The Rose of Versailles Episode 35 "Oscar Now Splits Away..." [lit. "Oscar, now is the time to fly away from the nest"] 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". Gerodere should be spelled with an accent sign '\' on the second 'e'. Bernard Chatelet is spelled with a circumflex ^ over the 'a'. ********************************************************************** GUARD Get her!! OSCAR ANDRE! OSCAR Andre!! ANDRE Oscar!! [They flee in the rain] OSCAR Hurry, Andre! The Royal Guards are charging into the assembly hall! We have to stop them! We have to!! NARRATION On June 23rd, 1789, delegates supporting the National Assembly remained in the (assembly hall of the) Estates-General, ignoring the order from the French King, Louis XVI, to dissolve. The French Guards Company B, led by Oscar, was ordered to clear them (out of the hall) first. But Oscar disobeyed the order. And 12 guards, including Alain who sided with Oscar, were arrested for disobeying the order. Now, Oscar was heading toward the Estates-General, in order to stop the Royal Guards (Regiment), which was dispatched instead of the French Guards, from storming into the assembly hall. [opening title] {Episode 35: "Oscar Now Splits Away..."} GERODERE I'm the Royal Guards Regiment Commander, Colonel Gerodere! To the delegates of the National Assembly in the assembly hall! If you remain occupying the hall, you shall be considered as traitors who disobeyed the King's order. The Royal Guards Regiment will have to resort to use of force. GERODERE Prepare to charge! LAFAYETTE Wait! Just a moment, Regiment Commander! Those from the nobility, follow me! ROBESPIERRE Marquis Lafayette... LAFAYETTE We're nobles, but have the will to participate in the National Assembly (together) with the 3rd Estate delegates. We will never let you lay a finger on them (the 3rd Estate delegates)!! GERODERE Please step aside, Marquis Lafayette! If we have to, we're authorized to open fire! GERODERE Forward! OSCAR Retreat! Retreat, Retreat!! GERODERE Commander...!! OSCAR Gerodere, do you have the courage to take my sword? Everyone in the Royal Guards, do you have the courage to put a bullet through my heart?! OSCAR Fire!! If you point your guns at unarmed delegates of the 3rd Estate, you'll have to step over my corpse first!! GERODERE Mademoiselle, please sheathe your sword. How can we fire at you, (who was) our former commander? How can we become such cowards who'd point guns at unarmed people in front of you? We'll wait until the day they take up arms. (This is) for you, even if I shall become a traitor. OSCAR Gerodere... GERODERE Retreat!! VOICE Count! Count Jarjeyes! Your son...no, your daughter... Brigadier Oscar publicly disobeyed (lit "ignored") the King's order! This is unforgivable treason! It's only natural to disqualify the Jarjeyes from nobility and exile Brigadier Oscar from France! BOUILLE Monsieur Jarjeyes, I cannot defend you this time. VOICE Count Jarjeyes, how are you going to cope with this?! Your Majesty, please hand down the punishment! VOICE Brigadier Oscar's defiance should be considered as defiance by the Jarjeyes family! I think forfeiting their property is proper! LOUIS I'd like to discuss the matter with the Queen. How about it, everyone? JARJEYES Your Majesty, let me humbly say that waiting for punishment to be handed down is not even necessary for me. I will take care of the rebel with my own hands! [Jarjeyes' residence] NANNY Mademoiselle, the Master is... OSCAR I'm coming in, Father. NANNY Hey, Andre, What's happened? The Master was furious, saying "Bring (/Call) Oscar to me!" ANDRE It's nothing. There's nothing for Grandma to worry about. JARJEYES Sit here, Oscar! JARJEYES Are you ready, Oscar? OSCAR Ready for what? JARJEYES Take off your insignia of rank and the medal the King gave you! OSCAR Let me ask you again, ready for what? JARJEYES (still) Trying to be defiant in front of your father?! If you have your last words, say. If you have any last words, say them. Though a traitor, you're still my daughter. OSCAR Twelve of my men are imprisoned in Abbey, waiting to be executed (lit. shot to death). If slaying me will save those 12 men, I'll gladly give up my life to you. But I know that's not how things go. Then I cannot die