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**Especially heartrendering if you take into account that in real life, his older sister, Hedda, died of unknown reasons while in Italy. Her body wasn't even sent back for a funeral in Sweden, giving him no chance to [[NeverGotToSayGoodbye properly say goodbye]]. His father [[DeathByDespair grew ill]] as a result and died of stress two years later. Want to know the kicker? All those death happend within three years, Hedda died in 1792, Marie and Louis in 1793, and his father in 1794. This guy could't catch a break.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Deconstructed since UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette thinks this trope is how she should live.
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* PrincessClassic: ''Horribly'' and ''cruelly'' [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. And boy, does she pay for trying to act like it all the time.
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* PrincessClassic: ''Horribly'' and ''cruelly'' [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. And boy, does Deconstructed since UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette thinks this trope is how she pay for trying to act like it all the time.should live but real life is more complicated than a fairy tale.
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The characters for ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles''!
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The characters for ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles''!
''Manga/TheRoseOfVersailles''!
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: A variation. Oscar shoots De Guément in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon.
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* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: A variation. Oscar shoots De Guément in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With André.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With André.
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* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: After André's death.]]
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* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: After André's death.]]
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* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler: Oscar refuses to kill Bernard "Black Knight" Chatêlet, the one to blame for André's EyeScream situation, because of this.]]
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* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler: Oscar refuses to kill Bernard "Black Knight" Chatêlet, the one to blame for André's EyeScream situation, because of this.]]
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* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:"My André is in danger!" (...) "My... André...?"]]
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to André's Feminine Boy.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to André's Feminine Boy.
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* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:"My André is in danger!" (...) "My... André...?"]]
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to André's Feminine Boy.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to André's Feminine Boy.
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Oscar's MirrorSelf in Episode 7 appears and disappears throughout her lifetime, causing Oscar some distress on her other self's identity. This all culminates to the final part, where Oscar's dopplegänger reveals who she is: that she is Oscar if [[spoiler: [[ForWantofaNail she were raised as a woman]] ]].
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* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Oscar's MirrorSelf in Episode 7 appears and disappears throughout her lifetime, causing Oscar some distress on her other self's identity. This all culminates to the final part, where Oscar's dopplegänger reveals who she is: that she is Oscar if [[spoiler: [[ForWantofaNail she were raised as a woman]] ]].
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* StarCrossedLovers: She and André [[spoiler: ''do'' get together, but then he dies a few days after. [[TogetherInDeath She follows him soon]].]]
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* UptownGirl: Oscar is a noblewoman, while André is a commoner.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar ''completely flips her shit out'' when André [[spoiler:is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him]].
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar ''completely flips her shit out'' when André [[spoiler:is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him]].
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* UptownGirl: Oscar is a noblewoman, while André is a commoner.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar ''completely flips her shit out'' when André [[spoiler:is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him]].
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar ''completely flips her shit out'' when André [[spoiler:is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him]].
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Oscar's childhood friend and the grandson of her nanny. André and Oscar learned the arts of fencing and horsemanship together when they were children. As they grew up, Oscar became the Dauphine's guard and the class gap between them widened. He has been described as a "true working-class hero" by Helen [=McCarthy=]. He is secretly in love with Oscar.
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Oscar's childhood friend and the grandson of her nanny. André and Oscar learned the arts of fencing and horsemanship together when they were children. As they grew up, Oscar became the Dauphine's guard and the class gap between them widened. He has been described as a "true working-class hero" by Helen [=McCarthy=]. He is secretly in love with Oscar.
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* NiceGuy: André is a very sensitive and passionate man.
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* NiceGuy: André is a very sensitive and passionate man.
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* SingleTargetSexuality: André is ''very'' Oscar-sexual.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: François Augustin Reynier, first Count of Jarjayes is an historical character. The main differences between the historical general and Ikeda's version is that Ikeda made her own older in order to have a daughter of the same age as Marie Antoinette (the historical version was only ten years older than Marie Antoinette), and the historical character raised his ''firstborn daughter'' as a male, not the last, and was more successful into hiding her actual gender.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: François Augustin Reynier, first Count of Jarjayes is an historical character. The main differences between the historical general and Ikeda's version is that Ikeda made her own older in order to have a daughter of the same age as Marie Antoinette (the historical version was only ten years older than Marie Antoinette), and the historical character raised his ''firstborn daughter'' as a male, not the last, and was more successful into hiding her actual gender.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Renier openly states that the only thing keeping him from having Oscar marry Andrè is that he's a commoner.
* TeamMom: Andrè's grandmother.
* TeamMom: Andrè's grandmother.
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* ShipperOnDeck: Renier openly states that the only thing keeping him from having Oscar marry Andrè is that he's a commoner.
* TeamMom: Andrè's grandmother.
* TeamMom: Andrè's grandmother.
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The adoptive daughter of a commoner named Nicole Lamorlière. She is described as "a stereotypical good girl, sweet, obedient and timid". Oscar teaches her the art of fencing, manners, history, and other courtly skills and Rosalie comes to admire and love Oscar greatly.
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The adoptive daughter of a commoner named Nicole Lamorlière. She is described as "a stereotypical good girl, sweet, obedient and timid". Oscar teaches her the art of fencing, manners, history, and other courtly skills and Rosalie comes to admire and love Oscar greatly.
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* CombatPragmatist: Outside of duels he fights ''very'' dirty. ''Eroica'' drives home the point in his first meeting with Napoleon, when Alain was trying a BavarianFireDrill to sedate the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire 12 Vendémiaire Insurrection]] by ''using cannons in the streets of Paris, '''the same tactic Napoleon had decided to implement''''' (hence Napoleon taking him under his protection).
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* CombatPragmatist: Outside of duels he fights ''very'' dirty. ''Eroica'' drives home the point in his first meeting with Napoleon, when Alain was trying a BavarianFireDrill to sedate the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire 12 Vendémiaire Insurrection]] by ''using cannons in the streets of Paris, '''the same tactic Napoleon had decided to implement''''' (hence Napoleon taking him under his protection).
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* TheDogBitesBack: When Hébert relayed the accuse of incest at her trial, Marie Antoinette at first refused to reply, and when she was forced to answer she declared "If I have not replied, it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother" and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nearly got Hébert lynched]], succeeding in putting him on Robespierre's and Saint-Just's shit-lists (Hébert barely survived five months before being executed as a thief).
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* TheDogBitesBack: When Hébert relayed the accuse of incest at her trial, Marie Antoinette at first refused to reply, and when she was forced to answer she declared "If I have not replied, it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother" and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nearly got Hébert lynched]], succeeding in putting him on Robespierre's and Saint-Just's shit-lists (Hébert barely survived five months before being executed as a thief).
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* TraumaCongaLine: With the Revolution, she's subjected to a major one. First she's nearly lynched by the women of Paris (who calms only after she makes a reverence to them), then she's forced to move to the Touileries with the Royal Family, then there's the failure of the escape to Belgium with the relative hate of the people, the forced abdication, Louis XVI's trial and execution, the Committee of Public Safety taking her children away (by this time she's suffering of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]] and uterine cancer), a [[KangarooCourt sham trial]] finalized to sentence her to death, [[KickTheDog member of the Committee Jacques Hébert brainwashing her son into accusing her of incest]], and, finally, she's executed.
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* TraumaCongaLine: With the Revolution, she's subjected to a major one. First she's nearly lynched by the women of Paris (who calms only after she makes a reverence to them), then she's forced to move to the Touileries with the Royal Family, then there's the failure of the escape to Belgium with the relative hate of the people, the forced abdication, Louis XVI's trial and execution, the Committee of Public Safety taking her children away (by this time she's suffering of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]] and uterine cancer), a [[KangarooCourt sham trial]] finalized to sentence her to death, [[KickTheDog member of the Committee Jacques Hébert brainwashing her son into accusing her of incest]], and, finally, she's executed.
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* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to André's Betty for Oscar's Archie.
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Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France after Louis XVI's children and brothers.
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France after Louis XVI's children and brothers.
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Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France after Louis XVI's children and brothers.
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France after Louis XVI's children and brothers.
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Charlotte's ex-fiancé.
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Charlotte's ex-fiancé.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Had he married Oscar he'd have had nothing against her having a lover on condition he truly loved her, and openly said so to Andrè.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Had he married Oscar he'd have had nothing against her having a lover on condition he truly loved her, and openly said so to Andrè.
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* WouldHurtAChild: ''Poor'' StreetUrchin Pierre. Rosalie begged Guémént to spare him, and yet he didn't.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both versions remember us why he was called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Angel of Death]] and that he's personally responsible for Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI being executed instead that kept prisoners, but put Jacques Hébert on his shit list (and got him guillotined as a thief) for dishonoring the Revolution by falsely accusing Marie Antoinette of incest with her own son.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both versions remember us why he was called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Angel of Death]] and that he's personally responsible for Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI being executed instead that kept prisoners, but put Jacques Hébert on his shit list (and got him guillotined as a thief) for dishonoring the Revolution by falsely accusing Marie Antoinette of incest with her own son.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like Saint-Just, he's utterly disgusted with Hébert for accusing Marie Antoinette of [[ParentalIncest committing incest with her son]].
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like Saint-Just, he's utterly disgusted with Hébert for accusing Marie Antoinette of [[ParentalIncest committing incest with her son]].
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* BringIt: When the Marquiss de Dreux-Brézé reminds the National Assembly the king has just ordered their dissolution, Mirabeu declares they won't move unless forced by bayonets-and when he's told the French Guards are coming there to do just that, he just waits there.
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* BringIt: When the Marquiss de Dreux-Brézé reminds the National Assembly the king has just ordered their dissolution, Mirabeu declares they won't move unless forced by bayonets-and when he's told the French Guards are coming there to do just that, he just waits there.
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Bernard René Jourdan de Launay, the cynical governor of the Bastille.
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Bernard René Jourdan de Launay, the cynical governor of the Bastille.
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Henri-Évrard de Dreux-Brézé, Louis XVI's Grand Master of Ceremonies and the man who refers his orders.
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The characters for ''Manga/RoseOfVersailles''!
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[[folder:Oscar Francois de Jarjayes]]
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->Voiced by: Reiko Tajima (TV series), Creator/MonicaManjarrez (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
A beautiful noblewoman who was raised as a boy by her father. She is educated in such diverse arts as fencing, horseback riding, and etiquette. Eventually, she commands a company in the Garde du Corps du Roi (the senior Household Cavalry regiment), and later transfers to the French Guards.
* ActionGirl: One of the earliest.
* TheAlcoholic: She goes from drinking once in a while to [[DrowningHisSorrows Drowning Her Sorrows]] as tragedies pile up.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Of course, though she stays slightly more on the female side thanks to the shape of her face and eyes. She provides the page picture for the trope, and she's also very likely the TropeCodifier.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: A variation. Oscar shoots De Guément in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon.
* BlessedWithSuck: Although a lot of people have asked Oscar whether she's unhappy about being raised like a man, Oscar doesn't mind as she believes had she been raised like a woman, she wouldn't have had so much knowledge about the people' suffering.
* BlingOfWar:
** Her [[http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/554258_567924976561585_601142670_n.jpg dress uniform]] as commander in the Garde du Corps is rather decorather, but has ''nothing'' on her [[http://web.tiscalinet.it/prisca/images/Sfondi-oscar/Sfondo%20oscar%20en%20pied.jpg French Guard uniform]].
** Averted by her [[http://www.toonshill.it/cartoni_animati/cartoni_70/ladyoscar/_gruppo01.jpg lieutenant uniform]] and [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4AP684PWbyM/TKOioKGfmeI/AAAAAAAAGI0/5tp2KWB6kdQ/s1600/Lady+Oscar.jpg captain-colonel uniform]], that are relatively plain and undecorated.
* BreakoutCharacter: The manga was originally intended to focus on Marie Antoinette, with Oscar as a supporting cast member, and hence the story arc of the manga begins with Marie's birth and ends with her death. Oscar became so popular with readers that she quickly took over the focus of the story, and other adaptations of the work focus on her as the main character from the start. In particular, the anime begins with the birth of Oscar.
* BreakTheCutie: She's more of a beauty than a cutie. Gets broken nevertheless.
* TheBrigadier: For her role into [[spoiler: Jeanne Valois' death]], Oscar was promoted to colonel and commander of the Gards du Corp regiment, becoming a de facto cavalry brigadier general. While in the French Guards she kept the colonel rank, but, commanding a regiment-sized company, became de-facto a colonel.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With André.
* ColonelBadass: Oscar, as captain in the Military Household, holds rank equivalent to a colonel's.
* CoolBigSis: In some Takarazuka adaptions and in one CD drama, her niece Loulou sometimes refers to her (Oscar) as "Oscar onee-sama", showing that Loulou regards Oscar as an older sister rather than an aunt.
* CovertPervert: She read and appreciated ''L'Organt'', a political poem filled with satire, attacks against the monarchy, the nobility and the church and infamous (and banned) for ''an immense quantity of pornographic episodes''.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly: During The Turkish Pirates and Nuns, Oscar dressed up as a nun and was worried that she'd be caught since she, as the "Mother Superior", supposedly gives out nightly Mass. Luckily, she bluffs out of the situation by reading aloud Latin from the text that was given to her. See, ImpersonationGambit below.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the Takarazuka Revue,[[spoiler: after Oscar gets shot]], she's shown in this position, signifying her role as a savior trying to help create a new France.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She becomes more socially conscious and empathetic as the series progresses due in part to her friends exposing her to the real world.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Oscar's birthday is on December the 25th. She dies at age 33. Sound familiar?
* DrowningMySorrows: Now and then.
* DudeMagnet: Andre [[spoiler: and Alain]] really, '''really''' like Oscar. Fersen actually used to love her as well, before devoting himself to Marie.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: She's a stylish {{Bifauxnen}} and ActionGirl. This was bound to happen. She always got women swooning over her whenever she appeared. [[spoiler: Charlotte and Rosalie were both in love with her, and Marie Antoinette had a little crush on her when she was younger.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Due to being RaisedAsTheOppositeGender, she also has a male name.
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: After André's death.]]
