L'Arlésienne () is a 1908 French drama film directed by Albert Capellani, based on Alphonse Daudet's eponymous play. It is the first film produced by the Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres (SCAGL) [fr] () created at the beginning of the same year to produce cinematographic adaptations of literary classics. Plot A young man from the country, Frédéric, says good-bye to his family and his sweetheart Yvette in front of his family home and goes to the old city of Arles to attend the bull fight at Roman Amphitheatre. There he meets a beautiful young woman and falls in love with her. They stroll together through the street of the old city and vow eternal love. As he leaves her at her home and walks away, her former lover Mifilio comes along and forcefully complains about her unfaithful behaviour, but she coldly sends him away. The next day Frédéric meets the girl again and proposes to her and she accepts him. He takes her to his home to introduce her to his parents who welcome her. A few days before the date planned for the wedding, Milifio appears at Frédéric's house and shows his grandfather Balthazar a letter proving that she had been his mistress and had sworn him eternal love. He shows it to Frederic who confronts the girl. She coldly admits the facts and haughtily leaves the house. Frédéric is devastated. To prevent him to fall into madness, his mother convinces him to marry Yvette. Frédéric consents and the wedding is celebrated. But Frédéric cannot forget the Girl from Arles. He keeps having visions of her either alone or with Milifio. Trying to find solace, he climbs to the attic of his house, but there he sees her kissing Milifio in front of the open window. Wanting to catch them, he falls from the window and crashes on the ground. He dies in his mother's arms while Yvette watches, crying. Production The SCAGL was created at the initiative of Charles Pathé, the founder of the production company Pathé Frères in order to give a new dimension to cinema as the public was beginning to get tired of simplistic comic or melodramatic films. Its object was "The adaptation, composition and cinematographic, photographic and phonographic representation, both in France and abroad, of literary and dramatic works by French or foreign authors, deceased or living (...)". The creation of