felt anything.
00:13:11For 80 years I have relegated feeling to my poetry.
00:13:15And you call that having lived.
00:13:21I believe I was as attentive as was appropriate with women.
00:13:24But love...
00:13:28I can't hear properly.
00:13:29I was talking about love.
00:13:32He and I are incompatible.
00:13:35Yet it is said that your favorite novel is none other than The Princess of Clèves.
00:13:42Its style is unsurpassed.
00:13:44It is even more lively.
00:13:46It couldn't be simpler.
00:13:48So, bigger.
00:13:50But The Princess is a love story.
00:13:52Which did not take place.
00:13:54What wisdom.
00:13:56Since you maintain that feelings are foreign to you,
00:13:59I suppose these are the ideas that are in your favor?
00:14:01No more than that.
00:14:02Defending theories means responding, complaining, accusing, suspecting.
00:14:08I love my rest too much.
00:14:11And then...
00:14:13Why argue?
00:14:14Anything is possible.
00:14:17And everyone is right.
00:14:20Come on, come on.
00:14:22I know some ideas that do not leave you indifferent.
00:14:25If I told you that Mr. d'Alembert came to read us his preliminary speech for the encyclopedia yesterday,
00:14:31and that the Chevalier de Jocourt showed us some admirable illustrations of the trades...
00:14:35It was deadly boring.
00:14:38You still seem very much alive to me.
00:14:40But what exactly are you looking for with this encyclopedia?
00:14:43To instruct the mediocre about things they will not understand?
00:14:47What could be more ridiculous than talking about philosophy with workers?
00:14:51Entertainment and games, that's what the people want.
00:14:56Such remarks will get you banned from the Academy, I guarantee it.
00:15:01First, you'll have to make people forget your libertine works.
00:15:03And I fully intend to be born from the Academy.
00:15:06My works are light, I admit, but composing them is just as hard work, believe me.
00:15:12A single page takes me... three or four hours.
00:15:16You'll eventually make up for all that wasted time.
00:15:18But I am more modest than you imagine, sir.
00:15:21You wouldn't have dared to say it to yourself, sir.
00:15:25All these women fighting over old Fontenelle in the hope that he will die in their living room.
00:15:33Poor Vallière, he thinks he's of a superior mind, but he sorely lacks superiority.
00:15:39And he lacks spirit.
00:15:41Come, let's hear the music up close.
00:15:44She's unbearable enough from a distance.
00:15:46Do you prefer painting?
00:15:48Oh, the painting, the walls are spoiled by too many portraits.
00:15:52The sculpture?
00:15:54I let the statues look at me.
00:15:58So the arts don't affect you at all.
00:16:00I can't fit so many things into my life.
00:16:07Later, perhaps.
00:16:10Your strength lies in placing yourself beyond reach in all circumstances.
00:16:13Nothing affects you.
00:16:14I admire you.
00:16:17Good evening, dear Fontenelle.
00:16:19Pardon?
00:16:20Good evening.
00:16:22Good evening.
00:16:52Look, Monsieur de Fontenelle.
00:17:04There are no whispered words that you will not hear.
00:17:07With, as has often been observed, even more precision than those who hear normally.
00:17:12This is because the pavilion is very wide.
00:17:14Wouldn't we go there like a cornucopia which, instead of pouring out its fruits, would gather subjects and verbs through its vast mouth to make you hear them.
00:17:24Now then, sir, would you like to adjust the ear trumpet to your ear?
00:17:27The smaller end slides in quite naturally.
00:17:31Go for it.
00:17:34Yeah.
00:17:34So, how do you hear me, Monsieur de Fontenelle?
00:17:37Three times.
00:17:39Ah yes, I'm confused.
00:17:40That's because it's natural when you're talking to someone whose Louis is failing.
00:17:45Well, I can't believe my ears.
00:17:55What is this?
00:17:56We were asked to come and collect it for Mr. de Fontenelle.
00:17:59And who asked you?
00:18:02Adjust, remove.
00:18:05Adjust, remove.
00:18:07So.
00:18:07Isn't the device too heavy, sir?
00:18:09Sir!
00:18:10Sir!
00:18:11Mrs. Geoffrin sends you...
00:18:13Madame Geoffrin is sending you something.
00:18:25Oh.
00:18:26I can read much better now.
00:18:31I was able to acquire this portrait of your friend Lefrainois without too much difficulty from what remains of his family.
00:18:37I did it with the intention of offering it to you.
00:18:39Convince yourself that the face of the one who was closest to you is that of such a great friend,
00:18:44You will remember those long moments you spent together saying nothing.
00:18:47And yet, I understand you.
00:18:49As only discretion and innocence know how to understand each other.
00:18:53Yes.
00:18:54So today, twenty years have passed since his death,
00:18:59I'm going to thank Mrs. Geoffrin right away.
00:19:03Why did you spend those moments saying nothing?
00:19:07Mr. Lefrainois was so quiet.
00:19:11The portrait exudes a striking resemblance.
00:19:15Look.
00:19:15It looks like he's going to buy it.
00:19:24What a fine group this is.
00:19:30And all these people here to welcome me?