* HerHeartWillGoOn
* TheHeroine: In her FiveManBand.
* HistoricalInJoke: Her father, the general De Jarjayes, has an historical counterpart who actually raised his daughter for a man, naming her Jean-Antoine Pierre Marie Victor. Jean-Antoine was believed an actual man until her birth certificate was discovered.
* HopelessSuitor: For Fersen.
* HotBlooded: She's rather level-headed until someone she cares for is in danger. ''Then'' she'll become this, and you'll have a pissed off Oscar after your head.
* HotBloodedSideburns: As a manga hero(ine) of the [[TheSeventies 1970s]], she's got them.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler: Oscar refuses to kill Bernard "Black Knight" Chatêlet, the one to blame for André's EyeScream situation, because of this.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:She has [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tubercolosis]]... But dies of a fatal shot rather than of illness.]]
* ImpersonationGambit: Dressed up as a nun in The Turkish Pirates and Nuns side story to infiltrate a convent
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: See above.]]
* IWantMyMommy: Played for drama. After [[spoiler: walking away from the fiasco of Company B kidnapping her, with Andre helping her, she leans by a window and softly cries out for her mother.]]
* LadyOfWar
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:"My André is in danger!" (...) "My... André...?"]]
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to André's Feminine Boy.
* MessianicArchetype: Born on Christmas day, dies in her 30s, and has a CrucifiedHeroShot in the musicals.
* MirrorSelf: [[spoiler: Episode 7 revolves around Oscar confronting a self in which she was raised as a woman]].
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: WordOfGod stated she's loosely based on Pierre-Augustin Hulin, the historical leader of the people and the French Guards in the storming of the Bastille. In an HistoricalInJoke, Hulin serves under her and gets his historical role due [[spoiler: [[YouAreInCommandNow Oscar being shot]]]] and outranking Alain.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Oscar dies by being shot by ''over a dozen muskets''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the inaccuracy of smoothbore muskets, that, barring the very high aiming skills of a professional hunter, meant you ''had'' to resort to this when you shot a single person at that distance.]]
* OneOfTheBoys: She always stays with the boys' side, and when she interacts with girls, it's more like a man talking to a woman rather than two women interacting. Oscar is even drawn with sharper, more mature and manly features than almost all women in the series. If you didn't know she was a girl at first, you would be likely to think that she's a very [[{{Bishonen}} bishie shoujo boy.]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Oscar's MirrorSelf in Episode 7 appears and disappears throughout her lifetime, causing Oscar some distress on her other self's identity. This all culminates to the final part, where Oscar's dopplegänger reveals who she is: that she is Oscar if [[spoiler: [[ForWantofaNail she were raised as a woman]] ]].
* OutnumberedSibling: A bit averted since she's still a lady, but out of the six daughters in the family, she's the only one to be raised like a man and acts somewhat like a "son".
* PassThePopcorn: Her usual reaction to the court's squabbles, as long as they don't involve her. She did it ''even to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and the Du Barry's battle'', before the latter got her family involved.
* PimpedOutDress: The one time she wears one, it is pretty grand.
* PrettyInMink: At least in the manga, she has a fur-trimmed cape on her trip to the ball when she went undercover as the mystery lady.
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: She was the youngest daughter of a high-ranked military man, so she was raised as a boy by her dad. By the time she meets Andre at age 7, she already knows she is a girl and identifies as such. By the time Oscar joins the military at age 14, most people can tell she is female. It can be a HistoricalInJoke since The RealLife counterpart of her father did the same thing to his ''firstborn daughter'', and was more successful in hiding her true gender (it was found out only years after both their deaths, when people stumbled on her birth certificate).
* SayMyName: "ANDRÉ!"
* SheCleansUpNicely: She once puts on a PimpedOutDress [[spoiler: when she goes to a ball to dance with Fersen.]] Andre's reaction is different in each media: he gets angry in the manga, but in the anime he laughs about it.
* SimpleYetOpulent: Her one-time dress is grand, but actually less loaded with the frills and trimmings typical of the nobility of the time.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: André.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Originally the protagonist was supposed to be Marie Antoinette, but Oscar's popularity forced the author to give Oscar this role until her death.
* StarCrossedLovers: She and André [[spoiler: ''do'' get together, but then he dies a few days after. [[TogetherInDeath She follows him soon]].]]
* StaringThroughTheSword: At least three times.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Oscar starts out as being seen as this.
* SweetPollyOliver: She dresses as a man for her day job of commander of the Royal Guard. The rest of the time, she just does it because her father [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender raised her as a boy]].
* {{Tomboy}}: Invoked specifically.
* TomboyishName: Considering her father intended to raise her as a boy, it's no surprise he gave her a boy's name.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-rose-of-versailles/images/8046443/title/rov-photo grand dress]] is mostly shades of blue.
* {{Tsundere}}: A ''very'' tragic version of the Type A variety.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: For people who didn't know Oscar's gender, their reactions were almost always "What, you're a '''GIRL'''?!"
** It also didn't help that she apparently [[{{Bifauxnen}} looks handsome enough]] for the guys to think that she's a girly boy at first sight. For example, Fersen thought that Oscar was being too "royalty" when she requested for him and Andre to stay outside while she changed because he thought there was no problem for boys to see another boy changing. It's only when her nanny screamed at him angrily that Oscar was her "mademoiselle" did he notice her lean and girly features. He was pretty embarrassed about that too.
* UptownGirl: Oscar is a noblewoman, while André is a commoner.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar ''completely flips her shit out'' when André [[spoiler:is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him]].
* YouAreWorthHell: In the manga, Andre vows to always be her shadow "until the depths of Hell."
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[[folder:André Grandier]]
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->Voiced by: Taro Shigaki (TV series), Armando Coria (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Oscar's childhood friend and the grandson of her nanny. André and Oscar learned the arts of fencing and horsemanship together when they were children. As they grew up, Oscar became the Dauphine's guard and the class gap between them widened. He has been described as a "true working-class hero" by Helen [=McCarthy=]. He is secretly in love with Oscar.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Fersen's Veronica for Oscar's Archie.
* BigEater: According to Oscar.
* {{Bishonen}}: Sure, they all are in this series, but still.
* BreakTheCutie: A handsome commoner guy in love with the noblewoman he's known ever since childhood? Right before the French Revolution? It's bound to happen.
* CharacterDevelopment: He starts off as Oscar's nice and [[PluckyComicRelief almost goofy]] childhood friend, but as the tragedies pile up he gets [[TallDarkAndHandsome more and more serious]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Oscar.
* DespairEventHorizon:
** When [[spoiler: his eyesight is failing more and more ''and'' he learns that Oscar plans to die as a man. He confronts her in a ''very'' polemic scene that can be easily seen as a NearRapeExperience, though to his credit he ''does'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize he's wrong and apologizes profusely]]. The incident is also seen (in the anime) as a proof of how immature he is.]]
** In the manga, [[spoiler: he considers poisoning Oscar's wine and killing himself afterwards. However he stops her from drinking just in time.]]
* {{Determinator}}: In one scene of the anime, he gets a serious bashing from the other guards under Oscar's command, who sees him as Oscar's lackey. He keeps fighting back until he can't even move anymore.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler: Andre is shown coming to retrieve Oscar after she is fatally shot the day after he was. In the manga they are even shown retrieving Andre's grandmother.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: But he has his limits.
* DrowningMySorrows: At least once in the anime. Just before the DespairEventHorizon scene.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: His hair grows messier (and more Badass) as the story and his loss of eyesight progress.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Loses the sight on his left eye ''messily''. [[HandicappedBadass He does his best to keep on fighting.]] Even when his remaining eye starts to malfunction as well.]]
* FirstGuyWins
* GoOutWithASmile
* GreenEyes: Well, certainly fits the 'sexy' part of the trope.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:How he dies in the manga. See also TakingTheBullet.]]
* TheLancer: To Oscar's TheHeroine.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Before he cuts them to impersonate the Black Knight.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Oscar's Masculine Girl.
* MurderSuicide: See DespairEventHorizon.
* NiceGuy: André is a very sensitive and passionate man.
* PeekABangs
* PluckyComicRelief: Starts off as a mild version of it, especially in the manga. [[BreaktheCutie But then...]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: His parents died when he was a little boy, so his grandmother took him in. She also happened to be the housekeeper and nanny of the Jarjayes.
* SayMyName: "OSCAAAAAAAAAR!"
* SecondLove: For Oscar.
* ShadowArchetype: He and Oscar are often refered to as 'the shadow' and 'the light'.
* ShirtlessScene: In the manga, Oscar walks in on him while he's changing out of his rainsoaked uniform. Her getting all flustered is one of the first signs that [[spoiler: she's developing feelings for him]].
* SingleTargetSexuality: André is ''very'' Oscar-sexual.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Oscar.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:How he dies in the manga.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* {{Yandere}}: He starts to edge into yandere territory the darker things get, culminating in [[spoiler:an attempt to poison Oscar and himself in a fit of jealousy in the manga. Thankfully, he stops her from drinking it.]]
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[[folder:The Jarjayes clan]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KenjiUtsumi (General de Jarjayes), Hiroko Kikuchi (Madame de Jarjeyes), Creator/HisakoKyoda (Andre's grandmother); Carlos Rotzinger (General de Jarjeys), Alma Nuri (Andre's grandmother) (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
* AbusiveParents: The General de Jarjayes is this as he uses physical violence to punish Oscar for disobeying him. In the very first episode of the anime, he goes far as to ''push Oscar down a flight of stairs'' just because she refused to wear the uniform and become Marie Antoinette's bodyguard. In the manga and anime, he was close to [[OffingtheOffspring killing her after Oscar escapes capture to free the 12 soldiers of Company B]]. In the manga, the General was going to kill Oscar [[spoiler: even while knowing that she was already pardoned by Marie Antoinette]]. This was softened in the anime by having a messenger arrive with the pardon before the General planned to kill both Oscar and [[spoiler: Andre]].
* [[spoiler:DeathbyDespair]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: François Augustin Reynier, first Count of Jarjayes is an historical character. The main differences between the historical general and Ikeda's version is that Ikeda made her own older in order to have a daughter of the same age as Marie Antoinette (the historical version was only ten years older than Marie Antoinette), and the historical character raised his ''firstborn daughter'' as a male, not the last, and was more successful into hiding her actual gender.
* {{Hypocrite}}: At one point the General talks to Oscar about the Jarjayes staying loyal to the Royal Family, and that a noble and a commoner can't marry without the King's permission. [[spoiler: In Episode 6, as a young man, the General was prepared to disobey Louis XV's decision to choose a wife of better social standing, and marry Georgette, prior to TheReveal]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: One of the most recent episodes, Episode 6,expands on how Renier and Madame de Jarjayes met, with this trope coming into play.
* OnlyOneName: In Episode 6, Madame de Jarjayes was originally a young, aspiring artist named Georgette.
* ParentsAsPeople: Madame de Jarjayes seems to be a decent and kind ProperLady, and Oscar loves her very much. General Jarjayes, on the other hand... oh my. The guy has a good heart, but he is a bundle of HUGE issues and ''many'' of them pass onto Oscar.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: In a way, Armand, the painter, states how someone can move up in ranks because of their achievements. Because Georgette's great-grandfather, Georges de La Tour,[[spoiler: was the "Painter of the King" for Louis XIII]], she and Renier can marry with Louis XV's permission.
* ShipperOnDeck: Renier openly states that the only thing keeping him from having Oscar marry Andrè is that he's a commoner.
* TeamMom: Andrè's grandmother.
* YourCheatingHeart: Averted: while it was the norm for French nobles of the time to have at least one lover, the general and his wife have none, with the general actually getting mocked for it in one of the Gaiden stories.
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[[folder:Rosalie Lamorliere]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/RihokoYoshida (TV series)
The adoptive daughter of a commoner named Nicole Lamorlière. She is described as "a stereotypical good girl, sweet, obedient and timid". Oscar teaches her the art of fencing, manners, history, and other courtly skills and Rosalie comes to admire and love Oscar greatly.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: A small one, but while in the anime she never makes amend with Charlotte and even pretends to be unaffected by the latter's death at first before finally actually crying, in the manga they tearfully make up to each other and she is openly in tears and desperate at Charlotte's suicide.
* ArrangedMarriage: ''Barely'' escapes one.
* BetaCouple: With [[spoiler: Bernard]].
* BiTheWay: She fancies Oscar and has lots of LesYay with her. Even after [[spoiler: she marries Bernard and Oscar dies]], there are still lingering feelings for her in Rosalie's heart.
* BreakTheCutie: Yep, nary a single cutie is left unbroken in the series.
* TheChick: In Oscar's FiveManBand. [[LesYay Crush on]] TheHeroine included. [[spoiler: Though she marries TheSmartGuy instead.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Rosalie wasn't very well liked by Japanese readers, so she faded away from the spotlight as time passes.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: During her monologue in the Countess in Black gaiden, Rosalie reveals that she harbors self loathing and low-esteem issues stemming from her inability to have a relationship Oscar. She also reveals that she envies all of the girls that look at Oscar.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Loosely. There ''was'' a Rosalie Lamorliere in real life (UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette's caretaker and maid when she was imprisoned), but she obviously wasn't like the girl we meet in this manga.
* PimpedOutDress: Wears quite a few, given to her by Oscar's family.
* PrettyInMink: In the manga, the clothes she gets from Oscar's family includes a fur-trimmed cape and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rosalie_her_love_00_1104.jpg a jacket and muff]].
* RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler:She's a ''sort'' of 'Sleeping Beauty' type. Her then-teenaged mother gave her up to a poor family, thus Rosa has no idea of how said mom has gone RagsToRiches in the meantime and considers herself the daughter of Nicole Lamorliere for a long while.]]
* YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler:Oscar actually meets Rosalie when she tries to kill her mom, mistaking Madame Jarjays as the noblewoman whose carriage ran Nicole over.]]
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[[folder:Bernard Chatelet]]
->Voiced by: Creator/AkioNojima (TV series); Ricardo Hill, Marcos Patiño and Hermán López (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Newspaper reporter from Paris and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre's follower.
