Tick Tock for Lupin
But? I did it!
I spent my first night under the stars.
and I'm still alive. Do you hear that Lupin?
-Yes, you're screaming next to my ear.
-Amazing!
It wasn't easy
with the icy wind, the screams of wild creatures.
But it was worth it with that starry sky above us.
Did you see it, Lupin?
-Yes, like every night.
-Oh dear!
I'd forgotten.
I have to be at the castle at 8am, to attend the "Grand lever".
-And what's that?
-Every morning, certain members of the court
have the privilege to witness the king's awakening.
It's a great honor. -Wow, that's great.
We have just enough time for breakfast.
But you'd rather sleep than to accompany me?
-No. Get up, Lupin! Where's breakfast?
-After the king's awakening,
I have to be at the office at 11am, for the morning meetings.
Then, when my master has finished lunch, it's time for a walk.
And after that...
-Let's focus on breakfast for now.
-We've just arrived at my favorite place, the food reserve...
-Belfort?
You here? Perfect, I won't have to chase you
to get to the king's to the king's awakening.
Belfort!
Oh, no!
Come back!
Belfort!
Will you stop playing games!
It's not fun.
Mommy!
-What? A wolf in the castle?
A wolf!
-Follow me.
-There's a wolf in the castle!
-Who turned off the light?
-This way!
-We must hurry, the king's waking up.
-They all wake up at the same time?
-You have to be up before the king to greet him.
Belfort, where are you? Come back here or I'll turn you into a rug!
-A wolf! Beware, I saw a wolf in the castle.
-Lupin!
-Bontemps, tell me something...
These corridors are long.
Have you seen Belfort?
-Oh, don't tell me you've already lost His Majesty's dog.
The day has just begun.
You should find him, because it's almost time
for the "Grand lever".
-Damn door, let me out!
Open up!
-It's locked, I need to get the key.
-No!
You are in the office with "the clock".
It's that clock that his used to sets all the others.
-Wow, very interesting, you'll give me guided tour later.
-Don't you get it?
Mr. Balthazar Martinot, the royal clockmaker,
winds it every day at 3pm.
-I can't stay in here.
-No need to panic. I've just got to find Bontemps, get the key...
-Bad dog! Do you enjoy making me run like that first thing in the morning?
We're 30 minutes late for the king's awakening.
-Belfort? Belfort!
-It's about time.
Let's forget it. Belfort.
Bazire.
Don't forget that I like to have Belfort by my side, at
my morning meetings.
I'll expect him at 11am.
-Of course, Your Majesty, of course.
-Windows, really suck.
Let's look for a secret passage.
If there's a secret passage here, it's super secret.
Well, OK.
A piece of wood won't stop me from getting back to the great outdoors.
Doors sucks even more.
-You'll have to be irreproachable to appear in the council chambers.
Where's the perfume the king loves so much?
Here it is!
Belfort? Oh, no!
Belfort!!!
-Let's think. I know Bontemps' schedule...
10:30am
He's in the kitchen.
-How many times do I have to say that these fruits
go better with black grapes.
-Excuse me.
-You know that His Majesty prefers black grapes.
Already 10:45am? Oh, dear! So much for black grapes.
-May I entrust you with an urgent mission?
-We're experts in urgent missions.
-Yes, we are. Once, the cousin of the sister-in-law of...
-Please, I said urgent.
-I need you to fly to the 27th window, on the 1st floor, of the castle's north wing.
-Tell Lupin I don't have the key yet, but that I almost have it.
-Message received.
We're on our way.
-I'll be right behind you.
-No, he said
the 34th window, of the ground floor, in the west wing.
-No, he said the 41st window south wing, 2nd floor.
I'm taking a break.
-You're right, let's take a break
-What are you doing here?
-Weren't you supposed to be in the south wing?
-What?
-Since you're here, Belfort said to tell you
he's busy, having a good time to retrieve a key.
Or something like that. A crazy story.
Anyway, he's completely abandoned you.
-Please leave a message after the "cui-cui"!
-OK. What?
-Right, we'll pass it on.
-No, wait!
-I want everything to be impeccable
you heard me?
-Mommy, uh, Majesty, I...
-Bazire, it's about time.
-Oh! Belfort?
-The ambassadors will arrive after the royal delegation.
I want everything to be perfect.
The banquet will be served in the orangery.
The fireworks will be fired from boats
on the Grand Canal at precisely midnight.
I will not tolerate any mistake on your part.
-Belfort!
You have a a new message.
-Don't bother, he can't see us.
-He's not looking
for the key?
-No, he's being pet by a human and he follows him around.
-Yes, he follows him like a good doggy.
-Belfort is a dog.
-That's true.
-Yes, Your Majesty,
I'll take care of it immediately.
Belfort! I don't believe it!
Come back here!
It will soon be time for the royal walk.
-I have a letter to bring to Paris,
until I return, tidy up the King's office.
-Oh, dear. I'll never get that key.
I need help, and fast.
-Oh? Belfort!
You're impossible today.
I'm the 1st valet, I can't play with you all the time.
Well not here, not in front of everyone.
You understand?
-Belfort!
Bontemps!
How do you want me to
work correctly if you spend your time spoiling this animal?
Ouch!
-I beg your pardon? If you were doing your job,
Belfort wouldn't be coming to me for comfort and affection.
-He doesn't need comforting, but authority.
And for sure he doesn't need cuddles like if he was a lapdog.
-You really don't understand anything about his education.
Firstly, you treat Belfort too harshly.
-A rat! A horrible rat! Mommy, the rats are attacking us.
-Oh, poor Bazire, it's not getting any better.
Coachman!
Fast, let's go! To Paris.
-No!
-How are we getting the key?
