The Rose of Versailles

  • Premiered: Oct 1979
  • Episodes: 40
  • Followers: 21
  • Ended
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Season 1
1x1
Oscar! The Destiny of the Rose
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Air date
Oct 10, 1979
Oscar François de Jarjayes is born. Due to her father's strong desire for a son, she is raised as a boy. At the age of 14, she declines an offer to become Commander of the Royal Guard .. show full overview
1x2
Fly! The Butterfly of Austria
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Oct 17, 1979
Marie Antoinette arrives to France. Oscar foils the Duke Orleans' plot to prevent the marriage of Antoinette and Louis XVI, though he manages to avoid suspicion. Antoinette meets her future husband and is deeply unsatisfied.
1x3
Sparks Fly at Versailles
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Oct 24, 1979
Antoinette meets and instantly dislikes the king's mistress Madame Du Barry for being a former prostitute and commoner. She talks to every other lady in the court except for her, .. show full overview
1x4
Roses, Wine, and the Conspiracy...
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Oct 31, 1979
Antoinette sends her own invitation to Madame Jarjayes in order to counteract Du Barry's. Both know that the one to get the Jarjayes' on their side will be more popular, as Oscar is .. show full overview
1x5
With Tears of Dignity...
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Nov 07, 1979
Du Barry fakes crying to get the King enraged at Antoinette and plots with Orleans to get Prince Louis killed in a hunting "accident". The plot fails when Louis drops the rigged gun on .. show full overview
1x6
The Silk Dress and the Ragged Dress
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Nov 14, 1979
Antoinette and the Crown Prince visit Paris. Lady Oscar prevents an assassination against the Crown Prince. The culprit, Charles Colder, commits suicide by poison. His co-conspirators .. show full overview
1x7
Who Wrote the Love Letter
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Nov 21, 1979
Antoinette goes to a masquerade, accompanied by Lady Oscar and both meet Hans Axel von Fersen. Antoinette and Fersen are instantly attracted to each other, and he finds out that she is .. show full overview
1x8
Oscar in My Heart
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Nov 28, 1979
With Oscar's growing responsibility and rise in status, Andre begins to feel neglected to the point of having nightmares. Marie Antoinette sees Madame du Barry on horseback and decides .. show full overview
1x9
The Sun Sets, The Sun Rises
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Dec 05, 1979
King Louis XV catches smallpox. Tension rises in court as everyone decides whose sides to take in case the King dies. Du Barry, fearing her loss in power if the King dies, tries to get .. show full overview
1x10
The Beautiful Devil, Jeanne
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Dec 12, 1979
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette are crowned King and Queen of France. Maximilian Robespierre, future leader of the French Revolution, reads them their congratulations. Jeanne has trained .. show full overview
1x11
Fersen Leaves for the Northern Lands
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Dec 19, 1979
Antoinette is ecstatic to be Queen and believes that it will grant her the happiness and freedom she's been searching for. Her first act as Queen is to promote Oscar to High Commander of .. show full overview
1x12
On the Morning of the Duel, Will Oscar...?
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Dec 26, 1979
Antoinette is easily swayed by Beltin Dressmakers into spending an extravagant amount of money on their finery. She spends more time entertaining herself than attending to her duties as .. show full overview
1x13
Winds of Arras, Answer Me...
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Jan 09, 1980
Antoinette is entranced by singer Yolande de Polignac and invites her entire family to move to Versailles—one of the many decisions that would lead to her eventual destruction. Against .. show full overview
1x14
The Angel's Secret
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Jan 16, 1980
Oscar and Andre return to their manor. Polignac manipulates Antoinete into giving her family undeserved wealth and ranking, causing resentment among the nobles. Oscar tells her father .. show full overview
1x15
The Countess of the Casino
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Jan 23, 1980
Oscar is released from confinement and put back on duty. Orleans and Guemenee place pressure on Antoinette for her lack of an heir, using her rising insecurity and tarnishing reputation .. show full overview
1x16
Mother, Her Name is...?
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Jan 30, 1980
Rosalie struggles through etiquette and fencing lessons and attends her first ball as Oscar's distant relative. Jeanne and Nicholas pose as Count and Countess de la Motte to con money .. show full overview
1x17
Now, the Moment of Encounter
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Feb 06, 1980
Oscar and Rosalie go to court to introduce Rosalie to the Queen. Rosalie finally encounters Polignac and the two of them recognize each other at once. Oscar stops Rosalie from killing .. show full overview
1x18
Suddenly, Like Icarus
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Feb 13, 1980
Fersen's sudden arrival causes the assassins to retreat. Oscar is taken back to her manor to recover, and correctly suspects Polignac as the mastermind of the plot. Charlotte is .. show full overview
1x19
Farewell, Little Sister!
