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Episode 1 - Oscar, the Destiny of the Rose.

     France, 1755. After the birth of yet another daughter, General DeJarjayes, in desperation for a son, decides to raise his new daughter as a boy, naming her Oscar Francois DeJarjayes. By 1769, Oscar has become a beautiful, tomboyish young lady and a superb swordsman. Her best friend and constant companion is the family stable hand, Andre. To conclude a peace treaty between France and Austria, Marie-Antoinette, daughter of Marie-Therese, Empress of Austria, is set to marry Crown Prince Louis, the grandson of the King of France, Louis XV. General DeJarjayes offers Oscar to become the head of Marie-Antoinette's personal guards. As there is another contender for the position, Giraudelle, the King proposes a duel between them to settle the matter. Unfortunately, Oscar has no intention of guarding 'a mere girl', and refuses to go to the duel. However, she also wishes to prove herself and challenges Giraudelle to a private duel, and wins. The King is furious at her disobedience, but when Giraudelle speaks in her defense, he decides to appoint Oscar to the position, regardless of her feelings. Oscar cannot refuse a Royal command and becomes Captain of the Royal Guards.

Episode 2 - Fly! An Austrian Butterfly.

     The young and willful Marie-Antoinette is sent from Austria to France for her marriage. Oscar and her guards are ordered to meet her at the border. However, the scheming Duke Orleans, Crown Prince Louis' cousin, plots to prevent the marriage in hopes of becoming King himself, and arranges for Marie's abduction, with a look-alike taking her place. However, Oscar rescues Marie and exposes the imposter, although Orleans manages to elude suspicion. Marie is not impressed when she is introduced to her husband-to-be, the shy and fumbling Crown Prince; she is more taken with Oscar.

Episode 3 - A Spark in Versailles.

     The Royal marriage is performed and Marie-Antoinette is introduced to the French court with great success. However she arouses the immediate hostility of the King's mistress, Madame Dubarry, who see the young princess as a threat to her own power. Spurred on by the King's sisters to ostracize Dubarry, who was once a prostitute, Marie refuses to speak to her, with court etiquette allowing Dubarry to speak to the princess only after being first spoken to. Hoping to capitalize on Oscar's popularity at court, Dubarry asks the King to appoint Oscar's mother as one of her's ladies-in-waiting. Marie makes the same request to counter Dubarry. Oscar is furious at her beloved mother being dragged into the politics of court.

Episode 4 - A Rose, Wine, and Conspiracy...

Oscar wants her mother to have no part of the infighting between the nobility at court, but reluctantly tells her mother she would rather have her serve Marie-Antoinette, thus making a instant enemy of Dubarry. Meanwhile the news of the battle at court has reached Marie-Therese who, fearing for the treaty, sends Count Mercy to council Marie on her behaviour. It has little effect on the headstrong Marie. Dubarry seeks revenge on Oscar by framing her mother for an attempt to poison her (apparently on Marie's orders). But Oscar gets wind of trouble and bursts in on Dubarry, warning the trembling lady at swordpoint to stay away from her mother or she will not be so lenient next time.

Episode 5 - Tears with Dignity.

     Marie continues to ignore Dubarry at court. Duke Orleans approaches Dubarry with a plan; if the Crown Prince has an 'accident', Marie will be sent home to Austria, and Dubarry will persuade the King that Orleans should be the new heir. The Duke arranges for the Prince to have a booby-trapped gun on his next hunt, but he is saved by chance. However, the King has tired of the dispute at court and orders Marie to speak a single phrase to Dubarry at a Christmas reception. Marie reluctantly obeys but afterwards collapses in tears over her defeat.

Episode 6 - A Silk Dress and a Rugged Dress.

     Marie-Antoinette and the Crown Prince plan to make their first visit to Paris. Orleans and his crony, Duke deGuemenee, plan to publicly embarrass the Royal couple during the visit, but Oscar, Andre, and Giraudelle foil their plot. Meanwhile in the poor quarters of Paris, two sisters, the selfish Jeanne and the kind-hearted Rosalie, discuss their own future. Jeanne abandons her sister and sick mother and manages to appeal to the sympathy of an old noblewoman, who takes the girl into her house.

