
THE ROSE OF VERSAILLES
EPISODE 9
"The Sun Sets, the Sun Rises"
translated by GinRei
typed by Long Lee
edited by Usagi Ninja Team


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      and sometimes my comments or explanations
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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".
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[a necklace shines]

LADIES:
Oh, how beautiful!
It really is!
Nobody would be able to find a piece like this in any royal family in Europe.
His Majesty gives Mme duBarry anything that she wants.
It's really true.
Of course she is monopolizing all the favors of His Majesty.  It's natural.
Oh, wonderful!  It suits you very well!
Yes, as if it were made just for Mme duBarry.
Beautiful!
It really suites you well!

DUBARRY:
Countess, I've asked his Majesty about your husband's appointment to the
office that you mentioned to me before.

COUNTESS:
Oh!

DUBARRY:
What about the commander of the French Guards?  There will be an official 
announcement within 2 or 3 days.

COUNTESS:
Oh, Mme. duBarry!
Thank you very much!  Thank you very much!

DUBARRY:
Oh, no, please.  Please raise your head.

[a servant rushes in]

SERVANT:
It's an emergency!!
H-H-His Majesty is, Majesty is...!!

DUBARRY:
What happened to His Majesty?

SERVANT:
He's collapsed!

DUBARRY:
EH?!

[opening title]

{Episode 9:  The Sun Sets, the Sun Rises}

NARRATION:
On April 27th, 1774, Louis XV collapsed from sudden 
fatigue and headache while hunting.
He was immediately taken to Versailles Palace, 
and a team of doctors consisting of 6 physicians, 5 surgeons, and 3 
pharmacists examined the King.

SERVANT:
Her Imperial Highnesses Victoire and Adelaide are here.

AUNT A:
How is His Majesty's condition?

AUNT B:
And what is his illness?

DOCTOR:
That... we absolutely don't know.
The group of doctors are doing their best to diagnose, but to no success...

[Louis XV groaning]

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty!  Please take courage!

DUBARRY:
What are you doing?!  Can't you figure out the cause yet?!

DOCTOR:
We tried our best of all means but...

DUBARRY (in her mind):
(Is he... No!  His Majesty will get well soon.  Yes, of course.  He's only 
exhausted.  He can't die this soon!  There are so many things that I want 
to do and things that I want.  I won't be a loser!)

[Andre comes closer to Oscar]

ANDRE:
Don't worry.  His Majesty will get well soon.  He will.

[Louis still groaning]

GROUP OF DOCTORS:
Hmmm, can't figure it out!  What is going on?  What's the cause?
We've tried everything we can.
We can only pray for God's help...

DOCTOR (to a page):
Hm, ah, could you please put out some candles?  
A little bit of light might hurt the patient's eyes.

[a page goes to Louis's side to put out some candles but finds the 
speckles on his face]

PAGE:
AH?!  Doctor!  P-please come here quickly!

GROUP OF DOCTORS:
Oh!
T-these red speckles are...
I-it's smallpox!

ANTOINETTE:
Can't be!

CROWN PRINCE:
S-smallpox?!

SERVANT:
Please go back to your room immediately!  To the farthest room from His 
Majesty's sick room!

ANTOINETTE:
But we want to pay a visit to His Majesty.

SERVANT:
We have to avoid the infection.  This is set by the law of the successor 
to the throne!

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty!  Please hang on!

AUNT:
We're also by your side, Majesty!

DUBARRY (in her mind):
(He has to be cured.  He has to be cured by any means!
What would happen to my position?!)

AUNT:
Your Majesty, please get well.  Otherwise, our 
glories as the daughters of the King will end!

[Oscar walking around in the Palace.  She can hear the whispers of the 
nobles]

NOBLES:
Eh?!  His Majesty is?!
If he dies now...
We have to think carefully and then act.
Yes, should we stay loyal to the dying, or entrust our hopes
to the new King?
The Sunset or the Sunrise?
But it's not really clear if he'll die or not.
It's hard to know which way to bet.

We have to consider carefully, too.
Yes, Lady Antoinette or Mme duBarry?

What's the real condition of His Majesty?!
Will he survive or not?!
But he suffers.  His face has deformed a lot, but his internal organs are 
not.  He sure is a very tough person.

Hmm, that's troublesome.  It's better to know soon if there's no hope for 
him!  Yes, then we can decide our positions.

[Oscar glares at nobles]

ANTOINETTE:
Let's pray that Majesty gets well.

CROWN PRINCE:
Y-yes.