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Feb 20, 1980
Polignac agrees to marry off 11-year-old Charlotte to Duke Guiche, a powerful but shady middle-aged man with an unhealthy fetish for young girls. Charlotte is so terrified of her suitor .. show full overview
1x20
Fersen, a Farewell Rondeau
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Feb 27, 1980
Fersen continues spending nights with the Queen, but the guilt is eating away at him. He begins spending his time at run-down, shady bars while rumors of their liaison spread throughout .. show full overview
1x21
The Black Rose Blooms at Night
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Mar 05, 1980
Sleazy Cardinal Rohan tries to seek the Queen's favor but is hated by her to the point where she will not even talk to him. This is because he was a former Austrian ambassador who was .. show full overview
1x22
The Necklace Shines Ominously
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Mar 12, 1980
Two years after Fersen leaves, the Queen has given birth to daughter Marie Therese and son Joseph. She moves to Petit Trianon, a small villa, to spend more time with her children---and .. show full overview
1x23
Cunningly and Resiliently!
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Mar 19, 1980
When the almost-bankrupt jeweler does not receive his payment, he continually begs to meet the Queen until the King summons her to Versailles. Rohan is arrested and questioned, revealing .. show full overview
1x24
Adieu, My Youth
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Mar 26, 1980
Jeanne is broken out of prison by a masked man who enlists her help. She publishes a book series listing all of the Queen's supposed crimes while hiding in Severne Monastery with .. show full overview
1x25
Minuet of the Unrequited
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Apr 02, 1980
Oscar is promoted to Brigadier, but revolution is ablaze in France's streets. The royal family is hated, commoners are assaulting nobles and vandalizing mansions, and some nobles have .. show full overview
1x26
A Sought Encounter with the Black Knight!
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Apr 09, 1980
A masked vigilante called the Black Knight begins stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. His popularity increases to the point where marches are being held for him in the .. show full overview
1x27
Even if I should Lose the Light...
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Apr 16, 1980
The Knight escapes while Oscar tends to Andre. The doctor tells him to keep bandages over his eye until it is healed to avoid blindness. Oscar decides to investigate Royale after the .. show full overview
1x28
André, a Green Lemon
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Apr 30, 1980
Andre begins to experience blurring vision in his right eye due to the stress he must put on it ever since his left eye became blind. Fersen visits Oscar, and figures out that she was .. show full overview
1x29
The Doll that Began to Walk
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May 14, 1980
Oscar is appointed as the Commander of the French Guards Company B, a particularly rough regiment filled mostly with commoners. She tells Andre that she does not hold the other night's .. show full overview
1x30
You are the Light, I am the Shadow
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May 21, 1980
General Jarjeyes decides to marry Oscar off to Gerodere and have her quit the military. Louis Saint-Just, one of Robespierre's more unstable allies, begins killing nobles unnecessarily .. show full overview
1x31
A Lilac Blooming in the Barracks
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Jun 04, 1980
Rising crime rates make Oscar's job busier than ever. The Ardelos family comes from Spain for a goodwill envoy to the French Royal Family and is in danger of terrorist attacks. Company B .. show full overview
1x32
Prelude to the Storm
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Jun 18, 1980
Alain proves to be the most talented swordfighter Oscar has ever met and will ever meet. He disarms her, but not before she cuts him, winning the duel. She later persuades General .. show full overview
1x33
The Funeral Bells Toll Amidst the Twilight
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Jul 02, 1980
After holding a rally, Bernard reveals to Andre that he and Rosalie are happily married and working for Robespierre. The dissatisfaction and poverty of the common people reaches its .. show full overview
1x34
Now, "The Tennis Court Oath"
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Jul 09, 1980
The conflict between the commoners and nobles intensify. Oscar coughs up blood during patrol. The delegates cooperate with some nobles and clergy to form the National Assembly. The King .. show full overview
1x35
Oscar, Now is the Time to Leave the Nest
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Jul 23, 1980
Oscar and Andre stop the Royal Guards, led by Gerodere, from firing on the National Assembly. General Jarjeyes decides to execute Oscar with his own hands and commit suicide afterwards, .. show full overview
1x36
The Watchword is "Au Revoir"
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Jul 30, 1980
Robespierre persuades Finance Minister Jacques Necker to talk the King into approving the Assembly, knowing that this is the only way to avoid bloodshed. Antoinette still believes in the .. show full overview
1x37
On the Night of Their Passionate Vows
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Aug 06, 1980
Oscar discovers that she has tuberculosis. Since the only known cure for it is rest and a good environment, her doctor tells her to quit the military and move to a country mansion—or .. show full overview
1x38
Before the Door of Fate
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Aug 20, 1980
Company B is summoned to subdue the protest at the Tuileries Square in Paris, but they decide to fight with the civilians under Oscar's command if a riot breaks out. A child is killed by .. show full overview
1x39
His Smile is Lost Forever!
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Aug 27, 1980
Oscar's men rush to take Andre to a doctor, relentlessly charging through rows of firing enemy soldiers. At Tuileries, more than 10 doctors tend to his wound. Andre expresses a strong .. show full overview
1x40 Show finale
Adieu, My Beloved Oscar
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Air date
Sep 03, 1980
Mortally wounded, Oscar's last request is that the former French Guards continue firing and seize Bastille Prison. She dies on July 14, 1789, listening to the sounds of the Storming of .. show full overview

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