The Elegant Criminal
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On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
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Daniel Auteuil
Pierre-François Lacenaire
Maïwenn
Hermine
Aurélien Recoing
François
Rufus
Canler
Patrick Pineau
Avril
Jean-Paul Muel
Poulaillon
François Périer
Lacenaire's father
Jacques Sereys
Pertuizet
Marie-Armelle Deguy
Princess Ida
Samuel Labarthe
The abbot of Lusignan
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