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God save the king and God save the
queen.

Man under a man.

You promised to avoid a spectacle.

What can I say?

The king's persecution of the cardinal
has inflamed public opinion.

We put up with your liberal lawyer. But
now you're using this trial as

propaganda for your radical idea.

You had better get my nephew off.

Otherwise, I'll denounce you as a
traitor at your clerk.

You should tell them the truth.

Without witnesses, we can't prove
Rohan's innocent.

Are you

sure you need to attend in person, Your
Majesty?

I want to see Rohan confess.

You can observe proceedings here.

All rise for the President of the
League.

Do you need cushions?

No, really.

I'm fine. You sure? As President of the
Parliament of Paris, I declare that the

case of the Crown versus Cardinal Rohan
is now in session.

What a ham.

Ridiculous.

I hope the parliamentarians are not
fooled by his performance.

I'm certain they won't be.

Well, let's chat then.

And so the prosecution concludes that
the diamond necklace was handed to an

accomplice of the Cardinal, posing as
the Queen's guard.

The accomplice has not been seen since
he fled.

No doubt on the orders of the accused,
or his wizard, Cagliostro, who

will appear later as a co -conspirator.

I think we have a strong case.

The missing guard is Lucette.

Well, the rumour is he's dead.

I'd prefer it to be watertight.

Monsieur Target, for the defence, you
may question the accused.

Thank you, Monsieur President.

Please state your name.

Louis -René Edouard, Cardinal de Rohan,
Prince -Bishop of Strasbourg,

Provisor of the Sorbonne and Grand
Almoner of France.

The defence will prove to you that the
Cardinal is the victim of a confidence

trick.

In his desire to be a fateful subject,
he was taken in by a cunning and

manipulative woman.

Who saw the necklace, Cardinal?

As far as I know, and based on the
evidence available to me, the thief was

Marie Antoinette.

Order!

Order! I should have known he's mine.

They must correct the record
immediately.

It's a dirty defense tactic.

Everyone will see through it. Why would
you suspect the Queen?

It was known that I was out of favour
and hoped to redeem myself.

I donated to one of her charities, run
by the Countess de Valois.

You mean Madame Jeanne Lamotte?

Yes, sorry.

She told everyone she was a countess.

We'll need this Lamotte later as a
supposed witness.

Go on, Cardinal.

Following my donations...

I received a note from the Queen.

I replied, and we began correspondence.

Her letters were written on pale blue
notepaper.

It wouldn't be gentlemanly to reveal
what she said to me.

Suffice to say, I believed myself her
intimate friend.

This is a serious accusation, Cardinal.

What proof do you have that Her Majesty
the Queen wrote these letters?

Because she met me in the garden at
midnight.

No one's going to stop him. You should
leave.

It's all right. She gave me a rose.

I had it dried.

It was all about board, obviously. I'm a
man of the church.

But why would the Queen do this?

Alas, I now see it was because she
wanted to exploit my loyalty.

She knew she could not buy the diamond
necklace publicly, given the criticism

she received after her purchase of Saint
-Cloud.

How dare he!

I admit, I brokered the sale of the
necklace and entrusted it to the Queen's

Guard per her specific instructions, but
that was the last I saw of the necklace

and the diamonds.

My only crime is of being too loyal a
servant to the Crown.

A crown I now fear is flawed.

Silence!

You look pale.

You should return to Virthai and rest.

I'll manage.

I really think manage.

Please, would you just go back and check
on the children?

Really, I'll feel better knowing you're
looking after them.

Chair President, I suggest we take a
short break.

Free the gardener!

Free him now! I'm meeting in the garden.

Hold on, are you... It would be helpful
to refute the allegation.

If you can tell us where you are on the
night in question.

I did not meet that man in a garden. He
is lying to cover his own guilt.

Oh, my God.

Leave.

I was here in early June.

How could we answer Rowan's lies without
lying ourselves?

