If I Were King

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The House of Squib, makers of the great family of Squib medicinal products, brings you Paramount's stirring picture, if I were king, with a distinguished star, Ronald Coleman, who on three separate occasions has been nominated for the Academy Award.

In the reign of Louis XI, Paris was besieged by the armies of the Duke of Burgundy. Throughout the long winter, its inhabitants shut off from the outside world, faced either starvation or slaughter. Honest man turned thief, thief turned killer, and in these dark, tumultuous times like a rare jewel fallen into the gutter,

playing the genius of a poet. Francois Ville. Paris under siege. A city of tensions and explosive restraints. A city of ironical paradoxes like this. A beggar come to church to look at a woman of quality.

Francois Ville and Catherine de Voiselle. Lady in waiting to the queen. I was afraid you'd gone. Why, why you are a beggar from the court of miracles. I don't know you. Ah, but I've dreamt of you always. Each night we've roamed the starry way together.

Each morning I've walked with despair in my heart, knowing no mortal could be so fair. Oh, my lady, wherever I look I see only you. Of course, if I had better manners, I'd keep this to myself.

But as you see, I have no manners. I do indeed. May I, may I read you a poem? No, certainly not. Thank you, my lady. If I were king, now I love if I were king. What tribute to renations would I bring to stoop before your scepter and to swear allegiance to your lips and eyes and hair? Beneath your feet what treasures I would fling, the