The Elegant Criminal by Francis Girod
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On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
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Cast
Daniel Auteuil as Pierre-François Lacenaire
Jean Poiret as Allard
Jacques Weber as Jacques Arago
François Périer as Lacenaire's father
Geneviève Casile as Lacenaire's mother
Jean Davy as Alphonse Damoiseau
Jacques Duby as Marmignat
Paul Le Person as Vigouroux
Maïwenn as Hermine
Jacques Sereys as Pertuizet
Rufus as Canler
Gérard Desarthe as Professor Tonnelier
Jean-Damien Barbin as Baton
Marie-Armelle Deguy as Princess Ida
Samuel Labarthe as The abbot of Lusignan
Jean-Pierre Miquel as The president of the court
Jean-Paul Muel as Poulaillon
Patrick Pineau as Avril
Aurélien Recoing as François
Yves Dangerfield as Doctor Brianchon
Jean-Michel Ribes as Lebel
Daniel Mesguich as Ida's husband
François-Régis Bastide as The superior
Claude Makovski as General Counsel
Maurice Bernart as Lambolley
Michel Vocoret as The big
Gérald Calderon as May father
Henri Lanoë as The first mogul
Jean-Luc Douin as The prison priest
Bertrand Van Effenterre as Degroot
Henri Colpi as The head of the prison
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