History Characters / TheRoseOfVersailles

* DisabledInTheAdaptation: She's blind in the anime

* IdenticalStranger: She's identical to Marie Antoinette. Even Oscar and other people who know well the queen have trouble telling them apart.

!!Marron Grasset Montblanc

Oscar's mischevious young niece, and the daughter of Oscar's older sister Hortense. First appearing in the supplementary story "The Countess in Black", she later becomes the main focus of ''The Rose of Versailles Side Stories: The Great Detective Loulou''.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Ikeda outright describes her as "precocious" and "cute". Despite being only six years old, she's remarkably smart for her age.

* 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.

* ImpersonationGambit: Dressed up as a nun in The Turkish Pirates and Nuns side story to infiltrate a convent.

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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the anime, Oscar's older sisters make a single appearance on the day she is born, then they are never shown or even mentioned again. In the manga, Oscar has Rosalie pose as a distant relation-in-law of one of her sisters. In a supplemental manga story, Oscar visits one of them.

->'''Voiced by:''' Reiko Tajima (TV series), Creator/MonicaManjarrez (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub), Nadine Delanoë (TV series, French dub)\\

->'''Voiced by:''' Taro Shigaki (TV series), Armando Coria (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub), Gérard Lartigau (TV series until episode 16, French dub), Eric Legrand (TV series after episode 16, French dub), Creator/UmSanghyun (TV series, Korean dub)\\

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/MiyukiUeda (TV series), Laura Ayala (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub), Amélie Morin (TV series, French dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/NachiNozawa (TV series), Katsunosuke Hori (TV series EP 6-8); Carlos Becerril (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/RihokoYoshida (TV series), Olga Donna-Dío (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KenjiUtsumi; Carlos Rotzinger (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)\\

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HisakoKyoda (TV series); Alma Nuri (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/YoshitoYasuhara (TV series), César Arias and Esteban Siller (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Hisashi Katsuta (TV series); Eduardo Borja (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Yoshiko Matsuo, Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Osamu Ichikawa; Jorge Roig Sr. and José Luis Orozco (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Ryoko Kinomiya (TV series), [[Creator/RocioGarcel Rocío Garcel]] (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Reiko Mutou (TV series), Socorro de la Campa and Liza Willery (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Kazue Komiya, Creator/PatriciaAcevedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Keiji Mishima (TV series), Carlos Becerril and José Luis Orozco (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KeatonYamada (TV series), Creator/MartinSoto (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KatsujiMori, Hermán López and Ricardo Hill (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/AkioNojima (TV series); Ricardo Hill, Marcos Patiño and Hermán López (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/ToshioFurukawa, Eduardo Tejedo (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Yoneko Matsukane (TV series), Creator/ElsaCovian (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub), Creator/MaikDarah (TV series, French dub)

->'''Voiced by:''' Michihiro Ikemizu (TV series); Creator/JesusBarrero and Ricardo Hill (TV series, Latin-American Spanish dub)

* AscendedExtra: He goes from a PluckyComicRelief supporting character in the first half of the story to the {{Deuteragonist}} as his InterClassRomance with Oscar and his struggle with [[spoiler:gradually going blind]] become focal points to the drama in the second half.

* NervesOfSteel: When forced to contront an angry mob screaming for her blood and threatening to shoot her on the spot, Marie Antoinette doesn't even flinch or beg for her life and solemnly bows down to the peasantry. Her bravery is what convinces her subject she does have the dignity of a queen, after all.

* BookDumb: She doesn't like studying, and her mother Maria Theresa is shocked to find out that she does poorly at every academic skill necessary for a queen and can't even write correctly in her own native language, let alone French; dancing is the only thing she can do right. This is TruthInTelevision, since the real Marie Antoinette was noted to be "hard to teach" and lacking in writing skills.

* KillTheCutie: This Marie Antoinette is portrayed as a sweet and lovable young woman. Like in history, however, her story ends with her being sent to the guillotine.

* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Like in real life, her first son, Louis Joseph, dies of illness when he's only seven years old. Marie Antoinette despairs at losing her beloved son and then learns that the royal family has no funds left for his funeral.

* ShelteredAristocrat: Deconstructed. Marie Antoinette lives her life as queen while indulging in the luxury of the royal social bubble of Versailles. As she enjoys her lavish lifestyle, she's completely oblivious to the dire circumstances of the peasants living in poverty and she quickly becomes a public symbol of everything the common people hate about the nobility. Marie Antoinette has no idea of how much the public hates her until the Affair of the Diamond Necklace happens and most of the public believes Jeanne's false accusations of the queen being behind the crime.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Downplayed, as even at her worst Marie's [[BenevolentBoss personal]] [[GoodParents virtues]] shine through, but her arc has elements of this. Her precocious infatuation with all things gaudy and glittering spin an innocent princess into a rigid queen who's utterly unwilling to compromise her life of power and luxury, and her refusal to elevate the people at any expense to the royal family is a major contributing factor to the revolution's bloody turn. With Louis XVI's dithering, the story splits responsibility for the violence between Antoinette and Robespierre; Robespierre might have been an opportunist, but Antoinette's adherence to a system built to facilitate decadence and excess gave him his opportunity. In the end, even [[spoiler:Oscar]] sides against her.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: The anime plays down her vileness in some scenes. For example, in the anime, 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. In the manga, on the other hand, while not liking doing it, she ''could'' bring herself to kill Nicole, but she is still unsheathing her knife when Oscar and her soldiers barge in with an arrest warrant, both saving Nicole and discovering her existence.

