Oh, how beautiful!
It really is!
Nobody would be able to find a piece like this in any royal family in Europe.
His Majesty gives Mme duBarry anything that she wants.
It's really true.
Of course she is monopolizing all the favors of His Majesty.
It's natural.
Oh, wonderful! It suits you very well!
Yes, as if it were made just for Mme duBarry.
Beautiful!
It really suites you well!
Countess, I've asked his Majesty about your husband's appointment...
to the office that you mentioned to me before.
How about the commander of the French Guards?
There will be an official announcement within 2 or 3 days.
Oh, Mme duBarry!
Thank you very much!
Oh, no, please.
Please raise your head.
It's an emergency!!
His Majesty is...
His Majesty...
What happened to His Majesty?
He's collapsed!
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 9
"The Sun Sets, the Sun Rises"
On April 27th, 1774...
Louis XV collapsed from sudden fatigue and headache while hunting.
He was immediately taken to Versailles Palace...
and a team of doctors consisting of 6 physicians, 5 surgeons, and 3 pharmacists examined the King.
Presenting Her Imperial Highnesses Victoire and Adelaide.
How is His Majesty's condition?
And what's wrong with him?
That... we absolutely don't know.
The doctors are doing their best to diagnose him...
but without success.
Your Majesty! Please take courage!
What are you doing?!
Haven't you figured out the cause yet?!
We tried our very best, but...
Is he?
No! His Majesty will recover soon.
Yes, of course. He's only exhausted.
He can't die this soon!
There are so many things that I want to do.
There are so many things that I want.
I won't be a loser!
Don't worry.
His Majesty will get well soon.
He will.
Can't figure it out!
What is going on?
What's causing this?
We've tried everything we can.
We can only pray for God's help...
You...
Could you please put out some of the candles near His Majesty?
Even a little light might hurt the patient's eyes
Yes sir.
Doctor! Please come quickly!
These red spots are...
It's smallpox!
It can't be!
Smallpox?!
Please go back to your rooms immediately!
Go to the farthest room from His Majesty's sick room!
But we want to visit His Majesty.
We have to avoid the infection.
This is set by the law of the successor to the throne!
Your Majesty! Please hang on!
We're also by your side, Your Majesty!
He has to be cured.
He has to be cured by any means!
What would happen to my position?!
Your Majesty, please get well.
Otherwise, our glories as the daughters of the King will end!
His Majesty
If he dies now...
We have to think carefully before we act.
Yes, should we stay loyal to the dying?
Or entrust our hopes to the new King?
The Sunset or the Sunrise?
But it's not really clear if he'll die or not.
It's hard to know which way to bet.
We have to consider carefully, too.
Yes, Lady Antoinette or Mme duBarry?
What's the real condition of His Majesty?
Will he survive or not?
But he suffers. His face has deformed a lot, but his internal organs are not.
He sure is a very tough person.
That's troublesome.
It's better to know soon if there's no hope for him!
Yes, so we can immediately decide our positions.
Let's pray that His Majesty gets well.
Yes.
Concentrate while marching!
Hey, you there in the third row!
Any slackers will be dismissed!
What's wrong? Are you the Royal Guard or not!
What's wrong? The Commander has been different from usual.
She can leave the training of the new soldiers to me.
Oscar can't stay still.
Can't you understand that?
Did you say something?
No, nothing.
Be careful of what you say.
Remember your place when you say something.
Yes sir.
Lady Oscar.
Mme. DuBarry wants to...
Mme. DuBarry?
Yes, she wants you to come over to her place.
It's a plot of some sort.
Commander, I'll go with you!
No, I'll go alone.
But, what might she be plotting?
It's dangerous!
I don't want to cause any unnecessary fuss at a time like this.
Go!
I'd like to ask you a very special favor.
It's about Lady Antoinette, to be exact.
I'd like to be on good terms with her.
I also want to apologize for what has happened before.
There were a lot of silly circumstances...
but I don't have any malice for her.
Please! Give me your help, Oscar, so that I can be friendly with Lady Antoinette.
No, thank you.
Unfortunately, I'm in no position to do that.
YOU can probably change Lady Antoinette's mind.
Oscar, please!
It's too late.
If you'd shown your honest mind to Lady Antoinette much earlier...
Excuse me!
Wait!
Even if you make pious proclamations, life is probably precious to you.
Now, if you don't want to stain your beautiful face with blood...
Now! Let me hear your response once again!
No matter what, I must to insure my safety!
What? Mme duBarry?
Yes. She has something to talk about in extreme secrecy.
Ask her to leave.
I said send her away immediately.
Yes sir!
That woman is no longer useful.
What power does a mistress of a dying king have?
Open up, please! Please, open the door!
Please! Open up!
Open...
I won't lose.
I'll never lose!
Hurry and take me to Versailles!
