:55:06
Bourdelot!
:55:08
Why have you got
Madame de Montausier's birds?
:55:11
I got them from
Madame de Montausier.
:55:13
-I'm saving them for the banquet.
-For the banquet?
:55:17
No. In case the Prince
requires them for his gout.
:55:20
But why?
:55:22
The Princess has asked La Montausier
to sacrifice her canaries.
:55:25
She refused.
:55:27
So, the Princess
told Her Majesty...
:55:30
and she commanded La Montausier
to give them to me. Her Majesty.
:55:36
But canaries...
:55:38
are so small.
:55:40
I don't think that their hearts will be
enough to ease the Prince's pain.
:55:45
See, all this rich food
is very bad for his gout.
:55:47
I can't serve him omelet to celebrate
the visit of the King of France!
:55:51
It 's not your fault. I just wish
I had some better birds, that 's all.
:55:57
I have my parrots.
:55:58
But surely, Vatel,
you will not sacrifice...
:56:01
If the Prince's pain
gets too great to bear...
:56:04
send to me for my parrots.
:56:06
Tell the Princess
the canaries are too small.
:56:09
Demaury!
:56:13
Return those birds to
Madame de Montausier's room.
:56:28
Condé is lucky. This banquet
would shame a Roman emperor.
:56:34
Who is this Vatel?
Where does he come from?
:56:37
Nowhere.
The slums of Paris.
:56:40
He was apprentice to Eberhardt 's,
I believe.
:56:42
Eberhardt 's? Fromlle Saint-Louis?
My mother swore by Eberhardt 's.
:56:46
So did your father. Although I don't
think he went there for the pastries.
:56:51
Vatel, I was just telling
the Duchess here...
:56:58
It 's quite true.
:56:59
No one knows more about the brothels
of thelle-Saint Louis...