-We're too late. In around two hours,
the royal watchmaker will wind the clock in the office.
-If he sees Lupin, it will be terrible.
-That is why he must be released, at all costs.
-Once more, we're going to
rescue this poor little wolfy in distress.
-My poor Lupin, if you only knew!
-While you're locked in here, Belfort is
playing and being pet by a human.
He even wanted to leave with him.
-He tossed you aside without a second thought.
-Lupin, it's okay,
I'm here.
-I'm so happy to see you! Or rather,
to hear you. I knew you won't abandon me.
-I've brought Gazette and Ariane. -We'll get you out.
-Although the key to the door is on its way to Paris.
-But Belfort has another plan.
-Yes, my dear Lupin.
You're going to get out not by the door but by the window.
Yeah! No, that won't be possible,
it's a plan that will
break 4 legs. And knowing I only have 4 legs...
-No, you don't have to worry.
Your legs are in no danger, we'll get reinforcements.
-What backup?
My master's nearly finished his meal. The walk will come right after.
The court will be in the gardens shortly.
-Ariane will distract them with the ostriches, and
Belfort will lead Madame Rosa under your window.
-Through mouse ducts, Gazette will go to
the cabinet and help you open the window.
-You will then jump on Madame Rosa's back,
and freedom is yours.
-I don't have a good feeling about this plan.
-Normally, it should work.
-Should? -Yes, we only need to
convince Madame Rosa to cooperate, and Gazette avoids the mouse traps,
and the humans to not notice anything.
-Thank you, Ariane!
-You're most welcome.
-Your Majesty!
Belfort is suffering from hair loss, well I mean, his fur got stuck, well,
is hairs are broken, hum, you see, you know what I mean,
what I mean, is his hide isn't in good shape, and he can't be here right now.
-Did you lose Belfort once again?
It's time for our walk. Bazire,
find Belfort and join us fast.
-Of course Your Majesty.
-You're asking a lot.
Normally it's time for my nap, and I'm going to miss it.
So I'm going to be staggered for dinnertime.
Oh, not to mention bedtime. I haven't thought about it...
-Please, Mrs Rosa, I couldn't think of a more noble
person for such an important mission.
-At the court of the King of Portugal, they'd never have asked me to do that.
Shifting my bedtime,
what a nightmare!
-Why do we have the conversation?
Not conversation, diversion.
I've already explained that three times.
-You must admit that this story about a clockmaker wolf is very confusing.
-Let's get started. Let's do exactly as we've rehearsed. Got it?
-So, in addition to the conversation, we need to do a rehearsal?
-Go for it!
Bazire,
you who know so well on how to communicate with animals,
please catch up on these panicked beasts.
-Of course, right away, Your Majesty, right away.
Birdie, birdie, birdie.
I should have listened to Mom and opened an inn in Calais.
-The diversion is working very well.
Now it's our turn. This way, Madame Rosa.
-If I postpone
lunch, it's all over for the snack and nap. Oh, the nap...
Hi there.
-Gazette, good to see you, I've been lonely.
-I'm going to set you free.
-But this isn't a key, it looks more like a ring.
-I've seen humans cut glass with it.
-I must admit, I've seen humans do all kinds of weird things.
-We make a circle with the diamond while pressing on the window
and the diamond will cut the glass.
-It will? Okay, you seem to know your stuff.
I'm almost done.
Oh, no, it's stuck.
-Lupin!
-What are they doing?
The watchmaker's on his way. We've got to do something.
-Perfect.
-We need to buy some time.
-Oh! What is going on? Come on, calm down.
-Come on, Lupin, spit it out!
It's the Queen's ring.
-It won't come out.
It's stuck.
Saved.
-Oh no, it's too late.
-Lupin!
-Let's have a look.
A quarter turn will do.
-Hold still.
-In Portugal, no one would dare ask me such a thing. Never!
They knew how to respect me.
-Stop fidgeting, at last! Come on, let's go!
-Hi there!
-Watch out!
What a nerve!
I hope you at least washed your paws thoroughly before climbing on my back?
These wild animals they take the liberty of doing all kind of things,
At the court of Portugal, never...
-Thank you. I don't know what I would have done without you.
-When I think about it, I missed
my snack time to come to the rescue of a wolf.
It's just too much.
-Thanks, Gazette.
-Lupin would have done the same for me.
I need to return the ring.
-And thank you, Ariane. We couldn't have done it without you.
-What a day!
And that's that.
Ouch!
-Well done, Bazire!
I knew you had gift with animals... A special gift
-Yes, Your Majesty, thank you so much.
I can't help it,
animals love me.
-Too bad Belfort didn't see that. He would have been proud of you.
-I don't know about you, but this day has exhausted me.
-Oh yes! The days at Versailles are very full.
-That's for sure.
With all those clock chimes telling you
what to do, where to go, what to eat, there's no freedom.
-That's right. That's why I prefer to spend time with you.
But for now, I have to go.
-Already?
I haven't seen my master much today.
And after what I put Bazire through, I need to be a model dog to make up for it.
At least until tomorrow.
-Today there are nearly a hundred clocks and pendulums at Versailles.
There were more, back then.
And the chimes that we hear today are the same than in the time of Louis XIV.
These very old clocks don't work with batteries,
but with mechanisms with springs that must be wind up.
Still to this day, it's the job of the castle's watchmakers.
In the Martinots family, the know-how was passed on from generation to generation
The Martinot have crafted and pampered the clocks of many kings and queens of France.
In Versailles, some clocks and pendulums are works of art, like the Morand clock.
When it chimes, automata come to life, and we can see Louis XIV be crowned.
Another marvel dating from Louis XV, is the astronomic clock by M. Passemant
which reproduces the course of the planets around the Sun.