Mademoiselle Fifi (1944)

Jason Robards Sr.: A Wholesaler in Wines

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• A Wholesaler in Wines : You rascal! I should have known! Cornudet - the revolutionist. The talker in cafés. The man who built the barricades to defend Rouen and ran away at the first sight of a German helmet. You rascal.

• Coach Driver : Here's some foot stoves for the ladies. You can open them when you get inside.

  A Wholesaler in Wines : Better than a husband to keep your feet warm.

• 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.

• The Wholesaler's Wife : What are you doing?

  A Wholesaler in Wines : Nothing. Nothing, my dear. Just catching a bit of fresh air.

  The Wholesaler's Wife : Fresh air - at your age. Get back to bed at once!

  A Wholesaler in Wines : Yes, my dove.

• 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.

• A Wholesaler in Wines : [referring to his intoxicated wife]  She's not affected by the wine. No. No, it's just the expense of the champagne that's gone to her head.