here now! JARJEYES Give up, Oscar! Being loyal to the King no matter what happens is the tradition of the Jarjeyes family! Having a traitor (in the family), it's all finished! Don't worry. After I send you to the Lord, I'll follow (soon). OSCAR I cannot take your punishment even more so. JARJEYES You're kind... but this is IT! ANDRE Please don't!! JARJEYES Let go! Let go, Andre!! ANDRE I won't let you go if you're going to slay Lady Oscar! No, I'll never let you go!! JARJEYES Get out of my way! [Andre holding a gun] ANDRE If you persist, I'm going to shoot you, take Oscar and run away! JARJEYES What?! Run away with Oscar?! ANDRE Yes... JARJEYES Is that your feeling? ANDRE Yes. JARJEYES Stupid! Do you think you can overcome the difference of class (between nobility and commoner)?! ANDRE Let me ask you! What's "class"? What's a "commoner"? All men are equal!! JARJEYES You need a permit from His Majesty for a marriage of a noble! ANDRE I know that. But even if it's the King, do you need a permit from a stranger to love someone? JARJEYES ANDRE!! JARJEYES You-!! JARJEYES I won't forgive either of you!! ANDRE Then slay me first. Even it's for a moment, I'll have to see my love's death if I'm the second. And that's too painful (for me). OSCAR Andre... JARJEYES All right, I'll make your wish come true then! MESSENGER Open the gate! Count Jarjeyes, open the gate! I have an urgent message from Versailles! Please open the gate! MESSENGER By the words of Her Majesty, there will be no punishment for Brigadier Oscar Francois de Jarjeyes, nor for the Jarjeyes family. She expects your further loyalty for the Royal Family. JARJEYES It's Lady Antoinette... JARJEYES Did you hear that, Oscar? Her Majesty's mercy has saved your life! You idiot! Idiot...! [Prison cell] FRENCH GUARD Well, so, what'll happen to us? You moron. We'll all be shot for treason like General Bouille said. Right, Alain? ALAIN Probably. But we're properly enlisted in the Army. So we should be able to appear in (/hold) a court martial. Whether we get executed or not, I'm going to spill out all the words in my guts! GUARD Yeah, right. I'll say whatever I want to say. Like raise salary and more vacation! GUARD Moron! What's the use of a vacation for a guy (waiting) to be executed! GUARD Ah, right. JAILER Listen. Your sentence has been handed down: all of you will be executed at Louis XV Plaza at 8:00 am in five days, on July 1st. GUARDS What?! ALAIN Wait, prison guard! What happened to the military court (/court marshal)?! We haven't been tried yet! JAILER The trial was held, I heard. ALAIN It couldn't be!! We weren't called in to the court! JAILER The VIP's probably skipped the procedure. It happens often, you know. ALAIN Damn! We've been tried in absentia!! Give up, everybody! Let's give it all up! [Paris bar] OSCAR I heard your whereabouts from Andre. I'd like to ask you a favor, Bernard. BERNARD OK, anything that I can... but I won't take part in self-interests of the royal family and nobles. OSCAR This is for 12 of my men. They are all commoners. BERNARD All right, tell explain. I am indebted to you. BERNARD What?! Surround Abbey prison?! OSCAR Yes, you can rally citizens. We'll need a thousand...no, about 3 thousand. BERNARD I can probably do that... but (how) will it help to save your men? OSCAR I am the commander in charge of the French Guards who are responsible for the security of Paris. If I judge the security of Paris is in danger, I can request the release of the 12 men to the King. BERNARD I see, that's a good idea. We need someone clever like you on our commoner's side. OSCAR Will you do it? BERNARD There's one problem. What if it turns into a riot? OSCAR I promise that no one from your group or any citizen will get hurt or die. If I break my promise, I'll quit the French Guards and run errands or do whatever for you. BERNARD OK. I'll do it. Let's see how much of a crowd I can attract with my speech. OSCAR I'm counting on you. BERNARD Ah, Oscar, give my regards to Andre. OSCAR I want to see Rosalie after this (matter) settles. BERNARD Please do. Rosalie will be glad, too. OSCAR See you. [church] BERNARD I think this is worth trying. Your opinion, Monsieur Robespierre? ROBESPIERRE "Save the 12 soldiers who are about to be hushed