The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Conrad Veidt: Louis XI
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Quotes
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King Louis XI : Master Villon, you are the best writer of verse in Paris...
François Villon : Your Majesty's taste is exquisite.
King Louis XI : - and the most insolent rogue in France!
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King Louis XI : Master Villon, your pen has done more for France than any sword.
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King Louis XI : Villon has done me a good turn. It were well for him to die before he does me a bad one.
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King Louis XI : Plead no more for this rogue.
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King Louis XI : Order Villon's arrest. A spirit so youthful must be spared the pains of old age.
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King Louis XI : Master Villon, you disobeyed me. You hang tomorrow. What say you to that?
François Villon : Princes to death are all foretold, even as the humblest of their array; whether they sorrow or whether they scold, the winds carry their like away!"