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François Marneau:
Your Excellency, I have devoted my life to enhancing France's prestige as the cultural center of the world - not only for our pleasure and education, but also for the vast sums of money these treasures create. Minister:
Monsieur Marneau, exactly what was there at Erfoud? François Marneau:
A city, which has been covered by the desert sands for almost three thousand years. Where the Berber "Joan of Arc" is buried. They call her "The Angel of the Desert." And legend has it, that entombed with her is an incalculable fortune in gold and jewels, which is most certainly worth far more than what France just spent to win the war
Your Excellency, I have devoted my life to enhancing France's prestige as the cultural center of the world - not only for our pleasure and education, but also for the vast sums of money these treasures create. Minister:
Monsieur Marneau, exactly what was there at Erfoud? François Marneau:
A city, which has been covered by the desert sands for almost three thousand years. Where the Berber "Joan of Arc" is buried. They call her "The Angel of the Desert." And legend has it, that entombed with her is an incalculable fortune in gold and jewels, which is most certainly worth far more than what France just spent to win the war
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Your Excellency I have devoted my life to enhancing France's prestige
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as the cultural center of the world
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Not only for our pleasure or education
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but also for the vast sums of money these treasures create
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At the cost of a Legion company
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And two archaeologists
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That's the price Major The treasure at Erfoud is priceless
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Not to me
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Monsieur Marneau
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exactly what was there at Erfoud
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A city
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which has been covered by the desert sands for almost three thousand years
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Where the Berber Joan of Arc is buried
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They call her The Angel of the Desert
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And legend has it that entombed with her
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is an incalculable fortune in gold and jewels
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which is most certainly worth far more than what France just spent
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to win the war
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Movie Summary
During the 1920s, French Foreign Legion Major William Foster's (Gene Hackman's) unit is protecting an archaeological dig, but the discovery of an Arab sacred burial site prompts the angry Arab tribes to attack Foster's small garri...
