List of The Rose of Versailles characters

Marie Antoinette (マリー・アントワネット, Marī Antowanetto) is the main character in the manga, while in the anime is the third protagonist after Oscar and André.

She married the Dauphin to seal the alliance between his grandfather Louis XV and her mother, Empress Maria Theresa of Austria, when she was 14.

[2] Oscar François de Jarjayes (オスカル・フランソワ・ド・ジャルジェ, Osukaru Furansowa do Jaruje) is the main protagonist in the anime, while in the manga temporarily became the co-protagonist only until her death.

André Grandier (アンドレ・グランディエ, Andore Gurandie) is the male protagonist in the anime, while in the manga temporarily became an important character only until his death.

[3] André is secretly in love with Oscar, but he never tells her until both of them decide to help the insurgents when the French Revolution begins.

Later in the series, André loses sight in his left eye to save Oscar who had been captured by the Black Knight; his condition slowly worsens until he is completely blind.

André is a very sensitive and passionate man, suffering for his unrequited love for Oscar but being unable to quench his desire for her and vocally siding with the commoners in their plight.

[4] Sadly André dies from a stray bullet the day after Oscar's declaration of love, able to share only one night of passion with the woman he lived for.

Hans Axel von Fersen (ハンス・アクセル・フォン・フェルゼン, Hansu Akuseru fon Feruzen) is a handsome Swedish aristocrat who comes to the court of Versailles and becomes involved in a forbidden romance with queen Marie Antoinette.

Oscar decides to help her, and she teaches Rosalie the art of fencing, manners, history, and other courtly skills.

Rosalie decides to go; soon, she realizes that the Duchess de Polignac intends were to marry her to the Duke of Guiche, Charlotte's ex-fiancé and cause of her suicide.

Marie Antoinette and her family are taken to a prison, where Rosalie serves the queen as a servant, telling her all she knew about Oscar.

Mercy advises the princess to stop fighting with Du Barry, but Marie Antoinette does not obey the warnings until King Louis XV shows his displeasure with her attitude towards the countess.

Before dying, the bishop, hearing Louis's confession, and orders the removal of the King's sin, that is to say, Madame Du Barry.

Later in the story, Duke de Orleans, because of his liberal ideas, lets anti-monarchists like the Black Knight (a masked French Robin Hood) and his followers secretly gather in his Palais Royale.

He, masked, helped Jeanne of Valois-Saint-Rémy, the mastermind of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace, to escape from Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital's prison to a convent.

Then, he covered the expenses of the publication of the Jeanne memories, in which Marie Antoinette's visits to clandestine casinos with the Duchesse de Polignac, the "complicity" between the Queen and Lady Oscar and other rumours are started.

Charlotte, not knowing what will happen to her, loses all reason, and commits suicide, jumping from one of the towers of the Palace of Versailles (or from the stairs in the manga).

Henri de Guéméné is a cruel, cold nobleman who resorts to violence and kills a young boy for a petty crime, appalling Rosalie, Oscar, and André.

General Bouillé Colonel d'Agoult is the deputy commander of the Company B, the troops assigned to Lady Oscar's service in the National Guard.

He has always followed his commander, but as one of the nobles most devoted to the monarchy, when she betrays to join the people in revolt, he abandons the regiment and returns to Versailles.

Loulou de la Lorancy (ル・ルー・ド・ラ・ローランシー, Rurū do ra Rōranshī) is the main character of Gaiden series.

Queen Marie Antoinette would have loved to meet her, but Oscar is against it because that plague, to whom is deeply attached, would bring chaos to the Versailles palace.

However, with popular revolts even here after the flight to Varennes, thanks to Alain sent by Rosalie just in time, she and her parents emigrated from their relatives in Belgium, where they'll support the foreign countries against the revolutionary France.

He accepted Oscar at first, and even befriended André and smuggled him in the troops, but after learning the truth about her he violently rejected her leadership.

Ultimately, Alain survives the French Revolution and the Terror, becoming a major character in Eikou no Napoleon – Eroica.