All language subtitles for Marie.Antoinette.S02E06.1080p.WEBRip.x264-BAE

[Crowd cheering]

Woman:
Hurrah! Long live the Queen!

Man: Free the Cardinal!
Free him now!

Different man:
Long live the Queen!

Different man:
Support the Cardinal,

a victim of royal tyranny!

Different man:
Long live the King.

Long live the King.

God Save the King,
and God save the Queen.

Madame de Rohan.

You promised to
avoid a spectacle.

Chartres: What can I say?

The King's persecution
of the Cardinal

has inflamed
public opinion.

We put up with
your liberal lawyer,

but now you are using
this trial as propaganda

for your radical ideas.

You had better get
my nephew off.

Otherwise, I'll denounce you
as a traitor at your class.

Man: Down with monarchy!
Down with monarchy!

You should tell them
the truth.

Without witnesses, we can't
prove Rohan's innocence.

Man: Long live Her Majesty.

[Marie breathing heavily]

Are you sure you need
to attend in person,

Your Majesty?

I want to see Rohan
confess.

You can observe
proceedings here.

Man: All rise
for the President d'Aligre.

♪

Do you need
cushions?

Not really, no.
I'm fine.

Are you sure?
[Gavel banging]

As President
of the Parliament of Paris,

I declare that the case
of the Crown

versus Cardinal Rohan
is now in session.

[Bangs gavel]

♪

What a ham.

Yolande:
Ridiculous.

I hope the parliamentarians

are not fooled
by his performance.

Yolande: I'm certain
they won't be.

Marie:
Well, let justice be done.

♪

♪

Lawyer: And so
the prosecution concludes

that the diamond necklace
was handed to an accomplice

of the Cardinal
posing as the Queen's guard.

The accomplice has not
been seen since he fled,

no doubt on the orders
of the accused,

or his wizard, Cagliostro,

who will appear later
as a co-conspirator.

I think we have
a strong case.

The missing guard is
a loose end.

Well, the rumor
is he's dead.

I'd prefer it to
be watertight.

Yolande: Shh.

Monsieur Target
for the defense,

you may question the accused.

Thank you,
Monsieur President.

[Slow footsteps]

Please state your name.

Louis-René-Edouard,
Cardinal de Rohan,

Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg,

Provisor of the Sorbonne,
and Grand Almoner of France.

The defense
will prove to you that

the Cardinal was

the victim of
a confidence trick.

Now, in his desire
to be a faithful subject,

he was taken in by a cunning
and manipulative woman.

Who stole
the necklace, Cardinal?

As far as I know,

and based on the evidence
available to me,

the thief was
Queen Marie Antoinette.

[Audience gasping
and murmuring]

[Gavel bangs]

President: Order. Order!

I should have known
he'd lie.

They must correct
the record immediately.

It's a dirty
defense tactic.

Everyone
will see through it.

Target: Why would
you suspect the Queen?

It was known
that I was out of favor

and hoped to redeem myself.

I donated to
one of her charities

run by
the Countess de Valois.

Yes, you mean
Madame Jeanne La Motte?

Yes, sorry.

She told everyone
she was a countess.

Yes, we'll meet

Miss La Motte later
as a supposed witness.

Go on, Cardinal.

Following my donations,

I received a note
from the Queen.

I replied,
and we began correspondence.

Her letters were written
on pale blue note paper.

It wouldn't be gentlemanly
to reveal what she said to me.

Suffice to say, I believed
myself her intimate friend.

[Audience gasping
and murmuring]

President: This is a serious
accusation, Cardinal.

What proof do you have
that Her Majesty the Queen

wrote these letters?

Rohan: Because she met me
in the gardens at midnight.

Yolande: If no one is going to
stop him, we should leave.

It's all right.

Rohan:
She gave me a rose.

I had it dried.

[Audience gasping
and murmuring]

It was all above board.

Obviously, I--
I'm a man of the church.

Target: But...why
would the Queen do this?

Rohan: Alas,
I now see it was

because she wanted
to exploit my loyalty.

She knew she could not buy
the diamond necklace publicly,

given the criticism
she received

after her purchase
of Saint-Cloud.

Breteuil: How dare he!