00:19:33We are always delighted to see you, Father.
00:19:36Alright.
00:19:37Alright.
00:19:38Alright.
00:19:39I'm talking about that letter marked with the lighthouse that the small reservoir has just published.
00:19:48Well.
00:19:49What do you mean, well?
00:19:50What does this letter say?
00:19:52You're joking.
00:19:53It is claimed everywhere that it is yours.
00:19:55Did anyone see me write it?
00:19:56I can tell, for one, that it's from your pen.
00:19:59Speaking with such insolence is something only you or Voltaire could do.
00:20:02A letter that describes the Lord's embarrassment at the time of the resurrection identifies its author.
00:20:07Will you tell me its name at the end?
00:20:09Mock, mock, I see that under the guise of showing things of science which holy hearts understand nothing of,
00:20:14It is well read to throw it off the table.
00:20:17Why explain what should remain inexplicable?
00:20:20You sometimes remind me of certain sailors whose cases would let water through.
00:20:25but which would prohibit bailing.
00:20:31Yes.
00:20:32Panégaard, it is said that Voltaire was born from your works.
00:20:36Let them talk.
00:20:38Because you cannot accept that your work brings potion to this empire.
00:20:41I blame myself for your actions, haven't I? But that's not all...
00:20:44Yes, but you cannot ignore that Voltaire speaks of God as... as... as if he did not exist.
00:20:49Like what?
00:20:50How annoying that I have to make myself repeat these things.
00:20:52As if... as if it didn't exist.
00:20:57Voltaire does not deny it.
00:20:59He wonders.
00:21:01It is your story about oracles that has caused the harm.
00:21:04I do not turn to my oracles in the face of the spectacle of ignorance and stupidity exploited by bad faith.
00:21:11Certainly, but...
00:21:12But this show seems to me to have a great future ahead of it.
00:21:16Well, precisely, weak and impure minds were able to deduce that God only existed because we wanted to believe in him.
00:21:21My friend, ignorance is demonstrated less by things that exist and whose reason is unknown to us than by those that do not exist.
00:21:34And we find the reason.
00:21:37Because not only do we not possess the principles that lead to truth, but we have others that are very compatible with falsehood.
00:21:45Father, will he stay for dinner?
00:21:53Excuse me? In your servant's arms.
00:21:55But who is there?
00:21:56Dinner!
00:21:57Well !
00:21:58Do you want your asparagus?
00:22:00Oh, I love it.
00:22:02I love it.
00:22:04Me too.
00:22:05That's butter, huh, what a joke.
00:22:07But I prefer it with oil.
00:22:08With butter, they retain their firmness.
00:22:10And with oil, the flavor comes through more.
00:22:12It digests just as well with butter.
00:22:15My niece only likes them with oil.
00:22:17Okay, what should I do?
00:22:20Half with oil, half with butter.
00:22:22I know your way well, you know.
00:22:28Nothing vehement ever.
00:22:29Your impertinence is extremely mild, barely noticeable.
00:22:32No sparkle, no taca.
00:22:34Thus, it will not be wrong to consider the most terrible, the most terrible ideas.
00:22:38I do not profess any ideas.
00:22:40I observe and I smile.
00:22:43That's quite enough.
00:22:45Hey, you mix everything up without seeming to.
00:22:47That's the truth.
00:22:48Reasoning, reasoning, that's your only defense.
00:22:50I maintain that it's bad to reason constantly
00:22:53that it is the most insidious way to gradually drift away
00:22:55of the path that has been packed down for us.
00:22:58By whom?
00:23:01You see, you're still reasoning.
00:23:04I wonder if all my efforts will ever be enough.
00:23:06for your salvation.
00:23:09What if?
00:23:11François, donkey!
00:23:25The asparagus, all in oil.
00:23:29No, no, tell me at the garden entrance.
00:23:42Finally, here you are.
00:24:02We were just waiting for you to come for supper.
00:24:05Wait, any news from that good Father Chalon?
00:24:07He is back on his feet, so to speak.
00:24:11something round.
00:24:13You keep repeating it.
00:24:15I'm not asking what he did to you.
00:24:17He scares me!
00:24:19There it is!
00:24:22Dear Fontenelle,
00:24:29I don't believe I've introduced you to Isabelle.
00:24:32My sister's daughter, Count Delatorre
00:24:34arrived from Florence last week.
00:24:39Ah, your asparagus!
00:24:41It is said, sir, that you could not resist a cruel word.
00:24:50of which Abbot Chalon was the innocent victim.
00:24:52Cruelty is not my way, sir.
00:24:55But if that's true,
00:24:56What I said seems to have put asparagus back into fashion.
00:25:02Mr. Philosopher,
00:25:04It seems you refuse to believe in love.
00:25:07Please.
00:25:08Isn't it true that love exists?
00:25:11I admit that at seven minutes, I no longer have any doubts.
00:25:16I was told it was a charming desentery
00:25:21which concerns you, dear Fontenelle.
00:25:24To someone who wanted to make an investment,
00:25:26It has been advised against doing it on your head.
00:25:28except for a total loss.
