Poster for the 1938 romantic comedy L'Accroche-Coeur
(The Heartbreaker), Sacha Guitry's somewhat
cynical tale of a gigolo who falls for a gold-digger.

Source:
Le Cinema Fran�ais:
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Gaito Gazdanov's Paris / 37

Raldi suggests a career change

One day she asked me:

�Don�t you find it ridiculous to be a taxi driver? Do you really think this job suits you?�

She offered her help to repay me, as she put it, for my humane attitude.

�I�m going to take care of your future, you�re stilll young and in good health, apparently.�

I looked at her in astonishment. She explained that she had a lot of contacts, that she knew women who were not so old, forty, forty-three, Frenchwomen, Englishwomen�

Sitting by her side in a cafe, I laughed like mad, unable to stop. Then, through tears of laughter, I thanked her.

�So you find this unacceptable? Well, maybe it�s better that you spend your life behind the wheel of a cab. Are you so full of prejudices?� [72]