Marie Antoinette (1938)

Anita Louise: Princesse de Lamballe

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• Duke d'Orléans : Forgive my interruption. I seldom venture to intrude. I know you prefer your solitude.

  Marie Antoinette : It's true. I don't care a great deal for balls and banquets. There's a certain futility to court life, don't you think?

  Duke d'Orléans : Hummm...? Oh, quite, quite...

  Marie Antoinette : My husband, as you know, has simple tastes and I am content with my books and music.

  Duke d'Orléans : Oh, and here I come blundering into your little oasis.

  [He gets up to leave] 

  Duke d'Orléans : Well, the least I can do is to take myself away quickly.

  Princesse de Lamballe : Oh, no! No, no, no!

  Marie Antoinette : Please don't go! Do sit down.

  Duke d'Orléans : [He sits down again]  Too kind.

  Marie Antoinette : You know perfectly well how things are! No one ever comes to see me. Except my husband, of course.

  Duke d'Orléans : Oh, of course.

  Marie Antoinette : No one dares. Why does she hate me so?

  Duke d'Orléans : Why? Perfectly simple. Because in motion you are grace itself and in repose a statue of beauty. You know, my little cousin, you should become alive... how quickly you would depose that milliner.

  Marie Antoinette : Rebel?

  Duke d'Orléans : Rebel...

  Princesse de Lamballe : [Utterly shocked by his suggestion]  Oh, my!

  Duke d'Orléans : Don't you dare?

  Marie Antoinette : No! Du Barry has every advantage! Why, she could make men or degrade them! Who would dare to offend her to be my friend? Who but you?

  Duke d'Orléans : Will you permit me to give a ball in the honor of the dauphine of France?

  Marie Antoinette : But cousin...!

  Duke d'Orléans : Paris is waiting for you... lights, music, dancing, the opera. A new world is waiting for you! Conquer Paris and you'll conquer Madame Du Barry.