Marie Antoinette (1938)

Gladys George: Mme. du Barry

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Quotes 

• Mme. du Barry : I was never a laundress! I was a milliner!

• King Louis XV : What's the meaning of this? Why are you here?

  King Louis XVI : I don't want her to be sent back!

  King Louis XV : Ha, ha! Indeed.

  Mme. du Barry : [Sharply to Louis XVI]  His majesty is not well!

  King Louis XVI : [Ignoring du Barry]  But it isn't her fault! Don't you understand?

  King Louis XV : [Looking up to Du Barry with confusion]  What? What's he talking about?

  Mme. du Barry : [Even more sharply to Louis XVI]  Will you go, please?

  King Louis XVI : No! You get out!

  [Then to the king & now pleading on his knees] 

  King Louis XVI : Listen, grandfather, it's going to be different now...

  King Louis XV : Get up you fool! Your argument is as unimpressive as your appearance. Your wife goes back to Austria! Your marriage will be annulled! I'll hear no more of it!

  [Looking frail & weak he starts coughing uncontrollably & waves him impatiently away] 

  King Louis XV : Get out! Get out!

  King Louis XVI : I'll get out, but I'll come back! I'll come back when your dead! I'll be king then!

  King Louis XV : Silence!

  King Louis XVI : [Ignoring the king he turns to du Barry]  And you! You know what will happen to you when I'm king? There are places for women like you in the Bastille!

  Mme. du Barry : Stop it!

  [to the king] 

  Mme. du Barry : Make him stop!

  King Louis XV : Silence!

  King Louis XVI : I'm going to have my wife back! I'm going to have children! I know!

  [he starts loosing his composure] 

  King Louis XVI : But you... your weak! Your not going to live long! I'll be sitting there and you'll be dead!

  King Louis XV : [Trembling with anger he starts to rise]  Be silent!

  King Louis XVI : [Roughly shoving the king down hard]  Sit down!

  [Then with shame he hangs his head as he leaves] 

  King Louis XVI : Forgive me, sire. I didn't mean to touch you. Forgive me.

• Mme. du Barry : I could have made you the biggest man in Paris, but you weren't smart enough. I found you out.

  Duke d'Orléans : That has its pleasant side, madame. For to be frank, as these gentlemen would like to be, I am as weary of paying homage to the somewhat overblown charms of the ladies who rule our ruler as the people are of paying their bills.

  Mme. du Barry : You royal lout!

  King Louis XV : This is enough. You can't forget, cousin, that your great-grandfather was regent of France. You have his ambition but without his talent. No, I'm not afraid of you, nor of the nobles, nor of the people, nor of ideas. The state will last my time. After me, the deluge.

  Duke d'Orléans : [bowing]  With your permission, Majesty.

  King Louis XV : And take care, cousin. The liberals you encourage for your ends may destroy you for theirs.

• Mme. du Barry : [after Antoinette insults her in front of Louis XV and his court]  So that's it? I'm dirt, eh? Not good enough for your high and mightiness.

  Marie Antoinette : Oh, but no, madame. Royalty loves an occasional roll in the gutter. Don't they, Grandpapa?