* BetaCouple: With [[spoiler:Rosalie]].
* BlackKnight: Sorta. [[spoiler: He ''does'' don a black cape and mask and refers to himself as such, while performing what was supposed to be JustLikeRobinHood acts sponsored by the Duke of Orleans.]]
* ImColdSoCold: When recounting his back story to Rosalie [[spoiler: after she shot him to protect Oscar]], Bernard notes how cold the Seine river was. [[spoiler: He's recounting the time when his mother held him tight, while tried to commit Murder-Suicide after being thrown out into the streets. The mother succeeded, while Bernard survived.]]
* IntrepidReporter: [[spoiler: After his "Black Knight" stunt reaches an end thanks to Oscar.]]
* KnightInSourArmor
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler: Until he "finds" Oscar and Andre.]]
* TheSmartGuy: In Oscar's FiveManBand.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Though he ''does'' tone down his cynicism a little.
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[[folder:Jeanne de la Motte aka Jeanne Valois]]
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->Voiced by: Yoneko Matsukane (TV series), Creator/ElsaCovian (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
An ambitious young woman raised by a poor seamstress along with her half sister, Rosalie.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She intends to kill Nicole d'Olivia, the prostitute who she hired to impersonate the queen and the one person who can connect her to the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, but can't bring herself to do it. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished This causes her downfall]].
** Partially averted in the manga: while not liking doing it, she ''could'' bring herself to kill Nicole, but she is still unsheating her knife when Oscar and her soldiers barge in with an arrest warrant, both saving Nicole and discovering her existance.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sort of. She and Rosalie love each other, but when Jeanne was starting to feel satisfied with the lot she had earned into life she saw that Rosalie, thanks to Oscar, had free access to Versailles, and decided she couldn't let Rosalie live a better life than herself.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sort of. She's a ''very'' highly fictionalized [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_of_Valois-Saint-R%C3%A9my Jean de Valois Saint Remy]], the mastermind behind the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Diamond_Necklace Affair of the Diamond Necklace.]]
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While the real Jeanne and her husband were thieves and con artists extraordinaire, they didn't actually ''murder'' anyone.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Apart from Nicole, Jeanne treats ''no one else'' like a human being. In her final appearance, she kills [[spoiler: her [[HenpeckedHusband devoted but often abused]] husband Nicholas, the one person in the world (except Rosalie) who is still on her side]], because she does not wish to die alone.
* JerkAss: Apart from the MoralEventHorizon-grade examples listed below, rewarding Oscar's great generosity toward her by [[spoiler: [[UngratefulBastard]] publicly slandering her as a lesbian]]]] rather firmly cements this.
* LadyDrunk
* ManipulativeBitch
* RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler: The most twisted ''Cinderella'' type '''ever'''. She uses her being the natural child of the last descendant of the Valois dinasty to be taken in by an old noblewoman with it, then kills her benefactor to inherit her riches. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse, and worse, and worse...]]]]
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath: Not quite a clean-cut example, as she ''does'' appear to feel remorse for ''some'' of her deeds, but something is clearly not right with a girl who will [[spoiler: have her sweet sister ''whipped'' for no good reason]] or [[spoiler: ''murder'' without qualms an adoptive mother who has been nothing but nice to her, just in order to inherit the estate]]. See also above, under ItsAllAboutMe.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: She kills her husband Nicolas and then herself, in the anime. In the manga, she falls victim to DeathByFallingOver.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: With Nicholas.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the manga: starts when she realizes that Rosalie (the only person Jeanne really loved and trusted) told Oscar where to find the now wanted Jeanne, gets worse after Oscar remembers her of her happy childhood with Rosalie, and completely snaps after she [[spoiler: accidentally kills Nicolas]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: In the anime it's the Duke of Orleans to slip where Jeanne is hiding, as he didn't need her anymore]].
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[[folder:Nicholas de la Motte]]
->Voiced by: Michihiro Ikemizu (TV series); Creator/JesusBarrero and Ricardo Hill (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Jeanne's husband. He's also apart of the Garde du Corps; Oscar is his commander.
* TheAlcoholic
* TheBrute: Say what you want about his character, but this guy overpowered Oscar in hand-to-hand combat, something that usually takes at least three or four muscle-bound men, and was much less injured than the three or four muscle-bound men.
* ConMan
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheDog: Whipping and torturing [[spoiler: Rosalie]].
* StuffBlowingUp: He managed to get his hands on an unholy amount of Berthollet's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_chlorate potassium chlorate]], at the time ''the'' most powerful explosive in existence and discovered ''just that year''.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: In the anime, with Jeanne.]]
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[[folder:Nicole Lamorlière]]
The commoner who raised Jeanne and Rosalie.
* DeathbedConfession: [[spoiler:She's mortally injured after bieng run over by Polignac's carriage. As she lays dying, she explains to Rosalie that her true mom is a woman named Martine Gabrielle... [[IronicHell Polignac herself]].]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHer]]: Should we [[LateArrivalSpoiler stop spoilering that]] [[spoiler:she gets a carriage dropped on her?]]
* ParentalSubstitute: For Jeanne and Rosalie.
* SacrificialLamb / StuffedIntoTheFridge
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[[folder:Alain de Soissons]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KeatonYamada (TV series), Martín Soto (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
The sergeant of the Company B, the troops assigned to Oscar's service in the French Guards.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In the manga, for Oscar. Happens again in ''Eroica'', where he falls for a woman from Lyon who happens to be a Royalist.
* TheBigGuy: To Oscar's FiveManBand.
* CombatPragmatist: Outside of duels he fights ''very'' dirty. ''Eroica'' drives home the point in his first meeting with Napoleon, when Alain was trying a BavarianFireDrill to sedate the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire 12 Vendémiaire Insurrection]] by ''using cannons in the streets of Paris, '''the same tactic Napoleon had decided to implement''''' (hence Napoleon taking him under his protection).
* FourStarBadass: Simply he was the first person to go toe-to-toe in a duel with Oscar and he's quite a skilled brawler. In the sequel ''Eroica'', where UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte promotes him before the Second Italian Campaign (he started trying to give him the promotion after witnessing his valor at Lodi in 1796, but it took three years for Alain to accept the promotion). He would have been made a Marshal of the Empire, had he not [[spoiler: died in a failed attempt to kill Napoleon before he could crown himself Emperor]].
* HeroicBSOD: When [[spoiler: his little sister Dianne kills herself]], Oscar and Andre find him sitting [[spoiler: next to her death bed]], his body tense and his eyes full of tears of despair. As [[spoiler: Madame de Soissons]] explains what happened, he apologizes and says he cannot go back for a while, so takes a TenMinuteRetirement.
* KnightInSourArmor
* TallDarkAndSnarky
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[[folder:Marie Antionette]]
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->Voiced by: Miyuki Ueda (TV series), Laura Ayala (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette of France.
* ArrangedMarriage: To UsefulNotes/LouisXVI.
* BreakTheCutie: Oh, boooooy.
* TheCutie: ''Specially'' when younger.
* DiseaseBleach: The stress of the Flight to Varenne, the failure and the hostility of the people during the return to Paris permanently dyed her hair white.
* TheDogBitesBack: When Hébert relayed the accuse of incest at her trial, Marie Antoinette at first refused to reply, and when she was forced to answer she declared "If I have not replied, it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother" and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nearly got Hébert lynched]], succeeding in putting him on Robespierre's and Saint-Just's shit-lists (Hébert barely survived five months before being executed as a thief).
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Deconstructed since UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette thinks this trope is how she should live.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When brought to the guillotine she was only thinking of showing dignity as queen of France and the daughter of UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa, and the manga reports her letter to her sister-in-law Elizabeth in which she reaffirmed her dignity.
* GemEncrusted: Several of her dresses, headdresses, and a couple of her ermine dresses and capes.
* GenreSavvy: She knows well that [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething a queen is supposed to rule for the people]] and [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Versailles' gates guards are rather lazy]], and identifies Oscar as a trusted soldier and Du Barry as someone who shouldn't be trusted as soon as she sees them, even before asking around who they are. She also knows that BeautyEqualsGoodness may be subverted (and [[LampshadeHanging notes that Du Barry is beautiful]] just as she tells herself she shouldn't trust her). [[GenreBlind Sadly, she's rather bad on practice]]...
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Has a few dresses in purple. She also wears a royal cape that is purple, but it's worn in a scene that fails to evoke PurpleIsPowerful to the people.
* HairDecorations
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* HonorBeforeReason: Some of her problems are made worse with this.
* KillTheCutie: [[ForegoneConclusion Not too surprising considering history.]]
* OjouRinglets: Subtle, but she does have them, even when her hairstyles change.
* PimpedOutCape: Wears quite a few ermine-trimmed capes.
* PimpedOutDress: Being the princess and queen, she has some of the most fancy dresses.
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Her blonde hair turns white from the stress of the Flight to Varenne, the failure and the hostility of the people during the return to Paris.
* PrettyInMink: To show her status, she wears several fur-trimmed capes, and wears an ermine-trimmed dress (which has a duplicate in the manga).
* PrincessClassic: ''Horribly'' and ''cruelly'' [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. And boy, does she pay for trying to act like it all the time.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Has several pink and rose colored dresses.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Has a number of [[CoolCrown tiaras]] and capes.
* RegalRinglets: Her hairstyles have this as often as not.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Deconstructed. Let's put it this way: UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette liked to go to the countryside. She thought it was lovely and idyllic. Problem: No one was particularly interested in disabusing her of this notion. So when she got there, it would be a sanitized version of the real thing.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Fersen.
* TranquilFury: She ''never'' loses her temper. Even when [[KickTheDog accused of incest with her own son]] at her trial she kept calm, with only a DeathGlare and calling the charge an insult to all mothers showing she was, in fact, furious.
* TraumaCongaLine: With the Revolution, she's subjected to a major one. First she's nearly lynched by the women of Paris (who calms only after she makes a reverence to them), then she's forced to move to the Touileries with the Royal Family, then there's the failure of the escape to Belgium with the relative hate of the people, the forced abdication, Louis XVI's trial and execution, the Committee of Public Safety taking her children away (by this time she's suffering of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]] and uterine cancer), a [[KangarooCourt sham trial]] finalized to sentence her to death, [[KickTheDog member of the Committee Jacques Hébert brainwashing her son into accusing her of incest]], and, finally, she's executed.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Wears quite a few blue dresses.
* TheTysonZone:
** At one point, people started believing ''everything'' about her, including but not limited to: cheating on the King and giving birth to one of her lovers' children, having lesbian lovers, swindling innocent men and her own lesbian lovers to get a diamond necklace, and that infamous quote about cake. She ''never'' did anything of the above (and in fact the cake quote was ''older than her'').
** {{Subverted}} at her trial, when [[KickTheDog she's accused of incest with her own son]]: the witnesses believe ''her'' when she denies the accuse, and in fact it's the accuser who risks being lynched.
* WholeCostumeReference: The bejeweled ermine dresses are heavily based on [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Leszczynska_by_Fran%C3%A7ois_Albert_Stiemart,_1726,_Versailles.jpg this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Louis XV]]. It's even more clear in some side art for the manga.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses, and realizes too late she's wrong.
* YouAreWorthHell: In the manga, Fersen returns from the American Revolutionary War and vows to be at Marie's side, even if it eternally damns him.
* YourCheatingHeart: A source of drama for her: she loves Fersen, but she's still the Queen of France and must ''not'' have a lover until she has given birth to a male heir, and, having been raised in Austria, considers cheating on her husband as an unforgivable sin.
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[[folder:Maria Theresa]]
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UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa, Empress of Austria.
* TheHighQueen
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IgnoredExpert: She left Marie Antoinette with a list of instructions on how to act as a princess and a queen, including never giving jobs and money as favors and always listening Count De Mercy. Had she followed her instructions about jobs and De Mercy, Marie Antoinette would have avoided many of the errors and wastes that ended up causing the Revolution.
* ModestRoyalty: While her clothes are more pimped out than in RealLife, they're still quite modest. She even states a queen ''should'' dress modestly, with only a crown to evidence her position and her own dignity as decorations, when she sees a portrait of Marie Antoinette in her usual clothes.
* ParentsAsPeople: She cares for her children but isn't above using them for her purposes and interferring in their lives. Just like she did in RealLife.
* PimpedOutDress
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her dress in the anime.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask
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[[folder:Louis XVI]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YoshitoYasuhara (TV series), César Arias and Esteban Siller (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/LouisXVI, the Dauphin and later King Louis XVI.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's quite the BigBeautifulMan here.
* DoggedNiceGuy: A strange example: he's ''married to the woman he loves'', but knows well she loves Fersen.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: His reaction to his death sentence? Make his son swear he won't try and avenge him, then, once brought to the guillotine, taking off his jacket, telling the assembled people he wished them well, and placing his neck under the blade.
* HiddenDepths: He's much smarter than he looks, it's implied he realized about Marie Antoinette and Fersen about at the same time as Oscar (i.e. when Louis XV was still alive, ''years'' before the rumor mill picked it and months before ''Antoinette herself'' had any hint) but let them do because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he wanted his wife to be happy]] and rightly trusted her to not imperil the succession.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Comes off as rather cute here, though not in a conventional way.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He ''really'' wants Marie Antoinette's happiness, and it's implied he knew she was in love with Fersen well before the rumor mill and allowed it because it made her happy and Fersen wasn't around her only to get favors (he states he likes and trusts Fersen exactly because of this). His only problem with them being StarCrossedLovers was that the rumor mill picking it up and blowing it out of proportions had upset his beloved.
* ModestRoyalty: He tends to wear simple and practical clothing (especially when compared with his wife's many [[PimpedOutDress overdecorated dresses]]), unless the occasion calls for more decorated clothes.
* NiceGuy: His niceness is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by two royal guards, who noted his modesty (especially compared to his wife), love for simple things, lack of lovers, and that he truly loved his people. Sadly, he was too nice for his own good: had he been a little less nice and somewhat harder (and capable to resist his wife's strong opinions), he would have been able to avoid much of the trouble that ended causing the Revolution. But was nice to the end, even taking time before his execution to make his son swear he'd not try to avenge him and, before placing his head on the guillotine, wishing the French people luck and prosperity.