00:25:29because you grow younger as you get older.
00:25:32The other day, I wanted to have a family heirloom moved,
00:25:34an old secretary that looked brand new.
00:25:38Well, it collapsed as soon as we touched it.
00:25:39It was rotten.
00:25:44I'm afraid of getting old.
00:25:46For women, the disgrace of the senses is a horrible thing.
00:25:52Nonsense.
00:25:53To prevent our senses from aging,
00:25:56It is necessary to ensure their regular operation.
00:25:58to maintain them in a way.
00:26:00Following your advice, we would quickly fall into excess, it seems to me.
00:26:04A man of quality knows how to temper his boldness.
00:26:07I'm afraid so, miss.
00:26:09Our speeches bore you.
00:26:11Yours, you mean.
00:26:15When beauty and youth come together so magnificently,
00:26:19Do we want to hear dry, lifeless words?
00:26:22Do we even want to hear anything at all?
00:26:25Words always delay actions.
00:26:27The desiccated ones?
00:26:28Oh no, that's not possible.
00:26:30Grand-pense, your niece?
00:26:32She'll tell you herself, Baron Grimm.
00:26:34I'm not yet at the point of taking her advice to heart.
00:26:38That doesn't mean we can't sort through them.
00:26:40To recognize the truth in what is generous, sensitive, devoted, in a word, in what comes from the heart.
00:26:48You might say that all beings possess a heart.
00:26:51Well, no.
00:26:53Science still hides it from us, but some people are truly devoid of it.
00:26:57Really ?
00:26:58I know some personally.
00:26:59In some faraway lands, I think.
00:27:01Not at all, right here.
00:27:03You might ask.
00:27:04What's the point? He's already recognized himself.
00:27:06I am determined to give a presentation at the academy on the intelligence of the asparagus.
00:27:20It is a particularly tasty vegetable, but also a difficult one to eat.
00:27:29In short, made to please us.
00:27:30But with a discretion that is enchanting.
00:27:35All you need to do is know how asparagus grows.
00:27:39They poke their heads out.
00:27:41First, to see if they are not a problem.
00:27:48And then, knowing they were expected, they came.
00:27:54All of it.
00:27:58No other vegetable possesses this elegance.
00:28:04To be honest, sir, it's not exactly about the academy and asparagus that we were expecting you to talk.
00:28:09On what else?
00:28:10Well, regarding what Mr. de Vallière claims, the absence of heart.
00:28:14You're having trouble hearing.
00:28:16How so?
00:28:17Mr. de Vallière believes that this does not exist because the heart, like the brain, are organs that are still foreign to him.
00:28:26I understand that for the moment, he is only interested in the area between the hip and the knee.
00:28:31Let us bless the spirit, sir.
00:28:39He's the one who will kill you.
00:28:41So don't even think about the academy anymore.
00:28:44You are already immortal.
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00:31:43THANKS.
00:31:53THANKS.
00:31:54THANKS.
00:32:03Come.
00:32:04Mr. Leforger promised to teach us a new mind game.
00:32:06We prefer that I withdraw.
00:32:08As you wish.
00:32:08Doesn't my niece have a wonderful voice?
00:32:12Probably.
00:32:13But how would I have benefited from it?
00:32:16Is this yours?
00:32:19I don't see the point in burdening myself with other people's possessions.
00:32:22I mean, do you really need it?
00:32:26Alas, my good friend, I have now reached the age of accessories.
00:32:30I don't see the point in cluttering myself with cluttering myself with cluttering myself with cluttering myself with cluttering myself.
00:32:36I don't see the point in cluttering myself with cluttering myself with cluttering myself.
00:33:06Ah, have no fear.
00:33:10My eyesight is also bad.
00:33:11Sir ?
00:33:13Sir ?
00:33:27Is anyone speaking?
00:33:35Me, sir?
00:33:37Your wit charmed me, sir.
00:33:55I understand why my aunt values your presence so much.
00:33:59Did you like the songs I sang?
00:34:01Would your voice and accent make you love all the songs in the world?
00:34:07Do you know that I am familiar with your interviews on the plurality of worlds?
00:34:12They are very famous in Italy.
00:34:14How fortunate is this marquise to be educated by you?
00:34:18Mercury, Venus, Jupiter.
00:34:22But I'm making you late.
00:34:25Good day sir.
00:34:25Are we ready, sir?
00:34:33Not me!
00:34:35I forgive you for interrupting my path if you accept that I stand in yours.
00:34:54Would I be eligible for a degree in astronomy?
00:34:58I like science, you know.
00:35:01I imagine your evenings spent instructing the marquise were similar to this one.
00:35:14Come on now, you're treating me like I'm ten years younger.
00:35:18Since I cannot claim to hold the position of your marquise,
00:35:26I will be content with the beauty of this spectacle.
00:35:29Who would that be?
00:35:31The seals and the scholars.
00:35:34I believe that a day will come when man will visit the planets.
00:35:38You are right.
00:35:40He will not be wise enough to give it up.
00:35:42He will not be able to help but feel pride in it.
00:35:45As always.
00:35:46Were you less pessimistic with the marquise?