* ParentalHypocrisy: At one point, Reynier 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. As a young man, Reynier was prepared to disobey Louis XV's decision to choose a wife of better social standing, and marry Georgette who was just an aspiring artist at the time.

* ReallyRoyaltyReveal: She was originally a young, aspiring artist. The painter Armand states how someone can move up in ranks because of their achievements. Because Georgette's great-grandfather, Georges de La Tour, was the "Painter of the King" for Louis XIII, she and Renier can marry with Louis XV's permission.

* CombatPragmatist: As a general he fights ''dirty''. In ''Eroica'' [[CharacterEstablishingMoment he makes this extremely clear]] when Barras puts him in command of Paris' outnumbered garrison to try and suppress the impending Royalist revolt and he casually asks how many ''cannons'' he can use ''in the streets of Paris'' (Alain coming up with the same idea is what starts their friendship).

* {{Foil}}: To Oscar, in a way: both are close friends with Alain, command Paris' garrison during their career, and as the latter do something important with artillery, but Oscar was the commander of the French Guards during the monarchy, used her cannons to lead an insurrection against the government, and started the French Revolution, while Napoleon commanded the garrison for the First Republic, used his cannons to suppress a royalist insurrection against the government, and ended the Revolution when he staged his own coup.

* StaringThroughTheSword: At least three times.

* DemotedToExtra: Downplayed; the series was originally intended to tell the story of Marie Antoinette's life as Dauphine and then Queen of France, but [[BreakoutCharacter Oscar's popularity with the manga's readers]] drove Ikeda to give her the role of the main protagonist with a much more active involvement in the events that lead to the French Revolution. While Marie is still an important character in every version of the story, she gradually takes on more of a tritagonist role (to Oscar's protagonist and Andre's {{deuteragonist}}) as the manga goes on. She finally retakes the role of protagonist in the closing chapters [[spoiler:after Oscar and André both die]].

* PluckyComicRelief: He starts off as Oscar's nice and somewhat goofy childhood friend, but as the tragedies pile up [[SubvertedTrope he gets more and more serious]].

* StockShoujoHeroine: Despite being a HistoricalDomainCharacter, she fits this trope to some degree; she's even been described as a "lively, silly girl of shoujo manga", since Ikeda deliberately modeled her on typical shoujo protagonists of the era. She's introduced as naive and BookDumb due to her sheltered upbringing and dislike of studying, but her pure heart and beauty still enchant everyone who knows her. She also wants to have a real romance, and falls in love with the handsome Swedish nobleman Hans Axel von Fersen. Unfortunately, [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype these traits later prove to be her undoing]]; her naivete and dislike of learning make her a HorribleJudgeOfCharacter, and she falls in love with Fersen despite already being married, which causes rumors about her being unfaithful.

* SecretSecretKeeper: It's implied he realized about Marie Antoinette's affair with 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.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: When brought to the guillotine, her only thoughts are of showing her 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 reaffirms her dignity.

* ProtagonistJourneyToVillain: Downplayed, as even at her worst Marie's [[BenevolentBoss personal]] [[GoodParents virtues]] shine through, but her arc has elements of this. Her precocious infatuation with all things gaudy and glittering spin an innocent princess into a rigid queen utterly unwilling to compromise her life of power and luxury, and her refusal to elevate the people at any expense to the royal family is a major contributing factor to the revolution's bloody turn. With Louis XVI's dithering, the anime splits responsibility for the violence between Antoinette and Robespierre; Robespierre might have been an opportunist, but Antoinette's adherence to a system built to facilitate decadence and excess gave him his opportunity. In the end, even [[spoiler:Oscar]] sides against her.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: In the manga, Oscar mistakes him for a woman twice (partly thanks to Bernard's habit of calling him Florelle), and only realizes his true gender when Bernard told her his full name. When he's about to make his speech advocating that Louis XVI must die, the crowd jeers at him and calls him a girl when he briefly falters, only for him to silence them with a DeathGlare.

* SerialKiller: Of the nobility, whom he despises.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: In the manga, Oscar mistakes him for a woman twice (partly thanks to Bernard's habit of calling him Florelle), and only realizes his true gender when Bernard told her his full name.

* 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.

* SingleTargetSexuality: André is ''very'' Oscar-sexual.

* DemotedToExtra: Downplayed; the series was originally intended to tell the story of Marie Antoinette's life as Dauphine and then Queen of France, but [[BreakoutCharacter Oscar's popularity with the manga's readers]] drove Ikeda to give her the role of the main protagonist with a much more active involvement in the events that lead to the French Revolution. While Marie is still an important character in every version of the story, she gradually takes on more of a tritagonist role (to Oscar's protagonist and Andre's deuteragonist) as the manga goes on.

* EvilMatriarch

* TheDogBitesBack: When Hébert relays the accusation of incest with her son Louis-Charles at her trial, Marie Antoinette at first refuses to reply, and when she's forced to answer she declares "If I have not replied, it is because Nature itself refuses to respond to such a charge laid against a mother". This nearly gets Hébert lynched, succeeding in putting him on Robespierre's and Saint-Just's shit-lists (in real life, Hébert barely survived five months after thr trial before being executed as a thief).

* TheDogBitesBack: When Hébert relayed the accusation 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 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).