* ShrinkingViolet
* YourCheatingHeart: Averted: palace guards point out he has no lovers, and actually find it strange.
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[[folder:Hans Axel von Fersen]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/NachiNozawa (TV series), Katsunosuke Hori (TV series EP 6-8); Carlos Becerril (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Hans Axel von Fersen, The Younger. A handsome Swedish aristocrat who comes to the court of Versailles and becomes involved in a forbidden romance with queen Marie Antoinette.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: After coming home from the American Revolution, he shows signs of [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]], being unable to adapt to civilian life and stating to Oscar he is grateful to be so alive in the TV series. The manga shows him unchanged by the war.
* AdaptationalBadass: He never does anything noteworthy in the manga but his portrayal in the anime shows him as growing into a hardened veteran after the American Revolution who's skilled enough with a rifle to shoot a thrown apple a distance away with ease.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to André's Betty for Oscar's Archie.
%%* TheBusCameBack: Only about fifty times.
* ChickMagnet: Antoinette and Oscar were very smitten with him. Considering how hot and gentlemanly he is, can you blame them?
** TruthInTelevision: He was a famous ladies' men, with lovers spread around all of Europe before 'settling' with Marie Antoinette.
* FaceHeelTurn: The manga records his historical fate: after Marie Antoinette's death he grew cold, cynical and hateful of the commoners, and by them was lynched in the anniversary of the Flight to Varennes (a date he had grown to consider unlucky) for his part in the supposed murder of the crown prince of Sweden (who had died of natural causes).
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Why he originally left France for a while.
* RomanticFalseLead: To Oscar.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Marie Antoinette.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Downplayed. He may be considered dark by Swedish standards, but definitely not by French ones. He even dyes his hair a much darker shade in order to disguise himself later in the story.
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[[folder:Louis XV]]
-> Voiced by: Hisashi Katsuta (TV series); Eduardo Borja (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/LouisXV, King of France and grandfather of Louis XVI.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
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[[folder:Louis Joseph]]
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->Voiced by: Yoshiko Matsuo, Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Louis Joseph, the Dauphine. The second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IdenticalStranger: He looks almost exactly like a male, younger Oscar, from some of the face features to his blond hair, and his bangs are even styled the same way as hers.
* IllBoy
** [[spoiler: IncurableCoughOfDeath: His illness was osseous tuberculosis, a particularly painful form of the RealLife TropeCodifier that manifests when the infection spreads to the skeleton]].
* PrecociousCrush: On Oscar. [[spoiler: On his deathbed,]] he said that he wanted to be a good king with Oscar as his queen.
* [[spoiler: TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Was very smart and empathic, and would've been a good Dauphin if shit didn't hit the fan.
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[[folder:Madame Du Barry]]
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->Voiced by: Ryoko Kinomiya (TV series), [[Creator/RocioGarcel Rocío Garcel]] (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Lover of King Louis XV and enemy of Marie Antoinette.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Twice over:
** She made herself an enemy of Marie Antoinette out of sheer pride, not thinking that her power derived from Louis XV's support and the moment the ''old'' king died Marie Antoinette would become the ''Queen of France'', something [[LampshadeHanging Oscar points out]] as part of her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her. Once Oscar is finished, du Barry tries to mend her relationship with the future queen, but by now it's ''far'' too late.
** She flaunted to the court her influence over the king, making herself widely hated and finding no further support for the moment the ''old'' king would die-or keep the royal confessor from having her kicked out by Louis XV on his deathbed.
* GenreBlind: Early on in the series. Oscar was for the most part neutral in the political conflict between du Barry and Marie Antoinette until du Barry brought Oscar's mother, Madame de Jarjayes, into the conflict. du Barry thought that doing this would win Oscar's support and help resolidify her power at court. Instead by doing this du Barry gave Oscar a good look at her ruthless and untrustworthy nature, threatened Madame de Jarjayes' safety, ''and'' forced Oscar to pick between publicly supporting du Barry or Marie Antoinette in the court's hierarchy of power. To no one's surprise, Oscar felt the best option was Marie.
* GoldDigger: Deconstructed subtly. She uses her relationship with Louis XV to gain power, influence, and control over the internal workings of the court, but as he lay dying, she becomes terrified for her future and tries to encourage him to live longer because he's all she has.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real life du Barry was a complex individual whose nature historians still debate over to this day. In her time, though, she was actually highly unliked by everyone in court.
* NoblewomansLaugh
* PimpedOutDress: At one point she deliberately tries to out-dress Marie by way of challenge.
* SmugSnake
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[[folder:Duchesse de Polignac]]
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->Voiced by: Reiko Mutou (TV series), Socorro de la Campa and Liza Willery (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Madame Yolande de Polastron, aka the Countess (later Duchesse) de Polignac [[spoiler: aka Yolande '''Martine Gabrielle''']]. Singer at the Court. She befriended Queen Marie Antoinette to take advantage of her power.
* AbusiveParents: She pretty much [[ArrangedMarriage pawns Charlotte off]] to a]] ''very'' [[NoYay creepy older man]] to gain power. [[spoiler: And once Charlotte commits suicide out of despair, she {{blackmail}}s Rosalie into filling the spot.]]
* EvilChancellor: As the Queen's favorite, basically the DistaffCounterpart to this. Not powerful, but ''influential'' enough to appoint and dismiss ministers.
* EvilMatriarch
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real Polignac was extravagant to the max and apparently more than a little cold and calculating, but nowhere near the levels she gets in the show.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Will not think twice about killing off potential threats to her special relationship with the Queen, or [[spoiler: marrying off an 11-year-old daughter to a creepy old man]] if it increases her own power and prestige. Her view of others is very instrumental.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:After all the tragedy she's caused, to say nothing of contributing to the downfall of the French monarchy, she escapes from France and the revolution altogether. Frustratingly TruthInTelevision, although in RealLife she died soon after Marie Antoinette of an undiagnosed illness.]]
* MaliciousSlander: Targeted at Oscar, in particular.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Had this reaction when Charlotte mentioned Rosalie Lamoriere's full name, as she fully realized that [[spoiler: she had killed the woman who raised her firstborn daughter, and she had earned said daughter's fully justified hate]].
* PoisonousFriend: To poor Marie Antoinette.
* RankUp: She's introduced as a countess, but later becomes a duchesse as her husband is made a duke.
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath: Her anime characterization very easily lends itself to this interpretation, given her frequent use of CrocodileTears, shameless exploitation of the [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter gullible]] Queen, horrible abuse of her daughters and general ManipulativeBitch tendencies.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Gave birth to Rosalie when she was 14.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Openly admits that both her and her husband have lovers, explaining they married for convenience.
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[[folder:Charlotte de Polignac]]
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->Voiced by: Kazue Komiya, Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Daughter of the Lady Polignac, a beautiful and very sheltered 11-to-12 year old girl.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: She is much more of a SpoiledBrat in the anime and never makes amend with Rosalie, but in the manga, their shared [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited feelings]] for Oscar helps them make up to each other, with Charlotte even tearfully exclaims that Rosalie is just like a sister to her. And while she turns mad before her suicide in the anime, in the manga, she is in a completely normal state of mind and commits her suicide tearfully instead.
* ArrangedMarriage / WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: To the Duke of Guiche.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: By either throwing herself off a tower (anime) or [[StaircaseTumble off a stairwell]] (manga).]]
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Oscar.
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]
* {{Ojou}}: Of the SpoiledBrat type.
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: Before killing herself, she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation totally lost her mind]] and showed up at a party [[LettingHerHairDown with her long blond hair down]], no shoes, and talking and laughing madly about how she doesn't want to get married.]]
* PimpedOutDress
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her dress is pink in the anime.
* SpoiledBrat
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[[folder:Duke of Orleans]]
->Voiced by: Osamu Ichikawa; Jorge Roig Sr. and José Luis Orozco (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France after Louis XVI's children and brothers.
* AmbitionIsEvil: He's the cousin of Louis as well as the leading candidate to the throne after Louis' immediate family. Of course he plays more than one gambit to knock Louis off, even in the first episodes!
* AscendedExtra: He barely appeared in the manga, being mentioned as suspected to have helped Jeanne Valois' breaking out of prison and allowing the "Black Knight" to use Palais-Royal (his residence in Paris) as hideout, but is practically the BigBad of the anime.
* BigBad: In the anime.
* CompositeCharacter: The anime folded his father Louis Philippe I into him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Differently from the king's brothers, he doesn't wish Louis Joseph will just [[spoiler:hurry up and [[IncurableCoughOfDeath die of tuberculosis]] nor spreads lies about Louis Charles' legitimacy]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While not the only one, his' is one of the most egregious examples.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He ''appears'' to be a KarmaHoudini in the anime, but he ended up guillotined during the Revolution for being a relative of the late Louis XVI.
* SmugSnake
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[[folder:The Duke of Guiche]]
Charlotte's ex-fiancé.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* OldManMarryingAChild: He's not an ancient man, but the age difference with Charlotte [[spoiler: and Rosalie]] is {{squick}}y enough.
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[[folder:The Count of Girodelle]]
->Voiced by: Keiji Mishima (TV series), Carlos Becerril and José Luis Orozco (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Oscar's arranged fiance.
* TheBeautifulElite: A member of the Gardes du Corps, the elite cavalry regiment of France and including beautiful men only. [[LampshadeHanging He flat-out admits that, being in that regiment, he's obviously a beautiful man]].
* CanonImmigrant: Originally created for the anime as Oscar's designated rival for entrance in the Royal Guard and, after they both joined, her second in command. Later Ikeda introduced him in the manga, first as Oscar's second in command and then as the RomanticFalseLead.
* DerailingLoveInterests: [[spoiler: In the live-action movie.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
* RememberTheNewGuy: In the manga he's introduced by Oscar giving him an order as he had always been there.
* RomanticFalseLead
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* YourCheatingHeart: Had he married Oscar he'd have had nothing against her having a lover on condition he truly loved her, and openly said so to Andrè.
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[[folder:Henri de Guémént]]
A cruel, cold nobleman who resorts to violence and kills a young boy for a petty crime, appalling Rosalie, Oscar and Andre.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Subverted: Oscar shoots him in the hand not to disarm him, but ''specifically'' to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon. See below for the reason why...
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* WouldHurtAChild: ''Poor'' StreetUrchin Pierre. Rosalie begged Guémént to spare him, and yet he didn't.
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[[folder:Leon de Saint-Just]]
Louis Antoine Léon Florelle de Saint-Just. A military and political leader during the French Revolution.
->Voiced by: Creator/ToshioFurukawa, Eduardo Tejedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
* AdaptationalBadass: In the TV series he carries out a series of successful assassinations including an attempt on Reynier, injuring in the process and later on Oscar, forcing the latter to fight tooth and nail to survive. He was just a mere debater in the original manga.
* AscendedExtra: Where the manga had him appear only near the end, the anime elevated him to a quasi-BigBad role.
* ConnectedAllAlong: As revealed by Bernard, he and Saint-Just are distant relatives.
* CovertPervert: The manga remembers us he's the author of ''L'Organt'', a politically-motivated satirical poem ''filled with an immense quantity of pornographic episodes''. He maintains the book was banned for the attacks against the monarchy, nobility and church, and takes offence when Bernard calls it porn.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: In the manga ''Oscar'' mistook him for a woman ''twice'' (partly thanks to Bernard's habit of calling him Florelle), and only realized his true gender when Bernard told her his full name.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both versions remember us why he was called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Angel of Death]] and that he's personally responsible for Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI being executed instead that kept prisoners, but put Jacques Hébert on his shit list (and got him guillotined as a thief) for dishonoring the Revolution by falsely accusing Marie Antoinette of incest with her own son.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* OverlyLongName: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Oscar in the manga.
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[[folder:Maximilien Robespierre]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KatsujiMori, Hermán López and Ricardo Hill (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre French lawyer and politician.
* AscendedExtra: His role in the manga is relatively little (apart historically documented appearances at important events, he only shows up four times, only two of which are actually important to the plot and one being at Marie Antoinette's trial, where he was historically present but in which he had no role). In the anime he shows up much more often, and both Bernard and Saint-Just work for him (with the latter causing him a lot of trouble due his attempts at murdering nobles and starting armed revolts).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like Saint-Just, he's utterly disgusted with Hébert for accusing Marie Antoinette of [[ParentalIncest committing incest with her son]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* KnightInSourArmor
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[[folder:Pierre-Augustin Hulin]]
A sergeant in the French Guards, leads the storming of the Bastille after [[spoiler: Oscar is shot]]. Doesn't appear in the anime.
* ChekhovsGunman: GeniusBonus version: unless you already knows history, you won't realize his importance when he's named until he performs his historical role. Even then, it may escape you.
* {{Expy}}: Inverted: ''Oscar'' is based on ''him'', more specifically him as a young soldier leading the storming of the Bastille.
* FutureBadass: He doesn't look like much in the series, but he'll survive [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The Terror]], serve under Napoleon to become a ColonelBadass first and [[FourStarBadass a general]] later, and played a part in saving Napoleon's throne when former general Malet tried a coup in 1812.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Hulin's claim to fame was to lead the French Guards in helping the storming of the Bastille.
* SergeantRock: Happens off screen, but he ''is'' a sergeant, and leads the storming of the Bastille after [[spoiler: Oscar was shot]].
* YouAreInCommandNow: After [[spoiler: Oscar is shot]] he takes command of the French Guards.
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[[folder: Napoleon Bonaparte]]
UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, the future Emperor of the French, showing up in the manga during the Estates-General.
* AwesomenessIsAForce: He was just passing by when ''Oscar'' was ''terrified by him'' and asked for his name, rank and regiment.
* FutureBadass: Oscar immediately identifies him as one.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* SequelHook: His two appearances serve to indicate that Ikeda will draw a sequel (the relatively obscure ''Eikou no Napoleon-Eroica'', published between 1986 and 1995) and Napoleon will be the protagonist. The second is particularly blatant: it's Napoleon in the garbs of his imperial incoronation with the narration noting that, after the deaths of Marie Antoinette, Oscar, Robespierre and many other, France is waiting for the hero Napoleon Bonaparte.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: When he appears in the story, he's just a lieutenant.
