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Charlemagne is a 1933 French comedy drama film directed by Pierre Colombier and starring Raimu, Léon Belières and Marie Glory. A group of upper-class passengers on a ship are saved by a stoker who takes them to an island, where he soon rises to be their monarch. The film is based on the 1902 play The Admirable Crichton by J. M. Barrie. Synopsis An arrogant baron, his mistress and several others are stranded on a desert island during a shipwreck. The crew member Charlemagne grows tired of the aristocrat's behaviour and, being by far the most capable, declares himself ruler of the island. This situation lasts until the castaways are at last rescued by another vessel. Cast Raimu as le matelot Charlemagne Marie Glory as Rose Val Léon Bélières as le docteur Jean Dax as le baron Gaston Jacquet as le directeur Lucien Baroux as l'auteur Christian-Gérard as Bardac Auguste Mouriès as le capitaine Pierre Piérade as Malet References

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“Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.”
— "De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132; in Latin, Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
“If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!”
— Notker the Stammerer De Carolo Magno, Bk. 1, sect. 9; translation from Einhard and Notker the Stammerer (trans. Lewis Thorpe) Two Lives of Charlemagne (1969) p. 102.; O utinam haberem duodecim clericos ita doctos, omnique sapientia sic perfecte instructos, ut fuerunt Hieronimus et Augustinus. In conversation with his minister Alcuin, who replied, "Creator coeli et terrae similes illis plures non habuit, et tu vis habere duodecim (The Maker of heaven and earth Himself has very few scholars worth comparing with these men, and yet you expect to find a dozen!)".
“It is not lack of self-restraint but care for others which makes me dine in Lent before the hour of evening.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Bishops should despise this world and inspire others by their example to seek after heavenly things. But now you are corrupted by ambition beyond all the rest of mankind; and one of them not content with holding the first episcopal see in Germany has dared without my approval to claim my golden scepter, which I carry to signify my royal will, in order that he might use it as his pastoral staff.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

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Notable quotes

“Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.”
— "De Litteris Colendis", in Jean-Barthélemy Hauréau De la philosophie scolastique (1850) p. 10; translation from T. H. Huxley Science and Education ([1893] 2007) p. 132; in Latin, Quamvis enim melius sit benefacere quam nosse, prius tamen est nosse quam facere.
“If only I could have a dozen churchmen as wise and as well taught in all human knowledge as were Jerome and Augustine!”
— Notker the Stammerer De Carolo Magno, Bk. 1, sect. 9; translation from Einhard and Notker the Stammerer (trans. Lewis Thorpe) Two Lives of Charlemagne (1969) p. 102.; O utinam haberem duodecim clericos ita doctos, omnique sapientia sic perfecte instructos, ut fuerunt Hieronimus et Augustinus. In conversation with his minister Alcuin, who replied, "Creator coeli et terrae similes illis plures non habuit, et tu vis habere duodecim (The Maker of heaven and earth Himself has very few scholars worth comparing with these men, and yet you expect to find a dozen!)".
“It is not lack of self-restraint but care for others which makes me dine in Lent before the hour of evening.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Fathers and guardians, bishops of our Church, you ought to minister to the poor, or rather to Christ in them, and not to seek after vanities. But now you act quite contrary to this; and are vainglorious and avaricious beyond all other men.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)
“Bishops should despise this world and inspire others by their example to seek after heavenly things. But now you are corrupted by ambition beyond all the rest of mankind; and one of them not content with holding the first episcopal see in Germany has dared without my approval to claim my golden scepter, which I carry to signify my royal will, in order that he might use it as his pastoral staff.”
— Quoted in Notker's The Deeds of Charlemagne (translated 2008 by David Ganz)

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