- The Count of Champcenetz is governor of the Palace of the Tuileries. His mistress Grace Elliott, a young widow, begs him not to go the Palace where he must defend King Louis XVI, who is threatened by the Revolution. After a few hours fight, in spite of the Count's best efforts, the crowd captures the King, the Queen, their children and their are taken to the prison of the Temple. Champcenetz, wounded, escapes and, disguised as a sans-culotte, walks back to Mrs. Elliott's. He leaves out of the country with her and marries her.—Greg Philip {greg_philip@hotmail.com}
- The Count de Champcenetz is the Governor of the Tuileries at the time of the Reign of Terror. He is warned by his friend, Madame Elliott, that the palace is to be sacked by the mob, but he will not leave his post. In the riotous scenes which follow, he escapes in the dress of a dead Republican and is hidden by a kind-hearted woman of the people. Later he makes his way to Madame Elliott's, and when her house is searched by the police and the Committee from the National Assembly, she hides him under the mattress of her bed, and disrobing pretends to be asleep. When the searching party has gone, the Court dons the garbs of a postilion, and thus disguised drives Madame in her carriage across the frontier to safety.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- It is the Reign of Terror in France, and the deadly work of the Revolutionists has begun. The Tuileries are menaced by the mob, and Madam Elliott sits writing a warning note to her friend, the Comte de Champcenetz, who is governor of the palace. The ink is not dry on the paper, however, before the Comte comes to tell her the latest news and perhaps to make his last adieu to her. Madame Elliott begs him not to return to his post, but Champcenetz cannot, in honor, yield to her entreaties. He returns to the Tuileries and for eight hours directs the resistance against the mob. At length the populace fights its way into the palace, and the King and Queen and Dauphin are made prisoners. The palace is looted, but Champcenetz, who has fallen exhausted beneath a piece of furniture during the last few moments of resistance, ultimately escapes by a secret way, garbed in the clothes of a dead republican. Outside the palace he is recognized by a woman of the people, but she, more compassionate than her virago sisters, shields him. So a few days later the Comte, half dead with exhaustion, steals back to the residence of Madame Elliott. She and her maid give him food and drink, but he has scarcely tasted either before cries and shouts are heard. It is the mob and police, who have come to make a search in pursuance of the decree of the National Assembly that no shelter is to be given to an aristocrat, death being the penalty. Discovery seems inevitable, but Madame Elliott, determined to make one bid for the life of her friend, hides him beneath the mattress of her bed and quickly unrobes, whilst her maid goes to give admittance to the police. So when the police enter all they see is a beautiful woman in bed, apparently just awakened out of her sleep. Their drastic search results in nothing and they depart perfectly satisfied that no aristocrat is in hiding. The moment they have gone, Champcenetz is released from his stifling hiding place; he is quickly dressed in a postilion's uniform, then Madame Elliott's carriage is ordered, and with Champcenetz on one of the horses a start is made for the frontier; a woman's courage has saved them both.—The Film Index synopsis
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By what name was The Escape from the Tuileries (1910) officially released in Canada in English?
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