Episode 7 - Who Wrote the Love Letter?

     Bored, Marie-Antoinette sneaks off to a Masquerade ball and meets the handsome Swedish Count, Axel Von Fersen. Madame Dubarry sees their obvious attraction to one another and has a forged love letter in Marie's handwriting made. Fortunately, the letter manages to fall into the hands of Oscar's mother, who gives it to her daughter. A furious Oscar confronts Fersen, and denounces his declarations of innocence. However, Giraudelle has discovered Dubarry's involvement, and he, Oscar, and Andre locate the forger, only to find him dead. They barely escape from a fire bomb themselves, with no evidence implicating Dubarry. Oscar warns the scheming noble that she will always be on her guard against her.

Episode 8 - Oscar in my Heart.

     After an unsettling dream, Andre worries that his friendship with Oscar may not last, due to the vast difference in their social ranks. Meanwhile, a bored Marie-Antoinette asks to learn how to ride a horse. Unfortunately, her nervous mount bolts, and Oscar just manages to save her, injuring her arm in the process. Andre is arrested for supposed negligence and taken before the King for judgement. Oscar intervenes, pledging her own life in support of Andre's innocence. Fersen and Marie-Antoinette join her, and the King agrees to lay no blame for the incident. Oscar collapses from her wound, and is taken back to her home, while Andre blames himself for her injury, and Fersen learns to his astonishment that Oscar is a women! Fortunately, her injury is not serious and she soon recovers, while Andre, overwhelmed by the loyalty she had displayed to him, pledges to himself that he would lay down his life for Oscar.

Episode 9 - The Sun Sets, the Sun Rises.

     Louis XV collapses, and is found to be suffering from smallpox. While he lays dying, the nobles begin calculating when they should abandon their support of him, and go over to his grandson, Louis. Dubarry is terrified at the prospect of the King's death, and Oscar accidentally witnesses a private moment between the two as she proclaims the King to be the Sun she needs to shine herself. The King dies, and the nobles immediately rush to try to be the first to proclaim Louis the King of France, and Marie-Antoinette the Queen. Oscar is disgusted by their scheming, but Giraudelle accepts it as human nature. When Oscar sees Dubarry being thrown out of the palace and about to be beaten by a guard, she intervenes and gives the fallen noble an escort safely away. Dubarry tells Oscar she has no regrets for her life; she was born poor, and used her wits to become the King's consort.

Episode 10 - A Beautiful Fiend, Jeanne.

     Marie-Antoinette is delighted to be Queen, believing that she at last has the freedom to do what she wants. Meanwhile, Jeanne has become a stylish lady under the protection of the Marquise de Brandvillier, but hungers for more than the minor noble can give her. Rosalie accidentally encounters her sister and asks for aid for their sick mother, but Jeanne has her beaten and driven off. Desperate, and in despair, Rosalie tries to sell herself for money, but the first nobleman she approaches is Oscar! After laughing at first, Oscar gives the poor girl a gold coin, and tells her never to do things like that again. However, she is shocked that an innocent young girl in Paris could be so poor and desperate. A few nights later, Jeanne, with the aid of her lover, a violent servant named Nicholas, murders her benefactor and inherits her fortune though a fake will.

Episode 11 - Fersen Departs for the Northland.

     Oscar is promoted to Colonel by the Queen's request, but refuses any raise in salary or expensive gifts from her, worrying that the people may see the Queen as too wasteful of their money. Marie-Antoinette's interest in Fersen is becoming all too obvious to people, and Oscar pays him a visit to ask him to return to Sweden before their relationship leads to scandal. Fersen is genuinely in love with the Queen, but reluctantly agrees with Oscar that it is necessary that he leaves. He does express hope that he and Oscar will meet again. On the way home, Oscar witnesses the Duke deGuemenee shoot a small boy who had tried to steal from him. Andre has to restrain her from attacking the Duke. Later, Marie-Antoinette learns of Fersen's departure and is shattered.

Episode 12 - Oscar at the Duel at Dawn.