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[[folder: Count of Mirabeau]]
A liberal nobleman and one of the leaders of the Third Estate at the Estates-General.
* BringIt: When the Marquiss de Dreux-Brézé reminds the National Assembly the king has just ordered their dissolution, Mirabeu declares they won't move unless forced by bayonets-and when he's told the French Guards are coming there to do just that, he just waits there.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He first shows up trying to get Rosalie (who still lived with her mother) in his bed, and Oscar notes that he's an infamous pervert and alcoholist (albeit one who seemed having an inhuman luck or power) riddled with gambling debts. Fast forward to the Estates-General, and Oscar is left wondering how the hell that nobleman managed to get elected as a Third Estate representative from Aix, and that's before he becomes the driving force in the creation of the National Assembly.
* {{Gonk}}: TruthInTelevision, the Count of Mirabeau had been disfigured by smallpox as a child.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* KavorkaMan: He was also a successful casanova.
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[[folder: Nicole D'Olivia]]
A prostitute who helped Jeanne in her heist at Rohan's expense.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IdenticalStranger: She's ''identical'' to Marie Antoinette. Even Oscar and other people who know well the queen have trouble telling them apart.
* UnwittingPawn: She had no idea why Jeanne had asked her to dress with expensive clothes, give a rose to a fat cardinal and telling him a few loving words, only that she would be paid fifteen thousands livres and she needed the money. Accentuated in the anime, where she's blind and considers Jeanne her benefactor, and, when she identifies her at the trial, ''has no idea she's testifying against her in a trial''.
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[[folder: Marquis de Launay]]
Bernard René Jourdan de Launay, the cynical governor of the Bastille.
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler: He kills Oscar in the anime. In the manga, truer to his historical persona, he was hidden in his office, and Oscar's killers were lieutenant Deflue and his thirty soldiers, detached from the [[UsefulNotes/SwissWithArmyKnives Salis-Samade regiment]] to reinforce the Bastille).]]
* DirtyCoward: Stays hidden in his officeside the Bastille while his men fight to defend the fortress.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: He ''kills Oscar''.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* LaserGuidedKarma: In the anime he apparently gets away with [[spoiler: killing Oscar]], but study of history reveals he was lynched later that very day.
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[[folder:Jacques Necker]]
Louis XVI's on-again/off-again minister of finance.
* AlmightyJanitor: Being of Protestant faith he could not hold the position of Controller-General of Finances (the minister of finances) but held an advisorial position to a minister that everybody knew was simply a placeholder. The only exceptions were the period around the French intervention in the UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution, where the position was vacant, and the September 1788-July 11 1789 period, where he actually held the position.
* GenreSavvy: Why he was hailed as the saviour of France: he knew ''exactly'' what he was doing. {{Justified}} by him having been a successful banker before getting into politics.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IgnoredExpert: Advised to have the nobles pay the taxes for a long time, but was ignored (and it even cost him his job). Also, in July 1789 he advised the king to not concentrate the troops on Paris on account that a series of floods had already caused food shortages that the troops would make worse, thus risking a popular insurrection, and that added Marie Antoinette to the list of his enemies at court (getting him dismissed again).
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[[folder:Marquiss de Dreux-Brézé]]
Henri-Évrard de Dreux-Brézé, Louis XVI's Grand Master of Ceremonies and the man who refers his orders.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* JustFollowingOrders: How he justifies leaving the representatives of the Third Estate in the rain: he had orders from the king to have them enter from a side entrance only.
* OhCrap: Has a silent, if rather effective one, when he reminds the National Assembly that the king has just ordered their dissolution and Mirabeu [[BringIt tells him they'll not move unless forced by the strength of the bayonets]].
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[[folder:Oscar Francois de Jarjayes]]
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->Voiced by: Reiko Tajima (TV series), Creator/MonicaManjarrez (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
A beautiful noblewoman who was raised as a boy by her father. She is educated in such diverse arts as fencing, horseback riding, and etiquette. Eventually, she commands a company in the Garde du Corps du Roi (the senior Household Cavalry regiment), and later transfers to the French Guards.
* ActionGirl: One of the earliest.
* TheAlcoholic: She goes from drinking once in a while to [[DrowningHisSorrows Drowning Her Sorrows]] as tragedies pile up.
* {{Bifauxnen}}: Of course, though she stays slightly more on the female side thanks to the shape of her face and eyes. She provides the page picture for the trope, and she's also very likely the TropeCodifier.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: A variation. Oscar shoots De Guément in the hand not to disarm him, but specifically to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon.
* BlessedWithSuck: Although a lot of people have asked Oscar whether she's unhappy about being raised like a man, Oscar doesn't mind as she believes had she been raised like a woman, she wouldn't have had so much knowledge about the people' suffering.
* BlingOfWar:
** Her [[http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/p480x480/554258_567924976561585_601142670_n.jpg dress uniform]] as commander in the Garde du Corps is rather decorather, but has ''nothing'' on her [[http://web.tiscalinet.it/prisca/images/Sfondi-oscar/Sfondo%20oscar%20en%20pied.jpg French Guard uniform]].
** Averted by her [[http://www.toonshill.it/cartoni_animati/cartoni_70/ladyoscar/_gruppo01.jpg lieutenant uniform]] and [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_4AP684PWbyM/TKOioKGfmeI/AAAAAAAAGI0/5tp2KWB6kdQ/s1600/Lady+Oscar.jpg captain-colonel uniform]], that are relatively plain and undecorated.
* BreakoutCharacter: The manga was originally intended to focus on Marie Antoinette, with Oscar as a supporting cast member, and hence the story arc of the manga begins with Marie's birth and ends with her death. Oscar became so popular with readers that she quickly took over the focus of the story, and other adaptations of the work focus on her as the main character from the start. In particular, the anime begins with the birth of Oscar.
* BreakTheCutie: She's more of a beauty than a cutie. Gets broken nevertheless.
* TheBrigadier: For her role into [[spoiler: Jeanne Valois' death]], Oscar was promoted to colonel and commander of the Gards du Corp regiment, becoming a de facto cavalry brigadier general. While in the French Guards she kept the colonel rank, but, commanding a regiment-sized company, became de-facto a colonel.
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With André.
* ColonelBadass: Oscar, as captain in the Military Household, holds rank equivalent to a colonel's.
* CoolBigSis: In some Takarazuka adaptions and in one CD drama, her niece Loulou sometimes refers to her (Oscar) as "Oscar onee-sama", showing that Loulou regards Oscar as an older sister rather than an aunt.
* CovertPervert: She read and appreciated ''L'Organt'', a political poem filled with satire, attacks against the monarchy, the nobility and the church and infamous (and banned) for ''an immense quantity of pornographic episodes''.
* CoverIdentityAnomaly: During The Turkish Pirates and Nuns, Oscar dressed up as a nun and was worried that she'd be caught since she, as the "Mother Superior", supposedly gives out nightly Mass. Luckily, she bluffs out of the situation by reading aloud Latin from the text that was given to her. See, ImpersonationGambit below.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: In the Takarazuka Revue,[[spoiler: after Oscar gets shot]], she's shown in this position, signifying her role as a savior trying to help create a new France.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She becomes more socially conscious and empathetic as the series progresses due in part to her friends exposing her to the real world.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Oscar's birthday is on December the 25th. She dies at age 33. Sound familiar?
* DrowningMySorrows: Now and then.
* DudeMagnet: Andre [[spoiler: and Alain]] really, '''really''' like Oscar. Fersen actually used to love her as well, before devoting himself to Marie.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: She's a stylish {{Bifauxnen}} and ActionGirl. This was bound to happen. She always got women swooning over her whenever she appeared. [[spoiler: Charlotte and Rosalie were both in love with her, and Marie Antoinette had a little crush on her when she was younger.]]
* GenderBlenderName: Due to being RaisedAsTheOppositeGender, she also has a male name.
* HeartbrokenBadass: [[spoiler: After André's death.]]
* HerHeartWillGoOn
* TheHeroine: In her FiveManBand.
* HistoricalInJoke: Her father, the general De Jarjayes, has an historical counterpart who actually raised his daughter for a man, naming her Jean-Antoine Pierre Marie Victor. Jean-Antoine was believed an actual man until her birth certificate was discovered.
* HopelessSuitor: For Fersen.
* HotBlooded: She's rather level-headed until someone she cares for is in danger. ''Then'' she'll become this, and you'll have a pissed off Oscar after your head.
* HotBloodedSideburns: As a manga hero(ine) of the [[TheSeventies 1970s]], she's got them.
* IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim: [[spoiler: Oscar refuses to kill Bernard "Black Knight" Chatêlet, the one to blame for André's EyeScream situation, because of this.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler:She has [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tubercolosis]]... But dies of a fatal shot rather than of illness.]]
* ImpersonationGambit: Dressed up as a nun in The Turkish Pirates and Nuns side story to infiltrate a convent
* IncurableCoughOfDeath: [[spoiler: See above.]]
* IWantMyMommy: Played for drama. After [[spoiler: walking away from the fiasco of Company B kidnapping her, with Andre helping her, she leans by a window and softly cries out for her mother.]]
* LadyOfWar
* LoveEpiphany: [[spoiler:"My André is in danger!" (...) "My... André...?"]]
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Masculine Girl to André's Feminine Boy.
* MessianicArchetype: Born on Christmas day, dies in her 30s, and has a CrucifiedHeroShot in the musicals.
* MirrorSelf: [[spoiler: Episode 7 revolves around Oscar confronting a self in which she was raised as a woman]].
* NoHistoricalFiguresWereHarmed: WordOfGod stated she's loosely based on Pierre-Augustin Hulin, the historical leader of the people and the French Guards in the storming of the Bastille. In an HistoricalInJoke, Hulin serves under her and gets his historical role due [[spoiler: [[YouAreInCommandNow Oscar being shot]]]] and outranking Alain.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Oscar dies by being shot by ''over a dozen muskets''. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by the inaccuracy of smoothbore muskets, that, barring the very high aiming skills of a professional hunter, meant you ''had'' to resort to this when you shot a single person at that distance.]]
* OneOfTheBoys: She always stays with the boys' side, and when she interacts with girls, it's more like a man talking to a woman rather than two women interacting. Oscar is even drawn with sharper, more mature and manly features than almost all women in the series. If you didn't know she was a girl at first, you would be likely to think that she's a very [[{{Bishonen}} bishie shoujo boy.]]
* OtherMeAnnoysMe: Oscar's MirrorSelf in Episode 7 appears and disappears throughout her lifetime, causing Oscar some distress on her other self's identity. This all culminates to the final part, where Oscar's dopplegänger reveals who she is: that she is Oscar if [[spoiler: [[ForWantofaNail she were raised as a woman]] ]].
* OutnumberedSibling: A bit averted since she's still a lady, but out of the six daughters in the family, she's the only one to be raised like a man and acts somewhat like a "son".
* PassThePopcorn: Her usual reaction to the court's squabbles, as long as they don't involve her. She did it ''even to UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette and the Du Barry's battle'', before the latter got her family involved.
* PimpedOutDress: The one time she wears one, it is pretty grand.
* PrettyInMink: At least in the manga, she has a fur-trimmed cape on her trip to the ball when she went undercover as the mystery lady.
* RaisedAsTheOppositeGender: She was the youngest daughter of a high-ranked military man, so she was raised as a boy by her dad. By the time she meets Andre at age 7, she already knows she is a girl and identifies as such. By the time Oscar joins the military at age 14, most people can tell she is female. It can be a HistoricalInJoke since The RealLife counterpart of her father did the same thing to his ''firstborn daughter'', and was more successful in hiding her true gender (it was found out only years after both their deaths, when people stumbled on her birth certificate).
* SayMyName: "ANDRÉ!"
* SheCleansUpNicely: She once puts on a PimpedOutDress [[spoiler: when she goes to a ball to dance with Fersen.]] Andre's reaction is different in each media: he gets angry in the manga, but in the anime he laughs about it.
* SimpleYetOpulent: Her one-time dress is grand, but actually less loaded with the frills and trimmings typical of the nobility of the time.
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan: André.
* SpotlightStealingSquad: Originally the protagonist was supposed to be Marie Antoinette, but Oscar's popularity forced the author to give Oscar this role until her death.
* StarCrossedLovers: She and André [[spoiler: ''do'' get together, but then he dies a few days after. [[TogetherInDeath She follows him soon]].]]
* StaringThroughTheSword: At least three times.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Oscar starts out as being seen as this.
* SweetPollyOliver: She dresses as a man for her day job of commander of the Royal Guard. The rest of the time, she just does it because her father [[RaisedAsTheOppositeGender raised her as a boy]].
* {{Tomboy}}: Invoked specifically.
* TomboyishName: Considering her father intended to raise her as a boy, it's no surprise he gave her a boy's name.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Her [[http://www.fanpop.com/spots/the-rose-of-versailles/images/8046443/title/rov-photo grand dress]] is mostly shades of blue.
* {{Tsundere}}: A ''very'' tragic version of the Type A variety.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: For people who didn't know Oscar's gender, their reactions were almost always "What, you're a '''GIRL'''?!"
** It also didn't help that she apparently [[{{Bifauxnen}} looks handsome enough]] for the guys to think that she's a girly boy at first sight. For example, Fersen thought that Oscar was being too "royalty" when she requested for him and Andre to stay outside while she changed because he thought there was no problem for boys to see another boy changing. It's only when her nanny screamed at him angrily that Oscar was her "mademoiselle" did he notice her lean and girly features. He was pretty embarrassed about that too.
* UptownGirl: Oscar is a noblewoman, while André is a commoner.
* ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend: While they're not an item yet, Oscar ''completely flips her shit out'' when André [[spoiler:is blinded by Bernard, and very nearly kills him]].
* YouAreWorthHell: In the manga, Andre vows to always be her shadow "until the depths of Hell."
