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Marquis de St Evremonde redux

Remember the part in "A Tale of Two Cities" when the noble runs over a peasant with his carriage? Yeah, it's like that.

Yes, that scene has been replayed over and over in real life starring Hillary, Secret Service, etc as the Marquis.

The two cities are London and Paris at the time of the French Revolution in the 1790s. The story depicts the lives of some of the people involved in and affected by the French Revolution. The Marquis de St Evremonde (Rathbone) is one of the French ruling aristocracy who cruelly mistreats the ordinary struggling people. He refers to the peasants as "dogs," "pigs," "vermin" and "idiots." After running over and killing a child, the Marquis climbs out of his carriage and speaks contemptuously to the gathering crowd:

"It is extraordinary to me," says he, " that you people cannot take care of yourselves and your children. One or the other of you is forever in the way. How do I know what injury you have done my horses?"

He then drives away with the air of someone who had accidentally broken some common thing and paid for it. Dickens used the character of the Marquis to personify the callous ruling class, living in luxury while the peasants starve. Unknown to the aristocracy, a group calling themselves the jacquerie were preparing to revolt. Later in the film one of them murders the Marquis.