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...
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...so that France might at last know all
and voice her opinion.
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My act has no other object.
My person is of no account.
1:30:29
I'm satisfied.
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But my confidence in you
was not shared by the state.
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They did not dare say all
about the whole undividable affair...
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...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.
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You are the heart,
the intellect of my beloved Paris...
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...where I was born
and which I've studied for 40 years.
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I see you with your families
under the evening lamp.
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I accompany you into your factories,
your shops.
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You're all workers and righteous men.
You will not say, like many:
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"What does it matter if an innocent man
is undergoing torture on Devil's Island?
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Is the suffering of one obscure person
worth the disturbance of a great country?"
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Perhaps, though, you've been told
that by punishing me...
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...you will stop a campaign
that is injurious to France.
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Gentlemen, if that is your idea...
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...you are mistaken.
1:31:48
Look at me.
Have I the look of a hireling?
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A liar? A traitor?
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I'm only a free writer
who has given his life to work...
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...and who will resume it tomorrow.
And I am not here defending myself.