Rohan: I admit I brokered
the sale of the necklace

and entrusted it
to the Queen's guard

per her specific instructions,

but that was the last I saw of
the necklace and the diamonds.

My only crime is of being too
loyal a servant to the Crown,

a crown I now fear is flawed.

[Audience murmuring]

President: Silence.
[Bangs gavel]

You look pale.

You should return
to Versailles and rest.

I'll manage.

I really think--

I'll manage. I--

Please, would you just go back
and check on the children?

Really, I'll feel better

knowing
you're looking after them.

[Music]

Target: Monsieur President,
I suggest we take a short break.

[Gavel bangs]

Man: Free the Cardinal!
Free him now!

Prosecutor: And the
meeting in the gardens?

Hold on. Are you--

It would be helpful
to refute the allegation,

if you can tell us
where you were

on the night
in question.

I did not meet
that man in a garden.

He is lying to cover
his own guilt.

Oh, my God.

Leave us.

[Door opens and closes]

Fersen was
here in early June.

How can we
answer Rohan's lies

without lying
ourselves?

I don't know.

He seemed convinced
of them himself.

What if he--

What if he did meet
someone?

I don't understand.

Just someone
pretending to be me.

I once saw this woman
onstage at the Palais Royal,

and she was a--

they--they are impersonators
who dress like me,

and they affect
my mannerisms.

So if Rohan met a woman

and believed her
to be you...

[chuckles]

well, that suggests he
was a fool, not a thief.

Yeah.

Ohh. Well,
can you investigate?

Outside
official channels?

Yes.

Well, according to
this, we would go bankrupt

within six months. We--

I'm afraid so.

Unless Parliament approves
the loan extension.

Why are they delaying?

The Rohan trial.

They think you're
persecuting the nobility

to enhance your own power.

And, I'm afraid,

there's a rumor going
around Parliament

that we're about

to propose
radical tax reforms.

How?

How did Parliament find out
about the reforms?

Only you, Vergennes, and I
knew about those proposals.

I have no idea,

but we need that
loan extension.

Don't confirm their
suspicions about the reports

until we have that money.

Mm.

Did you tell anyone
about our plans?

[Door opens]
Of course not, sire. No.

What?

Someone rolled out on the wrong
side of bed this morning.

These walls have been
talking. Have you been--

Have you been rifling
through my desk?

What would I want in there?

Can't imagine
there's much of interest,

besides your scintillating
hunting journal.

No. I merely came
to bring the latest tripe

from the Palais Royal.

More attacks
on your authority.

This one calls

for the separation
of Church and state.

You're disheveled, brother.

It's not a good look
for a king.

♪

[Door closes]

President: Please be seated.

♪

Prosecutor Fleury,
your witness.

Please state your name.

Jeanne de Valois.

And what is

your relationship
to Cardinal Rohan?

♪

I understand
it is difficult,

but we are here
for the truth, madame.

The Cardinal exploited
my poverty and my innocence.

[Audience gasping
and murmuring]

Fleury:
Go on, please.

Jeanne: I was born
to a noble family.

My father owned land
in Champagne.

But we fell on hard times.

As a child, I was forced
to beg on the streets.

People would take pity
on a poor girl,

someone descended directly
from Henry II of Valois,

King of France.

Fleury: And then you
went to Versailles

and encountered
the Cardinal.

Yes.

Was this when he started
to exploit you?

I asked the Cardinal
for guidance.

He gave me some money and
asked me to collect donations

at Versailles
for his charity.

I thought he was being kind.

[Audience murmuring]

Fleury:
And the necklace?

No. I knew nothing
about the necklace

until the Cardinal
was arrested.

But given what I know now,

about the Cardinal's
vast debts,

that this charity was a lie,

that everything
that he says is a lie...

I think that
the Cardinal masterminded

the theft of the necklace

with the help of that
wicked Count Cagliostro.

Ugh.
[Mutters indistinctly]

[Audience murmuring]

Fleury:
Thank you.

I think that concludes
today's testimony,

Monsieur President.

♪

Rohan: You should have
let me tell the truth.

Now I've angered
the Queen even more,

and that bitch Jeanne
will walk free.

Target:
We had to blame the Queen.

Without any other witnesses,
it's your word against Jeanne's.

Chartres: And she's
more believable than you.

How dare you speak
to him like that?