     Marie-Antoinette is trying to forget Fersen by attending balls and buying dresses and jewelry. Oscar has a run-in with the Duke deGuemenee and tells him off, resulting in the Duke challenging her to a duel, which she accepts. However, the cowardly Duke gets some help from Orleans, who knows a place to hold the duel where Oscar will be blinded by a reflection of the rising sun off of a window. Oscar manages to evade the trap, and wounds the Duke in his shooting hand. Marie-Antoinette, arriving too late to stop the duel, orders Oscar to house arrest for a month, to try to protect her from the wraith of the nobles.

Episode 13 - The Wind of Arras, Please Respond...

     Oscar and Andre travel to the Jarjayes's estate in the province of Arras. At a favorite inn, they meet the young Maximillien de Robespierre. Robespierre expounds on the plight of the poor, and the failures of the Royals to do anything, infuriating Oscar. However, when she presses the innkeeper, he confirms, to her dismay, that many people agree with Robespierre that the King and Queen are failing them. Meanwhile, at Versailles, the Queen is quite taken with a new noblewomen, Madame de Polignac. That night, a small boy in a local family falls ill, and the family is too poor for a doctor, or even to buy good food for him. Oscar and Andre take the boy to a doctor, saving his life. But thinking on what she has heard and seen, Oscar becomes fearful for the future of the Royals and of France.

Episode 14 - The Secret of the Angel.

     Oscar returns to Paris and tries to tell her father what she has learned. However, he tells her it is none of her concern and she should practice fencing instead of thinking of such things, infuriating her. At Versailles, Madame Polignac, the Queen's newest favorite, is gaining more power. When shopping in Paris, her carriage runs over Rosalie's mother, Nicole. Madame Polignac coldly dismisses Rosalie's pleas for help and leaves. Before dying, Nicole tells Rosalie that she is only her adoptive mother, and she is really the daughter of a noblewomen, Martine Gabrielle. Nearly mad with grief, Rosalie starts to walk toward Versailles to get revenge, stopping in front of a large house she assumes is the palace. When a carriage arrives, she attacks the woman emerging with a knife, only to be disarmed by Oscar, as the woman is her mother! Rosalie realizes her mistake and collapses crying. After hearing her story, Oscar offers to help her find the noblewomen, and brings her into the Jarjayes's household.

Episode 15 - The Countess of Casino.

     Marie-Antoinette has not yet given birth to an heir, and her enemies are starting to spread vicious rumors about her failure to conceive. Scared, she gives in to Madame Polignac's plot to fake a pregnancy. Mme. Polignac also introduces her to gambling, and makes a lot of money off of the Queen, who frequently loses. Oscar intervenes to save the Queen's reputation, and Mme. Polignac realizes that Oscar is a threat to her growing power over the Queen. She announces that the Queen has had a miscarriage, possibly due to Oscar's reckless behaviour around her.

Episode 16 - Mother, Her Name is...?

     Oscar brings Rosalie to a ball, telling everyone that she is a distant relative. There, Rosalie meets Charlotte de Polignac, the daughter of Madame Polignac, who is not attending the ball. After Charlotte insults her, Rosalie slaps her and runs off, right into her sister Jeanne, who is there carrying out one of her schemes to take advantage of the nobles. Rosalie tells her of the death of their mother. A few days later, Oscar has an argument with Mme. Polignac in front of the Queen over who's fault the incident at the ball was. Mme. Polignac is angered at Oscar's defiance of her and decides to take action.

Episode 17 - Now the Time of Encounter.

     Rosalie reveals to Oscar that she is the daughter of a noblewoman and Oscar decided to take her to another ball to present her to the Queen. There, Rosalie recognizes Madame de Polignac and would attack her right there if not restrained by Oscar. Oscar, Andre and Rosalie try to find Rosalie's real mother by checking the nobility registers, but can find no trace of Martine Gabrielle. Later that evening, a messenger brings word that Oscar is needed at the palace, and they set off. But it is a trap and masked men attack them. Oscar is wounded in the fight, but another carriage suddenly arrives on the scene, carrying Fersen!

