I won't allow it!
I'll never permit it!
Of all things, that shameless duBarry requested from his Majesty...
that she wants Oscar's mother as her lady-in-waiting!
That whore took Oscar's popularity into consideration.
With the favor she's getting from His Majesty, she's challenging you.
Listen, Antoinette, as His Majesty's daughters, the 3 of us are on your side to the end.
I understand,
my Aunts.
I'll request to the Crown Prince that I want Oscar's mother as my lady-in-waiting
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 4
"A Rose, Wine, and Conspiracy..."
Why my mother?!
So, Madam will be either Madame duBarry's or Lady Antoinette's lady-in-waiting?
Lady Oscar, this request is a great honor.
Don't be upset...
Shut up!
I know the reason.
DuBarry or the Crown Princess.
Their aim is to make me choose between them.
Hey, Oscar, calm down.
You will have to choose one or the other eventually.
If you look at it in a the long run...
Shut up, Andre!
No, I'll never allow my mother to be used as a tool in a conflict between women at the Court!
Oscar,
you don't have to worry about me.
I'll serve whoever you think is better.
No!
I can't permit my mother to be dragged into the power struggle between those two!
Oscar,
this is an order from His Majesty.
It doesn't matter whose order it is, I won't permit it!
My Dear...
Her temper will cool off after a while.
At the same time, at the Palace in Vienna,
another "Great Mother" was heartbroken about her daughter in Versailles.
It was Marie-Antoinette's mother,
Maria Theresa, the Austrian Empress.
Did you call for me, Your Majesty?
Count Mercy, I'd like you to go to France.
To France?
Antoinette is still too young.
I'm worried that with all the flattering in the foreign Court,
she'll become a spoiled adult who doesn't think things through.
Would you please supervise her instead of me?
As you say, Your Majesty.
I don't want any advice!
That's not it.
It's been a while, so want to exercise a bit?
All right.
I could ask nothing better.
You're fortunate!
What?!
Even if I want to, I no longer have a mother to worry about!
Do you give up?
If you do,
make up your mind and don't make your mother worry!
Either way, my mother will have to suffer the same!
If you disobey His Majesty's order, it's treason!
His Majesty has given the Jarjeyes Family a lenient order
to choose between serving Madame duBarry or the Crown Princess.
But you're ruining it...
Decide now!
The more stubborn you become,
the more troubled your Father and Mother get!
Mother, if I have to choose after all...
Although Mme duBarry is the most powerful in the Court now,
she rose by greedy means and controls the King with sex appeal.
I'd rather choose Lady Antoinette, who has a proper lineage.
Instead, I will protect Mother's safety!
Next day, Versailles was excited by the rumor
of Marie-Antoinette's first victory over Madame duBarry.
How could Oscar dare to do such...
Presenting the Crown Princess!
You, Oscar!
You're such a fledgling defy me!
That mother...
you'll pay for this!
You'll see what you deserve!
Oh, Count Mercy!
Isn't this a beautiful garden matching the one in Schonbrunn Palace back home?
As you say so.
For the occasion of my marriage, it was opened to the commoners.
It was beautiful with the fireworks, too!
By the way, Lady Antoinette, I haven't seen the Crown Prince at all yet
The Crown Prince is in the forge, making locks.
Eh?! Locks?!
You mean, those locks with keys...
Right! Making those locks is his hobby!
What? Not even a word?
Yes,
it's been 3 months, but Lady Antoinette has never said a word to her.
When Madame duBarry learned that Oscar's mother was taken as Lady Antoinette's lady-in-waiting...
Yes! She was trembling and really pale!
OK, I'll bet on Lady Antoinette.
Then I'll bet on duBarry 5000 Livres
His Majesty will back up Mme no matter what.
All right, I'll also bet her 5000 Livres!
What's going on?
Lady Antoinette is confronting His Majesty's mistress face to face...
What, what if such action makes the King mad?
I can't forgive that brat!
She's making a fool of me.
I can never forgive her!
Your Majesty! Please do something!
That brat is...
That again?
I don't want anymore trouble.
Please leave me alone.
You've gotjewels, carriages, or whatever you like all in your hands.
What more do you want?
No!
Your Majesty doesn't know about the gossip at the Court.
Because that redhead brat hasn't addressed ONE word to me,
I'm being laughed at by the entire Court!
Until that brat addresses me, my presence at the Court is not permitted!
Yes, yes!
I'm being insulted!
Your Majesty has a duty to protect me!
Because Your Majesty hasn't done anything, I'm being terribly insulted!
You said you're insulted because I haven't done anything.
Yes!
An insult to me, who is favored by Your Majesty,
means an insult to Your Majesty!
An insult to me...!
Someone, bring one of Antoinette's attendants to my room!
A problem!
His Majesty himselfjust issued instructions...
and a warning to Lady Antoinette about her attitude toward Madame duBarry.
Antoinette, don't worry.
That woman must have cried and begged His Majesty!
Yes, that's right!
We're supporting you.
You shouldn't lose to someone like duBarry, should you?