Cardinal Rohan:
He's right.

Why haven't you found
any more witnesses?

The missing guard,

the woman who impersonated
the Queen in the garden.

Rohan: Blaming the Queen
was your idea.

Would everyone calm down?

This trial isn't lost yet.

We can't find the guard,

but we think we know
the identity

of the woman in the garden.

She fled when you
were arrested.

My men are hunting her down.

However, if you don't need
my support, I'll withdraw it.

You won't.

Your reputation is as
much on the line as ours.

So trust me.

Perhaps we do need
a new strategy.

[Sighs]

You've asked for this trial

because you wanted
to know the truth.

I'm just saying,
what if there are things

we don't want to know?

Well, that's the risk
of a public trial.

Ow.

You're meant to be
supporting me.

You want me to pander to
you like everyone else?

You are decisive,
which is a strength,

but you also act

without considering
the consequences.

I didn't ask you
to lecture me.

Do you think
there's a chance

that the Cardinal
could be innocent?

He can't be.

We have accused him
publicly.

[Door opens]

King Louis XVI: Please, don't--
don't get up.

I hear today went well.

Very well.

I just loved getting accused
of stealing the necklace.

That's, a...
a desperate move.

Don't you agree?

Oh, I agree, yeah.

We'll soon have this
Rohan business behind us,

I'm sure.

Yeah.

I will come with you
tomorrow.

You don't need to.

No, I should be there.

Adelaide: I hear half of Paris

now thinks she stole
the necklace.

Victoire: Oh, there you are.
You must tell us everything,

blow by blow.
Has Jeanne testified yet?

Adelaide: Forget about Jeanne.
Tell us about Monsieur Target.

I hear he's rather dashing
for a dangerous liberal.

Yes, if you like
a peacock.

Oh!

[Clears throat]

Mesdames.

Louis is becoming
rather beautifully paranoid.

We must tell Malherbe.

Now, if Antoinette is blamed
for the necklace theft...

Mm-hmm.

the regency will surely
be mine, yeah?

[Chuckles]
Where do we stand?

The magistrates believe
Jeanne La Motte's every word.

She's making Cardinal Rohan
look guilty as sin.

Provence: Oh, good.

We don't want the Crown
to actually lose the trial.

But if Rohan is convicted,

I think people will feel
sympathy for Antoinette.

Sympathy? That is
the last thing we need.

The whole point is
to damage her.

Can Jeanne be persuaded
to aid the cause?

[Sighs] God. Don't you
ever get tired of plotting?

This plotting serves us both.

♪

Don't you want
Marguerite back?

Now...

we just need to figure out
how to get to Madame La Motte.

And where is she?

[Jeanne humming]

Provence: Bastille.

Can't we send someone?

A spy.

Beaumarchais?

Beaumarchais:
Charming confidence.

I heard you gave
a good performance.

I'm very flattered.

But it wasn't a performance.

[Scoffs, chuckles]

And yet you gaily
admitted to stealing money

from half of Versailles.

On the naughty
Cardinal's orders.

A crime, nonetheless.

You must be relying
on someone very powerful

to grant you clemency.

If I were,
I wouldn't tell you.

Quite right.

But if it were, say,

the Queen you were
relying on...

it's only fair
to warn you--

she's known
for her inconstancy.

You got a better offer?

[Cell door shuts
and is locked nearby]

Look, Marie Antoinette has
no say on the sentencing.

The parliamentarians do.

Some factions of
Parliament would be happy

to hear anything that
damages the Queen.

I'm not a fool.

You've come straight
from the Cardinal

wanting me to back up
his ridiculous accusations.

I have not.

[Men shouting in distance]

My friends are happy for
the Cardinal to fall,

provided the Queen
goes down with him.

Why should I trust you?

You can't.

But we both know you're
walking a fine line.

You saw how ready
the court was

to believe the Queen
stole the necklace.

Can you really rely
on her to save you?

♪

♪

[Indistinct shouting
and jeering]

♪

[Gavel bangs]

♪

Target:
Madame Jeanne La Motte,

wife of Nicholas La Motte.

My name is
Jeanne de Valois.

Yes. In fact, you told
everyone at Versailles

you were the Countess
de Valois, didn't you?

When you were granted
this title?

