Virginie Ledoyen credited as playing...
La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac
- 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.
- Le duc de Polignac: That mobcap suits you. It's giving me some naughty ideas.
- La duchesse Gabrielle de Polignac: Save them for inn servants.
- 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.