00:35:51Marquise?
00:35:53Imaginary.
00:35:58Are you serious?
00:36:00I simply wanted to explain the principles that govern the universe.
00:36:05So I imagined conversations with a marquise.
00:36:08In the evening, in the park of a castle.
00:36:11I dreamed of a work that was neither too dry nor too light.
00:36:17But it may well be that by seeking a middle ground that convinces everyone,
00:36:21I found one that doesn't suit anyone.
00:36:25Finding the middle ground is impossible.
00:36:28I won't be fooled again.
00:36:31Yet it is thanks to you that women take pleasure in science.
00:36:36Many men will never forgive you for it.
00:36:40Finally,
00:36:41The confession you made to me now absolves me of the need to show jealousy towards your marquise.
00:36:47I beg your pardon.
00:36:47I talked about jealousy.
00:36:52I confess, I don't know what it is.
00:36:55I believe you.
00:36:56Only a woman knows.
00:37:00Okay, seen.
00:37:01I'm not being entirely honest.
00:37:04Pardon.
00:37:06This marquise,
00:37:07I didn't invent it entirely.
00:37:11I was inspired by a real person.
00:37:14Who ?
00:37:15A lady from my province
00:37:18with whom many thought I was
00:37:22diligent.
00:37:25Were you?
00:37:27She made sure that my manners were always honest.
00:37:30and obliging.
00:37:34Young people don't hear that anymore.
00:37:37The only interest of young people is to escape feelings.
00:37:42Finally, sir,
00:37:43for feelings
00:37:46that he is a tricky advisor.
00:37:49What does it matter?
00:37:51Good advice is recognized by the fact that it is never followed.
00:37:53and the bad ones to whom everyone hastened to precede them.
00:37:59I have delayed you far too long, sir.
00:38:02Did I say something to displease you?
00:38:04The night is cool, suddenly.
00:38:09On the contrary, she is very gentle.
00:38:12I'm worried about catching a cold.
00:38:15I would hate to give away your point of view
00:38:17To your health.
00:38:18The third act begins with a scene
00:38:29between the marquise and Dubois.
00:38:34Drink.
00:38:38It's scorching hot.
00:38:40You worry less about the hot and the cold
00:38:42in some houses I know.
00:38:43I need to write a letter.
00:38:49Come on.
00:39:02It's hot.
00:39:06My poor friend, you are in a sorry state.
00:39:31Because of the humidity in your garden.
00:39:35What are you telling me?
00:39:36Let the weaknesses arrive
00:39:37From where they are least expected.
00:39:41My niece asked me to deliver this letter to you.
00:39:44She thanks you for staying
00:39:45to listen to him sing.
00:39:48I believe I acted correctly by demanding
00:39:50that Isabelle move in with me.
00:39:52She could not stay in Florence any longer.
00:39:55His mother would never have found
00:39:56a remedy for his ailment was found on the spot.
00:39:57So what ailment is she suffering from?
00:39:59What do you want?
00:40:02Love, my friend.
00:40:04Love.
00:40:04Isabelle recently experienced the downside of a passion
00:40:09that she thought she shared.
00:40:10She surprised the man who had sworn his love to her.
00:40:12in the arms of another.
00:40:14Finally, when I said in his arms,
00:40:16I hope you understand me.
00:40:18My sister became alarmed,
00:40:19because Isabelle's health was showing signs of concern
00:40:21after this painful setback.
00:40:23The number of times is impossible to count
00:40:26where Isabelle was caught in tears.
00:40:28Not to mention that not-so-distant day
00:40:30where she wanted to throw herself into the river.
00:40:33Finally !
00:40:34I rescued my niece from her torment.
00:40:36And there she is, cured.
00:40:36I see you are tired, dear Fontenelle.
00:40:43What did you say?
00:40:44Oh yes.
00:40:46Love.
00:40:47Will you forgive me, sir?
00:40:53such inexplicable behavior,
00:40:56while you were doing me the favor
00:40:58of your immense knowledge.
00:41:01I will need a lot of courage
00:41:02to repair in front of you,
00:41:05even though I cannot resign myself
00:41:07to never see you again.
00:41:17Subtitling by Radio-Canada
00:41:47Miss, miss,
00:41:54Mr. de Fontenelle charged me
00:41:55to give you this.
00:41:56Ah, Monsieur de Fontenelle,
00:42:21I am delighted to see you again.
00:42:22Mr. Diderot and Mr. d'Alembert
00:42:24were saying just now
00:42:25that you were their master.
00:42:26That's no small privilege, madam.
00:42:28than to have been born before everyone else.
00:42:32Maëlle, you look much better.
00:42:35My niece will be delighted to see you again.
00:42:37Just in time, Maëlle.
00:42:39This generation of young people is making our heads spin.
00:42:41Allow me to salute the freest spirit
00:42:53and the most advanced of our time.
00:42:55Mr. d'Alembert,
00:42:57You do me too much honor.
00:42:59Our encyclopedia is indebted to you without faith.
00:43:01You will see that my age
00:43:03will eventually bring me back.
00:43:10I am not one of those men
00:43:12who display certainties.