The Cardinal told me
to use it,

not that it's inappropriate
for me to use a title.

I am descended from kings.

And I suppose the
Cardinal also came up

with the catalog of
lies you told us?

A disinherited heiress
living on the street.

Apparently,
your life has been

a romance novel,
hasn't it?

I have spoken
the exact truth.

The exact truth.
[Chuckles]

Thank goodness
for that.

[Laughter]

You see, I think you
made it up on the spot.

We all know how
convincing you can be.

After all, you--you
fooled half of Versailles.

You persuaded them

to donate
to your fake charity

for which you'll soon
stand trial yourself.

It was the Cardinal's
charity.

The truth,
Madame La Motte,

is that before you
came to Versailles,

you were destitute.

You were indebted
up to your eyeballs,

only really able to eat
when...[chuckles]

some benefactor
took pity on you.

I'm actually quite
surprised you managed

to stay healthy enough
for anyone to mistake you

as a countess.

All of my money
went on the fight

to recover
my ancestral lands.

Your ancestral lands!
I mean, what is it?

Half a field
in Champagne here

with some resident pigs
floating around?

[Laughter]

Target: Is it true
that six years ago,

you were accused of forging
letters of recommendation?

That was a slander
against me.

Of course it was.

And the list of merchants
who will testify

to the rash of spending
in your household

shortly after the theft
of the necklace?

The furniture, jewels,
dresses. Slander also?

No. The truth,
Madame La Motte...

De Valois.

is that you're
a fantasist.

You're a fantasist
and a career criminal.

I'm not.

I mean, who are we
to believe

stole this necklace?

What, the Cardinal?
With his many debts, yes,

but with so many
wealthy connections,

who still believes he was
only serving his Queen.

What need has he
to cheat and steal,

whereas you--

well, you're absolutely
nothing without these lies.

He is obsessed
with the Queen.

Sexually, I mean.
[Audience gasping]

That's why he did it.

King Louis XVI:
What did she say?

Target: Sorry.
The Cardinal has testified

to being a loyal subject.

Jeanne: Oh, but you
should have heard his boasts

to me about his visits
to the Petit Trianon.

He said he would cross
a plank over a ditch

to get to the Queen.

On one occasion,
he fell in

and got his cassock
quite muddy.

This is more of your
fantasy, Madame La Motte.

Jeanne: If it is a fantasy,
it is his. But can it all be?

I mean, he told me
about the wall of diamonds

in her bedroom
in the Petit Trianon.

She buys jewels, you know,
behind the King's back.

T-There is no wall of diamonds.
What--what is she saying?

Your Majesty, no one
must know you are here.

Marie: Louis, please.

Jeanne: It's no wonder
Rohan thinks he

could put the blame on her.

We all know the Queen's
penchant for brilliant things.

You'd slander the Queen?

I am merely reporting
what Cardinal Rohan told me,

so the crime is his.

He would boast
of her insatiable appetites

and eclectic interests.

He said she has suitors
scurried to her chambers

and is said
to be learning Swedish,

although what use she has
with that language,

I can't possibly know.

He said it's lucky the King
enjoys being a cuckold.

[Audience members
murmur and laugh]

And he even has a giant
peep hole in his royal closet.

Stop this trial immediately.

No, we can't.

It would look like
you have something to hide.

Marie: Louis, sit down.

And listen to this?

They are ridiculing us
publicly.

Yolande: I will testify
and refute all of it.

I will tell them I was
with you the night

he claimed to have met
you in the garden.

No, I won't have you
perjure yourself.

W--we're leaving.

Oh, I have to hear it out.

Yolande will go with you.

♪

That woman clearly
has her own agenda.

At least she's still
saying Rohan is guilty.

The meeting in the gardens--
did you find anything?

The woman who
impersonated you is missing.

My spies are looking for her.

If it turns out
she tricked Rohan,

we just cannot have her
appear in court.

[Sighs]

[Laughter, excited chatter]

Saint-Georges:
You should have seen his face

falling on the floor.

[Laughter]

Oh, there you are.
We were hoping you'd join us.

Yes, and I was hoping
for a quiet evening

without my salon
being used as a forum

for yet another
political cause.

Oh, he's grumpy because
Rohan is losing in court.

At least he's taking
Antoinette down with him.

