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Orleans is dragging you through the mud.

You are welcome in Versailles. Did I do well to bring back

my cousin in our fold?

However, we must do better

monitor the Palais-Royal.

Should we understand

that His Majesty requests a new loan?

The financial controller has the situation well under control.

Approve my request.

That would be terrible let the rumor run

that the king is unpredictable.

A little thing would change everything.

He will have to give up the crown to me.

My queen.

I will obey all your desires,

I will get you the necklace.

A Queen's guard robbed me.

- It suits me perfectly. - You have been fooled.

Don't boast about tomorrow, because you

are ignorant of your present fate.

What's going on?

Explain yourself.

Leave me!

Cardinal of Rohan, we come to arrest you.

- You are suspected of theft. - I beg your pardon.

By order of His Majesty.

But it's a joke, Vergennes?

Music of tension We whisper.

Am I dreaming or Louis had it arrested? a cardinal publicly?

And not just any one, moreover! He's a Rohan!

I don't know anything, I tell you, of this story of jewels.

You are a customer of the jeweler.

I bought some jewelry.

But... in the name of a certain lady

who asked for an intermediary. She laughed.

Are you suffering?

- His lies are nauseating. - Your lies are bothering him.

Who bought this damn necklace?

More...

- Speak! - The guard!

The private guard of His Majesty.

Pardon?

If there was theft, he is guilty.

I have no guard.

Does he have a name?

In your letters,

you said "Armand".

He's rambling. I'm not writing to him.

Not about the necklace, of course.

But a precious friendship was born

between us, with my generous donations.

- For what reason? Would I start a correspondence

with a man I disapprove of?

Your words hurt me.

I will die from it.

That's enough.

Let's clear this up.

Someone comes in.

Boehmer.

Do you have a guard? Armand?

A guard was indeed present at the time of delivery.

But he was acting

obviously on the orders of the cardinal.

- He himself was present. - Non!

- You weren't there? - No! I mean... yes.

I was there, but I bought the necklace for the account

- of my very dear friend. - Thank you, Boehmer.

The Queen's Reputation

matters to me in the highest degree. She suffered serious harm.

Boehmer sort.

Dark Music.

Let Rohan be locked up in the Bastille,

so that he can pull himself together.

Non!

My dear friend, no! I beg you.

- Free me. Please! - Wait.

- Oh! Thank you. - This charity work

to which you gave, what is his name?

- Let's see... the poor lost women.

Please, not the Bastille. I am a Rohan. No!

I beg you. Not the Bastille, no! Majesty!

Not the Bastille!

I demand an official investigation.

Summon

- the prosecutor. - Search Rohan's place.

Come on, open up!

Jeanne is delighted.

Rohan.

You dirty little pervert.

We enter.

- Search the apartments! Search everything.

You, the back pieces. You, with me.

Let's find the necklace.

Oh, thank you!

- Not cadenced. - At your command.

Come on!

There is a knock at the door. Come and see. You, come this way.

- In conclusion, prosecutor Fleury? - Well...

- It's clear he stole it. - If so,

where is the necklace?

- We searched his apartments. - He wasn't going to hide it there!

He probably sold it.

If His Majesty permits,

I will make sure that the jeweler

be compensated and that the cardinal

be punished discreetly.

- Discreetly? I'm not sure I understand.

A rumor is going around. The queen would have gotten behind my back

a necklace of exorbitant value.

It would be dangerous that the people

believe me so frivolous.

More than ever, after Saint-Cloud.

We agree

to say that it would be better

that the Rohan family does not stuff

his considerable nose in this case.

Anyone else

would answer for his actions before a court.

We don't want the cardinal be judged publicly?

The queen is right.

He is lucky to avoid betrayal.

He is lucky to be part

of from one of the most powerful families.

It is not possible to drag before the courts

an aristocrat of his rank.

Vergennes, the Rohan family is close to yours.

This helped you a lot.

To get this job, right? He stammers.

It would only be a trial identical to any other.

A jury of parliamentarians won't see it that way.

A similar one,

apprehended as a vagabond.

Parliament owes loyalty to the king.

- They will follow the crown. - Majesty, in the current climate,

- Is Parliament still loyal to us? - That's enough!

There is still a lot of elements to deal with.

No need to decide right away.

- Think about it a little more. - Yes...

Think about it.

Heavy music

Marie-Antoinette sighs.

We lock a gate.

