The Roue’s Heart

The Roue’s Heart — Plot

Mons. Flamant, a typical roué of the French nobility, is surrounded by all the pleasures and pastimes his fabulous wealth can procure. In a quest of diversion he visits the art rooms, just as a young girl enters with a magnificent piece of sculpture and places it on sale. The roué is so impressed with the work and the girl that he purchases it at once and follows her to the atelier, where he learns that she is the maid of the sculptress, whom he sees and at once falls passionately in love with her, but when he learns that she is totally blind, his feelings change to one of deepest pity.

• Release date
• March 8, 1909
• Runtime
• 8 min
• Director
• D.W. Griffith

The Roue’s Heart — Cast

Harry Solter Monsieur Flamant Marion Leonard The Blind Sculptress Florence Lawrence Noblewoman Linda Arvidson Noblewoman / Sculptress's Friend John R. Cumpson Nobleman Adele DeGarde Sculptress's Model Gladys Egan Child Charles Inslee Nobelman