Her reputation
will never recover.

Saint-Georges: You've always
been too concerned

with the Queen's bedchamber.

Join us and discuss
the real issues of the day.

Have you persuaded
the Queen

to join your
abolitionist movement?

We might need the King
and Queen's signature

to end the slave trade,

but we won't wait for them to
convince society what's right.

Isn't it you who talks
about the power of the people?

Your Cardinal
is a distraction

from the real problems,
my friend.

[Scattered laughter]

Saint-Georges: We have to
remember, we are the solution.

-Yeah.
-Yeah.

[Laughter]

He's right.

This trial is not about
humiliating the queen.

I know.

I am not the fool
you'll take me for.

I am trying to drive
a wedge between Parliament

and absolute monarchy.

If you can't help me,

then what are you
still doing here?

I can help you.

First, I need
something from you.

What do you want?

A promise, that if
you ever become King,

you will give women
equal rights to men.

[Laughs]

You can't be serious.

I have what you need
to win the trial.

So?

Come on.

♪

Who is this?

The missing guard.

Why the hell
didn't you tell me?

I didn't tell anyone.
If he'd revealed his story,

Rohan would have
been exonerated

and the trial called off.

This way, we have
the whole world watching.

Villette:
I will not say a word

that damages the reputation
of Jeanne de Valois.

It's time we moved you
to the Bastille.

There's something you need
to see with your own eyes.

♪

You look good...

for a corpse.

[Cell door opens nearby]

♪

Marie: Thank God we
can rely on Parliament

to vote in our favor.

I'm not so sure.

Excuse me?

Parliament have heard

that I'm extending the taxes
to the clergy and the nobles.

Some parliamentarians suspect

that I am mismanaging
the finances.

And are you?

We are in a bit of debt.

Marie: So you...

you're thinking that
some parliamentarians

might use the trial
to punish you?

Maybe.

King Louis XVI: Yes.

Yes, and we
need to be prepared.

[Inhales deeply]
Mm-hmm.

They might defy me

and vote Rohan innocent.

I'm sorry. I--

I should have told you.
I wanted to protect you.

I wanted you--to keep you
away from the politics.

Louis, please. You--you
didn't want to protect me.

You thought I wasn't
capable enough to know.

[Sighs]

Parliament cannot vote
against us in the trial.

It will tell the country
that I've lost control.

Well, then this trial
is not about a necklace.

It's a referendum
on our reign.

[Audience murmuring softly]

[Audience gasping]

Yolande: That's the whore
from the Palais Royal.

Marie: She cannot appear
in court. That's what you--

I don't know
how they found her.

I told you my men
would find her in the end.

I'm sorry, Your Majesty.
I failed you.

I'm sorry.

Target:
What is your name?

Mademoiselle Nicole d'Oliva.

I asked for the truth.

I suppose I must hear it.

Mademoiselle,
have you ever met

the accused,
Cardinal Rohan?

Yes.

Someone paid me
to impersonate the Queen

and meet him
in the Garden of Venus.

Who paid you?

I don't know.
He never said his name.

He just told me
he wanted to play

a practical joke
on the Cardinal.

Is it plausible
that the Cardinal

would mistake you
for the Queen?

I've had a lot of
practice playing her.

I used to do it nightly
onstage at the Palais Royal

and in gentlemen's beds
after the shows.

[Audience murmuring]

Nicole: You'd be surprised

at the things
they want the Queen to do--

dirty things--making her beg,

crawl across the floor
for them.

One of them even made me
call him "Your Majesty."

[Laughter]

Fleury:
This trick proves nothing!

The defense has paid
a common prostitute

to back up
a ridiculous story!

[Audience exclaiming]

President: Order. Order!
[Bangs gavel]

Monsieur Target, I will not
stand for any more stunts.

I'm sorry to disappoint,
Monsieur President,

but I'm about to bring
a man back from the dead.

Jeanne: I have longed
to see you, Villette.

They told me you were dead.

That makes two of us,
then, doesn't it?

After Nicholas stabbed me,
I was unconscious.

When I came around,
you and him were gone.

He betrayed us both.

Look...

I've made
a deal and told them

that Rohan orchestrated
everything.

All you need to do is
tell the same story,

and we're free.

