Why does the dawn come so soon?
I have to go back now...
I won't let you go.
Even if the sun rises and all the people in France will see us both!
I don't want to let you go!
Please, don't cry.
If I see your tears now, I'll be lost in hell...
until I'll be able to see you next time.
Please, show me your smile like a spring breeze as always.
The Rose of Versailles
Kusamurani namo shirezu
The flowers blooming in the wilderness
Saiteiru hana naraba
they are without names
Tada kaze wo ukenagara
A gentle breeze
Soyoide ireba iikeredo
makes them sway
Watashi wa bara no sadame ni umareta
My destiny is of a rose
Hanayakani hageshiku ikiro to umareta
Born to live in glory and passion
Bara wa bara wa, Kedakaku saite
Roses, oh roses, blooming with dignity
Bara wa bara wa, Utsukushiku chiru
Roses, oh roses, withering with regret
Bara wa bara wa, Kedakaku saite
Roses, oh roses, blooming with dignity
Bara wa bara wa, Utsukushiku chiru
Roses, oh roses, withering with regret
Episode 20
Fersen, a Farewell Rondeau
There's nothing in particular I want to talk about.
I just wanted to practice some fencing.
Thanks. I had a good time exercising.
Ah, André!
You've talked about a cheap bar in Paris before!
Will you take me there?
Let's have a drink some time.
Fersen, dinner's being prepared for you.
Why don't you stay a little longer?
No thanks. Maybe some other time.
Take him to a cheap bar in Paris!?
The Count would be kicked out in less than five minutes!
The entire city is full of rumors.
Queen Marie Antoinette and her lover, a lady-killer from Sweden...
The "illicit love" that flares up every night at Versailles!
The rumor is calling for more rumors, spreading with exaggerations.
I've never seen Count Fersen like today.
He seems tormented whatever he does, yet he can't help but do something.
Why did he fall in such a painful love?
What's so painful about loving and being loved?
There are plenty of loves that cannot be even admitted.
Take a sword, André.
In the backyard.
I won't go easy on you today!
All right.
That's the way I want it, too.
Oscar! Forget about Fersen!
No, I WANT you to forget... please.
Only a cup of wine.
This is my Life!
No love, no romances.
This is what I get after working all day long...
Only a cup of wine.
This is my Life!
No love, no romances.
The only thing that I have are debts and a starving family.
That's all.
Who knows about Versailles?
A princess from Austria?
A dangerous liaison with a Swedish noble?
We don't care anything about it.
We don't care about Versailles at all.
What I want instead is only a cup of wine.
Only a cup full...
Well, see for yourself during the luncheon today!
What will happen between them?
She's about to appear now.
Here she comes!
Welcome to the luncheon.
Everyone, please enjoy yourself.
She'll approach Count Fersen now!
Oh, how feigned! Everybody knows about their affair...
not only in Versailles, but throughout France!
Fersen, I'll see you at the Temple d'Amour tonight!
Please don't forget!
Of course! No matter what happens, I'll be there!
So, what did Her Majesty do?
That's all. She never spoke to Lord Fersen.
That's right, of course.
She has her position to consider.
If His Majesty learns...
Shhsh! Too loud!
Did you call for me, Your Majesty?
Leave us.
Yes, Your Majesty.
You're the only one that I can count on, Oscar!
You'll listen to my request, won't you?
And you're the only one who will keep it secret.
Please, tell him secretly.
I can't go tonight.
I forgot that the His Majesty's friend is coming to visit tonight.
I have to play games with His Majesty throughout the night.
Please tell him for me to forgive me!
Say "yes", Oscar!
Otherwise, I can't raise my face and look at you!
Please raise your face.
How can I decline your request?
Oscar, you're the only one!
While others are gossiping, you're my only ally!
Oscar, what was Her Majesty's request?
Hey, Oscar, what's wrong?!
Oscar!
Go on ahead! I'll be back later!
Your Majesty, I will humbly offer you my opinion.
Your Majesty, have you forgotten your position as the Queen Mother of France?
While asking me for a favor, you covered your face as if you were a sinner.
I understand Your Majesty's suffering.
But Your Majesty! You have your position to consider.
Stop, Oscar.
What are you saying to those who love each other?
Oscar!
Then, she said that she's looking forward to the ball next week.
Thank you, Oscar.
Au revoir!
Wait, Oscar! Warm yourself!
Stay until the rain stops!
Oscar.
Oscar!
This rain is bad for you!
It's hopeless now.
You can't go back.
The agony of a man who picked a rose.
A bottle of wine, ceaseless rain.
The agony only deepens.
Yet the Seine still flows today.
Lord Fersen.
