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Le pacte des loups (2001) More at IMDbPro »

• De Fronsac travels on a ship aptly named "Frère loup", French for "Brother wolf".
  
  
• Apparently in the belief that no one outside France has any sense of history, the translators writing subtitles omitted a historical reference in old d'Apcher's memoir. The subtitles read, "The Revolution has swept the land," but in French he says, "The Revolution has become the Terror" (this may have been changed in some DVD versions).
  
  
• There actually was a Beast of Gévaudan (La Bête du Gévaudan) which was a real wolf-like creature that prowled the Auvergne and South Dordogne regions of France during the years 1764 to 1767, killing about 100 people, often in bizarre circumstances.
  
  
• All the primary characters, except the Native American Mani, actually existed and lived during reign of King Louis XV.
  
  
• Universal Pictures paid $2 million for the rights to distribute this movie in the United States, and this movie went on grossing $10.9 million in limited theatrical release in the United States, making it the second-highest-grossing French-language movie in the United States in the last two decades (this movie also did brisk video and DVD sales in the United States).
  
  

• SPOILER: A deleted scene in the DVD revealed that Monica Bellucci's character, Sylvia, was in fact the only person who knew the whole truth to both sides of the story regarding the beast. She secretly watched several members of the Brotherhood while they were visiting the bordello, and she manipulated Fronsac into finding and killing the beast. Her character is believed to have worked for the Vatican.
  
  

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