Diane Kruger credited as playing...
Marie Antoinette
- 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: 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.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Try this treasure from the isles. Every mouth that tastes it, smiles. See that? I made a rhyme.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Poor woman spent her life bored stiff. Know what she said on her deathbed? 'Since I've been Queen, I've known only one day of happiness!' And no one ever knew which one.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: As for that pamphlet, pay it no attention. It is as foul-smelling as manure, as is everything from Paris.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: In Metz we'll gather troops and march on Paris. Pure treachery how this city gives order to the King! And to France! Paris is not France.
- L'abbé Cornu de la Balivière: The Duke de Bourbon fled on horseback disguised as a groom.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: I will go disguised as the Queen of France!
- 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: Then we shall go together.
- Le roi Louis XVI: It is the King and the King alone who must go to Paris.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Don't go... please. A fanatic can assassinate you.
- Le roi Louis XVI: It's my duty.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: What duty do you mean? To be killed? Taken hostage? To abandon our children?
- 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!
- La reine Marie Antoinette: You're so beautiful in this green dress. Sea green? Pale green? Fern green?
- La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac: Jade green? Baby crocodile green?
- La reine Marie Antoinette: No, my dear. It's as far from baby crocodile green as it is from spinach green or acid green.
- La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac: Silk green? Or envy green?
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Envy is the most common thing in the world. All they do is covet the spot above their own.
- La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac: Then they bump into the ceiling.
- 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.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: You know, dear friend... I barely exaggerate the hate that surrounds us. I dragged you into it. Because of me, the people want your head. You know what I learned at the Conseil this morning? Yesterday in Paris, a woman was stabbed in her carriage. The murderers mistook her for you. Burning our effigies is no longer enough. They want us... in flesh and blood. This is why, dear Gabrielle, I'm beseeching you... Leave France. You and your family.
- La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac: You're surely right, Madame. I will leave because I must.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Say no more. Go away.
- [Gabrielle starts to leave]
- La reine Marie Antoinette: Wait! Let me inhale one last time the scent of your youth.
- La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac: Don't let me abandon you.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: You already have. It's done. You've abandoned me.
- La reine Marie Antoinette: I confided in you yesterday my love for Gabrielle because you deserve it. Was ever a queen on such intimate terms with her reader?
- 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.