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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.