The Rose of Versailles Episode 16 "(My) Mother, Her Name is...?" translated by GinRei [] = description of the scenes () = alternative translations (feel free to put them or drop them), and sometimes my comments or explanations {} = translation of what it says on the screen ********************************************************************** notes on names: Andre should be spelled with "/" accent acute over the "e" Francois should be spelled with a cedilla (like "5") under the "c". Molier is spelled with "\" accent grave over the "e". ********************************************************************** notes on language Because it's significant to the plot, it should be noted that Rosalie speaks with very informal / lower class language. The exact translatioin of these nuances is impossible. {Rosalie and Oscar fencing} OSCAR Here! And here, and here! Come on! I'm right (over) here! (or, Right here, right here!) I said I'm right here! Are you blind with those incredibly big eyes? Imagine that I'm the killer of your mother! Try again! ROSALIE The killer... OSCAR Who told you to stab a tree? Here. You'll never be able to avenge your mother like this. NARRATION Rosalie, a poor girl from the slums of Paris, became an orphan when her mother was run over by the carriage of a blond lady. Thanks to Oscar's mercy, she is now adopted by the Jarjeyes family and is training in swordsmanship. OSCAR Here it comes! There! Right, left, shoulder! You're still wide open (to attack). You'll be skewered! Watch out! [Rosalie falls into a fountain] OSCAR Stick with it. I said I'd teach you how to fight with a sword, not how to swim. Come. Are you all right, Rosalie? ROSALIE I'm angry! You're enjoying making a fool of me everyday like this! My sincere feelings are just a laughingstock for you! OSCAR You'll catch a cold if you stay soaked. You should change your clothes. [Oscar picks Rosalie up in her arms] OSCAR You've got it wrong. ROSALIE Lady Oscar... I'm sorry I... [It was really hard for me to translate the above scene, since sports psychology is a little different in Japan from the States. Like "emptying your mind" instead of saying "concentrate!" ] [opening title] [Note: there is no director listed in the opening credits in episodes 14-18.] {Episode 16: "(My) Mother, Her Name is...?"} ANDRE Do you really think that you can find the woman who killed Rosalie's mother? OSCAR To be honest, I don't really have much confidence (in it)... ANDRE Rosalie is desperate. If you can't find her, she will be greatly disappointed. OSCAR I know. Andre, I have a favor to ask you. ANDRE Me? OSCAR For the next week, devote your time to Rosalie. [Oscar's room] ROSALIE She's not here ? (Please) Excuse me. ROSALIE finds Oscar's uniform It's Lady Oscar's smell... How can such a person (exist)...? How can such a person exist in this world? I'm so happy that I can be by the side of Lady Oscar. But I have to avenge my mother. That's why Lady Oscar sympathized (pitied) me. But I... I feel strange. What's wrong with me? [Rosalie embraces Oscar's uniform] ROSALIE Why (is it), Lady Oscar? Why were you born as a woman? Lady Oscar... OSCAR What are you doing in my room? ROSALIE (Please) Excuse me! OSCAR Wait! ROSALIE I'm sorry, Nanny told me to put the shirt in the drawer. I...I have to go. [She literally says "Please excuse me"] OSCAR Wait. At the beginning of next week, there will be a ball at Mme. Elizabeth's. I'll take you there. ROSALIE I... ain't learned how to dance at all! And, I ain't learned how to behave... OSCAR Not "ain't". Say "haven't". [This line is difficult. Since Oscar is correcting Rosalie in the manner of speech. Rosalie refers to herself as "Atashi" instead of "Watashi". Oscar corrects her, 'Not "Atashi". Say "Watashi".') "Atashi" sounds rather immature and informal.] ROSALIE Yes... OSCAR How about this? You're a distant relative of my elder sister's husband. ROSALIE But..! OSCAR We'll teach you dancing and conversation starting today. Andre will be your partner. Most of the Court ladies are invited to that ball. ROSALIE A ball that most of the Ladies go to... Yes! Perhaps that woman will come, too! That face I'll never forget! OSCAR All right? ROSALIE Yes! NICOLAS A captain of the Royal Guard Regiment?! JEANNE Yup. (/Yes?) NICOLAS No kidding. How can someone like me... [He's actually talking about his social standing (class). It seems like he's from a lower nobility. Of course, Royal Guards are from the higher nobility.] JEANNE It's for real. Cardinal Rohan will take care of it (/you). NICOLAS Cardinal Rohan is that guy that Queen Antoinette hates? Why? JEANNE I told him that you're a Count. NICOLAS A Count?! JEANNE Yes. Listen. You're Count Nicolas de la Motte. And I'm Countess Jeanne Valois de la Motte. NICOLAS How can we!? Without paying the tax, what'll happen if the military police learns that I'm calling myself a Count (without