I don't know. He seemed convinced of
them himself.

What if he... What if he did meet
someone?

I don't understand.

Just someone.

pretending to be me.

I once saw this woman on stage at the
Palais Royal, and she was a... They

are impersonators who dress like me, and
they affect my mannerisms, so... If

Rohan met a woman and believed her to be
you,

well, that suggests he was a fool.

Can you investigate?

Outside official channels.

According to this, we would go bankrupt
within six

months.

I'm afraid so.

Unless Parliament approves the loan
extension.

Why the delay?

The Rohan trial.

I think you're persecuting the nobility
to enhance your own power.

And I'm afraid there's a rumour going
around Parliament that we're about to

propose radical tax reform. How?

How did Parliament find out about the
reforms?

Only you, Virgin, and I knew about those
proposals.

I have no idea, but we need that loan
extension.

Don't confirm their suspicions about the
reports until we have that money.

Did you tell anyone about our plans?

Of course not, I know.

What?

Someone got out on the wrong side of bed
this morning. These walls have been

talking. Have you been... Have you been
rifling through my desk?

What would I want in there?

Can't imagine there's much of interest,
besides your scintillating hunting

journal.

No. I merely came to bring the latest
tripe from the Palais Royal.

More attacks on your authority.

This one calls for the separation of
church and state.

You're dishevelled, brother.

It's not a good look for a king.

Please be seated.

Prosecutor Fleury, your witness.

Please state your name.

Jeanne de Valois.

And what is your relationship to
Cardinal Rohan?

I understand it is difficult, but we are
here for the truth,

Madame.

The Cardinal exploited my poverty and my
innocence.

Go on, please.

I was born to a noble family.

My father owned land in Champagne.

But we fell on hard times.

As a child, I was forced to beg on the
streets.

People would take pity on a poor girl.

Someone descended directly from Henry II
of Valois.

King of France.

And then you went to Versailles and
encountered the Cardinal.

Yes.

Was this when he started to exploit you?

I asked the Cardinal for guidance.

He gave me some money and asked me to
collect donations at Versailles for his

charity.

I thought he was being kind.

And the necklace?

No, I knew nothing about the necklace
until the Cardinal was arrested.

But given what I know now, about the
Cardinal's vast debts, that this charity

was a lie, that everything that he says
is a lie...

I think that the cardinal masterminded
the theft of the necklace with the help

of that wicked Count Cagliostro.

Thank you.

I think that concludes today's
testimony, Sir President.

You should have let me tell the truth.

Now, anger the Queen even more, and
that... Bitch, Jeanne will walk free. We

to blame the Queen.

Without any other witnesses, it's your
word against Jeanne.

She's more believable than you.

How dare you speak to him like that?

He's right.

Why haven't you found any more
witnesses?

The missing guard.

The woman who impersonated the Queen in
the garden.

Blaming the Queen was your idea.

Would everyone calm down?

This trial isn't lost yet.

Can't find the guard.

What do you think?

We know the identity of the woman in the
garden.

She fled when you were arrested.

My men are hunting her down.

However, if you don't need my support,
I'll withdraw it.

You won't.

Your reputation is as much on the line
as ours. So trust me.

Perhaps we do need a new strategy.

You've asked... for this trial because
you wanted to know the truth.

I'm just saying, what if there are
things we don't want to know?

Oh, that's the risk of a public trial.
Ow!

You're meant to be supporting me.

You want me to bandit to you like
everyone else?

You are decisive, which is a strength,
but you also act without considering the

consequences. I didn't ask you to
lecture me.

Do you think there's a chance that the
Cardinal could be innocent? He can't be.

We have accused him publicly.

Please, don't get up.

Today went well.

Very well.

I just loved getting accused of stealing
the necklace.

A desperate move.

Don't you agree?

I agree, yeah.

We'll soon have this Rohan business
behind us, I'm sure.

Yeah.

I will come with you tomorrow.