A prisoner No! No!

Non!

- Is that you? - You took your time.

Do you have the necklace?

But no!

Vergennes sighs. The queen made me swear to silence.

In writing.

It is therefore impossible for me to speak without betraying her.

However, she denies everything.

She cries out never wrote to you.

- His letters are indeed with me. - We searched everything.

The Queen wants the matter

be judged publicly by a court.

Can she get it?

And lavish I don't know anything about it!

He blows.

Do you want the truth?

She wanted to hide it from her husband,

so she entrusted me with this purchase.

Vergennes is surprised.

- I beg you, Rohan. Contact your family.

This traitor wants my skin to save his own.

At the Palais-Royal,

Orleans encourages the protest.

I want to spread my ideas beyond.

I need an underground network.

Just like yours.

Freemasonry?

There are all over Europe people looking for new ideas.

We enter.

I believed you

to the book club?

We're having a session.

Keep your heresies. Your magic is to have escaped the stake,

in Strasbourg.

His magic includes

what escapes others. See you tomorrow?

- What are you doing? - He helps us.

He will send demons terrorize the queen?

If, for five minutes, you were

thinking of something other than her,

you would understand what is happening right now.

Jealous?

Non.

Our two angles of attack.

A property tax

landowners. This avoids

to tax the poor. And a program

which abolishes internal customs.

That's not lacking in audacity.

That's what I wanted.

And what France needs.

Vergennes has a doubtful pout.

But... a property tax will do the subject of strong criticism.

We have to bring it in gently. There is no hurry.

- No hurry? The deficit must be filled.

His Majesty must know than taxing the nobility more

will prevent him from getting his support during a public trial.

I therefore deduce

that we give up pursuing Rohan?

Thank you, Calonne, for this work.

This must remain between us. It's clear?

Take some rest.

And a bath, too.

- The queen is upset, but... - Vergennes.

Nothing has been decided yet.

The Queen and I are one.

Rohan attacks his reputation, so he attacks me.

That will be all, thank you.

We enter.

Vergennes sort.

I'm coming out of an improbable exchange.

I just reassured the aristocracy explaining to him...

that if you had insulted a family of the most influential in France,

but that it was not necessary see it as a sign of deep disdain

for everything what nobility represents.

- Thank you for that. - Still,

I'm starting to wonder.

Should I be worried...

for your mental health?

- I have a strategy in mind. - You reassure me.

I believed for a moment that you had turned your back on

the whole society accidentally.

But no! It was deliberate...

It will always be like this.

Those who profit of a sick system

will always be upset to see him heal.

Oh? We read books, as far as I can see.

Louis laughed in annoyance.

The world is changing, my dear brother.

Intriguing music.

It's nothing.

It's... Rohan, and this necklace story.

The queen is struggling to breathe.

It makes my stomach turn.

- The queen moaned. - Still no period?

I'm not ready to relive that, Yolande.

Whose is it?

I took precautions every time Louis visits.

Fersen retreated too late.

He knows it, though!

He knows what I've been through. He knows I won't survive it.

I'm having a hard time not breaking down.

Heartbreaking music.

There is a knock at the door then we enter.

- Good news, please! - It would seem

that a certain Countess of Valois

made the whole court believe that you were

the godmother of lost women. She extorted money

in exchange for promises... the promise of being in your favor.

- Marie-Antoinette is indignant. - It's appalling!

She sighs.

Who would believe such nonsense?

He coughs.

Marie-Antoinette is moved.

Oh?

I feel terrible about it.

She showed herself so convincing with...

supporting documents. And... Yolande sighs.

I really believed that she was my friend.

Let's find her and stop it.

Good, Your Majesty.

Antoinette.

- Let me explain. - It's useless.

Yolande inhales, embarrassed.

The superintendent

must protect the queen.

"At the request of the king, this study aims to establish a tax."

Unworthy What?

My sweet Marguerite, wherever I look, you are there.

I only think of you.

I only dream of you.

Everything else doesn't matter.

I bought a pouch

for your letters, they are all there.

I don't read anything else anymore.

We enter.

I keep them under my pillow. I love you.

Provence toussote.

You will love me like never before.

I doubt it.

Strongly.

Louis is preparing a property tax. Josephine sighs.

Including for the aristocracy and the clergy.

Does Parliament know?

Should he know?

- Which parliamentarian? Should we alert?

One who is never happy.