00:43:15But I know that it is through knowledge
00:43:17and the reasoning
00:43:18that the world will emerge from darkness.
00:43:20Our articles will open his eyes
00:43:22and our subscribers will not just be readers.
00:43:25Do you understand, they will transmit,
00:43:27They will testify.
00:43:28Ah, Monsieur de Fontenay.
00:43:35I am told that you are not sparing any effort.
00:43:37Thank you for your support during this difficult time.
00:43:38Thank you a thousand times over.
00:43:40This first volume of your encyclopedia
00:43:43Delights me, Mr. Diderot.
00:43:45It's a huge undertaking.
00:43:47Perhaps too vast.
00:43:49In any case,
00:43:50It will bring you little satisfaction.
00:43:52Men like you are made
00:43:54for great adventures
00:43:56and the 3D rule.
00:43:59I am unaware of this rule.
00:44:01Disappointed,
00:44:03difficulty,
00:44:04discouragement.
00:44:05Well, I'll add a fourth one.
00:44:07Define.
00:44:08I want to take it up.
00:44:10You are right.
00:44:11He had fallen quite low.
00:44:13lately.
00:44:14Charming painting.
00:44:21Which one is holding the other?
00:44:22Oh, Diderot will always prefer Fontenay to Voltaire.
00:44:25It's better to pet a cat than a scorpion.
00:44:28Mr. de Fontenay.
00:44:39You can see I'm confused.
00:44:41Oh, I want to assure you
00:44:42that the idea you have of me
00:44:43is not the right one.
00:44:44But since I didn't see anything...
00:44:47Oh, the day when
00:44:48You surprised me.
00:44:50My husband had insulted me.
00:44:52Imagine my distress.
00:44:53How could she, madam?
00:44:55It's because he had inflicted this affront upon me.
00:44:57that I took my revenge on him.
00:44:59Imagine Paris Vengeance
00:45:00It costs you a great deal.
00:45:04No one has ever died from being unfaithful.
00:45:06He doesn't dare?
00:45:07Some people like me to be alive, madam.
00:45:10My husband called me a whore.
00:45:12Yet,
00:45:14I felt affection
00:45:15and tenderness
00:45:16for all men
00:45:17which I have had the privilege of knowing.
00:45:19In that case, madam,
00:45:19It's not an insult.
00:45:20recognition.
00:45:22A little bit of freshness
00:45:23It will do me good.
00:45:25What situation, sir?
00:45:37How so?
00:45:39This appointment that you have scheduled with me
00:45:41in the utmost secrecy.
00:45:42Following a letter from you
00:45:44and your aunt
00:45:45who gave it to me,
00:45:46still believes that
00:45:47you were addressing me
00:45:48simple thanks.
00:45:51I owed you an apology.
00:45:52I hardly dare imagine
00:45:54what you thought
00:45:55of me after that evening.
00:45:57But what I thought
00:45:58in the moment
00:45:59has nothing to do with
00:46:00with what I now believe.
00:46:02What do you mean ?
00:46:05That without the evocation
00:46:06of a feeling
00:46:07that torments you
00:46:08more than necessary,
00:46:11I would not have attended
00:46:12to a departure
00:46:12which looked
00:46:14to a leak.
00:46:16So you know?
00:46:21I am less strong
00:46:22that I think so.
00:46:24I think I'm forgetting.
00:46:25I'm just making a mess.
00:46:27It is true
00:46:27and I believe
00:46:28that it will be there
00:46:29my greatest glory.
00:46:31By what force
00:46:32Does it therefore have to be inhabited?
00:46:34I see nothing ordinary about it.
00:46:36in the movements of the heart
00:46:37but I preferred
00:46:38I'll keep that away from you.
00:46:40As if we had
00:46:41the choices.
00:46:42We have it.
00:46:43You should never look
00:46:46than to simplify his life.
00:46:49For my part,
00:46:49I wanted to do
00:46:50the economics of love stories
00:46:51who would have left me with nothing but pants.
00:46:54I know myself too well.
00:46:57But you liked it, sir.
00:46:58He had returned.
00:47:01Would you argue the opposite?
00:47:02This is a very personal matter.
00:47:04for those who hate talking about themselves.
00:47:07Therefore,
00:47:08you could know everything about me
00:47:09and to confide nothing in me in return.
00:47:13Who is my existence?
00:47:15Will she be interested?
00:47:18Me.
00:47:22Why, I beg you?
00:47:25I don't know.
00:47:27Or rather,
00:47:29for the first time,
00:47:31I feel it.
00:47:32to be understood.
00:47:35We don't know each other very well.
00:47:37It is true.
00:47:37And yet,
00:47:39It seems to me that we have already
00:47:41shared a little bit of our life.
00:47:43So you don't want to tell me anything?
00:47:49A day.
00:47:50What day?
00:47:52Another day.
00:47:55Protect yourself from secrets.
00:48:00It is with this kind of reasoning
00:48:01that my little niece
00:48:02claims that everything has gone my way.
00:48:04I fear that the affliction
00:48:05that she wears me
00:48:06to spread them crookedly.
