The Devil's Envoys (1942)

Marie Déa: Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud

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• Le diable : Please, don't cry. It hurts me to see such a pretty face twisted in sorrow.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Leave me alone. My heart is sad... so sad. I'm not used to unhappiness and now Gilles is in prison threatened by the executioner, Renaud is dead, and my father is in despair. Could you be the cause of all these troubles?

  Le diable : What do expect? No one loves me. I amuse myself the best I can.

• [walking through the palace garden in the moonlight, Anne and Gilles see a man and a woman kissing] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : My page Guillaume with Agnes? I didn't know they were in love.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : They're not. For them, it's a game. They toy with love. That's the one who truly loves Guillaume.

  [Anne turns and sees a servant hiding in the bushes] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Louison?

  Gilles - un ménestrel : She hides and watches them. She wants to cry. She's ugly; no one loves her.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : If she loves him, why is she ugly? It's not fair. It makes me sad, too.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : I don't want you to be sad tonight.

  [Gilles magically transforms Louison into a lovely young woman] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : She's beautiful now!

  Gilles - un ménestrel : It's nothing - the devilish beauty of youth.

• [the Devil laughs evilly] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Who are you? How did you get in?

  Le diable : I am the Devil!

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I could care less.

  Le diable : What? Don't you understand? I'm the Devil! Yes, the Devil. How else can I be here and elsewhere at the same time? Yes, elsewhere - for example, in the garden.

  [the Devil points to the garden where he is standing next to Baron and Renaud as they argue] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : What's so marvelous about that? I'm here, locked in my room, but I am also at the fountain.where my beloved held me in his arms.

• [Gilles, whose memory of Anne has been erased by the Devil, finds her sitting at their fountain] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Are you thirsty?

  [Anne fills her hands with spring water] 

  Gilles - un ménestrel : The water is so sweet.

  [they kiss] 

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Your lips are sweet, too.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Gilles!

  Gilles - un ménestrel : [remembering]  Anne!

• [Anne stops crying and runs to Gilles when he enters her bedroom] 

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Ah, Gilles! I knew you loved me!

  [they kiss passionately] 

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Alas, we are under a spell and once it dissipates, you'll see me as I truly am - miserable and alone.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I love you!

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Anne, I belong to the Devil. I'm among his friends. If you love me, it's probably thanks to him.

• [Gilles is released from his contract with the Devil when Anne agrees to love the Evil One] 

  Le diable : I kept my promise. You are mine now, forever!

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : No.

  Le diable : What do you mean, "No".

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : *No*.

  Le diable : I can't believe it! You promised. You swore.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I lied.

• Le baron Renaud - le fiancé d'Anne : You look proud of yourself. How dare you gaze into a lady's eyes while crooning such nonsense?

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Renaud, please!

  Le baron Renaud - le fiancé d'Anne : If I had you hung, would you sing as sweetly with a rope around your throat?

  Gilles - un ménestrel : I doubt it.

  Le baron Renaud - le fiancé d'Anne : Then sing no more if you value the pitiful thing you call your life!

• Gilles - un ménestrel : As soon as I saw you, I knew why I'd traveled so far. I thanked Heaven for leading me to you.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : As soon as I saw you, I knew you'd come for me. I knew it. I'm sure my life will change.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Do you regret it?

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : No.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Will you regret it?

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Never. Even if it makes me suffer.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Those who love never suffer. Look at them. Do they suffer? No. They feel marvelously alone, the moonlight shines on their love. And those two star-gazers, what are they thinking of? Nothing. Not even the stars. They are together, in love. They are happy.

• Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Why be frightened? Life is full of mysteries, isn't it? A bird, an apple, a beast, the sun, the trees in these woods. Even us: we don't know from whence we come or where we go. Isn't that marvelous?

• Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I was so happy, then suddenly, I thought of Renaud. He also said, "I love you, Anne." But with the same hard voice in which he says: "I love my dogs. I love hunting. I love killing whatever flies or leaps." "I love you, Anne. You'll be mine forever." Forever. Is it possible for a person to totally belong to another?

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Some call that love.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Then is love like death? We no longer exist? It's all over? Why? If you love me, don't hurt me, don't lock me up, let me live! Love me as I love you - simply.

• Gilles - un ménestrel : I believed myself utterly alone, yet since I've found you, I'm even more lost, more alone, more desperate. Anne, to me, you are all the love in the world - and all I can bring you is sorrow and despair.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Gilles, hold me in your arms. Once more, tell me you love me.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Anne, you are so simple, so young, so sweet, and so alive! Protect me. Teach me to live. Before I met you, I only pretended. My heart was like ice.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Gilles, my love, be happy and at peace. My body is close to yours, your heart beats with mine, our bodies, our hearts are one. Nothing can ever separate us.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : Anne, I love you. And on one - do you hear? No one can stop me from loving you!

• Le diable : Do you hear me? Why don't you answer? What are you thinking of, wretch?

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : A song my governess once sang, she said it was the fairies...

  Le diable : Ah! I detest fairies!

• Le diable : [disguised as Gilles]  Anne. Anne, my love, my true love! Anne, you are as beautiful as the day! I love you madly! Give me your lips!

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Leave me alone. You aren't Gilles.

  Le diable : What?

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : You aren't Gilles. You look like Gilles, you have his voice, but Gilles would never say such things.

• Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : It's true, you are the Deceiver. You may even deceive yourself. There are some things that escape you.

  Le diable : Escape me? Poor idiot! Nothing escapes me. No one can escape me, not even you! You don't know my powers! I hold the world in my hands! That's right! Storms, rain, hail, wind, shipwrecks: that's me! Sickness, war, and all its pleasures, pestilence, famine, misery, murder, hatred, jealousy. That's me, always me! And death. Me, again.

• Le diable : Don't forget, treacherous creature, that you've done wrong. You've sinned.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : If it's sin to give myself to the one I love, I don't regret it.

  Le diable : Truly? You should be ashamed.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Ashamed? Why? I don't even know what shame is!

  Le diable : Shame - is what we hide.

• Le baron Renaud - le fiancé d'Anne : Soon you will be mine. Did you hear me?

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Yes, Renaud.

  Le baron Renaud - le fiancé d'Anne : Your every pleasure, desire, even sorrow, if you have any, should be given to me.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : May I at least dream?

  Le baron Renaud - le fiancé d'Anne : As little as possible! Dreams are dangerous and useless. I never dream myself.

• Gilles - un ménestrel : The devilish beauty of youth.

  Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : I don't believe in the Devil.

  Gilles - un ménestrel : You're lucky.

• Anne Hugue - la fille du baron qui se fiance avec Renaud : Why take such pleasure in seeing me suffer? Why?