How terrible!
If the treaty with Austria is broken by the silly rivalry between these women,
all of Europe will be engulfed in war!
She making that much trouble in Versailles?!
The situation seems to be serious, since it's an express letter from Count Mercy.
Please write a letter immediately to Lady Antoinette from Your Majesty yourself!
Ah, I can never do that!
I taught her that it's a sordid thing for a woman to sell her body to men or to become a mistress.
I can't preach to my own daughter about manners to Madame duBarry
Your Majesty!
I understand your hesitation, but concerning the treaty with France, it's...
Yes! We should never go against the French King!
Kaunitz, you write the letter, please.
If it's an order from you, Prime Minister Kaunitz, she'll accept it.
Indeed!
Since an insult to someone whom His Majesty has associations is thus equal to insulting His Majesty, correct it immediately.
It's an order from Prime Minister Kaunitz, Crown Princess.
And...
OK, OK! I FULLY understand it, so skip the rest.
Then at the party today, please... Lady Antoinette?
Once is enough to understand!
Yes ma'am.
What a grumbling old man Kaunitz is!
Say whatever he likes!
But how did something like this leak out to Austria?
Austria's Prime Minister sent a letter.
Hen Lady Antoinette is?
Yes, finally persuaded.
See, look.
Lady Oscar is accompanying the Crown Princess right beside.
Of course, she's worried about her mother.
Nobody knows what will happen if Mme duBarry gets mad.
Ah, by the way, I haven't seen Mme duBarry yet.
Mme duBarry is here!
Here she comes!
Oh, Mme duBarry has appeared.
Then, the letter from Austria was really true?
Hmm, it seems so. Today, Lady Antoinette will perhaps...
Yes! She might address Mme duBarry!
I'll witness the most dramatic scene ever in the Versailles palace with my own eyes.
Hmph! I was born in a poor city slum as a commoner without any rank.
With effort, I finally got a rank of Countess in my hands.
The favor from the King, authority, jewels, and castles...
I've got everything I wished for right in my hands!
All that remains is to make the Crown Princess address me
and finally admit that my power is greater than that brat's today.
No!
Even if it's an order from His Majesty,
if I address her, it means that I've admitted that prostitutes or mistresses can enter this Court freely.
That should never be allowed!
His is no longer because I was told by the Aunts,
but it's my own matter.
Yes, for myself!
It's a matter of pride as the French Crown Princess!
Oh, what a face she is making.
Horrible!
What a face!
How terrible!
What's the matter?
Is she really, really going to ignore an order from the Prime Minister of the home country?!
Lady Antoinette!
That brat!
Mme duBarry, don't be so angry.
Recently, I obtained a wonderful wine from the Gold Coast of Africa.
I thought I'd definitely want to present one to you, Mme duBarry.
So what?
It'sjust an ordinary wine.
Right, just an ordinary wine.
Ample aroma, excellent taste.
But once you put it in your mouth,
you go up to heaven instantly.
An excellent wine that leaves no evidence.
Mme duBarry will probably have so many ways of using it...
Come in.
Mme Jarjeyes.
He Crown Princess has ordered glasses of wine brought to Mme duBarry's room.
The Crown Princess is in Mme duBarry's room?
Yes.
That's strange.
Lady Antoinette is in Mme duBarry's room. But she despises her.
Please, hurry!
By His Majesty's confidential order, they are having a discussion!
Eh?! His Majesty's?
Then why not a person who is in charge of bringing wines?
There are 168 people in charge of Lady Antoinette's meals...
It's an order for Mme Jarjeyes!
I have brought glasses of wine for the Princess.
Oh, Mme Jarjeyes, thanks for bringing them.
Not at all.
Where is Lady Antoinette?
Ah, unfortunately, Lady Antoinette has left the room just now.
Oscar!
Andre.
Why are you in such a rush?
Madame has gone to Mme duBarry's room just now.
Oscar, do you know that?!
What?! My mother did?!
She went to bring wine, ordered by Lady Antoinette now!
Oh, NO...!
Let's drink the wine, since she brought it for us.
You come here and have one, too.
Oh, is it all right?
Someone like me?
Thank you very much!
Yes, since Mme Jarjeyes has brought this wine for me.
What's wrong?
Hang on!
Poison!
The wine was poisoned!
Th, this is?!
Oh, no!
A trap! It was Mme duBarry's trap!
Retaliation for serving Lady Antoinette!
Mme Jarjeyes!
How dare you put poison in my wine!
Did the Crown Princess send you?
Or was it only you who plotted this?!
What a ruthless person!
Using the life of a maid as a tool!
H, how rude!
What are you talking about?!
How shrewd of you to make my mother carry the poisoned wine,
and try to blame her for attempting to poison Mme duBarry!
What are you saying?!
You think I can't see through such obvious acting, Mme duBarry!
Whatever kind of woman you are,
you're graciously loved by His Majesty.
But remember this!
As long as I'm here,
I'll never let you entrap Lady Antoinette or my Mother!
Let's go, Mother.
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!