- 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.
- Elisabeth Rousset: Sometimes I watched them from the window: the great pigs with their spiked helmets. And I wished I were a man. So that I could fight them!
- The Count de Breville: Too many of us welcome them like friends.
- Elisabeth Rousset: At the laundry they always said it was much harder for the rich to be patriotic.
- Mme. Follenvie: That Prussian! He's inhuman! His comrades call him by a girl's name: Mademoiselle Fifi. Cause he says always, "Fi, fi donc! Fi, fi donc!" But there's nothing soft about him. He's only happy when you do exactly what he says.
- The Wholesaler's Wife: You see, what did I tell you. It was not so foolish to hide my rings.
- The Manufacturer's Wife: Oh, nonsense! The man's an officer. A man of honor.
- The Count de Breville: I'm afraid honor's a thing of the past, Madame. Nowadays, anyone can be an officer.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Lt. von Eyrick - Called 'Fifi': Come here! - - Now what? Now you're ready for anything, ya? Isn't it so? You've determined on a sacrifice, huh? Well, I don't want you. I only want to show you when we say to you do this, you must do this. And when we say to you do that, you must do that. And that all the time we despise you - and your patriotism.
- Elisabeth Rousset: You can only despise me because I came here. Not because I'm a French woman!
- Lt. von Eyrick - Called 'Fifi': What I think of you matters very little. But, what I want you to think of yourself, matters a great deal.
- 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.
- Amanda: We're all going to a party at the Château - with the officers!
- Aunt Marie: It's good for young people to be gay!
- Elisabeth Rousset: They smiled at the Prussians. They waved! What are they thinking?
- Aunt Marie: They are thinking this is a dull little town and that youth is fleeting. They are very young Elisabeth and you must remember some of these troops have been quartered here for six months! It's only natural.
- Elisabeth Rousset: I thought things would be different here. I heard about Father Moran's bell.
- Aunt Marie: Ah, the bell, that is something else. We are all very proud of that.
- 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.
- A Young Priest: Father Moran gave this bell to me as a trust. And this trust I will keep. The bell must remain silent, until the first blow is struck for the freedom of France.
- 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!
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