Gentlemen,(…) I may be able to bring you proof…that the…superstition of yesterday…can become the…scientific reality of today.
Abraham van Helsing, Tod Browning’s Dracula (1931)Messieurs,(…) je crois pouvoir vous apporter des preuves…que la…superstition de naguère…peut devenir la…réalité scientifique d’aujourd’hui.
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Professor Van Helsing (portrayed by the very imitable Edward Van Sloan), while discussing with Dr Seward and other unnamed intellectuals the strange facts in the case of the deceased Lucy Weston, advances this astonishing principle regarding the relationship between science and folklore.
I have tried to incorporate actor Van Sloan’s significant pauses into the translation.
Bien!