up by trial in absentia"... We should do it. If we succeed, we'll be able to draw other soldier's minds to us. We'll have to fight with the military someday. And if we are on the minds of the soldiers when that time comes... ST. JUST Not "someday", Monsieur. Why not lead the crowd to Versailles Palace? ROBESPIERRE That's enough, Monsieur St. Just! Why do you always try to choose the extreme? ST. JUST Extreme? Me? ROBESPIERRE Establishing the National Assembly, saving the 12 men, and the tennis court oath at Jeu de Paume... Preparation and patience are needed in order to gain great power. To me, you seem like nothing more than a blood thirsty terrorist. ST. JUST Why, Monsieur? I simply proposed a plan. If you don't like it, I'll drop it. ROBESPIERRE Do it, Monsieur Bernard! I wish you good luck! [barracks] OSCAR We're going to patrol Paris from now. (or, We're on a special patrolling mission in Paris today.) We've been informed that there will be a rally at the Palais Royale Plaza today. Our mission is to guard (the security of?) the rally from the distance. Keep these in your mind: DO NOT fire at citizens no matter what happens. DO NOT be provoked by the citizens. All mount! Move out! BERNARD I'm Bernard Chatelet. I want all those who gathered here at Royale Plaza to know something! Ladies and gentlemen, you all know that our sons, yes, the sons of us commoners are in the hateful military. And 12 of our sons are about to be executed (lit. "shot to death"), without being properly tried in a military court! COMPANYMEN Hey, this rally is to save Alain and the others! Yeah! BERNARD Citizens! Those Parisians who are willing to bridge (/bring) the new era! Even if they are enrolled in the military under the ancient regime, please be aware that they are our comrades who are paid low salaries for being used as cannon fodder! ST. JUST Over there. That's the Security Commander. Let's kill that one. With the commander dead, they'll forbid the citizens from rallying. The citizens will riot with rage. All we need to do is to direct the riot toward Versailles. BERNARD Comrades! Let us head to the Abbey prison now and demand release of those 12 men!! CITIZENS Right! Bernard Chatelet is right! Let's go to Abbey! No, wait. Think about it. The military won't let us go to Abbey. Yeah, I don't want to get hurt. Why, the military won't be able to touch with this many of us. [Oscar struggles against St. Just] CITIZENS Everyone, let's go to Abbey! Yeah, let's go to Abbey! Save our 12 sons!! ANDRE Oscar, where are you?! OSCAR You're the leader of the terrorists who raided Duke Ardelos! OSCAR Halt!! [St. Just escapes] BERNARD Those 12 soldiers are sons of us commoners! Release them immediately!! CITIZENS Release them!! ANDRE Oscar-!! Oscar!! Oscar?! OSCAR Andre, how is it going? Is it working?! ANDRE We've succeeded! Over 5000 citizens have surrounded Abbey! OSCAR We've done it!! [Versailles] MESSENGER This is urgent! I have an urgent message from the French Guards Company Commander! "The citizens surrounding Abbey has reached 30 thousand, and the number is s till increasing!" "It's no longer possible to keep it under control?!" "It's a matter of time before a riot occurs!" BOUILLE You shouldn't! The commoners will be more conceited if you release those 12! LOUIS My Queen... ANTOINETTE Your Majesty, why are you hesitating? LOUIS Well, uh... ANTOINETTE And why are you all reluctant? Release those 12 at once! Are you willing to put that beautiful Paris into a sea of fire just for those 12 men?! [Alain et al released] OSCAR Alain, this is not the power of Bernard, much less mine. It's all the power of the People. ALAIN Miss Commander, you seem to have realized more about how the world works. NARRATION June 30th, 1789, Paris citizens got back their 12 soldiers. The victory won by the People was just a small undulation before the big wave (?). [ending title] NEXT EPISODE: Marie Antoinette had now become power hungry. What happened to the dignified Austrian noble lineage? Oscar realized and felt in sadness that their hearts were now too wide apart. Next time on Rose of Versailles: "The Watchword is 'Au Revoir'". END - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Bruce Carlson carlsn1@ix.netcom.com Phoenix, AZ