ROSE OF VERSAILLES 
EPISODE 4
"A rose, wine, and conspiracy..."

translated by GinRei
typed by Long Lee
edited by Usagi Ninja Team


 [] = description of the scenes 
 () = alternative translations (feel free to put them or drop them), 
      and sometimes my comments or explanations
 {} = translation of writing on the screen

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 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 "\" accent grave over the second "e".
 Orleans should be spelled with "/" accent acute over the "e".
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Outaishihidenka = Crown Princess
Outaishihi = Crown Princess?
Hidenka = Princess
  (It seems like all these are used to refer to Antoinette. "Outaishi" 
  means Crown Prince. "Hi" means "wife of". "Denka" is like "Majesty".)
If you are feeling French, use 'Dauphin' and 'Dauphine' instead.


ANTOINETTE:
I won't allow it!  I'll never permit it!!

AUNT A:
That's right!  Of all things, that shameless duBarry requested from his 
Majesty that she wants Oscar's mother as her lady-in-waiting (maid)!

AUNT C:  
That whore took Oscar's popularity into consideration.

AUNT B:  
With the favor she's getting from His Majesty, she's challenging you.

AUNT A:
Listen, Antoinette, as His Majesty's daughter, 3 of us are on your 
side to the end.

ANTOINETTE:
I understand, my Aunts.  I'll request to the Crown Prince that I
want Oscar's mother as my lady-in-waiting.

[opening title]

{Episode 4:  A rose, wine, and conspiracy...}

OSCAR:
Why my mother?!

NANNY:
So, Madam will be either Mme duBarry's or Lady Antoinette's lady-in-waiting?
Lady Oscar, this request is a great honor.  Don't be upset...

OSCAR:
Shut up!
I know the reason.  DuBarry or the Crown Princess.  Their aim is to make me 
choose (between them).

ANDRE:
Hey, Oscar, calm down.  You will have to choose one or the other 
eventually.
If you look at it in a the long run...

OSCAR:
Shut up, Andre!
No, I'll never allow my mother to be used as a tool in a conflict
between women at the Court!

MME JARJEYES:
Oscar, you don't have to worry about me.
I'll serve whoever you think is better.

OSCAR:
No!  I can't permit my mother to be dragged into the power struggle 
between those two!

JARJEYES:
Oscar, this is an order from His Majesty.

OSCAR:
It doesn't matter whose order it is, I won't permit it!

[Oscar goes out from the room]

MME JARJEYES:
My Dear...

JARJEYES:
Her temper will cool off after a while.

NARRATION:
At the same time, at the Palace in Vienna, another "Great Mother" was
heartbroken about her daughter in Versailles.  It was
Marie-Antoinette's mother, Maria Theresa, the Austrian Empress.

MERCY:
Did you call for me, Your Majesty?

THERESA:
Count Mercy, I'd like you to go to France.

MERCY:
To France?

THERESA:
Antoinette is still too young.  I'm worried that with all the flattering in 
the foreign Court, she'll become a spoiled adult who doesn't think things 
through.
Would you please supervise (guide) her instead (in place) of me?

MERCY:
As you say, Your Majesty.

[Andre walks toward Oscar]

OSCAR:
I don't want any advice!

ANDRE:
That's not it.  It's been a while, so want to exercise a bit?

OSCAR: 
All right.  I could ask nothing better.

[starts a sword fight]

ANDRE:
You're fortunate!

OSCAR:
What?!

ANDRE:
Even if I want to, I no longer have a mother to worry about!

[Andre points the sword at Oscar]

ANDRE:
Do you give up?  If you do, make up your mind (decide which) and don't make 
your mother worry!

[Oscar escapes from Andre]

OSCAR:
Either way, my mother will have to suffer the same!

[starts the sword fight again]

ANDRE:
If you disobey His Majesty's order, it's treason!
His Majesty has given the Jarjeyes Family a lenient order to choose
between serving Mme duBarry or the Crown Princess.  But you're (ruining it)...

[Mme Jarjeyes is watching the two by the window]

ANDRE:
Decide now!
The more stubborn you become, the more troubled your Father and Mother get!

[Oscar throws up Andre's sword in the air]

OSCAR (in her mind):
(Mother, if I have to choose after all... Although Mme duBarry is the most 
powerful in the Court now, she rose by greedy means and
controls the King with sex appeal.  I'd rather choose Lady Antoinette, who has
 
a proper (blood) lineage.  Instead, I will (make sure to) protect Mother's 
safety!)

NARRATION:
Next day, Versailles was excited by the rumor of Marie-Antoinette's first 
victory over Mme duBarry.

NOBLES:
Oh!
And Mme duBarry was...
How could Oscar dare to do such...

VOICE:
Presenting the Crown Princess! 

[Mme Jarjeyes and Oscar follow Antoinette]

DUBARRY (in her mind):
You, Oscar!  You're such a fledgling defy me!  That mother... you'll
pay for this!  You'll see what you deserve!

[Antoinette finds Mercy among the Nobles]

ANTOINETTE:
Oh, Count Mercy!