- The Marquis of Malesherbes. - Perfect!

From a concerned friend?

Very concerned.

"We wish bring to your attention..."

"Awareness."

"The secret tax project on the aristocracy."

In my opinion, Lamballe must have fall in love with the countess.

- I didn't ask your opinion. - What made her so stupid?

- His natural stupidity, obviously. - Lamballe feels alone.

You are responsible.

- Yolande is indignant. - Responsible?

You are the one who has my affection, the more she,

Today. Even if you have a viper's tongue.

She is boring, It's her fault.

When we suffer in friendship,

we ignore signs which lead to suspicion.

Is this difficult to understand?

It is possible, indeed.

True friends are there to provide solutions.

Juniper sabine,

pennyroyal, rue...

ergot.

It's when we can't anymore ignore his problems.

Drink this infusion and let's go for a race

on horseback.

Thanks to this,

maybe... one of your problems will disappear.

THANKS.

And finally...

the most important.

There is a knock at the door.

Open up, in the name of the king! Open up!

Open immediately!

Open up or we'll break down the door!

There is a knock at the door.

Open!

Joan of Valois! Stop!

Come back!

Stop!

Stop her!

Stop this woman!

Stop!

- A woman screams. - Come on!

Stop! You won't go any further, Joan of Valois.

We arrest you in the name of the king.

Jeanne sighs. Appointment!

She was arrested.

Mhm.

We shouldn't blame ourselves.

We couldn't know.

Well, at least,

we don't have to crochet anymore like idiots for babies

that never existed.

I really believed help these poor women.

I thought that if I crocheted enough, Maybe God would forgive me.

Forgive you for what?

I also failed to be a lost woman.

Or even, I was.

Victory...

Did you have a child?

I was only 14 years old.

Moving music.

A powerful man had taken a liking to me.

I thought he would marry me.

It turned out that he was already married.

Adelaide did the right thing.

Before anyone finds out.

But I had no other choice, I was the king's daughter.

I think a lot to what my life would have been like.

I think about it every day.

- I'm sorry to hear that. - I will never know

the joy of raising your child.

But with the good work of Joan, I felt like I was a mother.

- Well done, my dear. Yes... And twice on the other side.

Another one.

And now,

lift the right leg.

You're doing very well.

No, that's wrong!

The doctor mentions a deterioration,

then everything will be better. Right?

We enter.

What did the doctors say?

Louis?

We have consulted them three others.

Everyone agrees with Brunier.

It's hopeless.

Maybe it's time to try less conventional methods.

What do you have in mind?

Do it.

Let's make a decision as to the events.

We don't keep a Rohan to the Bastille forever.

His situation provokes

worry and gossip.

- It seems to me that you... as well as you,

should worry more of my reputation as of his.

Countess of Rohan.

As well as the whole Rohan family.

- Welcome. - Good time!

So you know who we are.

When I learned

that you had publicly arrested

and thrown into the Bastille my great-nephew,

It seemed obvious to me that there was mistaken identity.

Release him... immediately, before causing further harm

to the reputation of our house.

- I'm afraid... that you have been misinformed.

For years, the cardinal

tarnishes the reputation of your home.

Really?

And he has the audacity to mix up my name

to a small, un-Catholic affair.

And spreading lies at court,

without bothering to make them plausible.

It's up to the king that I came to speak.

Well, speak.

There are still only a few people aware of your incompetence.

Persist in this masquerade

and France will know you unfit to govern.

Release him or you will suffer the consequences.

- It's impossible. - For what?

For one simple reason.

He will be brought to justice.

Decisive Music

I'll reserve a seat for you.

Mhm...

Cagliostro mutters an incantation.

We must use all our resources

to enable the common man to know the truth.

That's to say?

A greedy maiden dreamed of a necklace

and did not hesitate to trap a poor man of the Church.

"Poor"?

- He is in his misfortune. - It doesn't matter Rohan.

The problem is the monarchy and the impunity that goes with it.

This is the right event.

- At your command, captain. What do you suggest?

Send a token of sympathy to the king. Prepare your printers.

I'll take care of the rest.

I need your help.

Call on your network

- to defend Rohan. - I don't get involved in politics.

Your benefactor!

Rohan can defend himself.

Félicité is indignant. Cagliostro recites an incantation.

What?

- In Egypt, it means... "I'm busy."

- That's right. I raised money. Among the courtiers.

I didn't suspect of the scam.

