:51:04
everything.
:51:13
-Do I hear you right?
-What do you hear?
:51:15
That monsieur has sent you
to ask me to join a long line...
:51:18
of stable boys and Princes
whom he has honored so... intimately.
:51:23
Yes, your hearing is very good.
:51:25
Tell Monsieur...
:51:27
and I quote Descartes
whom I once knew...
:51:30
''There is no soul so weak
that it cannot...
:51:33
acquire an absolute power
over the passions.''
:51:37
Monsieur is not a Cartesian,
as far as is known.
:51:41
He only wants a few moments
of your time.
:51:44
Then I send him a message
which reveals more of me...
:51:48
than he would ever see
if I were to submit. Tell him...
:51:53
that both of us live
with a terrible thing.
:51:56
The desire for the absolute.
:51:59
The sublime. The perfect.
:52:06
That 's why he flits
from person to person...
:52:10
and that 's why
I give myself to no one.
:52:14
And the Prince?
:52:16
How long do you think it will take
before this reaches the Prince?
:52:18
Not long, if you hurry.
:52:22
My dear Vatel.
:52:24
We all go round together
like a celestial machine.
:52:27
The Sun King is at the center.
:52:29
Condé is one of his planets
and I am Condé's moon.
:52:31
Do you think there's a place
to stand when we are free?
:52:34
Naturally I will speak to Condé.
:52:37
Not to do so would be...
:52:40
self-important.
:52:49
Bourdelot!
:52:51
Why have you got
Madame de Montausier's birds?
:52:54
I got them from
Madame de Montausier.
:52:56
-I'm saving them for the banquet.
-For the banquet?
:52:59
No. In case the Prince
requires them for his gout.