Fire at 45 degrees! Aim the upper part of the fortress!
Fire!
Aim at that commander.
Fire all at once!
Fire!
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 40
Adieu, My Beloved Oscar
André...
Lady Oscar!
Commander! Commander Oscar, hang on!
Can you hear me?!
Commander!
Don't yell, Alain. I can hear you.
What are you all doing?!
Lend me your hands! Move her to a safe place!
Fire!
Over here! Hurry!
Bernard!
Wait a sec! Oscar is...
Put me down, Alain. Put me down...
Please, I beg you...
I'm really tired... 5 minutes is enough, I want to rest in peace...
Doctor!
Bring the blanket.
Doctor...
Wipe the blood off her face.
I will...
Why?
I can't hear the firing of our cannons.
Fire, keep firing.
Seize the Bastille!
Fire, Alain, fire.
What are you doing?!
Ex-French Guards! Get to your positions!
Sir!
Fire, keep firing...
All right!
OK, everyone! Let'em have it!
OK!
Charge!
Can you hear it, Oscar?
The voice of the People making a charge!
Adieu...
NO-!
July 14th, 1789, Oscar François dies...
and an h0ur later the Bastille Pris0n
surrenders with a white flag...
The Revolution didn't end with the victory of the People at the Bastille.
The real Revolution was about to begin.
That is, the establishment of a new social system,
and trials of the former rulers by the victors.
In fact, most the bloodshed of the French Revolution took place not while but after the battle.
Hey, Alain!
Squad leader Alain!
It's me, Bernard!
Yo, Bernard! It's been a while.
A while?!
It's already 5 years since the Bastille!
5 years... is it that long already?
I looked for you everywhere.
Why did you disappear after the Bastille fell?
The graves of my mother and sister are here.
It was my decision from long ago to become a farmer here.
The graves of Oscar and André are on a small hill in Arras, like those.
Oscar and André, yeah.
In a way, they were lucky.
They died without knowing the ugliness of the Revolution that followed.
Oct0ber 1, 1789
I'll chop off her head!
That Austrian woman said "Let them eat cakes if there's no bread."
While we starve!
October 1st, 1789,
women's anger exploded by the continuing food shortage after the Revolution.
Their anger was directed only toward Antoinette.
Men sided them,
and a big group of over 6000 headed toward Versailles.
Please escape! To a safe...
Where is the Queen?!
Find and tear her apart!
Drag the Queen!
Drag the Queen out to the balcony!
No, Your Majesty!
It's dangerous to show your presence! Your Majesty!
Drag her out! Here comes the sow! It's all because of her!
Marie Antoinette, the last queen of the Bourbon Dynasty which lasted for 200 years,
finally bowed deeply to her People.
People were quieted.
Despite their conviction in the victory of the Revolution,
people were moved by Antoinette's dignity,
determined to remain as the Queen even as she bowed.
I will not accept the revolution. NEVER!
The National Assembly has already divested the clergy and nobility's prerogative.
Trials are held by the revolutionary committee in Paris almost everyday.
Nobles who were unpopular with the People are sentenced to death one after another.
How is Her Majesty doing?
By the demand of the People, the Royal Family has moved from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
That old Tuileries Palace, where nobody has stepped in for 150 years?
Oh, I'm quite content here.
Dust it off a bit, and this will be a comfortable home.
I can't believe it. How pitiful.
The palace is always surrounded by soldiers.
Only a few servants attend the royal family.
I see. That's enough.
Yes, Sir.
Wait.
When will the next news arrive?
The next messenger is scheduled to be dispatched on a fast horse in 3 days.
Oscar! Now lost friend of my mind.
Give me courage!
Give me your white wings of Pegasus, which soar to heaven!
Poor Fersen, his passion decisively drove Marie Antoinette into a corner.
While Mme. Polignac and other nobles who surrounded the Queen mostly fled to other countries,
only Fersen came back to Paris.
I've come back to die with you.
To be your shield and support you.
Fersen!
On June 20th, 1791, a carriage secretly left Paris.
It was an escape plan that Fersen put all his effort.
Over here!
