Lady Oscar characters
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[edit] Oscar Family
[edit] Oscar François de Jarjayes
A beautiful rose, a woman who, by desire of his father to have a son, was bred like so. She is educated like man in diverse arts like the fencing, reason why she gets to command the Imperial Guard of the queen Marie Antoinette. She has no reason to pretend to be a man because many people know that she is a woman. In spite of her upbringing as a man, Oscar falls in love with the lover of the queen, Hans Axel von Fersen, a Swedish count. But Fersen only has eyes for the queen. He treats Oscar like a true friend without knowing her true feelings. Towards the end when the revolution begins, Oscar realizes the love professed by André and that she loves him too, but shortly after the mutual declaration André dies by a stray bullet, and Oscar's heart is destroyed. Marie Antoinette and Oscar meet again, but this was their last encounter. Marie Antoinette says "Au revoir" ("goodbye") to Oscar. Both knew that this was an eternal farewell. Oscar is shot by a general and dies the day of the Taking of the Bastille. The bodies of Oscar and André are buried together.
[edit] André Grandier
[edit] General Jarjayes (Oscar's Father)
[edit] Madame Jarjayes (Oscar's Mother)
[edit] Oscar's Nanny
[edit] Versailles (Nobility)
[edit] Marie Antoinette
[edit] Louis XV
[edit] Louis XVI
[edit] Madame du Barry
Madame du Barryis not noble of blood. She used to be a prostitute, and thanks to that it managed to enter the Palace of Versailles. She became the lover of King Louis XV. When Marie Antoinette became princess of France, the great hatred comes between them. These news arrive until Maria Theresa, queen of Austria and mother of Maria Antonieta, thus she sends her advisor, Comte de Mercy, to France. Mercy advises the princess to stop fighting with Du Barry, but Marie Antoinette does not obey the warnings until King Louis XV shows his displeasure with her attitude towards the comtess. Marie Antoinette finally speaks to Du Barry. Months later, King Louis XV gets smallpox. Before dying, the bishop confesses Louis XV, and orders to take away all thing that represents the sin, that is to say, Madame Du Barry. King Louis XV dies and Du Barry is taken to a convent, where she remains until 1793, the year in which she is guillotined.
[edit] Duchess de Polignac
Best friend of queen Marie Antoinette, and one of the greater causes of the French Revolution. She impelled Marie Antoinette to bet in clandestine casinos, without the permission of Marie Antoinette's husband, King Louis XVI. She manipulated the queen for her own benefit and made the queen believe that lies would fix her difficult situations. Following her advice, Marie Antoinette lied and announced that the heir of France was on way. In order to remedy the situation, Polignac blamed the death of the heir on Lady Oscar. The Duchess says that the queen had undergone a fort impact at the moment at which Oscar pulled out of a scabbard her sword. During the Revolution, she manages to flee with her family.
[edit] Charlotte de Polignac
Daughter of Lady de Polignac. She is jeopardized by his mother with the Duc de Guise. Distressed, Charlotte, without knowing what would happen to her, loses all reason, and she commits suicide, jumping from one of the towers of the Palace of Versailles. She dies without knowing that she had a sister called Rosalie, who is in fact Lady Oscar. She grew a white rose in a tower as a symbol of her her friendship with Lady Oscar.
[edit] Duke of Orléans
Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France. Mastermind in the plot to kidnap Marie Antoinette before she could marry prince Louis XVI, but after it failed thanks to Lady Oscar's intervention, he tried to kill the Prince and make it seem like an accident by switching the rifle Prince Louis XVI used for hunting with a tampered one that would explode once triggered. Later in the story, Duke de Orleans, because of his liberal ideas, lets anti-monarchists like the Black Knight (a masked French Robin Hood) and his followers secretly gather in his Palais Royale. He, masked, helped Jeanne Valois, the author of the affair of the diamond necklace, to escape from Salpêtrière's prison and got her to a far convent. Then, he covered the expenses of the publication of the Jeanne memories book, in which Marie Antoinette's visits to clandestine casinos with Lady de Polignac, the "complicity" between the Queen and Lady Oscar and other false and true subjects were written.