Episode 18 - Suddenly, Like Icarus.

     Fersen's sudden arrival saves Oscar, and both she and the Queen are delighted to have him back. Oscar suspects Madame Polignac is behind the attack, but has no proof. Meanwhile, the scheming noblewomen tells her 11 year old daughter she is to marry a much older man from a wealthy and powerful family, but the girl is terrified. Fersen tells the Queen that he has returned to meet his fiancée in an arranged marriage, crushing Marie-Antoinette's hopes. Oscar is furious by Fersen's attitude, but he angrily responds that people are not allowed to act on their love in their noble world, to which she has no response. A few days later however, Fersen and Marie-Antoinette accidentally meet and end up spending the night together.

Episode 19 - Farewell, My Sister.

     Charlotte's arranged marriage is drawing near, but the girl is absolutely terrified of her older fiancée. One morning, Andre arrives with news of Rosalie's real mother, Martine Gabrielle. She changed it when she married to de Polignac! Rosalie overhears everything. Oscar later tells her that she never had any intention of helping Rosalie get revenge; she just wanted time to talk the girl out of it. But Rosalie says she only had one mother, and de Polignac is nothing to her. That night, she steals a gun and confronts the noblewomen on the road to her home, but cannot bring herself to kill her. Oscar follows her and tells the stunned Mme. Polignac that she ran over the adoptive mother of her own daughter. A few days later, Charlotte encounters her leering fiancée at a ball and snaps, throwing herself off of the roof. Rosalie, one of the witnesses, is heartbroken by the death of a sister she never knew.

Episode 20 - Fersen, a Farewell Rondeau.

     All of France seems to know of the love affair between Fersen and Marie-Antoinette. Oscar tries to talk to the Queen about the growing scandal, but berates herself over criticizing two people for acting on their love when she cannot herself... After a ball where Oscar intercedes to prevent more rumors about the Queen, Fersen admits that his presence at court is destroying the women he loves, and decided to enlist in the expeditionary force leaving for America. Both Marie-Antoinette and Oscar are heartbroken to see him go.

Episode 21 - The Black Rose Blooms at Night.

     While on vacation in Normandy, Oscar, Andre, and Rosalie encounter Jeanne, who tries to bribe Oscar to gain her favour. Oscar refuses the money, while Rosalie wonders what her sister's plans are. Jeanne is running a con on Cardinal Rohan, who is out of favour with the Queen due to his low morals, but desperately wants to meet her. Jeanne is pretending to arrange a meeting for the Cardinal, telling him Oscar would help if she were bribed. It didn't work, but of course Jeanne keeps the money for herself, and arranges for the Cardinal to meet a look-alike of the Queen, a blind prostitute! Oscar nearly stumbles unknowingly into the meeting, but Jeanne manages to pull it off.

Episode 22 - The Necklaces Shines Ominously.

     A Paris jeweler tries to sell Marie-Antoinette a fabulous diamond necklace he was fashioning for Louis XV, but it is too expensive, even for her. The Queen finally gives birth to the new Crown Prince, Joseph, and to a daughter, and moves to a smaller country palace to spend more time with her children, neglecting her official duties. Her mother, Marie-Therese, dies while still worried about her daughter's future. Jeanne hatches a plot to have Cardinal Rohan obtain the necklace, by convincing him he is acting as an agent for the Queen. Of course, once she has her hands on it, she sends Nicolas to England to sell it. Marie-Antoinette receives a bill from the jeweler for a necklace, and not knowing what to make of it, burns it.

Episode 23 - Cunning and Tough.

     Jeanne's plot is discovered when the jeweler comes to Versailles to try to get payment, and she is arrested. Rosalie admits to Oscar that Jeanne is her sister, and asks for her help, but Oscar can do little except pass on a message and a family ring to Jeanne. Jeanne's trial turns into a circus when she says the Queen was the mastermind of the whole affair (and that both she and Oscar are the Queen's lovers!). Robespierre and his supporters see the whole thing as an opportunity to help turn the people against the Royals. Jeanne is found guilty, and imprisoned, but public opinion is on her side, and against Marie-Antoinette.