permission?) ?! JEANNE Yes, it'll be dangerous for us to stay here. NICOLAS What are we going to do then?! JEANNE I borrowed money and rented a big mansion in Nouveau Saint-Gil We'll move in there right away. NICOLAS Jeanne, what a woman you're... JEANNE There'll be a ball at Madame Elizabeth's next week. If you have a mansion and wear the proper uniform of the Royal Guard, we can act out something interesting. [ball] VOICE Presenting Lady Oscar Francois de Jarjeyes! LADIES Lady Oscar?! Really?! THAT Lady Oscar who is known for detesting balls? Why did she come to Mme. Elizabeth's ball suddenly? [Oscar enters escorting Rosalie] NO! This must be a dream! It cannot be true! Who is that mademoiselle? I've never seen her before. ANDRE See? By escorting a woman, they went nuts. [he actually says "taking a woman's hand"] If you dance with her, they'll all have convulsions. OSCAR I'll leave the dancing to you. ELIZABETH Good evening, Oscar. OSCAR Mme. Elizabeth, good evening. ELIZABETH Who is this charming, angelic mademoiselle? OSCAR This is Rosalie la Molier, a distant relative of my elder sister's husband. Come, Rosalie, greet her. LADIES Lady Oscar took the girl's hands again! I can't stand it! NO! Lady Oscar is ours! She can't have her all to herself. ROSALIE I'm Rosalie. How do you do. ELIZABETH Please have a good time tonight. ROSALIE in her mind Can I go back home safely tonight? I didn't expect Lady Oscar to be this popular... [Rosalie notices Charlotte] ROSALIE How gorgeous! She's wearing such a dazzling dress! Who is she? Is she also an admirer of Lady Oscar? OSCAR Mademoiselle Charlotte is here tonight. ROSALIE Charlotte? A daughter of a Count... She's different from me. She's a genuine noble. ANDRE Mademoiselle Rosalie, may I dance with you. [Rosalie dances with Andre] ANDRE You seem to take a note of Mademoiselle Charlotte. She came alone since her mother, Mme. Polignac, has a cold and stayed home. ROSALIE Mme. Polignac? ANDRE Queen Antoinette's favorite lady. Well, she's the most powerful woman except for the Queen at Versailles now, so to say. ROSALIE Oh, Andre, you sound as if you dislike Mme. Polignac. ANDRE Sort of. ROSALIE But Miss Charlotte is amazingly charming. MAID Madame! A lady has collapsed in the anteroom! ELIZABETH Keep on dancing please, everyone. It's probably nothing serious. Please excuse me. ELIZABETH Are you all right? NICOLAS I'm Nicolas de la Motte, a Royal Guard Regiment Captain. My wife...she has become weak like this after long years of malnutrition. Just because my salary is so meager. So... ELIZABETH Oh... NICOLAS (My) Poor Jeanne! Please forgive me! Just because I'm good for nothing! ELIZABETH Oh...poor thing. Don't feel so discouraged. My carriage will take her (/your wife) home. And...it's not much, but I'll send you some money, too. NICOLAS Oh...what merciful words! Thank you very much!! I, Captain Nicolas de la Motte, will never forget your kindness!! ELIZABETH Captain la Motte, (please) don't worry. I'll ask Her Majesty to raise your salary. NICOLAS Thank you very much again! JEANNE in her mind Nicolas' acting is pretty good (/impressive?). Noble ladies are all so naive that they can be tricked so easily. LADIES How do you do. We were all just talking about you. Are you living (in the same house) with Lady Oscar? ROSALIE Yes. LADIES I envy you. Is Lady Oscar always with you? Do you dine together? What does Lady Oscar's hand feel like? Please be our friend, Mademoiselle Rosalie. Except for Her Majesty, she never... ROSALIE in her mind (overlapping with the last lady) The lady who killed my mom is not here! The killer... ANDRE Wow, (it seems like) Rosalie has become really popular. OSCAR Yeah. She said she's an orphan born in the slums of Paris. ....yet an interesting girl. She is timid, (but observing her now), she sometimes shows an amazingly dignified expression (on her face). ANDRE Yeah. Nobody will doubt if told that she's an aristocrat. CHARLOTTE Everyone! How long are you going to make a fuss? LADIES Lady (/Mademoiselle?) Charlotte... ("Mademoiselle," I would think, for one so young.) CHARLOTTE A Minuet is next. Mademoiselle Rosalie, aren't you going to dance? ROSALIE Uh...Minuet? CHARLOTTE Oh, you don't even know what a Minuet is? Astounding! Miss Rosalie, don't be elated even if everyone flatters you. Everyone is just curious about (/interested in) your embarrassing rusticity and Lady Oscar! Come, let's go! (or, just "Come!"