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[[folder:André Grandier]]
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->Voiced by: Taro Shigaki (TV series), Armando Coria (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Oscar's childhood friend and the grandson of her nanny. André and Oscar learned the arts of fencing and horsemanship together when they were children. As they grew up, Oscar became the Dauphine's guard and the class gap between them widened. He has been described as a "true working-class hero" by Helen [=McCarthy=]. He is secretly in love with Oscar.
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove
* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Fersen's Veronica for Oscar's Archie.
* BigEater: According to Oscar.
* {{Bishonen}}: Sure, they all are in this series, but still.
* BreakTheCutie: A handsome commoner guy in love with the noblewoman he's known ever since childhood? Right before the French Revolution? It's bound to happen.
* CharacterDevelopment: He starts off as Oscar's nice and [[PluckyComicRelief almost goofy]] childhood friend, but as the tragedies pile up he gets [[TallDarkAndHandsome more and more serious]].
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: With Oscar.
* DespairEventHorizon:
** When [[spoiler: his eyesight is failing more and more ''and'' he learns that Oscar plans to die as a man. He confronts her in a ''very'' polemic scene that can be easily seen as a NearRapeExperience, though to his credit he ''does'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize he's wrong and apologizes profusely]]. The incident is also seen (in the anime) as a proof of how immature he is.]]
** In the manga, [[spoiler: he considers poisoning Oscar's wine and killing himself afterwards. However he stops her from drinking just in time.]]
* {{Determinator}}: In one scene of the anime, he gets a serious bashing from the other guards under Oscar's command, who sees him as Oscar's lackey. He keeps fighting back until he can't even move anymore.
* DiedHappilyEverAfter: [[spoiler: Andre is shown coming to retrieve Oscar after she is fatally shot the day after he was. In the manga they are even shown retrieving Andre's grandmother.]]
* DoggedNiceGuy: But he has his limits.
* DrowningMySorrows: At least once in the anime. Just before the DespairEventHorizon scene.
* ExpositoryHairstyleChange: His hair grows messier (and more Badass) as the story and his loss of eyesight progress.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler:Loses the sight on his left eye ''messily''. [[HandicappedBadass He does his best to keep on fighting.]] Even when his remaining eye starts to malfunction as well.]]
* FirstGuyWins
* GoOutWithASmile
* GreenEyes: Well, certainly fits the 'sexy' part of the trope.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:How he dies in the manga. See also TakingTheBullet.]]
* TheLancer: To Oscar's TheHeroine.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Before he cuts them to impersonate the Black Knight.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Feminine Boy to Oscar's Masculine Girl.
* MurderSuicide: See DespairEventHorizon.
* NiceGuy: André is a very sensitive and passionate man.
* PeekABangs
* PluckyComicRelief: Starts off as a mild version of it, especially in the manga. [[BreaktheCutie But then...]]
* RaisedByGrandparents: His parents died when he was a little boy, so his grandmother took him in. She also happened to be the housekeeper and nanny of the Jarjayes.
* SayMyName: "OSCAAAAAAAAAR!"
* SecondLove: For Oscar.
* ShadowArchetype: He and Oscar are often refered to as 'the shadow' and 'the light'.
* ShirtlessScene: In the manga, Oscar walks in on him while he's changing out of his rainsoaked uniform. Her getting all flustered is one of the first signs that [[spoiler: she's developing feelings for him]].
* SingleTargetSexuality: André is ''very'' Oscar-sexual.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Oscar.
* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:How he dies in the manga.]]
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* {{Yandere}}: He starts to edge into yandere territory the darker things get, culminating in [[spoiler:an attempt to poison Oscar and himself in a fit of jealousy in the manga. Thankfully, he stops her from drinking it.]]
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[[folder:The Jarjayes clan]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KenjiUtsumi (General de Jarjayes), Hiroko Kikuchi (Madame de Jarjeyes), Creator/HisakoKyoda (Andre's grandmother); Carlos Rotzinger (General de Jarjeys), Alma Nuri (Andre's grandmother) (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
* AbusiveParents: The General de Jarjayes is this as he uses physical violence to punish Oscar for disobeying him. In the very first episode of the anime, he goes far as to ''push Oscar down a flight of stairs'' just because she refused to wear the uniform and become Marie Antoinette's bodyguard. In the manga and anime, he was close to [[OffingtheOffspring killing her after Oscar escapes capture to free the 12 soldiers of Company B]]. In the manga, the General was going to kill Oscar [[spoiler: even while knowing that she was already pardoned by Marie Antoinette]]. This was softened in the anime by having a messenger arrive with the pardon before the General planned to kill both Oscar and [[spoiler: Andre]].
* [[spoiler:DeathbyDespair]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: François Augustin Reynier, first Count of Jarjayes is an historical character. The main differences between the historical general and Ikeda's version is that Ikeda made her own older in order to have a daughter of the same age as Marie Antoinette (the historical version was only ten years older than Marie Antoinette), and the historical character raised his ''firstborn daughter'' as a male, not the last, and was more successful into hiding her actual gender.
* {{Hypocrite}}: At one point the General talks to Oscar about the Jarjayes staying loyal to the Royal Family, and that a noble and a commoner can't marry without the King's permission. [[spoiler: In Episode 6, as a young man, the General was prepared to disobey Louis XV's decision to choose a wife of better social standing, and marry Georgette, prior to TheReveal]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: One of the most recent episodes, Episode 6,expands on how Renier and Madame de Jarjayes met, with this trope coming into play.
* OnlyOneName: In Episode 6, Madame de Jarjayes was originally a young, aspiring artist named Georgette.
* ParentsAsPeople: Madame de Jarjayes seems to be a decent and kind ProperLady, and Oscar loves her very much. General Jarjayes, on the other hand... oh my. The guy has a good heart, but he is a bundle of HUGE issues and ''many'' of them pass onto Oscar.
* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: In a way, Armand, the painter, states how someone can move up in ranks because of their achievements. Because Georgette's great-grandfather, Georges de La Tour,[[spoiler: was the "Painter of the King" for Louis XIII]], she and Renier can marry with Louis XV's permission.
* ShipperOnDeck: Renier openly states that the only thing keeping him from having Oscar marry Andrè is that he's a commoner.
* TeamMom: Andrè's grandmother.
* YourCheatingHeart: Averted: while it was the norm for French nobles of the time to have at least one lover, the general and his wife have none, with the general actually getting mocked for it in one of the Gaiden stories.
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[[folder:Rosalie Lamorliere]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/RihokoYoshida (TV series)
The adoptive daughter of a commoner named Nicole Lamorlière. She is described as "a stereotypical good girl, sweet, obedient and timid". Oscar teaches her the art of fencing, manners, history, and other courtly skills and Rosalie comes to admire and love Oscar greatly.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: A small one, but while in the anime she never makes amend with Charlotte and even pretends to be unaffected by the latter's death at first before finally actually crying, in the manga they tearfully make up to each other and she is openly in tears and desperate at Charlotte's suicide.
* ArrangedMarriage: ''Barely'' escapes one.
* BetaCouple: With [[spoiler: Bernard]].
* BiTheWay: She fancies Oscar and has lots of LesYay with her. Even after [[spoiler: she marries Bernard and Oscar dies]], there are still lingering feelings for her in Rosalie's heart.
* BreakTheCutie: Yep, nary a single cutie is left unbroken in the series.
* TheChick: In Oscar's FiveManBand. [[LesYay Crush on]] TheHeroine included. [[spoiler: Though she marries TheSmartGuy instead.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Rosalie wasn't very well liked by Japanese readers, so she faded away from the spotlight as time passes.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: During her monologue in the Countess in Black gaiden, Rosalie reveals that she harbors self loathing and low-esteem issues stemming from her inability to have a relationship Oscar. She also reveals that she envies all of the girls that look at Oscar.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Loosely. There ''was'' a Rosalie Lamorliere in real life (UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette's caretaker and maid when she was imprisoned), but she obviously wasn't like the girl we meet in this manga.
* PimpedOutDress: Wears quite a few, given to her by Oscar's family.
* PrettyInMink: In the manga, the clothes she gets from Oscar's family includes a fur-trimmed cape and [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rosalie_her_love_00_1104.jpg a jacket and muff]].
* RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler:She's a ''sort'' of 'Sleeping Beauty' type. Her then-teenaged mother gave her up to a poor family, thus Rosa has no idea of how said mom has gone RagsToRiches in the meantime and considers herself the daughter of Nicole Lamorliere for a long while.]]
* YouKilledMyMother: [[spoiler:Oscar actually meets Rosalie when she tries to kill her mom, mistaking Madame Jarjays as the noblewoman whose carriage ran Nicole over.]]
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[[folder:Bernard Chatelet]]
->Voiced by: Creator/AkioNojima (TV series); Ricardo Hill, Marcos Patiño and Hermán López (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Newspaper reporter from Paris and UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre's follower.
* BetaCouple: With [[spoiler:Rosalie]].
* BlackKnight: Sorta. [[spoiler: He ''does'' don a black cape and mask and refers to himself as such, while performing what was supposed to be JustLikeRobinHood acts sponsored by the Duke of Orleans.]]
* ImColdSoCold: When recounting his back story to Rosalie [[spoiler: after she shot him to protect Oscar]], Bernard notes how cold the Seine river was. [[spoiler: He's recounting the time when his mother held him tight, while tried to commit Murder-Suicide after being thrown out into the streets. The mother succeeded, while Bernard survived.]]
* IntrepidReporter: [[spoiler: After his "Black Knight" stunt reaches an end thanks to Oscar.]]
* KnightInSourArmor
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler: Until he "finds" Oscar and Andre.]]
* TheSmartGuy: In Oscar's FiveManBand.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Though he ''does'' tone down his cynicism a little.
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[[folder:Jeanne de la Motte aka Jeanne Valois]]
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->Voiced by: Yoneko Matsukane (TV series), Creator/ElsaCovian (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
An ambitious young woman raised by a poor seamstress along with her half sister, Rosalie.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** She intends to kill Nicole d'Olivia, the prostitute who she hired to impersonate the queen and the one person who can connect her to the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, but can't bring herself to do it. [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished This causes her downfall]].
** Partially averted in the manga: while not liking doing it, she ''could'' bring herself to kill Nicole, but she is still unsheating her knife when Oscar and her soldiers barge in with an arrest warrant, both saving Nicole and discovering her existance.
* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sort of. She and Rosalie love each other, but when Jeanne was starting to feel satisfied with the lot she had earned into life she saw that Rosalie, thanks to Oscar, had free access to Versailles, and decided she couldn't let Rosalie live a better life than herself.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Sort of. She's a ''very'' highly fictionalized [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_of_Valois-Saint-R%C3%A9my Jean de Valois Saint Remy]], the mastermind behind the infamous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affair_of_the_Diamond_Necklace Affair of the Diamond Necklace.]]
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While the real Jeanne and her husband were thieves and con artists extraordinaire, they didn't actually ''murder'' anyone.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Apart from Nicole, Jeanne treats ''no one else'' like a human being. In her final appearance, she kills [[spoiler: her [[HenpeckedHusband devoted but often abused]] husband Nicholas, the one person in the world (except Rosalie) who is still on her side]], because she does not wish to die alone.
* JerkAss: Apart from the MoralEventHorizon-grade examples listed below, rewarding Oscar's great generosity toward her by [[spoiler: [[UngratefulBastard]] publicly slandering her as a lesbian]]]] rather firmly cements this.
* LadyDrunk
* ManipulativeBitch
* RagsToRoyalty: [[spoiler: The most twisted ''Cinderella'' type '''ever'''. She uses her being the natural child of the last descendant of the Valois dinasty to be taken in by an old noblewoman with it, then kills her benefactor to inherit her riches. [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse, and worse, and worse...]]]]
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath: Not quite a clean-cut example, as she ''does'' appear to feel remorse for ''some'' of her deeds, but something is clearly not right with a girl who will [[spoiler: have her sweet sister ''whipped'' for no good reason]] or [[spoiler: ''murder'' without qualms an adoptive mother who has been nothing but nice to her, just in order to inherit the estate]]. See also above, under ItsAllAboutMe.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: She kills her husband Nicolas and then herself, in the anime. In the manga, she falls victim to DeathByFallingOver.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: With Nicholas.
* VillainousBreakdown: In the manga: starts when she realizes that Rosalie (the only person Jeanne really loved and trusted) told Oscar where to find the now wanted Jeanne, gets worse after Oscar remembers her of her happy childhood with Rosalie, and completely snaps after she [[spoiler: accidentally kills Nicolas]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: In the anime it's the Duke of Orleans to slip where Jeanne is hiding, as he didn't need her anymore]].
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[[folder:Nicholas de la Motte]]
->Voiced by: Michihiro Ikemizu (TV series); Creator/JesusBarrero and Ricardo Hill (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Jeanne's husband. He's also apart of the Garde du Corps; Oscar is his commander.
* TheAlcoholic
* TheBrute: Say what you want about his character, but this guy overpowered Oscar in hand-to-hand combat, something that usually takes at least three or four muscle-bound men, and was much less injured than the three or four muscle-bound men.
* ConMan
* {{Jerkass}}
* KickTheDog: Whipping and torturing [[spoiler: Rosalie]].
* StuffBlowingUp: He managed to get his hands on an unholy amount of Berthollet's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_chlorate potassium chlorate]], at the time ''the'' most powerful explosive in existence and discovered ''just that year''.
* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler: In the anime, with Jeanne.]]
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[[folder:Nicole Lamorlière]]
The commoner who raised Jeanne and Rosalie.
* DeathbedConfession: [[spoiler:She's mortally injured after bieng run over by Polignac's carriage. As she lays dying, she explains to Rosalie that her true mom is a woman named Martine Gabrielle... [[IronicHell Polignac herself]].]]
* [[spoiler: DroppedABridgeOnHer]]: Should we [[LateArrivalSpoiler stop spoilering that]] [[spoiler:she gets a carriage dropped on her?]]
* ParentalSubstitute: For Jeanne and Rosalie.
