History Trivia / TheRoseOfVersailles

* FountainOfExpies: Oscar. Almost any time a French character is involved in an anime, one will be a proud, regal looking woman with blonde hair and HotBloodedSideburns. Ruka Oshida in ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzerDasFinale'' and Broye from ''Anime/UmaMusume'' are recent examples. [[Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena Utena]] (though pink haired), while not French, is also clearly based on her.

* HostilityOnTheSet: Oscar's voice actress, Reiko Tajima ''hated'' working with the show's first director, Tadao Nagahama to the point where she had threatened to leave the show. However, the producers feeling that Nagahama's role as director was less important decided to just boot Nagahama from the show and thus Creator/OsamuDezaki was hired in his place.

* BuryYourArt: An alternate version of Episode 24, titled "Portrait of a Burned Rose", was put together and broadcast in 1980 as a GeckoEnding for the anime adaptation in territories that cancelled its broadcast due to scheduling issues. The episode hastily recaps everything up to Episode 35, ending with Oscar and André affirming their love for one another. Because of the circumstances with its making, everyone involved with the anime withheld the episode from further release after its broadcast, never re-airing it or including it on home media releases; for a while, many people weren't sure if it even existed until [[https://twitter.com/nakky16/status/1299658097657483264?s=20 screencaps from a VCR recording]] surfaced online in 2020.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: The anime is called ''Lady Oscar'' in France. As is the 1979 live-action film adaptation.

* ShortLivedBigImpact: The manga was serialized for only a year and a half (May 1972 to December 1973), but it was the first shoujo manga to achieve mainstream critical and commercial success; beforehand, most shoujo manga series were simple stories aimed at elementary school-aged girls, but ''Berubara'' proved that it could be a viable demographic for adolescents and young women.

* PortmanteauSeriesNickname: "[=BeruBara=]"

* ShortLivedBigImpact: The manga was serialized for only a year and a half (May 2972 to December 1973), but it was the first shoujo manga to achieve mainstream critical and commercial success; beforehand, most shoujo manga series were simple stories aimed at elementary school-aged girls, but ''Berubara'' proved that it could be a viable demographic for adolescents and young women.

* FakeNationality: Of the main leads, two are British (Catriona [=MacColl=] and Barry Stokes) and one is Austrian (Christine Böhm).

* FakeNationality: Of the main leads, Catriona [=MacColl=] (Oscar) and Barry Stokes (André) are British and Christine Böhm (Marie Antoinette) is Austrian.

* FakeNationality: While the director was an actual Frenchman, most of the actors were British, with the major exceptions of Christine Böhm (Austrian) and Jonas Bergström (Swedish).

* NoExportForYou: Despite it being a beloved, best-selling classic in its native Japan and very popular in a number of European countries, it took decades for English language releases to come out. In the 2010s, there was finally a DVD release by Creator/NozomiEntertainment (in two box sets) and a planned manga release by Udon Entertainment. In 2018, Nozomi Entertainment's license on the anime has expired, so any legal way of streaming the series is out of the question.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: The anime's director Tadao Nagahama died after producing 18 episodes, so Osamu Dezaki took over for the remaining episodes.

* NoExportForYou: Despite being a French-Japanese co-production whose source material was extremely popular in France, the film never got a theatrical release there, nor was it even dubbed into French.

* NoExportForYou: The film never got a theatrical release in France, nor was it even dubbed into French, despite being a French-Japanese co-production and being helmed by well-known director Creator/JacquesDemy.

* NoExportForYou: An official English-language DVD has of the live-action film has never been released. For years it was only available on DVD in Japan, but was eventually released in Spain on a barebones disc and in France as part of a Jacques Demy retrospective boxset.

* FakeNationality: While the director of the live-action film was an actual Frenchman, most of the actors were British.

* [[DisownedAdaptation Disowned Adapted Finale]]: Riyoko Ikeda disowned the DistantFinale of the anime for showing [[CallToAgriculture Alain leaving the army to become a farmer]], stating that he would always be a soldier. As promised, the sequel ''Eroica'' has Alain still wearing the uniform even after having been discharged for political reasons, and fighting against the Royalists in the Vendemiaire Insurrection even before rejoining the army on request of ''UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte'' himself.
* FakeNationality: While the director of the film was an actual Frenchman, most of the actors were British.

* StarMakingRole: In the Latin-American dub, Oscar was this for her VA Creator/MonicaManjarrez (alongside [[Franchise/SailorMoon Rei Hino]] and [[Series/TheNanny Fran Fine]])