[both pray]

[Oscar directing the new soldiers]

OSCAR:
Concentrate while marching!
Hey, you there in the third row!
Slackers will be dismissed!
What's wrong?  Are you in the Royal Guard or not!

GERODERE:
What's wrong?  Commander has been different from usual.
She can leave the training of the new soldiers to me.

ANDRE:
Oscar can't stay still.
Can't you understand that?

GERODERE:
Did you say something?

ANDRE:
No, nothing.

GERODERE:
Be careful of what you say (It's what people say that gets them into 
trouble.)  Know your place when you say something.

ANDRE:
Yes.

DUBARRY'S SERVANT:
Lady Oscar.
Mme duBarry wants to...

OSCAR:
Mme. duBarry?

DUBARRY'S SERVANT:
Yes, she wants you to come over to her place.

GERODERE:
It's a plot of some sort.
Commander, I'll go with you!

OSCAR:
No, I'll go alone.

GERODERE:
But, what might she be plotting... it's dangerous!

OSCAR:
I don't want to cause any unnecessary fuss at a time like this.
Go!

[Oscar goes off on horse]

[DuBarry drinks down a glass of wine, pretty drunk]

DUBARRY:
I'd like to ask you a very special favor.
I-it's about Lady Antoinette, to be exact.  I'd like to be on good terms 
with her.
I also want to apologize for what has happened before.
There were a lot of silly circumstances, but I don't have any malice for 
her to begin with. 
Please!  Give me your help, Oscar, so that I 
can be friends with Lady Antoinette.

OSCAR:
No, thank you.
Unfortunately, I'm in no position to do that.

DUBARRY:
But please!
YOU can probably change Lady Antoinette's mind.  Oscar, please!!

OSCAR:
It's too late.
If you'd shown your honest mind to Lady Antoinette much earlier...
Excuse me!

DUBARRY:
Wait!

[DuBarry takes out a knife]

DUBARRY:
Even if you can make pious proclamations,
life is probably precious to you.
Now, if you don't want to stain your beautiful face with blood...
Now!  Let me hear your response once again!

[Oscar steps forward and cuts her cheek a little by herself]

[DuBarry drops her knife and Oscar leaves]

DUBARRY:
No matter what, I must insure my safety!

ORLEANS:
What?  Mme duBarry?

SERVANT:
Yes.  She has something to talk about in extreme secrecy.

ORLEANS:
Make her leave.

SERVANT:
Huh?

ORLEANS:
I said send her away immediately.

SERVANT:
Yes sir!

ORLEANS:
That woman is no longer useful.  What power does a mistress of a dying 
king have?

DUBARRY (banging on the door):
Open please!  Please open the door (gate?)!
Please!  Open!  Open!!
I won't lose.  I'll never lose!
Hurry and take me to Versailles!  To His Majesty!!

[the group of doctors leaving the room]

DUBARRY:
W-wait!  Are you going to abandon His Majesty now?!
There must be something you can do!

[they all leave]

NARRATION:
After 10 days in bed, the doctors finally gave up and left the sick room 
due to the extreme aggravation of the illness.

DUBARRY:
Please, please hang on tight. 
Your Majesty is all I have!

LOUIS XV (with a thin voice):
DuBarry, you're with me to the end, but I'll die...

DUBARRY:
Don't be so weak minded! 
The previous King, Louis XIV, who was called the 
Sun King, lived to be 77 years old.
Your Majesty is still only 64 years old!  
Please, take courage!
Yes, Your Majesty is the Sun to me (my Sun?).
A healthy Sun shining with dignity!
And I'm the blooming sunflower bathed in all the sunlight... 
Sunflowers cannot bloom without the Sun!  Ah, please, please shine on 
me!  What would happen if the Sun disappears from the world?!  Ah...

LOUIS XV:
This is my last...

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty!

LOUIS XV:
Please bring a bishop... I-I want to confess...

BISHOP:
If the King really would want to be forgiven by God and enter the Heaven 
at your last moment, as proof, expel your mistress you kept by your side 
against the teaching of Christ and insulting of God!  Mme duBarry!
Expel Mme duBarry from Versailles first!  Expel Mme duBarry from 
Versailles!

[DuBarry taken away]

DUBARRY:
M-Majesty!  Majesty!

SERVANT:
His Majesty has made up his mind!

DUBARRY:
No!  I won't leave His Majesty's side till the end!

SERVANT:
You can't.  You're expelled from Versailles.

DUBARRY:
No, I won't part!  I'll go to His Majesty!  Majesty!  YOUR MAJESTY!!

