Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)
John Emery: Jean Cornudet
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Quotes
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A Wholesaler in Wines : Only the French know how to eat. The Germans - did you ever see them eat?
A Manufacturer : General von Hume. We served him Crêpe Suzette and he compared it to strudel.
A Wholesaler in Wines : Strudel?
The Wholesaler's Wife : At my house, when they dined with us they only asked for sauerkraut.
The Countess de Breville : And you, have you noticed how the Germans eat?
Elisabeth Rousset : I don't eat with the Germans, Madame.
Jean Cornudet : You're a patriot.
Elisabeth Rousset : I suppose we are all patriots, it's just that I've never had to eat with the Germans. Maybe the others were forced to do so.
The Manufacturer's Wife : Well, if you never had anything to do with the Germans, how did you get permission to leave Rouen?
Elisabeth Rousset : Oh, they were quite glad to let me go.
Jean Cornudet : They asked you to leave?
The Countess de Breville : What did you do?
Elisabeth Rousset : I wouldn't eat with them.
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Elisabeth Rousset : He's a Prussian. He's our enemy! I don't eat with our enemy!
Jean Cornudet : Bravo!
The Wholesaler's Wife : Why should he ask you to dine with him?
Jean Cornudet : Well, that's just the point. He knows the rest of you have dined, perhaps even breakfasted with some of these Prussians. But, not Miss Rousset. He wants to humble her.
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Elisabeth Rousset : I will miss Father Moran. Why, even in war, I heard the story of how he refused to ring the bell.
Jean Cornudet : What bell?
Elisabeth Rousset : The church bell! After the Prussians came to our village, he wouldn't ring it. Not for funerals, not for weddings, not even for evening prayers. Not for anything! Our bell is silent! They can't force him to ring it.
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Jean Cornudet : I felt very close to France. France and her people.
Elisabeth Rousset : Of course, we are French!
Jean Cornudet : I wish we were all as French as you, Elisabeth.
Elisabeth Rousset : Oh, it's so easy. One only has to be born here.
Jean Cornudet : No, there's more to it than that. One has to grow up as you grew up. Honest and sweet.
Elisabeth Rousset : You sound like my father talking about Normandy apples.
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A Wholesaler in Wines : Anyone I know in back? These days one has to know ones fellow travelers - days of war, spies, traitors, even thieves. Whose back there? Who are you?
Jean Cornudet : We may ask the same of you sir. Who are you?
A Manufacturer : We're all respectable people up here.
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Elisabeth Rousset : Fellow citizens of the Republic, I implore you, elect me to this office, so that I can provide you with truffles every day, champagne at every meal, and sweep the Prussians out of France with the wave of my hand.
Jean Cornudet : You know I don't sound like that.
Elisabeth Rousset : You did when I heard you. Only, you didn't make as much sense.
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Lt. von Eyrick - Called 'Fifi' : What is your business here?
Jean Cornudet : Perhaps I'm an apostle of silence.
The Captain : What do you mean?
Lt. von Eyrick - Called 'Fifi' : He means the bell.
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A Young Priest : I am a priest. I cannot fight them. If you attempt to fight them, you'll be killed. They are too many for you.
Jean Cornudet : That day, on which they kill me, they'll not ring the bell. And the next day, there'll be another man to take my place. And when they kill him, another man. And so on, until it becomes impossible for the enemy. That is resistance!