You don't need to. No, I should be
there.

I hear half a parrot now thinks she
stole the necklace.

Oh, there you are.

You must tell us everything, blow by
blow.

Has Jeanne testified yet? Forget about
Jeanne.

Tell us about Monsieur Talbot. I hear
he's rather dashing for a dangerous

liberal. Yes, if you like a peacock.

Madame.

Louis is becoming rather beautifully
paranoid. We must tell Malherbe.

Now, if Antoinette is blamed for the
necklace theft, the Regency will surely

mine.

Where do we stand?

The magistrates believe in them on every
word.

She's making Cardinal Rowan look guilty
of sin.

Well, good.

We don't want the Crown to actually lose
the trial.

But if Rowan is convicted, I think
people will feel sympathy for

Sympathy? That is the last thing we
need. The whole point is to damage her.

Can Jan be persuaded to aid the cause?

I can't. How do you ever get tired of
plotting?

This plotting serves us both.

Don't you want Marguerite back?

We just need to figure out how to get
Madame Lamotte.

Where is she?

Bastille.

Can't we send someone?

A spy.

Paul Marchais.

Charming confidence.

I heard you gave a good performance.

I'm very flattered.

It wasn't a performance.

And yet you gaily admitted to stealing
money from half of Versailles. On the

naughty cardinal's hoarders.

A crime nonetheless.

Must be relying on someone very powerful
to grant you clemency.

If I were, I wouldn't tell you.

Quite right.

But if it were, say, the queen you were
relying on, it's only fair to warn you.

She's known for her inconstancy.

You got a better offer.

Look, Marie Antoinette has no say on
sentencing. The parliamentarians do.

Some factions of parliament would be
happy to hear anything that damages the

Queen.

I'm not a fool.

You've come straight from the Cardinal
wanting me to back up this ridiculous

accusation. I have not.

My friends are happy for the Cardinal to
fall, provided the Queen goes down with

him.

Why should I trust you?

You can't.

But we both know you're walking a fine
line.

You saw how ready the court was to
believe the Queen stole the necklace?

Can you really rely on her to save you?

Madame Jeanne Lamotte, wife of Nicholas
Lamotte. My name is Jeanne de Valois.

In fact, you told everyone at Versailles
you were the Countess de Valois, didn't

you? When you were granted the title.

The Cardinal told me to use it.

Not that it's inappropriate for me to
use the title. I am descended from

And I suppose the Cardinal also came up
with a catalogue of lies, he told us.

A disinherited heiress, living on the
street.

Apparently your life has been a romance
novel, hasn't it?

I have spoken the exact truth.

The exact truth.

Thank goodness for that.

You see, I think you made it up on the
spot.

We all know how convincing you can be.
After all, you fooled half of

You persuaded them to donate to your
fake charity for which you'll soon stand

trial yourself.

It was the Cardinal's charity.

The truth, Madame Lamont.

So before you came to Versailles, you
were destitute.

You were indebted up to your eyeballs,
only really able to eat when some

benefactor took pity on you.

Actually, I'm actually quite surprised
you managed to stay healthy enough for

anyone to mistake you as a countess.

All of my money went on the fight to
recover my ancestral land. Your

land. But what is it?

Half a field in Champagne here with some
resident pigs floating around?

Is it true?

Six years ago, you were accused of
forging letters of recommendation.

That was a slander against me. Of course
it was. And the list of merchants

who'll testify to the rash of spending
in your household shortly after the

of the necklace?

The furniture, jewels, dresses, slander
also?

No.

The truth, Madame Ramon.

De Valois.

You're a fantasist.

You're a fantasist and a career
criminal.

I'm not. Who are we to believe stole
this necklace?

The Cardinal?

With his many debts, yes, but with so
many wealthy connections.

Who still believes he was only serving
his Queen.

What need is he to cheat and steal,
whereas you... Well, you're absolutely

nothing without these lies. He is
obsessed with the Queen.

