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00:00Welcome to the vineyards of Versailles.
00:03The most beautiful in all of Champagne.
00:08My darling, I think we might have found the secret to perfect happiness.
00:13I am hopelessly, unequivocally yours.
00:20Francois willed the vines to me because he knew I would never sell.
00:24I will be continuing to care for them myself.
00:27Wine is a very difficult vocation, my dear. You underestimate what it will require of you.
00:31I know what it requires. I've been in fields for years.
00:34You have one chance. One.
00:37These fields do not need replanting or starting over again.
00:41I disagree. They need to struggle to survive.
00:46I want our Champagne to have structure, depth.
00:52I do admire you trying to run things as you want, as a woman would.
00:58If we lose these first shoots to frost, we lose the harvest.
01:01No one can force me.
01:04A woman is not capable of running this vineyard.
01:07When I have proceeds, I will send them to you.
01:10A woman is forbidden to run a business under the law.
01:13Her vineyard should be placed in the hands of an experienced executor.
01:17Was this the plan all along?
01:19No, madame. It never occurred to them you would succeed.
01:23So many obstacles ahead. So much at stake.
01:27But there is hope, however unpredictable.
01:32Your instincts have always been so good. Why won't you listen to yourself now?
01:36I don't want to.
01:40No one can sell abroad due to Napoleon's embargoes against his enemies.
01:44I want to stay ahead of him.
01:45Of Napoleon? So you're a criminal at heart?
01:49Human beings are compelled to create, to lay down our lives, however best we can.
01:57It is so that we might uncover the secrets of ourselves.
02:02And that with any luck, 100 years from now, someone will know that we were here.