The Grand Illusion Page #4

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I just follow the crowd.

I'd rather do my bit with the rest.

I see no problem.

A golf course is for golf...

A tennis court for tennis...

A prison camp for escape.

What do you say, as a sportsman?

Him! He was born in Jerusalem!

Wrong, Vienna! My mother was Danish,

my father Polish, naturalized French.

Good old French aristocracy!

And yet for all

your old French stock,

not one of you owns

an acre of France.

In 35 years,

the Rosenthals have acquired...

three historic castles

and all that goes with them:

hunting, farmland and horses.

And 3 galleries of genuine ancestors.

Believe me, it's worth escaping

to fight for that.

I had never considered patriotism

from that rather special

point of view.

Your staff

must feed like fighting c*cks.

I got into it in a funny way.

I became a soldier

because I'm a vegetarian.

That's right. My brother and I

had weak stomachs...

The doctor warned us off meat.

I turned vegetarian and was cured...

My brother went on eating meat...

He fell ill and was invalided out.

Your decorations show vegetarianism

didn't interfere with duty.

It didn't stop my wife

sleeping around either.

You must admit it's stirring.

I can't stand fifes.

Whatever you say, it gets you.

It isn't the music that gets you...

It's the marching feet.

With all this yapping,

my trousers are ruined!

FORT DOUAUMON HAS FALLEN!

Do we put on the show

just the same?

Rather! We certainly do!

In fact we should invite

the German officers.

Although I don't share

your artistic interests, Marchal...

I congratulate you... Good show!

Do you know Marguerite?

She's not big and she's not small

With arousing eyes

And a mouth like a child's

When I told this beauty

That I loved her

She gave me flowers

And called me a joker

I said, "Thanks for the flowers

But that's not what I want

"If you want to make me happy

Marguerite

"If you want to make me happy

"Marguerite, give me your heart!"

That same evening by the window

I sang to make her appear

"I'm sad because your pretty eyes

Have set my heart alight!"

She, out of sheer kindness

To put out my flame

Threw a bucket of water over me

And said, "Happy now?"

I said, "Thanks for the bucket

But that's not what I want

"If you want to make me happy

Marguerite

"If you want to make me happy

"Marguerite, give me your heart!"

All together now!

And now... to Paris!

Get it, Arthur?

Stop it!

We've retaken Douaumont!

They announce it themselves!

What's the idea?

A little hole, to escape by.

Open this door!

Let me go! Leave me alone!

DOUAUMONT RE-OCCUPIED

BY GERMAN TROOPS

Did you see? It's terrible.

Can't be much left of it!

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