00:48:10In what way would she be wrong?
00:48:11Oh !
00:48:12Just look
00:48:14in what way
00:48:15I have traveled the path.
00:48:16When I wanted to kiss
00:48:17a career as a lawyer
00:48:18in my hometown,
00:48:20I lost the only case
00:48:21which was entrusted to me.
00:48:23What does it matter!
00:48:24You had poetry!
00:48:25I didn't give him
00:48:27more than she gave me back.
00:48:29I'm pretending today
00:48:30to be detached,
00:48:31but I know how much
00:48:32The critics were right.
00:48:34My works merely imitated
00:48:36what was represented
00:48:38worse in the theaters.
00:48:40The Academy accepted you, though?
00:48:43After four attempts,
00:48:45they would have known
00:48:46that I was going to live to a ripe old age,
00:48:48that they were doing to me
00:48:48wait longer.
00:48:51You're a complete idiot.
00:48:54Without reading your works,
00:48:55would I have good taste
00:48:56for science
00:48:57And would I have committed a crime?
00:48:59What is it?
00:49:01A short treatise.
00:49:02A short treatise.
00:49:06Two remarks rather
00:49:07on refraction
00:49:08light.
00:49:09Would I have the honor
00:49:10to read them?
00:49:12Would you accept?
00:49:13in exchange
00:49:13to teach me
00:49:14Stargazing?
00:49:17I'm too clumsy.
00:49:18Observing...
00:49:19Isabelle!
00:49:20Stargazing,
00:49:22Yes ?
00:49:22I don't really understand it.
00:49:23to teach anything.
00:49:25Isabelle!
00:49:26Come on, accept it.
00:49:28What stubbornness!
00:49:29Isabelle!
00:49:31So be it!
00:49:33What was that air about it?
00:49:34that you sing?
00:49:37It's a tune we sing.
00:49:43in Florence
00:49:43and which speaks of love.
00:49:46Isabelle!
00:49:47Who knows at what moment
00:49:54of the succession
00:49:55animal generations
00:49:56Where are we at?
00:49:58Who knows
00:49:59if this deformed biped
00:50:00which is only four feet tall
00:50:02who is still called a man
00:50:03and which would not be long in coming
00:50:04to lose this name
00:50:05by deforming
00:50:06a little more
00:50:07is not the image
00:50:09of a passing species?
00:50:11Diderot is wonderful.
00:50:13It's thanks to men
00:50:13like him
00:50:14that the world will open up.
00:50:15The world!
00:50:16Do you realize?
00:50:17Who can I?
00:50:18We are going to discover
00:50:19so many new things
00:50:20I can't wait!
00:50:21And as I wish.
00:50:22My son,
00:50:23Desires are useless.
00:50:25when you can have it all.
00:50:26Who knows if everything
00:50:27does not tend to shrink
00:50:28to a large sediment
00:50:29inert and olive-free?
00:50:31Who knows
00:50:32what will the duration be
00:50:33of this inertia?
00:50:35Who knows
00:50:35What new race?
00:50:37may result
00:50:41from a cluster
00:50:42also great
00:50:43sensitive fists
00:50:44and alive.
00:50:52It will be easier
00:50:53to teach mechanics
00:50:55than tolerance.
00:50:57Probably.
00:50:59It will be necessary, though.
00:51:01Perhaps it's there
00:51:02our true purpose.
00:51:03Certainly.
00:51:05But the man
00:51:06he moves forward
00:51:08and he backs away.
00:51:10You will not change it
00:51:10Not easily.
00:51:12I am not pessimistic.
00:51:15Bessoir like that one.
00:51:17Me neither.
00:51:36from the shower.
00:51:46Well! What are we waiting for, Françoise?
00:52:12There's nobody here! Françoise!
00:52:15Why are you shouting like that?
00:52:17First, what are you doing standing up?
00:52:19It's about time, it seems to me!
00:52:21Seven o'clock hasn't struck yet?
00:52:23Oh, there it is! But what's the need for bells?
00:52:25My own internal clock tells me he's here!
00:52:28What time is it? But...
00:52:30You see!
00:52:45...
00:52:47...
00:52:51...
00:52:55...
00:52:59...
00:53:01...
00:53:05...
00:53:09...
00:53:11...
00:53:13...
00:53:23...
00:53:27...
00:53:39...
00:53:40I know that when someone behaves like that in their 95th year,
00:53:44This means that unreason is at work.
00:53:49You say nothing, of course.
00:53:56Well, uncle, what are you doing here?
00:53:59...
00:54:01I'm waiting.
00:54:02Are you waiting?
00:54:03Yes, a young person...
00:54:05...
00:54:06...who must show me certain treaties she has committed.
00:54:11And...
00:54:12...
00:54:13...will you stay there until he arrives?
00:54:14Actually, she would only come later.
00:54:18...
00:54:19But I wanted to make sure that everything was in place.
00:54:25I'm waiting.
00:54:40You would never dare tell me that this dish...
00:54:43...
00:54:47...
00:55:02...
00:55:03...
00:55:04...
00:55:05always thought, as I said.