Your Majesty, we have arrived Bondy.
We'll rest a little and change horses.
Please do not worry.
It's a straight way to Pont Sommevel from here.
General Bouille and his cavalry are waiting there to help you cross the border.
Count Fersen.
Sir.
Thank you.
It's far enough to be safe.
So you should head back now.
But Your Majesty!
We should part here. If something happens, I don't want to put you, a foreigner, in a danger.
Yes, Your Majesty.
I will defect to Belgium from here.
Please be careful.
I'll never forget your friendship.
The Queen must be feeling the same.
I wish you good luck!
I pray for the success of thisjourney!
It was a permanent farewell fit for the love that could never come out into the light.
And the escape plan failed miserably.
As it should have.
The Queen's ill fame and her conceited face are well known through out France.
The identity of the Royal Family was revealed in the town of Varenne
and they were taken back to Paris.
The King! It's Louis XVI!
A king who has the nerve to abandon his country!
Drag out and execute them!
Yeah!
It took 3 days to Paris.
But in towns on the way,
people surrounded the carriage and made fusses.
And the terror of the journey turned Antoinette's beautiful blond into white hair of an old woman.
Because of the escape attempt,
the citizens lost what little respect they still had for the Royal Family.
They started demanding the trial of the Royal Family.
In August, 1792, the Royal Family was moved from the Tuileries Palace
to the Temple Tower in Malais district.
And in September, the National Convention was established to replace the National Assembly.
Abolishing Monarchy at the same time, France abolished the monarchy and declared to the world that it would become a Republic.
The chosen delegate from Aisne Province, Louis St. Just!
Sovereignty originally rests with the People.
But the King took that power, and deprived the People of their rights!
That means, the King's existence itself is an unforgivable crime!
The King IS the body of the crime!
The fact that Louis XVI is still blinking gives me gooseflesh!
Next is Maximilien Robespierre!
Louis XVI is not a defendant!
And as we're not gods, we don't have the right tojudge a man.
But! We have the right to choose the right way for the future of our country!
To be plain, Louis is dangerous for our Republic.
By just being alive, he's already a crime!
361 against 360.
By mere one vote margin, Louis XVI was sentenced to death.
On January 21 st, 1793,
Louis XVI died on the block
Charles! Charles!
Mother!
Let him go!
You took my husband. And now my child!
You're also fathers, aren't you?!
Right, we did have sons!
Having no milk to feed them, when we just watched them die of malnutrition,
you ate sumptuously, wore jewels, and were laughing in Versailles!
Take him away!
Yes!
Soon, the Queen was sentenced to death.
Hey, let's stop.
I don't care what happened to the Queen.
Bernard, have you come all this way just to tell me such things?
No, not at all.
I came here to hear about Oscar and André.
Right now, I'm writing a book called "A Short History of French Revolution".
And I want to mention them in the book.
You're at least the one who knew them.
Then it's even more so!
Antoinette on death row has nothing to do with me.
No, it does.
I attended Her Majesty who was now moved to the Concierge Prison.
At first, Her Majesty didn't realize who I was, but...
Could you be someone with Oscar that I met in a ball?
Yes, I'm Rosalie.
I asked for this role to be of some consolation.
I miss Oscar!
Please tell me about Oscar.
Rosalie, please!
After that, I told her about Lady Oscar almost everyday.
After listening, Her Majesty always said...
My mind becomes peaceful when I remember Oscar...
Oct0ber 16, 1793
12:15 Marie Ant0inette was executed...
Her Majesty gave me this on the morning of her last day.
She made it with cosmetic papers in the cell, remembering Lady Oscar.
And she said...
Rosalie, please color this rose.
The color that Oscar liked.
Then I realized suddenly,
that I've never asked what color of rose Lady Oscar liked.
I don't know about Oscar,
but André would probably say he likes white...
Then I should keep it as it is.
Yeah, that's better.
Soon after, Robespierre and St. Just were executed as they lost in a political struggle.
Fersen arrived in his country after Antoinette's death.
He became a cold-hearted ruler who hated his subjects.
And about a decade after, he was slaughtered by his own people.
Fin.
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