Princesse de Lamballe Quotes in Marie Antoinette (2006)

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  • Princesse de Lamballe: I would have told him exactly what to do with it.

    Duchesse de Polignac: Oh? What's that, darling?

    Princesse de Lamballe: Put it back in his trousers where it belongs.

    Duchesse de Polignac: Lamballe, ladies and gentlemen, is what we call a prude.

  • Princesse de Lamballe: Can't you do something?

    Marie-Antoinette: I'm not going to acknowledge it.

  • Marie-Antoinette: [in the gardens] Welcome to my little village!

    Princesse de Lamballe: I love it!

    Duchesse de Polignac: It's heaven here!

  • Duke d'Orléans: Forgive my interruption. I seldom venture to intrude. I know you prefer your solitude.

    Marie: 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: 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: Please don't go! Do sit down.

    Duke d'Orléans: [He sits down again] Too kind.

    Marie: 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: 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: Rebel?

    Duke d'Orléans: Rebel...

    Princesse de Lamballe: [Utterly shocked by his suggestion] Oh, my!

    Duke d'Orléans: Don't you dare?

    Marie: 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: 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.

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