00:55:12However, I don't really see what there is to teach you now.
00:55:15on stargazing.
00:55:22Please forgive me, sir, if I made myself poorly understood.
00:55:26In fact, my aunt does not own astronomical telescopes.
00:55:30And you would like...
00:55:32Come and study at your place.
00:55:33But...
00:55:35At night?
00:55:39Naturally.
00:55:41But if that's what you want, well, I'll...
00:55:44I will return your excellent study to you.
00:55:48There are other things you promised to teach me.
00:55:53Ah, I don't see it.
00:55:56How do you feel if you detach yourself from love?
00:56:00So, sir, remember your promise.
00:56:07You can understand my embarrassment.
00:56:09What's so embarrassing about it?
00:56:10Nothing.
00:56:11Well...
00:56:12We always reveal too much of ourselves.
00:56:18What danger!
00:56:19You shouldn't tell your life story.
00:56:22Then people will hold you accountable.
00:56:26They think I'm watching them.
00:56:27SO...
00:56:30Well...
00:56:34In my seventeenth year, a fifteen-year-old girl, a distant relative, came to spend the summer with us.
00:56:43One evening when we were out for a walk, I dared to give her a kiss.
00:56:46In her eyes, I saw a trust that moved me far more than the kiss itself.
00:56:57This moment of grace was not spoiled by any words.
00:57:03This is the only time in my life I've felt anything.
00:57:09Have you never seen that young girl again?
00:57:12I didn't want to.
00:57:15That's why I never forgot it.
00:57:19But then what?
00:57:21That memory was enough to protect me from the ravages of the heart.
00:57:26Not to fixate on mine.
00:57:29I found what I needed.
00:57:32The serenity of a kind and well-lived complicity.
00:57:37As for the rest...
00:57:40Look at the calendar.
00:57:42You will see that love requires a great deal of talent to resist.
00:57:47Instead of perpetual wonder,
00:57:52you will find the accuracy and regularity of the days.
00:57:57A feeling of dizziness.
00:58:00The presumption must prevail
00:58:02to answer favorably the only question that matters.
00:58:07Will you still love me tomorrow?
00:58:14I would like something happy to happen to me.
00:58:21Why is it so difficult?
00:58:24Yet it shouldn't require a very considerable effort from God.
00:58:30What are you hoping for?
00:58:31That which you refused.
00:58:34You've already been burned there.
00:58:38But how, ultimately, could she see her life any other way?
00:58:41than granted to the woman who will be loved by the man?
00:58:44You've made it a fairly widespread belief.
00:58:48despite the damage it causes.
00:58:50You speak like an infidel.
00:58:51Don't involve God in this.
00:58:54The devil, then.
00:58:56He is often her business manager.
00:58:58To avoid displeasing you,
00:59:00We would therefore have to give up.
00:59:02The heart must not fail.
00:59:06Is that what you want for me?
00:59:08Do not seek advice.
00:59:10You can't marry loneliness.
00:59:14Isn't that preferable to a man?
00:59:15who would be unworthy of you?
00:59:17You are intelligent enough to never be alone.
00:59:20or perhaps they don't want to know about this exquisite and rare thing
00:59:24which we call freedom
00:59:25and to enjoy this other wonder at the same time
00:59:29that we call peace?
00:59:32I have to leave.
00:59:38Look, night has already fallen.
00:59:41Indeed.
00:59:48Good evening, Mr. de Fontenelle.
00:59:50Don't you like my name?
00:59:55You never say it.
00:59:57I'll tame it for you.
01:00:06I would prefer not to remember your advice, sir.
01:00:10But perhaps it is already too late.
01:00:13Hello, Françoise.
01:00:25How about another man in the morning?
01:00:26Just like yesterday, madam.
01:00:27And just like the day before yesterday.
01:00:29He hums to himself, gets shaved and powdered for an hour.
01:00:31demands ribbons for his outfit.
01:00:34And he no longer feels any pain.
01:00:35It is even claimed that his hearing never caused him any pain.
01:00:39Do you want my opinion?
01:00:40This gentleman is making fun of us.
01:00:43And the worst part is that his appetite has doubled.
01:00:47He asks for everything again.
01:00:49I'm starting to wonder if this is a sign of good health
01:00:51or some inconveniences.
01:00:53And I couldn't tell you what time he goes to bed.
01:01:15Is he only thinking about sleeping?
01:01:17Does he even know where his room is anymore?
01:01:19I wonder if he's confusing night and day.
01:01:47He, who had never stirred in his life,
01:01:50It seems like nothing is happening fast enough.
01:01:52Mathieu and Simon complain about what has turned them into drafts.
01:01:56This is all not good, madam.
01:01:57I'm telling you.
01:01:58The visits of young Isabelle
01:02:27seem to have a sovereign effect on you, my uncle.
01:02:31Hmm-hmm.
01:02:33Are you worried?
01:02:35No, not at all.
01:02:36But you who have always been welcoming,
01:02:37with the same calm demeanor,
01:02:39people and things,
01:02:41it seems that the young Isabelle
01:02:42can flatter himself by provoking
01:02:44the change in your habits.
