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The Flight of Monsieur Valette (1909)
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The Flight of Monsieur Valette (1909)

Short | Short, Drama, History

Count de la Valette, Counsellor of State under Napoleon I, who, though progressive in his ideas, severely condemned the excesses of the revolutionary party, was arrested on the return of the Bourbons and sentenced to death as a conspirator...See moreCount de la Valette, Counsellor of State under Napoleon I, who, though progressive in his ideas, severely condemned the excesses of the revolutionary party, was arrested on the return of the Bourbons and sentenced to death as a conspirator. Pursued by the police, the Count decides to flee with his wife and little daughter. Their friend, the beautiful Diana de Vaudemont, who secretly admires the handsome Count, offers to conceal them in her home and they gladly take advantage of her kind offer. But while staying at the de Vaudemont's the romantic Diana endeavors to carry on a flirtation with the Count, who, devotedly attached to his wife, discourages all such advances on her part. Furious that she should be so treated, Diana de Vaudemont, in the heat of her passion, decides to give the Count up and goes herself to the King, Louis XVIII, and tells him where the fugitive is concealed. It is not long therefore before the Count is arrested and cast into prison. In the meantime the woman who played him so falsely has repented her rash act and induces Mme. de la Valette, the Count's wife, to go to the King's palace at Versailles and beg his Royal Highness to forgive her husband. The wife finally musters up courage enough to go to the King, and we see her making her sorrowful way through the magnificent park of Versailles, the beauties of which are lost upon the heartbroken woman. The King, however, refuses the woman's appeal, but consents to let her and her little daughter have a last interview with the condemned man. As she and the child are conducted to the cell an idea comes to her, she will change clothes with her husband and he can escape with their little girl while she remains to greet the officers when they return. It all happens as she planned. We tremble with fear when the father and child come to the gate, but the sentry, shaking his head with compassion for the poor woman who is so soon to be a widow, opens wide the door and they pass out. When the guard returns to de la Valette's cell he is astonished to find it empty, but hearing a noise he moves forward a step and almost stumbles over the trembling woman and she kneels begging for mercy. She receives little of this from the furious guard who, fearing for his own head now that he has let the prisoner escape, drags her before the King. In the meant ten mounted men are sent after the fleeing Count, whom we see at first a good distance away as he comes riding madly down the road. He stops a minute at a farmhouse and compels the bewildered farmhand at pistol's point to give him a fresh horse which he mounts and is off not a minute too soon, for his pursuers are now seen galloping down the road in his wake. And then the chase begins! Just as the officers of the law have almost caught up with the fugitive, Diana de Vaudemont, now only too glad to make amends for the wrong she did, stands waiting for him with a carriage into which he jumps and drives off, leaving the girl to greet the officers with a mocking smile on her lips as she points to the disappearing vehicle. The pursuing party, therefore, their horses completely spent, give up the chase and de la Valette goes free and is allowed to spend the rest of his days surrounded by his adoring wife and little daughter, for Louis, on hearing of the woman's strategy, impressed by her wifely devotion, merely turns and says, "Madame de la Valette has done her duty." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Jacques Volnys Actor Actor See fewer	Blessée au coeur (1917)
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Maria Fromet Actress Actress See fewer	Les misérables (1913)