When I finally understood, Rohan threatened to tell me

- that it was my idea. - Were you profiting from the scam?

No! Not financially.

I liked to be seen as a friend of the queen.

- Did you help him? To steal the necklace?

Indignant Non!

He said I helped him?

He will accuse me... He wants me to pay for him.

I swear my innocence. I have nothing to do with this theft.

His accomplice cannot be what Cagliostro.

Rohan is his benefactor. He was still there.

- It's chilling. - He has the right to a benefactor.

You know how Rohan is, he is lying.

He stalks women.

He accumulates debts and makes

arrangements always to not honor them.

I quite agree.

- No, but wait... what does this mean?

I wanted to see the woman

who has harmed my name.

Your Majesty, believe me, I never intended...

We will translate the cardinal in court.

Testify against him and we will lighten the sentence

for your scam.

I would gladly do so, Your Majesty.

But I can't put myself in danger in the hope of simple clemency.

Cardinal Rohan

is a man as powerful as it is frightening.

Yes, I understand.

It's crazy what These cells are small.

Oh, I feel like I'm suffocating. Let's go, Fleury.

Wait!

To make a good impression in front of the court, I will have to...

a new hat.

- Grid closure. - Thank you.

I needed to see her.

Your intuition was correct.

Thanks to you, we found a key witness against Rohan.

Do you believe her?

It will be credible to the jury.

But you, do you believe her?

I think that she is telling the truth.

- A new arrest is necessary. - Who?

Rohan's accomplice, Cagliostro.

I need to talk to his parents.

It's impossible.

For what?

It comes back to admit to consulting you.

You should know that in France, your methods are not

to everyone's taste.

Neither in France nor anywhere else.

Support the cardinal!

- Support the Cardinal! - Count on us.

- Victim of royal tyranny. No one is safe from our tyrant.

Support the cardinal.

Support Rohan.

Can we know

the content of the mysterious mail?

In summary, Our monarch is determined

to impose land ownership by means of a universal tax.

No? A tax to which everyone will be subject?

- Even the clergy? - And the nobility.

No wonder the king don't announce it.

He knows it will cause an uproar.

- In Parliament. - Malesherbes!

We lent him a fortune. He creates a tax?

He wants to give the image of a modern king.

- They laugh. - This is ridiculous!

What does the royal family say? Of his betrayal?

- We enter. - Move aside!

Move aside!

What does that mean?

Count Cagliostro?

We stop you by order of the crown.

Take him!

- Come on, follow us. - What's happening?

- It's a scandal! - Don't interfere.

It is unworthy of the crown.

This will help our plans.

Why didn't you tell me?

For what reason?

Well, if this child is mine, ours...

I have the right to know.

Finally...

I could, I don't know. Be present, give him love.

Take part in his education.

Louis has never seen anything

of the world. Who can tell him about it?

I will spend time with him.

It's impossible.

If we are careful...

- Look at the result! - Antoinette.

You will never be able to to be the father of this child.

So you like whiskey?

Not before dinner.

The Duke loves to entertain friends.

Forgive his enthusiasm.

We only have very little time.

So, please forgive my frankness.

Let's get straight to the point.

We have so much in common.

Really? I felt like that you switch to the radical side.

Orleans laughs.

- I want the same thing as you. A sentence for our tyrant.

We can help you, politics apart.

In exchange for what?

Be in the front row to the killing

of the queen.

If you do it right, no king will disrespect

- to the Rohans. - What exactly do you have in mind?

We want introduce someone to you.

Intriguing music.

Master Target.

The most brilliant lawyer in France.

I pay for it

in order to ensure exclusivity.

The public pushes cries of admiration.

I am ready to share it with you.

The swords clink...

We applaud.

I'm sorry, my friend.

Not today!

Mischievous music.

- Anything goes. - That's a cheater's word.

They laugh.

- We applaud. - Bravo!

- Bravo! - Thank you.

To budding friendships.

- Master Target, to defend you. - Praise be to God.

I will only do it on condition that you accept three facts.

- First, that you are delusional. - It's subjective.

Since there is no poor lost women.

- What do you think? - Yes. We arrested Jeanne de Valois

- for charity fraud. - Pardon?

- There is reason to be shocked. - But finally!

In three months, what awaits you

is a public trial. Found guilty,

your finances and your reputation will be a pile of ruins.

Let's avoid disaster,

on one condition. Obey me to the letter.