01:02:47I am paying close attention to his work.
01:02:49She understands science wonderfully
01:02:51and practices reasoning and deduction
01:02:54like few people.
01:02:57Would you want me to be absent?
01:02:59when intelligence, finesse,
01:03:02spirit and beauty
01:03:03Did they arrange to meet?
01:03:04I assure you
01:03:07that it is more pleasant for me
01:03:08to listen
01:03:09and to look at Isabelle
01:03:11than all the academics gathered together.
01:03:20The other day,
01:03:21at the Marquise de Villemin's,
01:03:23a woman who was supposed to be able
01:03:24within the age of 40,
01:03:25began to observe us
01:03:27as if she were worried
01:03:28Isabelle
01:03:28was so young
01:03:30or that I was so old.
01:03:32How sad.
01:03:34than to find oneself
01:03:35between two ages.
01:03:38You've changed, uncle.
01:03:42Ah, good.
01:03:43It's like...
01:03:44Forgive me,
01:03:46I was about to say something stupid.
01:03:48Come on, come on.
01:03:52Well, it's as if,
01:03:53suddenly,
01:03:54You were discovering a heart.
01:04:02I hurt you.
01:04:24I am unforgivable.
01:04:29I'm confused.
01:04:30What a strange slippery situation!
01:04:35that fresh air.
01:04:37It is possible
01:04:38that it has a name.
01:04:40Don't say it.
01:04:41When I am asked,
01:04:57Well, sir,
01:04:57How is your encyclopedia doing?
01:04:59I have the impression
01:05:00That my heart be pierced.
01:05:02Do you want the truth?
01:05:03We are being persecuted
01:05:04by scoundrels
01:05:05who hope for us
01:05:05resignation.
01:05:07And Voltaire
01:05:07who advises us
01:05:08to go and continue
01:05:08in a foreign country.
01:05:09But what an idea!
01:05:10Is he really feeling brave?
01:05:12Yes, we will continue.
01:05:15but to pursue our enemies
01:05:16and we will return
01:05:17to our benefit
01:05:18the stupidity of our censors.
01:05:20He is happy
01:05:21to hear you speak like that,
01:05:22Mr. Diderot.
01:05:24D'Alembert said right here
01:05:25the other night
01:05:25that you feel discouraged.
01:05:28D'Alembert suffered more than I did.
01:05:29the attacks of fools.
01:05:31But it is true
01:05:32I'm tempted by rest.
01:05:33I sometimes dream
01:05:36of a quiet life
01:05:37deep in my province.
01:05:40Then everything would calm down.
01:05:43And I could see
01:05:43in their hearts
01:05:44a little bit of innocence.
01:05:47But you have to be useful
01:05:48to men.
01:05:51And work.
01:05:54I wonder, though.
01:05:55if we don't do something else
01:05:56to amuse them.
01:05:58What's the difference?
01:05:59between the philosopher
01:06:00And the Pied Piper?
01:06:01We cannot change
01:06:02Men, sir.
01:06:04And sometimes they will turn
01:06:05to your philosopher,
01:06:07sometimes they will prefer
01:06:08the flute player.
01:06:09You will think you hear
01:06:10Mr. de Fontenelle?
01:06:12Your comment flatters me, sir.
01:06:14I believe that men
01:06:15are made of several
01:06:16small containers.
01:06:17That of reason,
01:06:18that of the imagination,
01:06:20that of the mind.
01:06:22And that there is also
01:06:22a large pot
01:06:24Pure stupidity.
01:06:26Ah!
01:06:27This is proof enough.
01:06:28that all beings
01:06:29They are not alike.
01:06:30and that for some
01:06:32of them,
01:06:32fate did not support
01:06:34than in the big pot.
01:06:38Well, me,
01:06:38I'm suggesting that all
01:06:39human beings
01:06:39must be considered
01:06:40in the same way.
01:06:42You still can't
01:06:43not to pretend
01:06:44that right here,
01:06:45We are all the same.
01:06:46And so let
01:06:47The Lord alone judges
01:06:48of what we are
01:06:49and what we are worth.
01:06:52Who are you talking about?
01:06:55Ah, I am surprised, sir.
01:06:56not having
01:06:57heard blaspheme
01:06:58earlier.
01:07:00And do you want to
01:07:00That I make up for it?
01:07:02Be quiet.
01:07:05I'm going to tell you
01:07:06my way of thinking,
01:07:07Sir.
01:07:09Ah, the punishment
01:07:10is terrible.
01:07:13I want to hear from you
01:07:14in confession
01:07:15as soon as possible.
01:07:16In confession.
01:07:17We say, miss,
01:07:26that your work
01:07:27are of the greatest interest.
01:07:28Mr. de Fontenelle
01:07:29He gives me encouragement.
01:07:31I would like to add to it
01:07:32Mine.
01:07:33And...
01:07:33would like just as much
01:07:35that you do not refuse
01:07:36that I may hear you sing.
01:07:37I cannot, sir.
01:07:39There is nobody here
01:07:40to hold the harpsichord.
01:07:41If ?
01:07:42Me ?
01:07:45I don't know anymore...
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