What will you be wearing for tonight's ball?
A military uniform or a formal wear with the crest?
There's still time until the evening.
I'll decide later.
Very well, Sir.
Please excuse me.
Oscar François...
What do you think?
What should I do from now on?
Come and buy! A brand new one now on sale!
It's a little expensive this time.
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The 2nd series of the romance between an Austrian and a Swede who had put our France into a shame!
Come in!
Lord Fersen, there was a messenger from Sweden.
A messenger?
Count Lindesberry, your classmate from Royal Stockholm University, has died.
He died in a war.
In a war?!
He was fighting in the American War of Independence.
At that time, across the Atlantic Ocean on the American Continent...
a war was being fought to win independence from England.
And France was on America's side...
sending expeditions with volunteers.
André, you don't have to prepare the carriage.
I'm not going to the ball tonight.
I'm supposed to be sick in bed with a fever.
OK?
Oscar!
Don't shout. You'll scare the horses.
It's a large ball tonight where most of the major nobles will come.
If Oscar François de Jarjayes, the Royal Guard Regiment Commander...
the heir of the Jarjayes family, will not attend, something wrong will happen, I think.
That's why I can't stand it!
I cannot bear to see Lady Antoinette being showered with people's stares and gossip.
As it should be. Isn't that the very reason why you should go?
Lady Antoinette depends on you.
And probably Fersen too...
I don't want any part of it!
That's their business, not mine!
What do you want me to do?!
To slay those who spread gossip?
To blind those who stare?
That's a good idea! Shall we try it?
Oscar, can we speed up?
We're a bit late.
Yeah.
All right, go!
Is that the Don Juan from Sweden?
Yes, just look at that face!
As if saying there's no one who is more handsome than he is!
How did he draw the affection of the Queen?
What's he looking for?
Of course. Of course.
What a nice dress.
She just wants to make sure.
She only has eyes for Lord Fersen.
You look perfect. Awesome!
Oh, Lady Oscar is wearing a formal uniform.
I've never seen her in the formal uniform!
Ah, how dashing she looks!
But that means she's going to dance tonight!
That's right...
She's never danced before!
I'll ask her to dance with me! Oh, yes!
Oh, I'll be the first one!
Oscar! Is there something new in the air tonight?
You've never danced before.
Your Majesty, the wind blows both from the West and the East.
Are you going to dance with men, or with women?
As you wish, Your Majesty.
But, please let me be your only partner tonight.
I understand.
Whoa.
Whoa!
Thank you, Oscar.
If you didn't appear in that formal wear...
I probably would have danced all night with Lady Antoinette.
If I see her, I want to dance with her.
If I dance with her, my hidden feelings will probably become obvious to the others.
I almost got her into another big scandal.
I knew I shouldn't have gone to that ball.
It's all my fault, for being indiscreet.
If I really love someone, I should be more thoughtful about her.
Though my love is deep, I shouldn't have fallen into a romance!
I've made her suffer.
Deeply, really deeply.
There's only one thing that I can do now...
to become a betrayer!
Oscar, I'm going to run away.
I'm sorry but I will!
Thousands of miles away!
Please take care of Lady Antoinette!
Fersen, where are you going?!
FERSEN!!
America...
Fersen's done it with a vengeance.
Aren't you going to see him off?
The expedition is departing today.
Swedish Dragoon Colonel Count Hans Axel von Fersen has volunteered for the American expedition.
He's scheduled to be on board the Battleship Jason and depart from the port of Brest...
as the aide-de-camp of Marquis Lafayette today.
If the time allows, please tell him that...
I wish him to be a brave fighter in the battlefield, to win the victory...
and... to come back safely.
Darn, today's the day to shoe the horses.
Don't die, Fersen...
Ai ga kurushimi nara
lf to love is to suffer
Ikurademo kurushi mou
I will take any suffering
Sore ga kimino kokoro ni
Until my love reaches
Itsuka todoku made
To your heart someday
Kimi wa hikari, Boku wa kage
You are the light while I am the shadow
Hanre rarenai futari no kizuna
We share a bond that can never be broken
Kurushimeba kurushimu hodo
The more pain I suffer
Ai wa, ai wafukamaru
the deeper is my love
Not reciprocated is the love I have for you
my eyes, they can no longer see you
Ah, Oscar?
Oscar!
Jeanne swindles an enormous amount of money by tricking Cardinal Rohan.
Lie after lie, her ambition knows no bounds.
And eventually, she comes up with a dreadful plot.
Will Oscar be able to detect it?
Next Episode in the Rose of Versailles:
"Black Roses Bloom at Night"
Next! Episode 21: "Black Roses Bloom at Night"
See you.