Sexually, I mean.

That's why he did it. What did she say?

Sorry, the Cardinal has testified to
being a loyal subject. Oh, but you

have heard his boast to me about his
visit to the Petit Trianon.

He said he would cross a plank over a
ditch to get to the Queen.

On one occasion, he fell in and got his
cassock quite muddy.

It is more of your fantasy, Madame
Armand. If it is a fantasy, it is his.

But can it all be?

I mean, he told me about the wall of
diamonds in her bedroom in the Petit

Trianon. She buys jewels, you know,
behind the King's back.

There is no wall of diamonds. What does
she say? Your Majesty, no one must know

you're here. Rory, please.

No wonder Rohan thinks he could put the
blame on her. We all know the Queen's

penchant for brilliant things.

You flounder the Queen.

I am merely reporting what Cardinal
Rohan told me, so the crime is his.

He would boast of her insatiable
appetite and eclectic interest.

He said she has suitors scurried to her
chambers and is said to be learning

Swedish.

Although what... Youth she has with that
language, I can't possibly know.

He said it's lucky the king enjoys being
a cuckold.

And he even has a giant peephole in his
royal closet.

Stop this trial immediately.

No, we can't. It would look like you
have something to hide. Joey, sit down.

listen to this.

They are ridiculing us publicly.

I will testify and refute all of it. I
will tell them I was with you the night

he claimed to have met you in the
garden. No, I won't have you perjure

We're leaving.

Well, I have to hear it out.

Your land will go with you.

That woman clearly has her own agenda.

At least she's still saying Rohan is
guilty.

The meeting in the gardens, did you find
anything?

The woman who impersonated you is
missing.

My spies are looking for her.

If it turns out she tricked Rowan, we
just cannot have her appear in

court.

You should have seen his face falling on
the

floor.

Oh, there you are.

We're hoping you join us.

Yes, and I was hoping for a quiet
evening without my salon being used as a

for yet another political cause. Oh,
he's grumpy because Rohan is losing in

court. At least he's taking Antoinette
down with him.

Her reputation will never recover.

I've always been too concerned with the
Queen's bedchamber.

Join us and discuss the real issues of
the day.

Have you persuaded the Queen to join
your abolitionist movement?

We might need the King and Queen's
signature to end the slave trade.

But we won't wait for them to convince
society what's right.

Isn't it you who talks about the power
of the people?

Your cardinal is a distraction from the
real problems, my friend.

We have to remember the art solution.

He's right.

The trial's not about humiliating the
Queen. I know.

I am not the fool you'll take me for.

I am trying to drive a wedge between
Parliament and absolute monarchy.

If you can't help me, then what are you
still doing here? I can help you.

First, I need something from you.

What do you want?

A promise.

That if you ever become king, you will
give women equal rights to men.

You can't be serious. I have what you
need to win the trial.

So?

Come on.

Who is this?

The missing guard.

Why the hell didn't you tell me?

I didn't tell anyone.

If he'd revealed his story, Rohan would
have been exonerated and the trial

called off.

This way, we have the whole world
watching.

I will not say a word that damages the
reputation of Jeanne de Valois.

It's time we moved you to the Bastille.

Something you need to see with your own
eyes.

You look good.

Thank God we can rely on Parliament to
vote in our favour.

I'm not so sure.

Excuse me?

Parliament has heard that I'm extending
the taxes to the clergy and the nobles.

Some parliamentarians suspect that I am
mismanaging the finances.

And are you?

We are in a bit of debt.

So you... You're thinking that some
parliamentarians might use the trial

to punish you?

Maybe.

Yes.

Yes, and we need to be prepared.

They might defy me and vote Rohan
innocent.

I'm sorry, I...

I should have told you I wanted to
protect you. I wanted to keep you away

the politics.

Louis, please, you... You didn't want to
protect me. You thought I wasn't

capable enough to know.

Parliament cannot vote against us in the
trial.