* SacrificialLamb / StuffedIntoTheFridge
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[[folder:Alain de Soissons]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KeatonYamada (TV series), Martín Soto (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
The sergeant of the Company B, the troops assigned to Oscar's service in the French Guards.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: In the manga, for Oscar. Happens again in ''Eroica'', where he falls for a woman from Lyon who happens to be a Royalist.
* TheBigGuy: To Oscar's FiveManBand.
* CombatPragmatist: Outside of duels he fights ''very'' dirty. ''Eroica'' drives home the point in his first meeting with Napoleon, when Alain was trying a BavarianFireDrill to sedate the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_Vend%C3%A9miaire 12 Vendémiaire Insurrection]] by ''using cannons in the streets of Paris, '''the same tactic Napoleon had decided to implement''''' (hence Napoleon taking him under his protection).
* FourStarBadass: Simply he was the first person to go toe-to-toe in a duel with Oscar and he's quite a skilled brawler. In the sequel ''Eroica'', where UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte promotes him before the Second Italian Campaign (he started trying to give him the promotion after witnessing his valor at Lodi in 1796, but it took three years for Alain to accept the promotion). He would have been made a Marshal of the Empire, had he not [[spoiler: died in a failed attempt to kill Napoleon before he could crown himself Emperor]].
* HeroicBSOD: When [[spoiler: his little sister Dianne kills herself]], Oscar and Andre find him sitting [[spoiler: next to her death bed]], his body tense and his eyes full of tears of despair. As [[spoiler: Madame de Soissons]] explains what happened, he apologizes and says he cannot go back for a while, so takes a TenMinuteRetirement.
* KnightInSourArmor
* TallDarkAndSnarky
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[[folder:Marie Antionette]]
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->Voiced by: Miyuki Ueda (TV series), Laura Ayala (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette of France.
* ArrangedMarriage: To UsefulNotes/LouisXVI.
* BreakTheCutie: Oh, boooooy.
* TheCutie: ''Specially'' when younger.
* DiseaseBleach: The stress of the Flight to Varenne, the failure and the hostility of the people during the return to Paris permanently dyed her hair white.
* TheDogBitesBack: When Hébert relayed the accuse of incest at her trial, Marie Antoinette at first refused to reply, and when she was forced to answer she declared "If I have not replied, it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother" and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome nearly got Hébert lynched]], succeeding in putting him on Robespierre's and Saint-Just's shit-lists (Hébert barely survived five months before being executed as a thief).
* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: Deconstructed since UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette thinks this trope is how she should live.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: When brought to the guillotine she was only thinking of showing dignity as queen of France and the daughter of UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa, and the manga reports her letter to her sister-in-law Elizabeth in which she reaffirmed her dignity.
* GemEncrusted: Several of her dresses, headdresses, and a couple of her ermine dresses and capes.
* GenreSavvy: She knows well that [[RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething a queen is supposed to rule for the people]] and [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy Versailles' gates guards are rather lazy]], and identifies Oscar as a trusted soldier and Du Barry as someone who shouldn't be trusted as soon as she sees them, even before asking around who they are. She also knows that BeautyEqualsGoodness may be subverted (and [[LampshadeHanging notes that Du Barry is beautiful]] just as she tells herself she shouldn't trust her). [[GenreBlind Sadly, she's rather bad on practice]]...
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Has a few dresses in purple. She also wears a royal cape that is purple, but it's worn in a scene that fails to evoke PurpleIsPowerful to the people.
* HairDecorations
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* HonorBeforeReason: Some of her problems are made worse with this.
* KillTheCutie: [[ForegoneConclusion Not too surprising considering history.]]
* OjouRinglets: Subtle, but she does have them, even when her hairstyles change.
* PimpedOutCape: Wears quite a few ermine-trimmed capes.
* PimpedOutDress: Being the princess and queen, she has some of the most fancy dresses.
* PrematurelyGreyHaired: Her blonde hair turns white from the stress of the Flight to Varenne, the failure and the hostility of the people during the return to Paris.
* PrettyInMink: To show her status, she wears several fur-trimmed capes, and wears an ermine-trimmed dress (which has a duplicate in the manga).
* PrincessClassic: ''Horribly'' and ''cruelly'' [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]]. And boy, does she pay for trying to act like it all the time.
* PrincessesPreferPink: Has several pink and rose colored dresses.
* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: Has a number of [[CoolCrown tiaras]] and capes.
* RegalRinglets: Her hairstyles have this as often as not.
* ShelteredAristocrat: Deconstructed. Let's put it this way: UsefulNotes/MarieAntoinette liked to go to the countryside. She thought it was lovely and idyllic. Problem: No one was particularly interested in disabusing her of this notion. So when she got there, it would be a sanitized version of the real thing.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Fersen.
* TranquilFury: She ''never'' loses her temper. Even when [[KickTheDog accused of incest with her own son]] at her trial she kept calm, with only a DeathGlare and calling the charge an insult to all mothers showing she was, in fact, furious.
* TraumaCongaLine: With the Revolution, she's subjected to a major one. First she's nearly lynched by the women of Paris (who calms only after she makes a reverence to them), then she's forced to move to the Touileries with the Royal Family, then there's the failure of the escape to Belgium with the relative hate of the people, the forced abdication, Louis XVI's trial and execution, the Committee of Public Safety taking her children away (by this time she's suffering of [[IncurableCoughOfDeath tuberculosis]] and uterine cancer), a [[KangarooCourt sham trial]] finalized to sentence her to death, [[KickTheDog member of the Committee Jacques Hébert brainwashing her son into accusing her of incest]], and, finally, she's executed.
* TrueBlueFemininity: Wears quite a few blue dresses.
* TheTysonZone:
** At one point, people started believing ''everything'' about her, including but not limited to: cheating on the King and giving birth to one of her lovers' children, having lesbian lovers, swindling innocent men and her own lesbian lovers to get a diamond necklace, and that infamous quote about cake. She ''never'' did anything of the above (and in fact the cake quote was ''older than her'').
** {{Subverted}} at her trial, when [[KickTheDog she's accused of incest with her own son]]: the witnesses believe ''her'' when she denies the accuse, and in fact it's the accuser who risks being lynched.
* WholeCostumeReference: The bejeweled ermine dresses are heavily based on [[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marie_Leszczynska_by_Fran%C3%A7ois_Albert_Stiemart,_1726,_Versailles.jpg this dress worn by Marie Leszczynska, wife of Louis XV]]. It's even more clear in some side art for the manga.
* WrongGenreSavvy: She thinks EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses, and realizes too late she's wrong.
* YouAreWorthHell: In the manga, Fersen returns from the American Revolutionary War and vows to be at Marie's side, even if it eternally damns him.
* YourCheatingHeart: A source of drama for her: she loves Fersen, but she's still the Queen of France and must ''not'' have a lover until she has given birth to a male heir, and, having been raised in Austria, considers cheating on her husband as an unforgivable sin.
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[[folder:Maria Theresa]]
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UsefulNotes/MariaTheresa, Empress of Austria.
* TheHighQueen
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IgnoredExpert: She left Marie Antoinette with a list of instructions on how to act as a princess and a queen, including never giving jobs and money as favors and always listening Count De Mercy. Had she followed her instructions about jobs and De Mercy, Marie Antoinette would have avoided many of the errors and wastes that ended up causing the Revolution.
* ModestRoyalty: While her clothes are more pimped out than in RealLife, they're still quite modest. She even states a queen ''should'' dress modestly, with only a crown to evidence her position and her own dignity as decorations, when she sees a portrait of Marie Antoinette in her usual clothes.
* ParentsAsPeople: She cares for her children but isn't above using them for her purposes and interferring in their lives. Just like she did in RealLife.
* PimpedOutDress
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her dress in the anime.
* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask
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[[folder:Louis XVI]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/YoshitoYasuhara (TV series), César Arias and Esteban Siller (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/LouisXVI, the Dauphin and later King Louis XVI.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: He's quite the BigBeautifulMan here.
* DoggedNiceGuy: A strange example: he's ''married to the woman he loves'', but knows well she loves Fersen.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: His reaction to his death sentence? Make his son swear he won't try and avenge him, then, once brought to the guillotine, taking off his jacket, telling the assembled people he wished them well, and placing his neck under the blade.
* HiddenDepths: He's much smarter than he looks, it's implied he realized about Marie Antoinette and Fersen about at the same time as Oscar (i.e. when Louis XV was still alive, ''years'' before the rumor mill picked it and months before ''Antoinette herself'' had any hint) but let them do because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy he wanted his wife to be happy]] and rightly trusted her to not imperil the succession.
* HistoricalBeautyUpdate: Comes off as rather cute here, though not in a conventional way.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: He ''really'' wants Marie Antoinette's happiness, and it's implied he knew she was in love with Fersen well before the rumor mill and allowed it because it made her happy and Fersen wasn't around her only to get favors (he states he likes and trusts Fersen exactly because of this). His only problem with them being StarCrossedLovers was that the rumor mill picking it up and blowing it out of proportions had upset his beloved.
* ModestRoyalty: He tends to wear simple and practical clothing (especially when compared with his wife's many [[PimpedOutDress overdecorated dresses]]), unless the occasion calls for more decorated clothes.
* NiceGuy: His niceness is even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by two royal guards, who noted his modesty (especially compared to his wife), love for simple things, lack of lovers, and that he truly loved his people. Sadly, he was too nice for his own good: had he been a little less nice and somewhat harder (and capable to resist his wife's strong opinions), he would have been able to avoid much of the trouble that ended causing the Revolution. But was nice to the end, even taking time before his execution to make his son swear he'd not try to avenge him and, before placing his head on the guillotine, wishing the French people luck and prosperity.
* ShrinkingViolet
* YourCheatingHeart: Averted: palace guards point out he has no lovers, and actually find it strange.
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[[folder:Hans Axel von Fersen]]
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->Voiced by: Creator/NachiNozawa (TV series), Katsunosuke Hori (TV series EP 6-8); Carlos Becerril (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Hans Axel von Fersen, The Younger. A handsome Swedish aristocrat who comes to the court of Versailles and becomes involved in a forbidden romance with queen Marie Antoinette.
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: After coming home from the American Revolution, he shows signs of [[ShellShockedVeteran PTSD]], being unable to adapt to civilian life and stating to Oscar he is grateful to be so alive in the TV series. The manga shows him unchanged by the war.
* AdaptationalBadass: He never does anything noteworthy in the manga but his portrayal in the anime shows him as growing into a hardened veteran after the American Revolution who's skilled enough with a rifle to shoot a thrown apple a distance away with ease.
* BettyAndVeronica: The Veronica to André's Betty for Oscar's Archie.
%%* TheBusCameBack: Only about fifty times.
* ChickMagnet: Antoinette and Oscar were very smitten with him. Considering how hot and gentlemanly he is, can you blame them?
** TruthInTelevision: He was a famous ladies' men, with lovers spread around all of Europe before 'settling' with Marie Antoinette.
* FaceHeelTurn: The manga records his historical fate: after Marie Antoinette's death he grew cold, cynical and hateful of the commoners, and by them was lynched in the anniversary of the Flight to Varennes (a date he had grown to consider unlucky) for his part in the supposed murder of the crown prince of Sweden (who had died of natural causes).
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Why he originally left France for a while.
* RomanticFalseLead: To Oscar.
* StarCrossedLovers: With Marie Antoinette.
* TallDarkAndHandsome: Downplayed. He may be considered dark by Swedish standards, but definitely not by French ones. He even dyes his hair a much darker shade in order to disguise himself later in the story.
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[[folder:Louis XV]]
-> Voiced by: Hisashi Katsuta (TV series); Eduardo Borja (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/LouisXV, King of France and grandfather of Louis XVI.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
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[[folder:Louis Joseph]]
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->Voiced by: Yoshiko Matsuo, Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Louis Joseph, the Dauphine. The second child and first son of King Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IdenticalStranger: He looks almost exactly like a male, younger Oscar, from some of the face features to his blond hair, and his bangs are even styled the same way as hers.
* IllBoy
** [[spoiler: IncurableCoughOfDeath: His illness was osseous tuberculosis, a particularly painful form of the RealLife TropeCodifier that manifests when the infection spreads to the skeleton]].
* PrecociousCrush: On Oscar. [[spoiler: On his deathbed,]] he said that he wanted to be a good king with Oscar as his queen.
* [[spoiler: TooGoodForThisSinfulEarth]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Was very smart and empathic, and would've been a good Dauphin if shit didn't hit the fan.
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[[folder:Madame Du Barry]]
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->Voiced by: Ryoko Kinomiya (TV series), [[Creator/RocioGarcel Rocío Garcel]] (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Lover of King Louis XV and enemy of Marie Antoinette.
* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Twice over:
** She made herself an enemy of Marie Antoinette out of sheer pride, not thinking that her power derived from Louis XV's support and the moment the ''old'' king died Marie Antoinette would become the ''Queen of France'', something [[LampshadeHanging Oscar points out]] as part of her TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to her. Once Oscar is finished, du Barry tries to mend her relationship with the future queen, but by now it's ''far'' too late.
** She flaunted to the court her influence over the king, making herself widely hated and finding no further support for the moment the ''old'' king would die-or keep the royal confessor from having her kicked out by Louis XV on his deathbed.
* GenreBlind: Early on in the series. Oscar was for the most part neutral in the political conflict between du Barry and Marie Antoinette until du Barry brought Oscar's mother, Madame de Jarjayes, into the conflict. du Barry thought that doing this would win Oscar's support and help resolidify her power at court. Instead by doing this du Barry gave Oscar a good look at her ruthless and untrustworthy nature, threatened Madame de Jarjayes' safety, ''and'' forced Oscar to pick between publicly supporting du Barry or Marie Antoinette in the court's hierarchy of power. To no one's surprise, Oscar felt the best option was Marie.
* GoldDigger: Deconstructed subtly. She uses her relationship with Louis XV to gain power, influence, and control over the internal workings of the court, but as he lay dying, she becomes terrified for her future and tries to encourage him to live longer because he's all she has.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: The real life du Barry was a complex individual whose nature historians still debate over to this day. In her time, though, she was actually highly unliked by everyone in court.
* NoblewomansLaugh
* PimpedOutDress: At one point she deliberately tries to out-dress Marie by way of challenge.