Take me to His Majesty!
Wait!
Are you just going to abandon His Majesty now?
There must be something you can do!
After 10 days by the sickbed...
the doctors finally gave up and left the sick room, due to the extreme worsening of the illness.
Please, please hang on tight.
Your Majesty is all I have!
DuBarry, you're with me to the end.
But I'll die...
Don't be so weak minded!
The previous King, Louis XIV, who was called the Sun King, lived to be 77 years old.
Your Majesty is still only 64 years old!
Please, take courage!
Yes, Your Majesty is the Sun to me.
A healthy Sun shining with dignity!
And I'm a blooming sunflower bathed in all the sunlight...
Sunflowers cannot bloom without the Sun!
Ah, please, please shine on me!
What would happen if the Sun disappears from the world?
This is my last...
Your Majesty!
Please bring a bishop...
l- I want to confess...
If the King really would want to be forgiven by God and enter the Heaven at the last moment...
as proof, expel the mistress you kept by your side, against the teaching of Christ and as an insult to God!
Mme duBarry!
Expel Mme duBarry from Versailles first!
Expel Mme duBarry from Versailles!
Your Majesty!
His Majesty has made up his mind!
No! I won't leave His Majesty's side till the end!
You can't. You're expelled from Versailles.
No, I won't leave!
I'll go to His Majesty!
Your Majesty!
YOUR MAJESTY!
DuBarry...
Grandfather is dying.
It's as if the entire world is falling on me!
I'm only 19 years old.
I have to become king and rule a country...
What a burden!
Even after he finished Atonement and Confession, is he still alive?
He's clinging tenaciously to life.
That candle sitting in that sick room's window...
is ready to be extinguished when the time comes.
It's out...
The King is dead!
What's all that noise?
Mme Noailles!
The King has passed away.
Congratulations, Lady Antoinette.
From now on, you're the Queen of France.
Grandfather has... finally passed away?
Long live the King!
Long live King Louis XVI!
Long live the King!
God... please... please protect us!
Protect us, who have become the King and the Queen to rule at this young age...
Long live King Louis XVI!
Long live the King!!
"The King is dead, long live the King"
They haven't even buried His Majesty yet.
How abruptly mercenary.
They were flattering Louis XVjust a moment ago.
But people's minds are like that.
The Sun sets, the Sun rises.
Those who prosper will one day perish.
And without basking in new sunshine, people cannot live.
Commander!
I leave this to you.
Your Majesty!
Hurry and get on!
Your Majesty! Hurry and get on!
Your Majesty!
Don't give me a hard time!
You're just a woman now, of the lowest kind!
I'll teach you.
Don't resort to violence.
I'll escort Mme duBarry halfway.
Yes, Sir.
There are a lot of people who bear malice toward you.
I don't went your pity.
There's a rumor that you might be attacked.
I'll escort you.
We're pretty far away from Versailles Palace now.
The rumor of attack was a lie, wasn't it?
Just as everyone was gossiping, I was once a prostitute.
Oscar, you probably don't know how miserably hard it is to worry about tomorrow's bread, do you?
I did whatever I had to in order to get bread.
I didn't care if it was bad or not.
With great effort, I've become a Countess.
And I won the favors of His Majesty...
without realizing it, instead of bread...
I began to crave diamonds and dresses, one after another, as if starved for them.
Will I be sentenced to death?
But I have no regrets.
Because I did things that I liked, as I wished.
Stop.
That is fine.
Thank you, Oscar.
I haven't felt so gentle like this, since I lost my parents when I was five.
You're a person of wonder.
I'm a woman who can forget about the past quickly.
Even though I'm now a sunflower out of season, I'll bloom again someday.
Now, please go!
Mme duBarry was sent to a convent at Conteau Dame, East of Paris.
A mistress who had all the favors of the King...
manipulating all the luxury and extravagance.
It was the end of Mme duBarry, who once even made Antoinette give in at her feet.
In 1793, by the decision of the Revolutionary Court...
she ended up as the dew on the guillotine.
The coffin of former King Louis XV was carried to the Basilica at St. Denis at midnight for burial.
Guarding the coffin were only 40 Royal Guardsmen and 36 pages.
The old and the new, the thriving and the perishing.
Touched by the inexorable flow of the human history...
Oscar could not hold the feeling of sorrow in her mind.
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!
Adopted by the Marquise and surrounded by beautiful dresses and jewels...
Jeanne started to lose human feelings without realizing it.
On the day of the coronation of the King, Rosalie meets Jeanne.
What would be the reflection of her sister in her eyes?
Next episode on The Rose of Versailles:
Next: Episode 10: A Beautiful Fiend, Jeanne
"A Beautiful Fiend, Jeanne"
Next: Episode 10: A Beautiful Fiend, Jeanne
See you.
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