Episode 24 - Adieu, My Youth.

     Jeanne escapes from prison with Orleans' secret help, and hides in a monastery, where she turns out a series of books against the royal family. The Royal guards, led by Oscar, are ordered to find her, but have no luck. Meanwhile, Madame de Polignac approaches Rosalie about joining her family. Rosalie wants nothing to do with her, but de Polignac threatens to reveal her connection with Jeanne, which would create suspicion that Oscar may be secretly helping Jeanne, for Rosalie's sake. To protect Oscar, Rosalie agrees, and tearfully says farewell to a baffled Oscar. Orleans betrays Jeanne's hideout, feeling she has outlived her usefulness and Oscar is sent to arrest her. She tries to take Jeanne alive, but the conwomen, tired and fed-up, blows up the monastery and herself.

Episode 25 - A Minuet of Unrequited Love.

     Fersen returns from the war, to Oscar's delight. He originally has no intention of seeing the Queen, and reopening old wounds. But when he sees how the people have turned against her, decides to remain as an adviser. However, this time, he will not allow a romance to occur. Oscar begins to wonder if she might truly love Fersen, and one night goes incognito to a ball in a dress!! (No one recognizes her out of men's clothes). Fersen is enchanted the moment he sees her, and compares her to his very best and special friend Oscar. Oscar begins to think she might be able to give up acting as a man for him...

Episode 26 - I Want to See The Black Knight!

     A new champion of the people, the Black Knight, is robbing nobles and giving the money to the poor. Some odd events start Oscar wondering if Andre could be the Black Knight, and she sets out to capture the mysterious thief. However, she is wounded while chasing the Black Knight and passes out in a Paris slum. Fortunately, Rosalie, who has run away from the De Polignac household, rescues her. Rosalie refuses Oscar offer to return with her, saying she wants to live with the people she grew up with. Oscar finally admits her suspicious to Andre who then shows her when he has been going at night; a small church where discussions are held on the equality between men, and the need to reform France. Oscar is still determined to capture the Black Knight, and although Andre doesn't feel the thief is a real criminal, he agrees to help lure the thief out by disguising himself as the Black Knight. The plan works, but Andre is seriously wounded in one eye.

Episode 27 - Even if I Lose the Light...

     Oscar is furious about Andre's wound and becomes more determined than ever to capture the Black Knight. She goes to investigate the Palais Royal (Duke Orleans' house), which has become a gathering place for reformists, and also is nearby where the Black Knight escaped from her. However, the Black Knight, who intended to hold her for a ransom of 500 rifles from her father, captures her. Andre once again disguises himself as the Black Knight, although the doctor has told him not to try to use his bad eye, and succeeded in finding and rescuing Oscar. Together, they also wound and capture the Black Knight, who turns out to be Bernard Chatelet, a friend of Robespierre, and a reporter they have encountered before. However, the strain of the evening causes Andre to lose the use of his eye. Oscar wants revenge on Chatelet, but yields to Andre's request to let him go, and she leaves him with Rosalie to recover.

Episode 28 - Andre, a Green Lemon.

     Andre starts to lose the vision in his other eye, something he tries to keep secret, especially from Oscar. Fersen discovers that Oscar was the mysterious women that he danced with at the ball, and admits that he would have fallen in love with her, if he hadn't met the Queen first. Oscar realizes that the Queen will always be between them, and that she could have no future with Fersen. With Oscar becoming more distant, Andre tries to drown his sorrows in alcohol, and becomes friends with a rough soldier named Alain in a bar he frequents. Oscar decides to quit the Royal Guards, and live her life as a man, to try to escape from her despondent feelings. She also tell Andre that she won't be bothering him with her problems anymore, and he can live his own life from now on. Andre loses control and nearly rapes her, but regains himself in time, leaving them both shocked. He tells Oscar that he has always loved her.

Episode 29 - A Marionette Starting to Walk.

