Fanfan la Tulipe (1952)

Gina Lollobrigida: Adeline La Franchise

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• Adeline La Franchise : Were you asleep?

  Fanfan La Tulipe : I was dreaming.

  Adeline La Franchise : Oh, really?

  Fanfan La Tulipe : Yes. A delicious dream. You were being tortured.

  Adeline La Franchise : Tortured?

  Fanfan La Tulipe : Yes. You were being flogged on the town square like a witch. You were almost naked. A bit too plump for my taste. You had two or three amusing dimples on certain parts of your person.

  Adeline La Franchise : Be quiet, you vulgar man!

  Fanfan La Tulipe : You were squirming like an eel, tearfully begging for mercy. I was there in the front row, beside Her Majesty, my wife. I could have granted you mercy, but I denied it. Let me go back to sleep to find out the rest of your disgrace.

• Adeline La Franchise : Come down.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : [from a rooftop, looking down Adeline's low-cut dress]  What a charming view! There's a lovely valley between those hills.

  Adeline La Franchise : Do you hear me?

  Fanfan La Tulipe : May I fish on Adeline's shore?

  Adeline La Franchise : You really are stupid!

• Adeline La Franchise : [reading Fanfare La Tulipe's palm]  Here's your love line. Ah! Forgive my familiarity and my disrespect, my lord.

  Guillot : What did you say?

  Adeline La Franchise : The king's daughter loves you.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : The king's daughter loves me?

  Adeline La Franchise : And you'll marry her.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : The king's daughter? But how will I know her?

  Adeline La Franchise : Intimately.

• Monsieur Lebel : Come. Come. Fix your hair. Get it out of your eyes. That's much better. Your air of modesty is most titillating. Stop trembling. You have nothing to fear.

  Adeline La Franchise : I'm not afraid and I'm not trembling. The king showed he was an ordinary man, to whom I could open my heart.

  Monsieur Lebel : And he will listen to you. Make the most of his good will as he shall of yours. Above all, don't forget that he is your master. Let his whims be your guide. There. You're quite right. He's an ordinary man.

• Louis XV : You love Fanfare? Then thank me. My whims enable you to show the greatest proof of your love, by betraying for his sake the loyalty you have sworn him. It's his pardon you will pay for with the pleasures we shall share. And if your conduct satisfies me, I shall cover you with riches, and he will owe you his fortune.

  Adeline La Franchise : Your Majesty has many other girls eager to use their beauty.

  Louis XV : Your resistance stirs me more than their coquettishness. I order you to love me readily.

  Adeline La Franchise : No, Sire, don't touch me! I beg you!

• Louis XV : Tell me, child, do you love your king?

  Adeline La Franchise : As much as I respect him, Sire.

  Louis XV : Naturally, you owe him obedience. You wouldn't wish to displease him?

  Adeline La Franchise : I shouldn't dream of it, Sire.

  Louis XV : So you would please him by obeying him? Come here, my pure beauty, natural grace, charming object. Come here. Look at me, and let us forget who we are. Please me as you wish to please me, quite simply. Sit down. Give me your pretty little hand.

  Adeline La Franchise : Thank you, but, my heart belongs to Fanfare.

  Louis XV : Who asks for your heart? All I ask of you is a little pleasure.

• Adeline La Franchise : I believe in cards, horoscopes, tarot, the stars, palmistry, God, the Blessed Virgin. And love.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : So do I.

  Adeline La Franchise : A great swordsman will love me.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : Great adventures await me.

  Adeline La Franchise : I'll have what he denied other women.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : I'll be an envied soldier.

  Adeline La Franchise : We'll share a fortune as man and wife.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : Covered in glory.

  Adeline La Franchise : He'll satisfy all my desires.

• Adeline La Franchise : You said you didn't love me.

  Fanfan La Tulipe : You believed me?

  Adeline La Franchise : Of course not.