[in the garden]

ANTOINETTE:
Isn't this a beautiful garden matching the one in Shoenbrunn Palace back home?
 
MERCY:
As you say so.

ANTOINETTE:
For the occasion of my marriage, it was opened to the commoners.
It was beautiful with the fireworks, too!

MERCY:
By the way, Lady Antoinette, I haven't seen the Crown Prince at all yet.

ANTOINETTE:
The Crown Prince is in the forge, making locks.

MERCY:
Eh?!  Locks?!
You mean, those locks with keys...

ANTOINETTE:
Right!  Making those locks is his hobby!

LADIES:
What?  Not even a word?
Yes, it's been 3 months, but Lady Antoinette has never said a word to her.
When Mme duBarry learned that Oscar's mother was taken as Lady
Antoinette's lady-in-waiting...
Yes!  She was trembling and really pale!

NOBLES:
OK, I'll bet on Lady Antoinette.
Then I'll bet on duBarry 5000 Livres 
His Majesty will back up Mme no matter what.
All right, I'll also bet her 5000 Livres!

MERCY:
What's going on?
Lady Antoinette is confronting His Majesty's mistress face to face...
What, what if such action makes the King mad...?

[DuBarry breaks the mirrors]

DUBARRY:
I can't forgive that brat!  She's making a fool of me.  I can never forgive 
her!

[duBarry goes to the King to complain]

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty!  Please do something!  That brat is...

LOUIS XV:
That again?  I don't want anymore trouble.
Please leave me alone.

[Louis sighs]

LOUIS XV:
You've got jewels, carriages, or whatever you like all in your hands. 
What more do you want...?

DUBARRY:
No!  Your Majesty doesn't know about the gossip in (at) the Court. 
Because that redhead brat hasn't addressed ONE word to me, I'm being laughed 
at by the entire Court!
Until that brat addresses me, my presence at the Court is not permitted!
Yes, yes!  I'm being insulted!

[Louis sick of hearing her]

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty has an obligation (duty) to protect me!
Because Your Majesty hasn't done anything, I'm being terribly insulted!

[DuBarry cries, Louis stops]

Louis XV:
Hm?
You said you're insulted because I haven't done anything.

DUBARRY:
Yes!  An insult to me, who is favored by Your Majesty, means an 
insult to Your Majesty!

LOUIS XV:
An insult to me...!
Someone, bring one of Antoinette's attendants to my room!

MME:
A problem!
His Majesty himself just issued instructions and a
warning to Lady Antoinette about her attitude toward Mme duBarry.

AUNT A:
Antoinette, don't worry.  That woman must have cried and begged His Majesty!

AUNT C:
Yes, that's right!

AUNT B:
We're supporting you.  You shouldn't lose to someone like duBarry, should you?

MERCY (in his mind):
(How terrible!  If the treaty with Austria is broken by the silly rivalry 
between these women, all of Europe will be engulfed in war!)

[intermission]

THERESA:
She making that much trouble in Versailles?!

KAUNITZ:
The situation seems to be serious, since it's an express letter from Count 
Mercy.  Please write a letter immediately to Lady Antoinette from Your 
Majesty yourself!

THERESA (in her mind):
Ah, I can never do that!
I taught her that it's a sordid thing for a woman to sell her body to men
or to become a mistress.
I can't preach to my own daughter about manners to
Mme duBarry, a woman of that sort...

KAUNITZ:
Your Majesty!  I understand your hesitation, but concerning the treaty with 
France, it's...

THERESA (in her mind):
Yes!  We should never go against the French King!

THERESA:
Kaunitz, you write the letter, please.
If it's an order from you, Prime Minister Kaunitz, she'll accept it.

KAUNITZ:
Indeed!

MERCY:
"(Therefore,) Since an insult to someone whom His Majesty has associations is 
thus equal to insulting His Majesty, correct it immediately."  
It's an order from Prime Minister Kaunitz, Crown Princess.  And...

ANTOINETTE:
OK, OK!
I FULLY understand it, so skip the rest.

MERCY:
Then at the party today, please... Lady Antoinette?

ANTOINETTE:
Once is enough to understand!

MERCY:
Yes ma'am.

ANTOINETTE (in her mind):
(What a grumbling old man Kaunitz is!  Say whatever he likes!  But how 
something like this leaked out to Austria?)

[party]

NOBLES:
Austria's Prime Minister sent a letter.
Then Lady Antoinette is...?
Yes, finally persuaded.
See, look.  Lady Oscar is accompanying the Crown Princess right beside.
Of course, she's worried about her mother.
Nobody knows what will happen if Mme duBarry gets mad.
Ah, by the way, I haven't seen Mme duBarry yet.
Mme duBarry is here!
Here she comes!
Oh, Mme duBarry has appeared.
Oh, she's in a surprisingly good mood today.
Then, the letter from Austria was really true?
Hmm, it seems so.  Today, Lady Antoinette will perhaps...
Yes!  She might address Mme duBarry!
I'll witness the most dramatic scene ever in the Versailles palace with my own
 
eyes.

