Anita Louise credited as playing...
Princesse de Lamballe
- 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.