It will tell the country that I've lost
control.

Well, then, the trial is not about a
necklace.

It's a referendum on our reign.

That's the hall from the Palais Royal.

She cannot appear in court. That's what
she... I don't know how they found her.

I told you my men would find her in the
end.

I'm sorry, Your Majesty. I failed you.

I'm sorry.

What is your name?

Mademoiselle Nicole D 'Oliver.

I ask for the truth.

I suppose I must hear it.

Mademoiselle, have you ever met the
accused, Cardinal Roan?

Yes.

Someone paid me to impersonate the Queen
and meet him in the Garden of Venus.

Who paid you?

I don't know.

He never said his name.

He just told me he wanted to play a
practical joke on the Cardinal.

Is it plausible that the Cardinal would
mistake you for the Queen?

I've had a lot of practice playing her.

I used to do it nightly on stage at the
Palais Royal.

And in gentlemen's beds, after the
shows, you'd be surprised at

the things they want the Queen to do.

Dirty things.

Making her bag crawl across the floor
for them.

One of them even made me call him Your
Majesty.

This trick proves...

Nothing! The defense has paid a common
prostitute to back up their ridiculous

story!

Order! Order!

Monsieur Target, I will not stand for
any more stunts.

I'm sorry to disappoint you, Mr.
President, but I'm about to bring a man

from the dead.

I have longed to see you, Philette.

They told me you were dead.

I make two of us then, doesn't it?

After Nicholas stabbed me, I was
unconscious.

When I came around, you and him were
gone.

You betrayed us both.

Look, I've made a deal and told them
that Rohan orchestrated everything.

All you need to do is tell the same
story and we're free.

You tell the truth and we both go down
and none of those fine people will save

us.

You want to save your own neck?

You stick to my story.

Please sit down.

Would you please identify yourself?

My name is Reto de Villette.

I forged letters and dressed as the
Queen's Guard to steal the necklace.

On whose orders?

Jeanne Lamotte.

And I have the evidence to prove it.

This was found in the possession of the
man sitting before us.

Monsieur Villette, please tell the court
what this is.

It's a draft of one of the fraudulent
matters Jeanne sent to Rohan.

Shareably copied out in the Queen's
paper.

It's in her handwriting.

Order! No.

Today proved Rohan's innocence.

Even parliamentarians loyal to the Crown
will find it hard to convict him.

Don't give up.

We are working behind the scenes to
secure their votes.

Many are still loyal.

I'm going to lose all my authority.

We can't prove Rohan is guilty of
stealing the necklace, but we can

new charge.

He stood up in Parliament and accused me
of theft.

Are you suggesting we charge Rohan with
damaging your good name?

Yeah.

Exactly. That's a capital crime. You
risk making Rohan a martyr.

No.

We charge them all.

This trial has been a circus.

The whole world is watching.

You really want to risk ending it in
public execution?

Better than losing the country.

Monsieur, silence, please.

Monsieur Target.

The evidence shows that the final
defendant was wrongfully arrested for

theft of the diamond necklace.

But he has a right to be heard in this
court.

I call the Count Cagliostro.

You may speak.

Cagliostro.

I had nothing to do with the theft of
this necklace.

I'm on trial because of my reputation
alone.

I've been mistreated. I have been
mocked.

Simply because I seek knowledge.

You said Versailles. I saw him.

The fact is I'm merely a man of the age.

I explore what you consider occult.

And I try to heal people.

Even the highest in the land.

Even those who have no hope.

Is he attending the TOEFL?

Of course not.

Was he attending the TOEFL?

No.

Call my carriage.

Your Majesty.

The evidence proves that Jeanne Lamont
and Reto de Villette, with the unwitting

assistance of Mademoiselle Nicole
Dolliver, are guilty of stealing the

necklace.

Cardinal Rohan and the charlatan Count
Cagliostro are innocent.

There's been a development.

