
Poor abbé Contantin, he is devastated at the news: to think that two American ladies have bought the local manor where he has always been welcome! Worse, Mrs. Scott and her cousin Bettina are protestant.


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Hector Crémieux, Pierre Decourcelle, Ludovic Halévy, Julien Duvivier
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1925 · IMDb —


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