The Rose of Versailles Episode 40 "Adieu, My Beloved Oscar" 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". (Bernard) Chatelet is spelled with a circumflex ^ over the 'a'. ********************************************************************** [recap] OSCAR Fire at 45 degrees! Aim the upper part of the fortress! OSCAR Fire! OSCAR Fire!! DELAUNEY? Aim at that commander. (Fire) all at once! DELAUNEY? Fire! [opening title] {Last Episode: Adieu, My Beloved Oscar} OSCAR Andre... ROSALIE Lady Oscar! ALAIN Commander! Commander Oscar, hang on!! Can you hear me?! Commander!! OSCAR Don't yell, Alain. I can hear you. ALAIN What are you all doing?! Lend me your hands! Move her to a safe place!! CAPTAIN? Fire! BERNARD Over here! Hurry! ALAIN Bernard! Wait a sec! Oscar is... OSCAR 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... BERNARD Doctor! DOCTOR Bring the blanket. [Doctor measures her pulse] BERNARD Doctor... DOCTOR Wipe the blood off her face. ROSALIE I will... OSCAR Why? I can't hear the firing of our cannons. Fire, keep firing. Seize the Bastille! Fire, Alain, fire. What are you doing?! ALAIN Ex-French Guards! Get to your positions! OSCAR Fire, keep firing... ALAIN OK, everyone! Fire all you can!! COMPANYMEN All right!! CITIZEN OK! Charge!! BERNARD Can you hear it, Oscar? The voice of the People making a charge! [closes her eyes] OSCAR Adieu... (Farewell) ROSALIE NO-!! [flashbacks] {July 14th, 1789, Oscar Francois dies... and an hour later... the Bastille Prison surrenders with a white flag...} NARRATION 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. [Countryside] BERNARD Hey, Alain! Squad leader Alain!! It's me, Bernard! ALAIN Yo, Bernard! It's been a while. BERNARD A while?! It's already 5 years since the Bastille! ALAIN 5 years...is it that long already? BERNARD I looked for you everywhere. Why did you disappear after the Bastille fell (/the fall of the Bastille)? ALAIN The graves of my mother and sister are here. It was my decision from long ago to become a farmer here. BERNARD They look alike. The graves of Oscar and Andre are on a small hill in Arras, like those. ALAIN Oscar and Andre, yeah. In a way, they were lucky. They died without knowing the ugliness of the Revolution that followed. [flashback] {October 1, 1789} WOMEN I'll chop off her head!! That Austrian woman said "(Let them) eat cakes if there's no bread." while we starve!! [These, BTW, are not really her words. But they summon and represent the general lack of knowledge of Antoinette of her people.] NARRATION 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. SERVANT Please escape!! To a safe... MEN Where is the Queen?! Find and tear her apart!! MAN Drag the Queen! Drag the Queen out to the balcony!! MAIDS No, Your Majesty!! It's dangerous to show your presence! Your Majesty!! CROWD Drag her out!! WOMAN Here comes the sow! MAN It's all because of her!! [Antoinette bows] NARRATION Marie Antoinette, the last queen of the Bourbon Dynasty which lasted for 200 years, finally bowed deeply to the (/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. ANTOINETTE in her mind I will not accept the revolution. NEVER!! SERVANT The National Assembly has already divested the clergy and nobility's prerogative (/privileges). Trials are held (by the revolutionary committee in Paris (almost) everyday. Nobles with bad reputations (/who were unpopular with the People) are sentenced to death one after another. FERSEN How is Her Majesty doing? SERVANT By the demand of the People, the Royal Family has moved from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace. FERSEN overlapping That old Tuileries Palace, where nobody has stepped in for 150 years? LOUIS Oh, I'm quite content (/satisfied) here. Dust it off a bit, and this will be a comfortable home. FERSEN I can't believe it. How pitiful. SERVANT The palace is (always) surrounded by soldiers. Only a few servants attend the (royal) family. FERSEN I see. That's enough. SERVANT Yes, Sir. FERSEN Wait. When will the next news arrive? SERVANT The next messenger will (/is scheduled to) be dispatched on a fast horse in 3 days. FERSEN Oscar! Now lost (/late) friend of my mind. Give me courage! Give me your white wings of Pegasus, which soar to heaven! BERNARD 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. FERSEN I've come back to die with you. To be your shield and support you. ANTOINETTE Fersen! NARRATION On June 20th, 1791, a carriage secretly left Paris. It was an escape (/defection?) plan that Fersen put all his effort. MAN Over here! FERSEN Your Majesty, we have arrived Bondy. [Bondy is only 6 miles outside Paris.] 