You tell the truth,
and we both go down,

and none of those fine
people will save us.

You want to save
your own neck,

you stick to my story.

[Crowd murmuring]

♪

Target: Please sit down.

Would you please
identify yourself?

Uh, my name
is Rétaux de Villette.

I forged letters and dressed
as the Queen's guard

to steal the necklace.

[Audience murmuring]

On whose orders?

♪

Jeanne La Motte.

[Audience exclaiming]

Target: And I have
the evidence to prove it.

This was found
in the possession

of the man sitting before us.

Monsieur Villette, please
tell the court what this is.

It's a draft of one
of the fraudulent letters

Jeanne sent to Rohan.

She had me copy it
out on the Queen's paper.

It's in her handwriting.

[Applause]

President: Order.

Order!
[Bangs gavel]

Marie: Enough.

♪

Order. Order!

♪

[Door opens]

♪

Fleury: Well, today
proved Rohan's innocence.

Even the parliamentarians
loyal to the Crown

will find it hard
to convict him.

Don't give up.

We are working behind the
scenes to secure their votes.

Many are still loyal.

I'm going to lose
all my authority.

Marie: We can't prove Rohan is
guilty of stealing the necklace,

but we can propose a new charge.

He stood up in Parliament

and accused me of theft.

Breteuil: Are you
suggesting we charge Rohan

with damaging
your good name?

♪

Yeah.

Exactly.

Vergennes:
That's a capital crime.

You risk making Rohan a martyr.

No.

No. We charge them all.

Vergennes:
This trial has been a circus.

The whole world is watching.

You really want to risk
ending it in public execution?

Better than losing
the country.

[Indistinct conversations]

[Laughter, gavel banging]

Messieurs, silence, please.

Monsieur Target.

The evidence shows
that the final defendant

was wrongfully arrested

for the theft
of the diamond necklace,

but he has a right
to be heard in this court.

I call the Count Cagliostro.

[Audience murmuring]

That's...

Target: You may speak.

Cagliostro.

Cagliostro:
I had nothing to do

with the theft of this necklace.

I'm on trial
because of my reputation alone.

I've been mistreated,
I have been mocked

simply because I seek knowledge.

Marie: He was at
Versailles. I saw him.

Cagliostro: The fact is,
I'm merely a man of the age.

I explore...

what you consider occult.

And I try to heal people,

even the highest in the land...

even those who have no hope.

♪

Was he attending
Dauphin?

Yolande:
Of course not.

♪

Was he attending
the Dauphin?

No.

Call my carriage.

I have somewhere else
I need to be.

Breteuil: Your Majesty.
[Door opens]

[Woman jeers]

♪

Target: Now, the evidence
proves that Jeanne La Motte

and Rétaux de Villette,
with the unwitting assistance

of Mademoiselle Nicole d'Oliva,

are guilty of stealing
the diamond necklace.

Cardinal Rohan and
the charlatan, Count Cagliostro,

are innocent.

[Audience murmuring]

There's been a development.

The Crown asks the Parliament
to consider a second,

even more serious, charge
against the defendants.

[Horse neighs]

President: Did their actions
tarnish the Queen's name?

[Audience exclaiming]

Target: Let me see that.

They knew we had them
beaten on the theft charge.

Yeah, but why would
the Queen risk this?

[Horse neighs]

President: Proceed,
Monsieur Target.

Target: Sir, I need time to
consider these new accusations.

President:
There is none.

Speak now.

In your opinion, did
the actions of Cardinal Rohan

and the other defendants

damage the Queen's
good reputation?

[Sighs] Well, this case
has depicted the Queen

as an extravagant
and duplicitous adulteress.

But are these accusations new?

Is the Queen not famous
for her profligate spending?

Since she arrived in France,
she's squandered our resources.

She's made purchases
behind her husband's back.

It's also common knowledge
that she has lovers,

that she carries on
intimate correspondences

and then has
scandalous sexual liaisons.

The defendants' actions
did nothing

to damage the Queen's
reputation.

By her own hand, she has long
since destroyed her good name.

Target: Should these people
hang for the sins of the Queen?

Target: This is what you've
been asked to decide.

I tell you they should not.

The fault isn't here.

It's in Versailles.

[Applause]

[Speaking
indistinctly]

Excuse me for a moment.