DUBARRY:
Hmph!  I was born in a poor city (slum) as a commoner without any rank. 
With effort, I finally got a rank of Countess in my hands.  The favor from the
 
King, authority, jewels, and castles...
I've got everything I wished for right in my hands!
All that remains is to make the Crown Princess address me and
finally admit that my power is greater than that brat's today.

ANTOINETTE:
No!  Even if it's an order from His Majesty, if I address her, it means
that I've admitted that prostitutes or mistresses can enter this Court freely.
That should never be allowed!  This is no longer because I was told by the 
Aunts, but it's my own matter.  Yes, for myself!  It's a matter of pride as 
the French Crown Princess!

[Antoinette stares at duBarry]

NOBLES:
Oh, what a face she is making.
Horrible!
What a face!
How terrible!

DUBARRY (in her mind):
What's the matter?
Is she really, really going to ignore an order from the Prime
Minister of the home country?!

MERCY:
Lady Antoinette!

[DuBarry breaks the fan and runs away]

DUBARRY:
That brat!!

ORLEANS:
Mme duBarry, don't be so angry.  

[Orleans comes in]

ORLEANS:
Recently, I obtained a wonderful wine from the Gold Coast of Africa.
  ( Gold Coast, NW coast, near where Ghana is today.
  British, Dutch, and French all had colonies in the area.)
I thought I'd definitely want to present one to you, Mme duBarry.

DUBARRY:
So what?  It's just an ordinary wine.

ORLEANS:
Right, just an ordinary wine.
Ample aroma (bouquet), excellent taste.
But once you put it in your mouth, you go up to heaven (die) instantly. 
An excellent wine that leaves no evidence.  Mme duBarry will probably have so 
many ways of using it...

[laughs]

[knocks on the door]

MME JARJEYES:
Come in.

MAID:
Mme Jarjeyes.

MME JARJEYES:
Yes.

MAID:
The Crown Princess has ordered glasses of wine brought to
Mme duBarry's room. 

MME JARJEYES:
The Crown Princess is in Mme duBarry's room?

MAID:
Yes.

MME JARJEYES (in her mind):
That's strange.  
Lady Antoinette is in Mme duBarry's room.  But she despises her.


MAID:
Please, hurry!  
By His Majesty's confidential order, they are having a discussion!

MME JARJEYES:
Eh?!  His Majesty's?  Then why not a person who is in charge of bringing 
wines?  There are 168 people in charge of Lady Antoinette's meals...

MAIDS:
It's an order for Mme Jarjeyes!  Hmph!

[leaves]

[Mme Jarjeyes carrying glasses of wine]

MME JARJEYES:
I have brought glasses of wine for Princess.

DUBARRY:
Oh, Mme Jarjeyes, thanks for bringing them.

MME JARJEYES:
Not at all.  Where is Lady Antoinette?

DUBARRY:
Ah, unfortunately, Lady Antoinette has left the room just now.

MME JARJEYES:
EH?!

[Andre rushes in]

ANDRE:
Oscar!

OSCAR:
Andre.  Why are you in such a rush?

ANDRE:
Madame has gone to Mme duBarry's room just now.  Oscar, do you know that?!

OSCAR:
What?!  My mother did?!

ANDRE:
She went to bring wine, ordered by Lady Antoinette now!

OSCAR:
Oh, NO...!!

DUBARRY:
Let's drink (have) the wine, since she brought it for us.
You come here and have one, too.

MAID:
Oh, is it all right?  Someone like me?  Thank you very much!

DUBARRY:
Yes, since Mme Jarjeyes has brought this wine for me.

[the maid dies instantly]

MME JARJEYES:
What's wrong?  Hang on!

DUBARRY:
Poison!  The wine was poisoned!


MME JARJEYES:
Th, this is?!
Oh, no!  A trap!  It was Mme duBarry's trap!
Retaliation for serving Lady Antoinette!

DUBARRY:
Mme Jarjeyes!  How dare you put poison in my wine!
Did the Crown Princess send you?  Or was it only you who plotted this?!

[Oscar runs into duBarry's room]

[rushes to the dead maid]

OSCAR:
What a ruthless person!  Using the life of a maid as a tool!

DUBARRY:
H, how rude!  What are you talking about?!

OSCAR:
How shrewd of you to make my mother carry the poisoned wine,
and try to blame her for attempting to poison Mme duBarry!

DUBARRY:
What are you saying?!

OSCAR:
You think I can't see through such obvious acting (set up), Mme duBarry!

[Oscar draws the sword]

Whatever kind of woman you are, you're graciously loved by His Majesty.
But remember this!
As long as I'm here, I'll never let you entrap Lady Antoinette or My 
Mother!

[DuBarry collapses down and trembles]

OSCAR:
Let's go, Mother.

[Oscar and mother leave]

NEXT EPISODE:
The peace in Europe rests on my words!  A dignified Queen from birth, Marie 
Antoinette looked up, holding her trembling heart.  Then! 
The Palace rejoicing for the New Year suddenly fell silent...
Next episode on Rose of Versailles:  "Tears with Dignity".  See you.
