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Duke d'Escargot : What brings you to Paris?
Claude : Oh, you might say a little business...
Charles : ...and a little pleasure.
Duke d'Escargot : Which do you prefer? Business, or pleasure?
Charles : Well that depends on what you regard as business.
Claude : And, what you may regard as pleasure!
Duke d'Escargot : In Paris we say, business is pleasure.
Charles : And to us, pleasure is our business.
Duke d'Escargot : Then your business should be a pleasure, making my pleasure a business.
Claude : Unless, some mistake business for pleasure. While others know no business but pleasure.
Duke d'Escargot : In that case sir I will show you my business.
Claude : My pleasure.
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Helene de Sisis : I'm sorry Philippe, I try my best to please you.
Philippe de Sisis : How? You can't hunt, you can't ride, you can't shoot, you can't fence! What kind of a marriage is this?
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The Man in the Iron Mask : [Claude Coupe, mistaken for Phillipe de Sisi, has just entered the room of the Man in the Iron Mask, he is scared out of his shorts] Has the king forgiven me?
Claude : [screams with hands over his mouth]
The Man in the Iron Mask : Am I free?
[desperate]
The Man in the Iron Mask : Am I free?
Claude : [calmly] Who are you?
The Man in the Iron Mask : I'm the Man in the Iron Mask.
Claude : Oh, ho-ho! How do you do?
The Man in the Iron Mask : What is it?
[he begins walking toward Claude]
The Man in the Iron Mask : Do I look so horrible? Do I frighten you?
Claude : No, no. It's just that you reminded me of somebody else.
The Man in the Iron Mask : [hugs Claude] I'm so glad you came!
Claude : Ho-ho, so am I! So am I!
The Man in the Iron Mask : How can I ever thank you?
Claude : Oh, it's nothing! Nothing. You have a nice place here.
[the man in the iron mask is now shaking Claude's monk costume]
Claude : Oh! Watch the mask. Watch the mask.
The Man in the Iron Mask : Take me with you.
Claude : [grabs the man's helmet] Take me with you! Yes.
The Man in the Iron Mask : Don't leave me alone. Take me.
The Man in the Iron Mask : Look, I'll go outside, then I'll come back and we'll have a last walk.
The Man in the Iron Mask : [speaking over Claude] Please don't leave me here! Please! Please!
[he is obviously desperate]
Claude : [speaking over the Man in the Iron Mask] Look, look, I wouldn't leave you here, you're my friend. But take you with me; I don't even know who you are.
Claude : Yaaaghh!
[he tosses the man off him onto the floor and closes the door, leaving]
The Man in the Iron Mask : I thought the king forgave me.
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Philippe : I like this plan. Half of France will soon be ours.
Pierre : Why settle for half? When all of France could be ours.
Philippe : All of France? Yes. We don't need d'Escargot
Pierre : Exactly.
Philippe : Exactly. All the castles.
Pierre : All the chapels.
Philippe : All the windows.
Pierre : The drapes.
Philippe : All the leather.
Pierre : The lace.
Philippe : All the forest!
Pierre : All the flowers.
Philippe : All the land!
Pierre : All the grass.
Philippe : The rocks!
Pierre : The stones.
Philippe : The pebbles!
Pierre : The dirt.
Philippe : The mud!
Pierre : The muck.
Philippe : I have a new destiny! One day I shall be King!
Pierre : And I shall be Queen!
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Philippe : Wait till I get her back in that chapel. I'll bring out the *peacock* feathers. That'll tickle her fancy.
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Duke d'Escargot : [mistaking Claude for Philippe de Sisis] I must complement you on your appearance. So charmingly obscene. So vile. So filthy. So disgusting.
Philippe : Thank you.
Duke d'Escargot : You've achieved a rare vulgarity in peasantry.
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Queen Marie : [mistaking Claude for Philippe de Sisis] I must see you later.
Claude : Me?
Queen Marie : In my chambers.
Claude : Why do you want to see me?
Queen Marie : You'll soon find out.
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Claude : [at the ball] Why didn't you expose me?
Helene de Sisis : [mistaking Claude for Philippe de Sisis] I know your taste Philippe; but, this is hardly the place for that.
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Philippe : In Corsica, they say there are sixty-eight ways to kill a man. You shall be the sixty-ninth!
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Dr. Boileau : Now, young man. What is your name?
Philippe : My name? You want to know my name?
Dr. Boileau : Oh yes.
Philippe : That's what you're asking me, what is my name?
Dr. Boileau : Oh yes.
Philippe : I'll tell you my name, if you want to know what my name is.
Dr. Boileau : I do.
Philippe : Do you know *why* I'm going to tell you my name?
Dr. Boileau : No.
Philippe : Do you *want* to know *why* I'm going to *tell* you my *name*...
Dr. Boileau : Oh yes.
Philippe : ...you *blithering fat headed addle brained idiot?
[Philippe grabs Boileau]
Dr. Boileau : Ohh!
Philippe : *Aagh!* Because you *asked* me my name, that's *why* I'm going to *tell* you my *name!* *Because you*...
[Jacques buffets Philippe]
Jacques : See, I told you so, they're crazy.
Dr. Boileau : I know.
Dr. Boileau : [to Pierre] Now young man. Do you know who *you* are?
Pierre : Of *course* I know who *we* are.
Dr. Boileau : Who?
Pierre : ...The Corsican Brothers.
[there is raucous laughter]
Dr. Boileau : [incredulously] The *Corsican Brothers?* Oh, I'm so sorry... Oh do forgive me. I'm so sorry, the Corsican Brothers!
Dr. Boileau : [to Jacques] You're right, they're crazy!
[Dr. Boileau pulls the lever with Philippe and Pierre subsequently falling through a trapdoor]
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[last lines]
[it's present day in front of King Louis XVI's Summer Palace]
The Narrator : [reading out of the discovered book] Listen to this. "This incredible meeting was to write a glittering new page in history. For you see..."
[the Narrator is shot dead by a Descendant of Pierre]
Descendant of Pierre : [to a Descendant of Charles after they both appear in the distance] Now no one will know the secret.
[as the Descendant of Charles grabs the book dropped to the ground by the Narrator, he is shot dead by a Descendant of Philippe, who subsequently shoots dead the Descendant of Pierre]
Descendant of Claude : [to the Descendant of Philippe as they both appear from behind the bushes] Did you have to shoot them? I didn't know you were going to shoot them.
Descendant of Philippe : Bring me that book.
[the Descendant of Claude picks up the book and hands it to the Descendant of Philippe, who opens it in preparing to read it]
Descendant of Claude : You didn't have to shoot them. We've could have talked things over.
Descendant of Philippe : Talk? Is that what you want: talk?
Descendant of Claude : [as he nods positively] Well, you didn't have to...
[the Descendant of Philippe shoots the Descendant of Claude]
Descendant of Claude : [just before he falls to the ground dead] ... shoot them.
Descendant of Claude : [to the camera as he opens the book and starts to read aloud] "This incredible meeting was to write a glittering new page in history. For you see..."
[a Descendant of the Man in the Iron Mask shoots the Descendant of Philippe dead]
Descendant of the Man in the Iron Mask : [yelling as he starts to run away] Free! Free!