 The playwright Beaumarchais attributes the remark to Garrick himself.The outraged French actors, led by their president, Picard, take over the inn where he will be staying, and Beaumarchais devises a plot to humiliate Garrick publicly.On the road to Paris, Garrick meets Jean Cabot, an elderly admirer who once acted with him in "Hamlet" and now works as a Comédie-Française prompter.