     Oscar obtains a new command, an ordinary unit in the French Guards. Andre, feeling abandoned, starts drinking heavily and Alain convinces him to join his company in the French Guards. Of course, it's the same company that Oscar has taken over! Also, Alain and the other soldiers have no intention of following the orders of a noble, and a women at that! After several confrontations, and a fight or two, she gains some grudging respect, but it is clear she has quite a job on her hands. Finally, she returns home one night to learn that Giraudelle has expressed his intention to ask her to marry him!

Episode 30 - You're the Light, I'm the Shadow.

     Oscar continues to struggle to command her new company, while Giraudelle admits he is in love with Oscar and that his marriage proposal is heartfelt. General DeJarjayes begins to have second thoughts about the life he has forced on his daughter and that it might be better for her to marry and live a normal life as a women. After he is wounded by an attack by one of Robespierre's followers, a violent man named St. Just, Oscar agrees for his sake to attend a ball in her honour to meet eligible young men. However, she shows up in her full military uniform as always. Giraudelle, and the General accept that Oscar must live her own life as she sees it.

Episode 31 - A Lilac Blooming in the Barracks.

     Alain is visited by his beautiful little sister, whom he deeply loves. Oscar and her men are order to protect a visiting Spanish prince and his family, while St. Just plots to kill him to further discredit the Royals. Oscar manages to foil his attempts, but is shocked to discover one of her men was involved in the assassination attempt. Andre's vision is continuing to worsen. Later, another of the French Guards, Lasalle, is arrested by the military police for having sold his musket. Alain blames Oscar for the arrest and challenges her to a duel.

Episode 32 - The Prelude to the Storm.

     After losing the duel, Alain pleas for Lasalle's life, telling Oscar they have all been desperate enough for money for their families to sell their equipment; Lasalle was just stupid enough to be caught. Oscar arranges for Lasalle's release, which causes Alain to ease up on her a bit. One night, on their way to the opera, Oscar and Andre are caught up in a crowd of rioters and separated. Fersen arrives to help and discovers Oscar nearly hysterical with fear at the thought that Andre might be killed, an emotional outburst that surprises the two of them. The Swedish count manages to decoy the rioters away and all three escape with their lives. Later, Oscar and Andre go in search of the missing Alain and find him kneeling by the week-old corpse of his beloved sister, Diane, who had killed herself after being abandoned by her fiancée.

Episode 33 - A Funeral Bell Tolls in the Twilight.

     The Estates-General, a general meeting of the nobles, clergy, and representatives of the people, is being called to try to solve the growing political and financial problems of France. Andre attends a rally led by Bernard, and discovers afterward that he and Rosalie have gotten married. At Versailles, the crown prince, Joseph, is very ill and the Queen asks Oscar, whom the prince loves very much, to spend some time with him. Alain returns to the Guards, who are ordered to ensure the protection of the delegates to the Estates-General. At the opening of the Estates-General, the Queen is pointedly ignored, setting the tone for what is to come. Oscar begins to suspect that Andre's eyesight is worsening, but he manages to fool her. The crown prince does not improve and dies.

Episode 34 - Now 'The Tennis Court Oath'.

      The Third Estate, representing the people, is holding things up in protest of the unfair procedures that favor the nobles and clergy. Meanwhile, Oscar is becoming sick, but keeps this secret. One rainy day, she is ordered to close up the Assembly building and keep the Third delegates out. She originally carries out her orders, although she questions their legality, but finally decides to side with the Third and allow them entrance. She is arrested and when her men refuse to obey the orders of the other officers, they are beaten and sent off to prison as well. When Oscar learns that the Royal Guards have been dispatched to disperse the Third delegates, by force if necessary, she escapes, with Andre's help, and goes to stop them.

Episode 35 - Oscar Now Splits Away...

     At the Assembly building, Giraudelle has ordered his men to fire on the delegates if they do not leave. Oscar arrives and convinces Giraudelle to back off. However her father feels she has disgraced the family name by refusing to obey orders, and in his rage, tries to kill her to preserve the family honour. Andre intervenes, and tells the General, at gunpoint, that he loves Oscar. The General prepares to kill them both, but a pardon from the Queen arrives, and the General regains his senses. But Alain and the others are still in prison and are sentenced to death without a trial. Oscar recruits Bernard's help, who raises a huge public outcry over the injustice of their punishment, during which Oscar is nearly killed by St. Just. In the face of large public riots, the Queen orders the release of the French Guards.

