That Night in Varennes (1982)

Andréa Ferréol: Madame Adélaïde Gagnon

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• Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : You've spent time at the court in France?

  Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne : Mr. Casanova has been the toast of every court in Europe.

  Casanova : It wasn't a great privilege. Courts aren't the gardens full of rare blossoms people imagine. I mostly met wrinkled old countesses and princesses.

• Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : Quantity doesn't mean quality. That holds for nature's works and men's

• Virginia Capacelli : Have you read them, madame?

  Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : That man's books, me? I wouldn't dream of it!

  Countess Sophie de la Borde : I would! And with the greatest pleasure. I found them uniquely inspired on the subject of man, of woman, of love amongst our good people.

• Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : My poor landowner husband used to say our biggest crop is taxes.

• Casanova : Making love in a carriage, which we may have done anyway, or in the most secret alcove, is all the same. What matters is - that there should be - is that, in lovemaking, there should be - should be...

  Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : There should be - what?

  Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne : Mystery.

• Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : He may be handsome, but what a temper.

  Virginia Capacelli : In Bologna, we call them, "ballbusters". The girl is charming too. Not bad. A bit dark maybe.

  Madame Adélaïde Gagnon : If God made them black, there must be a reason.