The Rose of Versailles

Name: The Rose of Versailles
Genre: Animation, Drama
Released: 1979-10-10T00:00:00.000Z
Rating: 8.3

About The Rose of Versailles

Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires.

The Rose of Versailles is an animation series made for Nippon TV. It ran for one season of 40 episodes between October 1979 and September 1980.

Reiko Tajima stars as Oscar François de Jarjeyes, Miyuki Ueda as Marie Antoinette, Tarō Shigaki as André Grandier, and Nachi Nozawa as Hans Axel von Fersen. The series began as a manga.

Shelv files it under war, cross dressing, romance, and based on manga.

Yona of the Dawn, Attack on Titan, and Maid Sama! make useful companions to The Rose of Versailles, all filed under historical and politics. It scores 8.3 out of 10 from 198 TMDB voters and it carries a NR rating.