A setting is France, before & in a period of the French revolution. A independent character occurs as woman known as Oscar François Jarjayes. Her father, General Jarjayes, despaired of ever contracting the boy (he got hexad girl), decided to raise his immature girl as a human. He trained her swell in the arts of fencing & combat. Oscar typically good her skills using her right friend, companion &, technically, servant, André Grandier, world health organization she most universally defeated. André was a grandson of her nanny & so it spent virtually all of their instance together inside harmonic friendly relationship, which late touching a prevent of the anime blossomed into reciprocal love.

Oscar is head of the palace guards, & responsible the safety of the young, flighty Queen of France, Marie Antoinette as well as a rest of the royal line. A story centers in Oscar's growing realization of how else France is governed, & a plight of the poor people. A second significant plot line is the romance between Marie Antoinette and the Swedish Count Axel von Fersen. A Affair between them stimulated much of hearsay to form all told of France, & a reputation of a Queen was within danger, and so Oscar requested the Count to leave the united states.

When a Count decided to leave and sign higher for the war of independence within Usa, Marie Antoinette suffered from lovesickness. So she began disbursal, buying expensive jewellery, material, attend balls each more nighttime, upright to steer her thoughts out of a single human she loved. This, successively, weighed possibly heavily on the taxation bill, & potentially greater poorness cover France due to Marie Antoinette's desires.

Each the Necklace Affair and the ill-famed Gabrielle de Polastron, comtesse de Polignac are central historical events to this story, likewise when, course, the French Revolution & the fa lot of the Bastille -- all given interesting interpretation through the fictional character Oscar and her companions.

Publishing and forms
A manga was serialized around Shueisha's Margaret magazine in 1973, and became an instant profits. It has been turned into the play, an anime series, the survive-action flick, & a ballet. Andy skinner, Riyoko Ikeda, is working on the libretto of an opera version of her story also.

A play adaptation of a manga is likewise the longest-going indicate per Takarazuka Revue.

Around 1983, the foremost 2 volumes of The Rose of Versailles were translated within English by Frederik L. Schodt for the purpose of teaching English to Japanese speakers and released in North America by the North American branch of Sanyusha. A Rose of Versailles was a number one commercially translated manga to become available inside Northerly Us.