Episode 36 - The Watchword is 'Au Revoir'.

     The former finance minister, Jacques Necker, is brought back into the government to help with the financial crisis facing France, as the King orders troops into Paris to help maintain order. Oscar is now certain she is seriously ill, and decides to have a portrait of herself painted. While patrolling in Paris, Oscar and her Guards are blocked by the new troops and return to barracks. When Bernard tries to talk to St. Just about his violence, St. Just warns him that Robespierre has hidden ambitions for power, and will prove a much more bloodthirsty man than himself. When Necker insists that political reform is necessary, Marie-Antoinette has him fired, a fatal miscalculation as he is about the only major government figure with strong public support. Robespierre begins to call for a general uprising of the people. Oscar pleads with the Queen to withdraw the troops from Paris, but she refuses. They part in tears, both realizing their once close bond cannot survive the changes to come.

Episode 37 - On the Night of Passionate Vows.

     Oscar learns from her doctor that she has tuberculosis, but is determined to remain in Paris and cannot take his advice to retire to a quiet life in the country, which might slow the disease. She also discovers the truth about Andre's failing eyesight when the doctor makes a slip, and secretly confirms it. Paris is full of soldiers and armed citizens glaring at each other. Oscar's portrait is finished, and she is moved to tears as Andre praises it while she knows he cannot see it. Later, as they ride back to Paris, they run into a mob and are forced to flee into the woods. There, Oscar confronts Andre with the truth of his eyesight and tries to make him go back to safely. Andre tells her he will be by her side always, and the two finally spend the night together. In the morning, they ride off to Paris to face the coming storm.

Episode 38 - In Front of the Door of Destiny.

     Oscar tells her men that she has no intention of obeying her orders to suppress the rebelling citizens by force. Alain and the rest of the Guards reply that they had already decided to join the rebels, but would much rather do it under her command. They ride out and encounter Bernard and Rosalie leading one group of citizens. Oscar advises them to fight behind barricades rather then face mounted soldiers on foot. She and her men fight a series of running battles with other soldiers. After suffering many losses, they decide to return to Bernard's encampment. As they slip through the back streets, Oscar exchanges fire with a sentry. The shot misses her, but hits Andre (who has gone completely blind) near his heart.

Episode 39 - His Smile is Forever Gone!

     Oscar, Alain and the others get Andre back to Bernard's encampment, but there is little that can be done. Oscar begs him to live, and Andre fights to remain with her and to see the coming revolution, but he soon dies. A grief-stricken Oscar wanders the streets of Paris that night, having her horse shot out from under her, and nearly getting killed herself. She mourns Andre and all the time that she wasted not acknowledging their love. The next morning, Bernard leads an attack on the Bastille prison. Alain finds Oscar in an alley and tells her of the planned assault. She decides to rejoin the fight, after crying for one last time. At the Bastille, Oscar and her men take charge of some captured cannon and start inflicting damage. But the defenders concentrate their fire on the cannon, and Oscar is hit...

Episode 40 - Adieu, My Beloved Oscar.

     Bernard, Rosalie, and Alain get Oscar to safely in an alley. On Oscar's urging, Alain and the rest of French Guards return to the cannon and batter down the Bastille's defenses. Oscar lives just long enough to hear that they are victorious, and dies, with Andre's face the last thing she sees. A few years later, Bernard and Rosalie visit Alain, now a country farmer, and they discuss events after the Bastille. Versailles had been stormed by a mob, and the Royal Family moved to an old house under close supervision. Robespierre and his revolutionaries took over the government and began to try and execute nobles. Fersen had attempted to get the Royal Family out of the country, but they were discovered and forced back to Paris. First the King was sentenced to death and executed, then finally the Queen. Rosalie had been Marie-Antoinette's servant up to the end, and had been given a rose by her the day of her execution in memory of Oscar, whom they had both loved. The three remember their dead friends...

Episode 41 - Series Recap.

     A short recap of the series.

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