?) LADIES How unpleasant! She's the one who's most excited about Lady Oscar! Miss Rosalie. Don't mind her. By the way, what is your mother like? ROSALIE Uh...my Ma? CHARLOTTE "Ma"? You said "MA"?! CHARLOTTE How indecent! I'll tell my Mother! That Lady Oscar has brought a girl who's not a noble to a ball of nobles!! CHARLOTTE Are you really a distant relative of Lady Oscar? Now, Miss Rosalie, answer me! [Rosalie throws a fan at Charlotte] CHARLOTTE How dare you!! ROSALIE I'm a noble! I'm a noble!! The name of my mother is... Her name is... I'm a noble... Martine Gabrielle... [flashback] MOTHER Martine Gabrielle... Your mother's name is Martine Gabrielle... ROSALIE Mom! Who is Martine Gabrielle?! Tell me, Mom! Who's child am I?! Where can I meet her, Mom?! Tell me! [Rosalie runs out of the room] OSCAR Rosalie! Andre... [hallway] JEANNE We did it! Nicolas, wasn't it a piece of cake? NICOLAS You're a sly fox! JEANNE Next thing, Nicolas... NICOLAS What (is it)? JEANNE Is to approach the Queen at the Palace. [Rosalie bumps into them] ROSALIE I'm sorr... JEANNE Y-YOU!! ROSALIE (My sister) Jeanne!! NICOLAS Hey, what's wrong? JEANNE Uh...nothing, Nicolas. She just resembled someone I know a little. But I was wrong. Let's go. ROSALIE Jeanne! JEANNE Aren't you mistaken (me for someone else)? I've never seen you before. [Rosalie takes Jeanne's hand] JEANNE What are you doing?! ROSALIE whispers Listen, Jeanne. Mom is dead. She was run over by the carriage of a noble. ROSALIE in her mind Jeanne, how can you look so cold (like that)? Is my sister (that I know/ from the past) really dead? JEANNE Nicolas, hurry up! NICOLAS Yeah... OSCAR Rosalie, are you all right? NICOLAS Hey, that girl...I thought I've seen her somewhere before. JEANNE Shut up! There should be no one that we know in a place like this! ROSALIE in her mind Jeanne...I missed you. I missed you so much that my heart was almost torn apart... No matter how you treated me, you're my only sister. JEANNE in her mind Mom is dead...Mom... But why is Rosalie here? I don't understand at all. She became beautiful, wearing much better clothes than I do... I don't understand, I don't... [at Jarjeyes'] [Rosalie is combing Oscar's hair] OSCAR Rosalie, you did very well at Mme. Elizabeth's ball (party). ROSALIE Do you really think so? But I... OSCAR If you didn't claim that you're a noble, everyone around you would have figured (find) out that you're from the slum. ROSALIE Yes. OSCAR If they did figure (/find) out you'd have lost the opportunity to find the killer forever. ROSALIE Yes. [in her mind] Lady Oscar, don't stare at me like that. I feel as if the mirror broke into million pieces and pierced me through! OSCAR Are you cold, Rosalie? ROSALIE N-No, Ma'am. OSCAR Your hand is trembling. I'll do the rest myself. ROSALIE Yes, Ma'am. OSCAR Please prepare my (military) uniform. Today is the day I visit the Court (/Palace). [at Court] ANTOINETTE Oscar, I've completely quit the gambling that you worried about. So, please feel at ease. OSCAR I feel really glad (with all my heart), Your Majesty. POLIGNAC in her mind Oscar, too bad that you couldn't trap me in. ANTOINETTE By the way, Oscar, I heard that you have a very charming lady at your house. It's quite a rumor (/famous?). OSCAR With all due respect, she is my distant relative. ANTOINETTE I see. Please bring her to the Court next time! POLIGNAC Oh...Your Majesty, not her. [She literally says "Someone as "high?" as Queen (meets} a girl like that (low)?!"] I heard that at the last ball, while I was sick and absent, that girl was very rude to my daughter. OSCAR "Rude"? POLIGNAC She threw a fan (at my daughter)! OSCAR That was Mademoiselle Charlotte's fault, Mme. Polignac. POLIGNAC What?! My daughter's fault?! OSCAR That's right. Your daughter insulted Rosalie first. Next time they meet, I hope Mademoiselle Charlotte will apologize. POLIGNAC How dare you...! [the sentence continues to her inner voice] (in her mind) To (someone like) me...! [Polignac is upset that Oscar tell her such thing. She's absolutely sure about her power, so she never imagined that someone would challenge her about "who's right and who's wrong." ] Oscar is dangerous. Like in the case of gambling, I thought she was just an ordinary Royal Guard. If I don't take care of her right now, (I feel) it'll be fatal (for me/ or, I'm finished?). [she's talking about either assassinating Oscar or exiling her from the Court, and otherwise, she felt, Oscar will end her dominance over Antoinette by perhaps proving to Antoinette what Polignac is really like.] I'll be able to do anything I want then. I can! I am doing (whatever I want)! [The last sentence was a bit hard to hear.] [Andre trains Rosalie] ANDRE Concentrate harder! ANDRE Thrust! What's wrong, Rosalie? Can't you concentrate if your partner is not Oscar?! If you're like that, you'll never be able to avenge your mother. ROSALIE Avenge my Mom...! [ending title] NEXT EPISODE: Rosalie finally meets the woman who killed her mother under her carriage wheels. She was proud and arrogant in the waves of people at a ball. Holding a knife with all her anger and hatred, Rosalie stepped forward... Next Episode in The Rose of Versailles: "Now The Time of Encounter" END - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bruce Carlson carlson@indirect.com Phoenix, AZ