For a job well done.

Damn Louis
and this second charge.

The Crown can't lose
twice.

What do I do?

Just like you said,

the whole point is
to damage her.

Parliament is...

split.

My friends and I are willing
to vote against the King,

but there are concerns.

Defeat will deal a serious
blow to the monarchy.

And the last thing we want
is to empower Orléans

and his populist rabble.

We want a king
we can work with,

but we'll not risk
losing our monarchy entirely.

France cannot follow
America into anarchy.

If we defeat Louis
and he can't recover,

are you willing to step
into his shoes?

You must make a decision.

♪

On the first count--
stealing the diamond necklace--

the court finds the defendant,

Cardinal
Louis-René-Edouard de Rohan,

and the Count Cagliostro...

not guilty.

[Cheers and applause]

Order.
[Banging gavel]

Order!

President: Jeanne La Motte...

you are found guilty of theft,

of shamefully deceiving
the Cardinal,

and along with your husband,
Nicholas La Motte,

of co-opting your accomplices,

Monsieur Villette
and Mademoiselle d'Oliva.

On the second count,

the capital charge
of damaging the Queen's name,

all the defendants
are found...

[Knock on door]

♪

They've been found
not guilty.

President: ...not guilty.

[Cheers and applause]

♪

[Scattered boos]

Woman: Long live the Cardinal!
Others: Long live the Cardinal!

Woman:
Long live the Cardinal!

President: Retaux de Villette...

you are banished
from this kingdom.

Nicholas La Motte, in absentia,

is sentenced to a lifetime
of hard labor

in the King's galleys.

Jeanne La Motte...

you are the worst kind
of criminal,

one hardened since birth.

You will be beaten and branded
with the sign of the thief,

and incarcerated for life in
the Salpêtrière women's prison,

where perhaps you will earn
a small portion of honor.

[Bangs gavel]
Take her away.

[People shouting]

[Yelling indistinctly]

♪

Aah!

♪

Aah!
[Groans]

Aah! Aah! Stop!

Aah! Aah!

[Screaming]

♪

[Cheers and applause]

♪

Victory!

[Cheers, whistles,
and applause]

♪

[Indistinct conversations]

Chartres: Count Fersen.

The reason
the Queen studies Swedish.

You're not gonna
slap me, are you?

[People exclaiming]

All this because
she doesn't love you?

I'm fine. I'm fine!

Get lost.

[Door shuts]

♪

[Low whistle]

Hardly a regal look,
cousin.

It's what the people
see that matters.

And they see me
as the future.

Mm.

It's a shame that

people have no say
in who rules them.

Not yet.

May the best man win.

♪

[Indistinct conversations]

Quite a fire
you started.

You're staying?

I thought it politic to go

before the King's guards
kick me out.

Hmm.

Thank you for my freedom.

You once asked me
about the...secret

that unites
my brotherhood.

The truth is
there's no secret,

only the understanding
that true enlightenment,

true change comes
from men working together.

Men, not women.

No, I personally don't
agree, but most of them

still see no place
for you at the table.

Then we will make them
see it.

I don't care about the verdict.

I don't care if he is praised
throughout all of France.

Rohan is banished.

Vergennes:
Sire, this loss proves

that we can't rely
on the Paris Parliament

to approve the land tax
or any further loans.

Forget
the Parliament.

There's another
decision-making body

you can appeal to.

We think you should call
an Assembly of Notables

to help pass the reforms.

King Louis XVI:
Not now, madame, please.

Marie: Leave us.

Majesty--
Both of you.

[Door closes]

I banished Rohan.

How much time
does he have?

How much time?

♪

No more than
two years.

♪

How long have you known?

I, um...

"I"? "I"?

I couldn't...

I couldn't bear--
bear to tell you.

You lied to me?

You did.
You told me he'd recover.

How--how could you do that?

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.
I couldn't bear to--

You stole time from me.

You stole time
from me...

I wanted
to protect you.

so much time.

How could you do that?!

I-I wanted to protect you.
I was trying to--

You can't!
You can't protect me!

You can't protect me!
You can't!

You can't...

[Sobs]
not from this.

[Sniffles]

Not from anything.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Please. Please.

♪

How will we
survive this?

♪

[Door closes]

♪

♪

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