The Crown asked the Parliament to
consider a second, even more serious

against the defendants.

Did their actions tarnish the Queen's
name?

No!

I knew we had a veto on the theft
charge.

But why would the Queen risk this?

I need time to consider these new
accusations.

There is none.

Speak now.

In your opinion, did the actions of
Cardinal Arone and the other defendants

damage the Queen's good reputation?

Well, this case has depicted the Queen
as an extravagant and duplicitous

adulteress.

But are these accusations new?

Is the Queen not famous for her
profligate spending?

Since she arrived in France, she's
squandered our resources, she's made

purchases behind her husband's back.

It's also common knowledge that she has
lovers, as she carries on intimate

correspondences and then has scandalous
sexual liaisons.

The defendant's actions did nothing to
damage the Queen's reputation.

By her own hand, she has long since
destroyed her good name.

Should these people hang for the sins of
the Queen?

This is what you've been asked to
decide.

I tell you they should not.

The sword isn't here.

It's in Versailles.

Excuse me for a moment.

Great job, well done.

What do I do?

Just like you said.

The whole point's to damage her.

Parliament is a blitz.

My friends and I are willing to vote
against the king, but there are

We'll deal a serious blow to the
monarchy, and the last thing we want is

empower Orléans and his populist rabble.

We want a king we can work with, but
we'll not risk losing our monarchy

entirely. France cannot follow America
into anarchy.

If we defeat Louis and he can't recover,
are you willing to step into his shoes?

You must make a decision.

On the first count, stealing the diamond
necklace, the court finds the defendant

Cardinal Louis -René -Edouard de Rohan
and the Count Cagliostro not

guilty.

Order! Order!

Jean Lamotte, you are found guilty of
theft.

Of shamefully deceiving the Cardinal,
and along with your husband, Nicolas

Flamont, of co -opting your accomplices,
Monsieur de Villette and Mademoiselle d

'Oliva.

On the second count, the capital charge
of damaging the Queen's name.

All the defendants are found.

They've been found not guilty.

Not guilty. guilty.

You are banished from this kingdom.

Nicolas Lamotte, in absentia, is
sentenced to a lifetime of hard labor in

king's galleys.

Jeanne Lamotte.

You are the worst kind of criminal.

One heartens his birth.

You will be beaten and branded with the
sign of the thief.

And incarcerated for life in the
Terpentière women's prison, where

will earn a small portion of honor.

Take your wine.

reason the Queen studies Swedish.

You're not going to flap me, are you?

Is this because she doesn't love you?

I'm fine!

Get lost.

Hardly a regal look, cousin.

It's what the people see that matters.

They see me as the future.

It's a shame the people have no say in
who rules them.

Not yet.

May the best man win.

Quite a fire you've started.

I'm staying.

I've got a politic to go before the
King's guards kick me up.

Thank you for my freedom.

You were once asking me about the...

The secret that unites my brotherhood.

The truth is there's no secret.

Only the understanding that true
enlightenment, true change, comes from

working together.

Men, not women.

I personally don't agree, but most of
them still see no place for you at the

table.

Then we will make them see it.

I don't care about the verdict.

I don't care if he has prayed throughout
all of France. Rohan is banished.

Sire, this loss proves that we can't
rely on the Paris Parliament to approve

land tax or any further loans.

Forget the Parliament.

There's another decision -making body
you can appeal to.

We think you should call an assembly of
notables to help pass the reforms.

Not now, madam, please. Leave us.

Both of you.

How much time do they have?

How much time?

Two years.

How long have you known?

I, um... I, I... I couldn't... I
couldn't bear

to tell you.

You lied to me?

You did. You told me he'd recover.

How could you do that?

I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry. I couldn't... You just
want to die for me.

You just want to die for me. How could
you do that?

I wanted to protect you. I was trying
to... You can't. You can't protect me.

can't protect me.

You can't.

Not from this.

Not from anything.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Please. Please.