1:29:01
And I denounce them
to the conscience of honest men.
1:29:04
Confine yourself to the facts.
1:29:08
However...
1:29:12
...my profession is writing,
not talking.
1:29:16
But from my struggling youth
until today...
1:29:20
...my principal aim
has been to strive for truth.
1:29:23
That is why I entered this fight.
1:29:26
All my friends have told me that it
was insane for a single person...
1:29:31
...to oppose the immense machinery
of the law...
1:29:35
...the glory of the army
and the power of the state.
1:29:39
They warned me that my actions
would be mercilessly crushed...
1:29:44
...that I would be destroyed.
1:29:47
But what does it matter
if an individual is shattered...
1:29:51
...if only justice is resurrected?
1:29:55
It has been said that the state
summoned me to this court.
1:30:01
That is not true.
I am here because I wished it.
1:30:07
I alone have chosen you as my judges.
1:30:12
I alone decided that this abominable
affair should see the light...
1:30:18
...so that France might at last know all
and voice her opinion.
1:30:23
My act has no other object.
My person is of no account.
1:30:29
I'm satisfied.
1:30:32
But my confidence in you
was not shared by the state.
1:30:38
They did not dare say all
about the whole undividable affair...
1:30:42
...and submit it to your verdict.
1:30:45
That is no fault of mine.
1:30:49
You saw for yourselves how my defense
was incessantly silenced.
1:30:55
Gentlemen, I know you.
1:30:58
You are the heart,
the intellect of my beloved Paris...