The Last Express (1997 Video Game)

Scott Streeter: Francois Boutarel

Quotes 

• Madame Boutarel : [In French]  Francois, get ready for dinner. My God, what's that floating in my cologne?

  Francois Boutarel : [In French]  It's Eugene. I had to embalm him before we left.

  Madame Boutarel : Eugene?

  Francois Boutarel : My praying mantis. He died.

  Madame Boutarel : How horrible. You should have thrown him in the garden. Claude speak to him!

  Monsieur Boutarel : [In French]  Francois, you must not touch your mother's things or use them in your experiments. You did quite well however, to use the cologne. The alcohol does have a preservative effect.

  Francois Boutarel : My scarab whistle died too, but he didn't fit in the bottle.

  Madame Boutarel : Claude, you really must speak to him. This obsession with death, does it seem normal to you in a seven-year old boy?

  Monsieur Boutarel : Why not? It is a natural process like any other.

  Madame Boutarel : But a toy whistle, how can it die?

  Francois Boutarel : It's dead!

• Francois Boutarel : [conversation is in French]  There are pretty ladies in the first sleeping car. They gave me candy.

  Madame Boutarel : François, I forbid you to have anything to do with them. Claude, speak to him!

  Monsieur Boutarel : Why? He would do well to begin exposing himself to different cultural practices. After all, Masjid-Es-Suleiman is a Muslim town.

  Madame Boutarel : And if they kidnap him, would that be a good learning experience for him?

  Francois Boutarel : They took me into their bed, played with me and gave me candy.

  Madame Boutarel : Claude!

• Madame Boutarel : [at lunch, conversation is in French]  I don't see why you have to share a compartment with that Englishman. Why couldn't they have put him in somewhere else?

  Monsieur Boutarel : In my profession it is necessary to accustom oneself to difficult living conditions.

  Madame Boutarel : That is exactly why François and I are coming to Abadan... to provide you with a proper home. Searching for oil in the desert! What was so wrong about staying in Villefranche? You had a fine job; our little house was so lovely! My garden was coming into bloom. There will be a garden in Abadan?

  Monsieur Boutarel : The desert is not noted for its gardens. But there is oil.

  Madame Boutarel : And when the oil has run out? François will be as wild as a desert nomad! He is already uncontrollable. Crawling on the floor, picking up filthy objects.

  Francois Boutarel : Mama, look out the window, there's a cemetery.

  Monsieur Boutarel : The floor is a natural place to find beetles.

  Madame Boutarel : Oh! I can't talk to you.

  Madame Boutarel : [Later, about Anna Wolff]  First the dog, now the violin. It's really too much. I have a mind to say something to the conductor.

  Francois Boutarel : Is that her sitting with the fat man? I think she is beautiful.

  Madame Boutarel : François, eat your food.