* SmugSnake
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[[folder:Duchesse de Polignac]]
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->Voiced by: Reiko Mutou (TV series), Socorro de la Campa and Liza Willery (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Madame Yolande de Polastron, aka the Countess (later Duchesse) de Polignac [[spoiler: aka Yolande '''Martine Gabrielle''']]. Singer at the Court. She befriended Queen Marie Antoinette to take advantage of her power.
* AbusiveParents: She pretty much [[ArrangedMarriage pawns Charlotte off]] to a]] ''very'' [[NoYay creepy older man]] to gain power. [[spoiler: And once Charlotte commits suicide out of despair, she {{blackmail}}s Rosalie into filling the spot.]]
* EvilChancellor: As the Queen's favorite, basically the DistaffCounterpart to this. Not powerful, but ''influential'' enough to appoint and dismiss ministers.
* EvilMatriarch
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: The real Polignac was extravagant to the max and apparently more than a little cold and calculating, but nowhere near the levels she gets in the show.
* ItsAllAboutMe: Will not think twice about killing off potential threats to her special relationship with the Queen, or [[spoiler: marrying off an 11-year-old daughter to a creepy old man]] if it increases her own power and prestige. Her view of others is very instrumental.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:After all the tragedy she's caused, to say nothing of contributing to the downfall of the French monarchy, she escapes from France and the revolution altogether. Frustratingly TruthInTelevision, although in RealLife she died soon after Marie Antoinette of an undiagnosed illness.]]
* MaliciousSlander: Targeted at Oscar, in particular.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Had this reaction when Charlotte mentioned Rosalie Lamoriere's full name, as she fully realized that [[spoiler: she had killed the woman who raised her firstborn daughter, and she had earned said daughter's fully justified hate]].
* PoisonousFriend: To poor Marie Antoinette.
* RankUp: She's introduced as a countess, but later becomes a duchesse as her husband is made a duke.
* SmugSnake
* TheSociopath: Her anime characterization very easily lends itself to this interpretation, given her frequent use of CrocodileTears, shameless exploitation of the [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter gullible]] Queen, horrible abuse of her daughters and general ManipulativeBitch tendencies.
* TeenPregnancy: [[spoiler: Gave birth to Rosalie when she was 14.]]
* YourCheatingHeart: Openly admits that both her and her husband have lovers, explaining they married for convenience.
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[[folder:Charlotte de Polignac]]
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->Voiced by: Kazue Komiya, Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Daughter of the Lady Polignac, a beautiful and very sheltered 11-to-12 year old girl.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: She is much more of a SpoiledBrat in the anime and never makes amend with Rosalie, but in the manga, their shared [[AllLoveIsUnrequited unrequited feelings]] for Oscar helps them make up to each other, with Charlotte even tearfully exclaims that Rosalie is just like a sister to her. And while she turns mad before her suicide in the anime, in the manga, she is in a completely normal state of mind and commits her suicide tearfully instead.
* ArrangedMarriage / WifeHusbandry: [[spoiler: To the Duke of Guiche.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: By either throwing herself off a tower (anime) or [[StaircaseTumble off a stairwell]] (manga).]]
* {{Fangirl}}: Of Oscar.
* [[spoiler: KillTheCutie]]
* {{Ojou}}: Of the SpoiledBrat type.
* TheOphelia: [[spoiler: Before killing herself, she [[GoMadFromTheRevelation totally lost her mind]] and showed up at a party [[LettingHerHairDown with her long blond hair down]], no shoes, and talking and laughing madly about how she doesn't want to get married.]]
* PimpedOutDress
* PinkMeansFeminine: Her dress is pink in the anime.
* SpoiledBrat
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[[folder:Duke of Orleans]]
->Voiced by: Osamu Ichikawa; Jorge Roig Sr. and José Luis Orozco (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans. Cousin of Louis XVI who secretly tried to usurp the throne. Second in row to the throne of France after Louis XVI's children and brothers.
* AmbitionIsEvil: He's the cousin of Louis as well as the leading candidate to the throne after Louis' immediate family. Of course he plays more than one gambit to knock Louis off, even in the first episodes!
* AscendedExtra: He barely appeared in the manga, being mentioned as suspected to have helped Jeanne Valois' breaking out of prison and allowing the "Black Knight" to use Palais-Royal (his residence in Paris) as hideout, but is practically the BigBad of the anime.
* BigBad: In the anime.
* CompositeCharacter: The anime folded his father Louis Philippe I into him.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Differently from the king's brothers, he doesn't wish Louis Joseph will just [[spoiler:hurry up and [[IncurableCoughOfDeath die of tuberculosis]] nor spreads lies about Louis Charles' legitimacy]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While not the only one, his' is one of the most egregious examples.
* LaserGuidedKarma: He ''appears'' to be a KarmaHoudini in the anime, but he ended up guillotined during the Revolution for being a relative of the late Louis XVI.
* SmugSnake
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[[folder:The Duke of Guiche]]
Charlotte's ex-fiancé.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* OldManMarryingAChild: He's not an ancient man, but the age difference with Charlotte [[spoiler: and Rosalie]] is {{squick}}y enough.
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[[folder:The Count of Girodelle]]
->Voiced by: Keiji Mishima (TV series), Carlos Becerril and José Luis Orozco (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
Oscar's arranged fiance.
* TheBeautifulElite: A member of the Gardes du Corps, the elite cavalry regiment of France and including beautiful men only. [[LampshadeHanging He flat-out admits that, being in that regiment, he's obviously a beautiful man]].
* CanonImmigrant: Originally created for the anime as Oscar's designated rival for entrance in the Royal Guard and, after they both joined, her second in command. Later Ikeda introduced him in the manga, first as Oscar's second in command and then as the RomanticFalseLead.
* DerailingLoveInterests: [[spoiler: In the live-action movie.]]
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy
* RememberTheNewGuy: In the manga he's introduced by Oscar giving him an order as he had always been there.
* RomanticFalseLead
* TallDarkAndHandsome
* YourCheatingHeart: Had he married Oscar he'd have had nothing against her having a lover on condition he truly loved her, and openly said so to Andrè.
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[[folder:Henri de Guémént]]
A cruel, cold nobleman who resorts to violence and kills a young boy for a petty crime, appalling Rosalie, Oscar and Andre.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Subverted: Oscar shoots him in the hand not to disarm him, but ''specifically'' to cripple him so he won't be able to ever fire a weapon. See below for the reason why...
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* WouldHurtAChild: ''Poor'' StreetUrchin Pierre. Rosalie begged Guémént to spare him, and yet he didn't.
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[[folder:Leon de Saint-Just]]
Louis Antoine Léon Florelle de Saint-Just. A military and political leader during the French Revolution.
->Voiced by: Creator/ToshioFurukawa, Eduardo Tejedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
* AdaptationalBadass: In the TV series he carries out a series of successful assassinations including an attempt on Reynier, injuring in the process and later on Oscar, forcing the latter to fight tooth and nail to survive. He was just a mere debater in the original manga.
* AscendedExtra: Where the manga had him appear only near the end, the anime elevated him to a quasi-BigBad role.
* ConnectedAllAlong: As revealed by Bernard, he and Saint-Just are distant relatives.
* CovertPervert: The manga remembers us he's the author of ''L'Organt'', a politically-motivated satirical poem ''filled with an immense quantity of pornographic episodes''. He maintains the book was banned for the attacks against the monarchy, nobility and church, and takes offence when Bernard calls it porn.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: In the manga ''Oscar'' mistook him for a woman ''twice'' (partly thanks to Bernard's habit of calling him Florelle), and only realized his true gender when Bernard told her his full name.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Both versions remember us why he was called [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Angel of Death]] and that he's personally responsible for Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI being executed instead that kept prisoners, but put Jacques Hébert on his shit list (and got him guillotined as a thief) for dishonoring the Revolution by falsely accusing Marie Antoinette of incest with her own son.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* OverlyLongName: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Oscar in the manga.
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[[folder:Maximilien Robespierre]]
->Voiced by: Creator/KatsujiMori, Hermán López and Ricardo Hill (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)
UsefulNotes/MaximilienRobespierre French lawyer and politician.
* AscendedExtra: His role in the manga is relatively little (apart historically documented appearances at important events, he only shows up four times, only two of which are actually important to the plot and one being at Marie Antoinette's trial, where he was historically present but in which he had no role). In the anime he shows up much more often, and both Bernard and Saint-Just work for him (with the latter causing him a lot of trouble due his attempts at murdering nobles and starting armed revolts).
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like Saint-Just, he's utterly disgusted with Hébert for accusing Marie Antoinette of [[ParentalIncest committing incest with her son]].
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* KnightInSourArmor
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[[folder:Pierre-Augustin Hulin]]
A sergeant in the French Guards, leads the storming of the Bastille after [[spoiler: Oscar is shot]]. Doesn't appear in the anime.
* ChekhovsGunman: GeniusBonus version: unless you already knows history, you won't realize his importance when he's named until he performs his historical role. Even then, it may escape you.
* {{Expy}}: Inverted: ''Oscar'' is based on ''him'', more specifically him as a young soldier leading the storming of the Bastille.
* FutureBadass: He doesn't look like much in the series, but he'll survive [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized The Terror]], serve under Napoleon to become a ColonelBadass first and [[FourStarBadass a general]] later, and played a part in saving Napoleon's throne when former general Malet tried a coup in 1812.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Hulin's claim to fame was to lead the French Guards in helping the storming of the Bastille.
* SergeantRock: Happens off screen, but he ''is'' a sergeant, and leads the storming of the Bastille after [[spoiler: Oscar was shot]].
* YouAreInCommandNow: After [[spoiler: Oscar is shot]] he takes command of the French Guards.
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[[folder: Napoleon Bonaparte]]
UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, the future Emperor of the French, showing up in the manga during the Estates-General.
* AwesomenessIsAForce: He was just passing by when ''Oscar'' was ''terrified by him'' and asked for his name, rank and regiment.
* FutureBadass: Oscar immediately identifies him as one.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* SequelHook: His two appearances serve to indicate that Ikeda will draw a sequel (the relatively obscure ''Eikou no Napoleon-Eroica'', published between 1986 and 1995) and Napoleon will be the protagonist. The second is particularly blatant: it's Napoleon in the garbs of his imperial incoronation with the narration noting that, after the deaths of Marie Antoinette, Oscar, Robespierre and many other, France is waiting for the hero Napoleon Bonaparte.
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: When he appears in the story, he's just a lieutenant.
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[[folder: Count of Mirabeau]]
A liberal nobleman and one of the leaders of the Third Estate at the Estates-General.
* BringIt: When the Marquiss de Dreux-Brézé reminds the National Assembly the king has just ordered their dissolution, Mirabeu declares they won't move unless forced by bayonets-and when he's told the French Guards are coming there to do just that, he just waits there.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: He first shows up trying to get Rosalie (who still lived with her mother) in his bed, and Oscar notes that he's an infamous pervert and alcoholist (albeit one who seemed having an inhuman luck or power) riddled with gambling debts. Fast forward to the Estates-General, and Oscar is left wondering how the hell that nobleman managed to get elected as a Third Estate representative from Aix, and that's before he becomes the driving force in the creation of the National Assembly.
* {{Gonk}}: TruthInTelevision, the Count of Mirabeau had been disfigured by smallpox as a child.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* KavorkaMan: He was also a successful casanova.
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[[folder: Nicole D'Olivia]]
A prostitute who helped Jeanne in her heist at Rohan's expense.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IdenticalStranger: She's ''identical'' to Marie Antoinette. Even Oscar and other people who know well the queen have trouble telling them apart.
* UnwittingPawn: She had no idea why Jeanne had asked her to dress with expensive clothes, give a rose to a fat cardinal and telling him a few loving words, only that she would be paid fifteen thousands livres and she needed the money. Accentuated in the anime, where she's blind and considers Jeanne her benefactor, and, when she identifies her at the trial, ''has no idea she's testifying against her in a trial''.
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[[folder: Marquis de Launay]]
Bernard René Jourdan de Launay, the cynical governor of the Bastille.
* AdaptationalBadass: [[spoiler: He kills Oscar in the anime. In the manga, truer to his historical persona, he was hidden in his office, and Oscar's killers were lieutenant Deflue and his thirty soldiers, detached from the [[UsefulNotes/SwissWithArmyKnives Salis-Samade regiment]] to reinforce the Bastille).]]
* DirtyCoward: Stays hidden in his officeside the Bastille while his men fight to defend the fortress.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler: He ''kills Oscar''.]]
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* LaserGuidedKarma: In the anime he apparently gets away with [[spoiler: killing Oscar]], but study of history reveals he was lynched later that very day.
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[[folder:Jacques Necker]]
Louis XVI's on-again/off-again minister of finance.
* AlmightyJanitor: Being of Protestant faith he could not hold the position of Controller-General of Finances (the minister of finances) but held an advisorial position to a minister that everybody knew was simply a placeholder. The only exceptions were the period around the French intervention in the UsefulNotes/AmericanRevolution, where the position was vacant, and the September 1788-July 11 1789 period, where he actually held the position.
* GenreSavvy: Why he was hailed as the saviour of France: he knew ''exactly'' what he was doing. {{Justified}} by him having been a successful banker before getting into politics.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* IgnoredExpert: Advised to have the nobles pay the taxes for a long time, but was ignored (and it even cost him his job). Also, in July 1789 he advised the king to not concentrate the troops on Paris on account that a series of floods had already caused food shortages that the troops would make worse, thus risking a popular insurrection, and that added Marie Antoinette to the list of his enemies at court (getting him dismissed again).
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[[folder:Marquiss de Dreux-Brézé]]
Henri-Évrard de Dreux-Brézé, Louis XVI's Grand Master of Ceremonies and the man who refers his orders.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter
* JustFollowingOrders: How he justifies leaving the representatives of the Third Estate in the rain: he had orders from the king to have them enter from a side entrance only.
* OhCrap: Has a silent, if rather effective one, when he reminds the National Assembly that the king has just ordered their dissolution and Mirabeu [[BringIt tells him they'll not move unless forced by the strength of the bayonets]].
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