Léa Seydoux credited as playing...
Agathe-Sidonie Laborde
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: In a way, Your Majesty, you're asking me to go as bait.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: An ugly word for a pretty mouth!
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Words are all I possess. I wield them well.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: May I try to attain what Madame Campan couldn't?
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I'm better placed to find the words necessary.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I know these words Majesty. From the books I read to you.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: You know what I find charming about you? Not so much the prettiness of your features, as the youth you radiate at all times.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: But Your Majesty, you're so young.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: I was.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: Write down the names of some books, a dozen at most, she should take with her to the country.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: The Queen is going away?
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: No questions, please.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I'd be more comfortable doing so in the library.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: No one cares about your comfort.
- Madame Tournon: It seems bread is getting scarcer and scarcer in Paris. That's how the wolves leave the forest.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: What nonsense are you talking now?
- Madame Tournon: What I hear all over.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: You're rambling.
- Madame Tournon: At my age, I look at the truth straight on.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: What do you want?
- René dit Paolo: You know. You want the same thing.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Come with me.
- René dit Paolo: [when asked what his song is about] It's best you never know.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Why not?
- René dit Paolo: It's a love song.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: How unoriginal.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: You know what hurt me most, Mr. Moreau? The malice concerning the Queen.
- Jacob-Nicolas Moreau: I know your fervor for Marie-Antoinette.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Not at all. I'm just her servant. What am I saying? The servant of the books of Her Majesty's library. No fervor in that.
- Jacob-Nicolas Moreau: So young... and already blind. Your love for the Queen makes you too indulgent as to her caprices. Gabrielle de Polignac is a folly which cost her dearly. She's yet to finish paying for it.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Have you ever been attracted by a woman, to the point that you suffer in her absence? I can spend hours imagining her with my eyes closed: her oval face... the softness of her skin... the merry sparkle of her eyes.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I know to whom you are referring. I envy her being the object of such love.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: To the extent that in such times, I think only of her absence.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: If ever the King is in a worrisome position, I'll give this speech to the Assembly. Start reading.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: [reading the speech softly] Gentlemen, I give...
- La reine Marie Antoinette: No, out loud! As if you were Queen of France.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Gentlemen. I give you the wife and the family of your King. Do not divide on earth what was united in heaven.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: I haven't written the rest. Good start though?
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Very good.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Let's discuss your future.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: It's with you, Madame.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: No, it's not. A carriage is leaving for Switzerland. You'll be in it. Don't look so glum. Two days ago you said you'd be willing to travel for me. I'm granting you the privilege. You'll escape with the Duke and Duchess de Polignac. Gabrielle is too famous and wrongly disparaged. Undisguised, she'll be killed. She'll go dressed as a servant, and you as her. If ever you're stopped, I want her spared.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: In a way, Your Majesty, you're asking me to go as bait.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: An ugly word for a pretty mouth!
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Words are all I possess. I wield them well.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: No arrogance when I allow you to earn my love!
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: My name is Sidonie Laborde. Both my mother and father are dead. I was the Queen's reader. I obey the Queen. Soon I will be far from Versailles. Soon I will be no one.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Now I understand.
- Madame de la Tour Du Pin: Understand what, Sidonie?
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Why the Queen was knocking at doors.
- Madame de la Tour Du Pin: You're dreaming... She never opened a door in her life.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: You think they'll let him return?
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: With all my heart.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: What an idiot I am to ask you... You have no idea. No one does.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I know he's doing his duty.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Quiet! Let's change the subject.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: She was fired. The Queen caught her stealing.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Sad losing a close friend.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: I've never had friends in Versailles.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: [after being told that an expensive chiming clock was stolen] We'll deduct it from your pay.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Are you serious? I'd need several lives.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: Who cares about the chiming clock?
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Two days ago I asked to have a dahlia embroidered. What do you think?
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: Madame Bertin's embroiderer is talented. She stitched that with love.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: Refuse what she asks you.
- Agathe-Sidonie Laborde: I cannot refuse her anything.
- Henriette Genest dite Madame Campan: It's not my concern anyway.