Is that okay?

Excellent!

I want to answer your questions.

If there is no work,

So it was Jeanne who wrote the letters and not the queen.

This means that Cagliostro was right.

- He was arrested for complicity. Don't name him.

And it wasn't a question.

Am I an idiot?

Yes.

But that stays between us.

Thank you for coming.

I have information that can save Rohan, and me with him.

I thought that you couldn't do anything for him.

There was always the same guard, Armand.

He forwarded the letters.

He got the necklace. He's a henchman.

Rather tall, dark, a handsome face. He comes from Alsace.

- You have to find him. - In all honesty...

better for my business that you be kept in prison.

Ideal for proving that the king is a tyrant.

Notify our network.

You are slow to respond.

Josephine enjoys.

We enter.

Josephine is surprised.

My dear wife.

You could hit.

I see that we are rereading Marguerite's love letters.

She nods.

Provence sneers.

Imagine that you are not alone

to maintain clandestine correspondences.

Show me!

Suspenseful music.

Malesherbes wants to talk to me.

- Yolande is moved. - It's me?

This is adorable.

Louis?

I... I think we should tell Antoinette.

She trusts us.

Not yet.

- Why? She suspects. - Because...

Once we know, our life changes forever.

I would give everything,

to be able to see it without knowing anything.

I can at least offer this time to Antoinette.

Let's leave it to him.

A reflection on the national crisis?

- Leave us. - Yes.

Is there a problem?

No new fire.

GOOD.

I know that...

you have always been keen on astronomy

and what is happening in the sky.

By chance I learned

than a lunar eclipse was going to happen tonight.

I didn't know that.

Accomplice music.

This is a first.

Do you remember those evenings,

when we were children?

We were looking at the stars, with papa king.

We lay down on the grass.

You hated those moments.

Nothing worse than a grass stain.

He told us.

"Open your eyes wide and shut your mouths.

"Because...

"When I look at the stars,

- "That reminds me..." - “My divine destiny”.

It could be... that I go out and observe him this evening.

Well?

You were right.

Did it work?

He will go see her.

She rejoices.

- But it's beautiful! You have done well.

Good!

Let us prepare for my reign.

Yes!

Music of betrayal.

Leave to drink time to act.

We could increase the dose, double it.

- What if nothing happens? - Maybe it will be better...

that you accept it.

- I feel it. I feel this baby growing inside me.

I'm scared, Yolande!

I know.

I imagine that this tax project must deeply worry you.

You and your group of parliamentarians.

Indeed, this kind of reform

undermines the foundations of our society.

Some of my friends are ready to vote

against the king at the trial.

- That would be terrible... for the crown image.

- And the authority of the king. - The most conservative among us

do not wish weaken the king's position.

Is that him I see?

Provence hesitates.

He is going through a trying time.

It's his way to take your mind off things.

Are you sure he's okay?

For several months, I admit that it worries me.

First, the arrest of the cardinal. This desire for a public trial.

- And that damned tax reform. - Yes...

Cruel Music.

You said you didn't want to weaken its position.

Indeed.

Unless he is no more fit to govern.

Yes.

In which case, the queen would ensure the regency.

- Until the dolphin comes of age. - On condition, however,

that this trial is not fatal to the queen's reputation...

We enter.

Excuse me. I'm disturbing you,

maybe?

No, come in.

Please.

Marie-Antoinette sighs.

Good morning.

Lamballe is moved.

- The dolphin's first slipper. - Yes.

I offered it to him.

- It's true! - Mhm...

She softens.

I'm doing a lot of worry for him.

I can't help it.

Louis keeps telling me it will get better.

More...

I regret that Jeanne de Valois deceived you.

- Don't worry. Who has never made a mistake?

You want Rohan to be punished, I understand you.

I don't believe it

that Jeanne must testify.

She is smart.

She had the whole court at her beck

and call. This woman lies constantly.

If you give him a platform, God knows what she will say.

- No, she will only tell the truth. - Until receiving

a better offer.

Toinette, believe me! She is dangerous.

Don't say anything else.

You are my superintendent, so it seems to me...

that you should support my choices, not criticize them.

I can't.

Or I wouldn't be a friend anymore.

I don't want to see you at the trial.

In this case,

there is nothing more to add, apart from... good luck.

I won't need it.

I have nothing to reproach myself for.

SME Subtitles: Damien Armengol - TASTI.EU Belgium