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(men) are waiting there to help you cross the border. LOUIS Count Fersen. LOUIS Thank you. It's far enough to be safe. So you should head back now. FERSEN But Your Majesty! LOUIS We should part here. If something happens, I don't want to put you, a foreigner, in a danger. FERSEN Yes, Your Majesty. I will defect to Belgium from here. LOUIS Please be careful. I'll never forget your friendship. The Queen must be feeling the same. FERSEN I wish you good luck! I pray for the success (of this journey)! NARRATION It was a permanent farewell fit for the love that could never come out into the light. BERNARD And the escape plan failed miserably. ALAIN Well, of course. (or, As it should have.) The Queen's ill fame and her conceited (/haughty?) face are well known through out France. BERNARD The identity of the Royal Family was revealed in the town of Varenne and they were taken back to Paris. VOICE The King! It's Louis XVI! A king who has the nerve to abandon his country!! Drag out and execute them!! BERNARD It took 3 days to Paris. But in towns on the way, people surrounded the carriage and made fusses. NARRATION And the terror of the journey turned Antoinette's beautiful blond into white hair of an old woman. [Antoinette screams] NARRATION 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 (/Convention Nationale) 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. VOICE The (chosen) delegate (/representative) from Picaldy (Aisne) Province, Louis (de) St. Just! ST. JUST Sovereignty originally rests with the People (/us). But the King took that power, and deprived the People of their rights! That means, the King's existence itself is an unforgivable crime (/sin)! The King IS the crime (itself)! (or, The King IS the body of the crime!) The fact that Louis XVI is still blinking gives me gooseflesh! DELEGATES That's right!! VOICE Next is Maximilien Robespierre! ROBESPIERRE Louis XVI is not a defendant (/accused)! And as we're not gods, we don't have the right to judge people (/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! DELEGATES That's right!! NARRATION 361 against 360. By mere one vote margin, Louis XVI was sentenced to death. On January 21st, 1793, (the following year), Louis XVI died on the block (/was guillotined). ANTOINETTE Charles! Charles!! CHARLES Mother!! ANTOINETTE Let him go! You took my husband. And now my child! You're also fathers, aren't you?! MAN 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)!! VOICE Yes! ROSALIE Soon, the Queen was sentenced to death. ALAIN 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? BERNARD No, not at all. I came here to hear about Oscar and Andre. Right now, I'm writing a book called "A Short History of French Revolution". And I want to talk about (/mention) them in the book. You're at least the one who knew them. ALAIN Then it's even more so! Antoinette on death row has nothing to do (with me?). BERNARD Yes, there is. Listen to Rosalie's story a bit more. ROSALIE I attended Her Majesty who was now moved to the Concierge Prison. At first, Her Majesty didn't realize who I was, but... [This is presumably where Ikeda got the Rosalie character Since history places an otherwise unknown girl of that name in MA's prison.] ANTOINETTE Could you be someone with Oscar that I met in a ball? ROSALIE Yes, I'm Rosalie. I asked for this role to be of some consolation (/comfort?). ANTOINETTE I miss Oscar! Please tell me about Oscar. Rosalie, please! ROSALIE After that, I told her about Lady Oscar almost everyday. After listening, Her Majesty always said... ANTOINETTE My mind becomes peaceful when I think about (/remember) Oscar... (or, My mind is at peace...?) [guillotine] {October 16, 1793} {12:15 Marie Antoinette (was executed/beheaded) } ROSALIE [holding up a white rose] She (/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... ANTOINETTE Rosalie, please color this rose. The color that Oscar liked. ROSALIE Then I realized suddenly, that I've never asked (/heard) what color of rose Lady Oscar liked. ALAIN I don't know about Oscar, but Andre would probably say he likes white... ROSALIE Then I should keep it as it is. ALAIN Yeah, that's better. NARRATION 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 (/by the citizens). {Fin} [ending title] NEXT EPISODE: Versailles in the late 18th century...there lived women of noble dignity and passionate love who fell in beauty [like roses]. In reply to many requests, with lots of memorable scene, we present, A Digest of the Rose of Versailles: "The Rose and Women of Versailles. 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