For the love of Christ! If you wish to destroy me, then destroy me. Accuse me exposing...
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Grandier: For the love of Christ! If you wish to destroy me, then destroy me. Accuse me exposing political chicanery and the evils of the state, and I will plead guilty. But what man can face arraignment on the idiocy of youth? Old love letters and other pathetic objects, stuffed in drawers or in the bottom of cupboards. Things kept for a day when he would need to be reminded... that he was once loved
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in the hope of coming to God
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through the love of a woman
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We have also letters from women who he did not marry
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One of which appears to suggest
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that he committed sexual intercourse
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under the very roof of the church itself
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For the love of Jesus Christ
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If you wish to destroy me then destroy me
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Accuse me of exposing political chicanery and the evils of the State
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and I will plead guilty
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But what man can face arraignments on the idiocy of youth
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Old love letters and other pathetic objects
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stuffed in drawers or in the bottom of cupboards
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Things kept for a day when he would need to be reminded
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that he was once loved
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Movie Summary
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually-repressed nun.