[edit] Henri de Guéméné
[edit] Jeanne Valois de la Motte
[edit] Rosalie
Adoptive daughter of Nicole Lamoliere. Her true mother was Lady Polignac. Nicole, her adoptive mother, told her the truth when she was agonizing. She swore that she would kill the person on the carriage that ran over her mother. Rosalie, tried to kill Lady Jarjayes, because she though that Lady Jarjayes was on the carriage, but Oscar stops her. Oscar decides to help her, and she teachs Rosalie the art of fencing, manners, history, and others things. Rosalie told Oscar that her true mother was a noble called Martine Gabrielle. At night, in a party, Rosalie recognizes Lady Polignac, and tries to kill her, but Oscar stops Rosalie and told her that killing Lady Polignac wouldn't bring her mother back, and if she killed her, she would receive capital punishment. Oscar and André discover that the true mother of Rosalie, the woman called Martine Gabrielle, was the same person that Rosalie wanted to kill. Martin Gabrielle changed her name, to Sharon de Polignac. Rosalie wanted to end everything, and she dices to finally kill Lady de Polignac. She ambush Polignac's carriage. Rosalie aims to Lady Polignac with a pistol, but Oscar arrives and makes react to Rosalie. Oscar told Lady Polignac, that she was in front of her daughter.
After Charlotte, true sister of Rosalie, died, Lady Polignac went to Jarjayes's Mansion and told Rosalie that if she didn't come with her, she would told the autorities that Oscar was the protector of Jeanne Valois, the author of the robbery of the diamond necklace, sister. Finally Rosalie decides to go with her mother, to not harm Oscar. Rosalie realiased that her mother intentions were to marry her with the duc of Guise, so she return to the neighbour where she was bred. She marries with Bernard Chatelet, and meets again with Oscar, in the Taking of the Bastille. Rosalie sees Oscar's death. After the Taking of the Bastille, the people burst into the palace of Versailles and take Marie Antoinette as a prisoner. Marie Antoinette and her family are taken to a prision, where Rosalie served the queen as a servant. She always told the queen histories about Oscar. Marie Antoinette, before the day of her execution, gave Rosalie a paper rose, and told her to paint it with Oscar's favorite rose color.
[edit] Cardinal de Rohan
[edit] Marquise de Boulainvilliers
[edit] Marie Antoinette children
[edit] Marie Therese
[edit] Louis Joseph
[edit] Louis Charles
[edit] Imperial Guard
[edit] Count of Gerodere
[edit] Military Guard
[edit] Alain de Soissons
[edit] LaSalle Dressel
[edit] Austria
[edit] Maria Theresa
Mother of Maria Antonieta, queen of Austria. She agreed an alliance with Luis XV to stop the war, which was sealed with the marriage of her daughter, princess Marie Antoinette and French prince, Louis XVI. She dies by the anguish that the news of Maria Antonieta cause to her, because Marie Antoinette, being queen, decides to cancel audiences and transfers to the Palace of Trianon.
[edit] Count de Mercy
Advisor of Maria Theresa and Marie Antoinette. Maria Theresa sends him to France when finding out that Maria Antonieta became enemy with the friend of the king, Madame du Barry.
[edit] Joseph II
Son of Maria Theresa and brother of Marie Antoinette.
[edit] Sweden
[edit] Hans Axel von Fersen
[edit] Revolution
[edit] Robespierre
[edit] Saint Just
[edit] Bernard Chatelet
[edit] Others
[edit] Jeweller Boehmer
[edit] Nicole Lamoliere
[edit] Dianne de Soissons, Alan's Sister
[edit] Pierre
| The Rose of Versailles - Lady Oscar | |
|---|---|
| Berusaiyu no Bara | |
| Anime: | List of episodes |
| Manga: | Berusaiyu no Bara | BeruBara 1st Gaiden | BeruBara 2nd Gaiden |
| Movies: | Lady Oscar (movie) | Inochi (seimei) arukagiri aishite |
| Characters | |
| Main: | Oscar François de Jarjayes | André Grandier | Marie Antoinette | Hans Axel von Fersen |
| Secondary: | General Jarjayes | Lady Jarjayes | Oscar's Nanny |
| Versailles: | Louis XV | Louis XVI | Madame du Barry | Lady de Polignac | Charlotte de Polignac | Rosalie Lamorlière | Jeanne Valois de la Motte | Nicholas de la Motte | Duke of Orleans | Henri de Guéméné | Cardinal de Rohan | Duke de Guiche |
| Marie-Antoinette children: | Marie Therese | Louis Joseph | Louis Charles |
| Austria: | Maria Theresa | Count de Mercy | Joseph II |
| Imperial and Militar Guard: | Count of Gerodere | Alain de Soissons |
| French Revolution: | Maximilien Robespierre | Saint Just | Bernard Châtelet |
| Others: | Nicole Lamorlière | Dianne de Soissons |