LOUIS XV:
DuBarry...

CROWN PRINCE:
Grandfather is dying... It's as if the entire world is falling on me!  I'm 
only 19 years old.  I have to become king and rule a country... What a 
burden!

[nobles waiting outside of the sickroom]

NOBLES:
Even after he finished Atonement and Confession, is he still alive?
He is clinging rather tenaciously to his life.
The candle sitting on that sick room's window
was prepared to be extinguished when the time comes...

[the candle's flame goes out]

NOBLES:
It's out...
Th-the King is dead!
The King is dead!

[all the nobles start to run towards the Crown couple's room]

VOICES:
The King is dead! *repeated several times*

ANTOINETTE:
What's that noise?

[opens the door]

ANTOINETTE:
Mme. Noailles!

MME
Th- the King has passed away!

MME (taking Antoinette's hand):
Congratulations, Lady Antoinette.
From now on, you're the Queen of France.

ANTOINETTE:
Grandfather has... finally passed away?

NOBLES (holding up swords):
Long live King Louis XVI!
Long live the King! *repeated several times*

LOUIS XVI (taking Antoinette's hand):
God, please, please protect us!  Protect us who've become the King and 
the Queen to rule at this young age...

NOBLES:
Long live the new King, Louis XVI!
Long live the King!
Long live the King!!

OSCAR:
"The King is dead, long live the King."
The body isn't even cold yet.

GERODERE:
How abruptly mercenary.  They were flattering Louis XV just a moment 
ago.  But people's minds are such.  The Sun sets, the Sun rises.
Those who prosper will someday perish. 
And without basking in new sunshine, people cannot live.
Commander!

OSCAR:
I leave this to you.

[Oscar see DuBarry]

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty, Your Majesty!!

GUY:
Hurry and get on!

DUBARRY:
Your Majesty!!

[Guy slaps DuBarry]

GUY:
Don't give me a hard time!
You're just a woman now, of the lowest kind!
I'll show you!

[Guy about to whip her is slated by Oscar]

OSCAR:
Don't resort to violence.
I'll escort Mme duBarry halfway.

GUY:
Yes, Sir.  (*He probably doesn't know Oscar is a woman*)

OSCAR:
There are a lot of people who bear malice toward you.

DUBARRY:
No need for pity.

OSCAR:
There's a rumor that you might be attacked.  I'll escort you.

[from the carriage]

DUBARRY:
It's pretty far away from Versailles Palace now. 
The rumor of an attack was a lie, wasn't it?  
Just as everyone was gossiping, I was once a prostitute.
Oscar, you probably don't know how miserable and hard it is to 
worry about tomorrow's bread, do you?  
I did whatever I had to in order to get bread. 
I didn't care if it was bad or not.  With hard effort, I've 
become a Countess.  And I got the favor from His Majesty and
without realizing it, instead of bread, I was craving for diamonds and 
dresses, one after another, as if starved for them.
Will I be sentenced to death?
But I have no regrets.
Because I did things that I liked as I wished.
Stop.

COACHMAN:
Halt!

DUBARRY:
That is fine.  Thank you, Oscar.
I haven't felt so gentle like this, since I lost my parents when I was 
5.  You're a person of wonder.
I'm a woman who can forget about the past quickly.  Even though I'm now 
a sunflower in the wrong season, I'll bloom again someday.  Now, please go!

COACHMAN:
Go!

NARRATION:
Mme DuBarry was sent to a convent to Conteau Dame, East of Paris.  A 
mistress who had all the favor of the King, manipulating all the luxury 
and extravagance.  It was the end of Mme DuBarry, who once even made 
Antoinette give in at her feet.  In 1793, by the decision of the 
Revolutionary Court, she ended up as the dew on the guillotine.

Narration:
The coffin of former King Louis XV was carried to the basilica at St. Denis at 
midnight for the burial.  Guarding the coffin were 40 Royal Guards and 36 
pages only.  The old and the new, the thriving and the perishing.  
Touched by the inexorable flow of the human history,.
Oscar could not hold the feeling of sorrow in her mind.


[end title]

NEXT EPISODE:
Adopted by the Marquise and surrounded by beautiful dresses and jewels, 
Jeanne started to lose human feelings without realizing it.  On the day of 
the coronation of the King, Rosalie meets Jeanne.   
What would be the reflection of her sister in her eyes?
Next episode on The Rose of Versailles: 
"A Beautiful Fiend, Jeanne"  See you.

