Lady Emilie de Jarjayes, Oscar's mother and the second wife of General de Jarjayes. In the series she is the lady in waiting of Marie Antoinette.
Appearance[]
Emilie is a shown to have brown hair and blue eyes. Being of noble ranking and an attendant to Marie Antoinette, she usually wears beautiful dresses and maintains a dignified appearance.
Personality[]
Emilie has a kind and understanding personality. She appears to be very observant as well as she is aware of the true reason why she became Marie Antoinette's lady-in-waiting.
Background[]
Prior to the start of the main story, Emilie is said to have been engaged to another man when she met General de Jarjayes. Having fallen in love with him and received her mother's blessing, Emilie broke off her engagement. She married Reiner and bore him several daughters.
Plot[]
In the prequel to Rose of Versailles, when she was a young woman named Georgette, she was betrothed to a man old enough to be her father. But then she met Francois de Jarjayes, a young widower with no children, they fell in love and consummated their relationship, but felt ashamed that she broke her agreement to the arrange marriage the other man. She confessed to her mother of what she did, but her mother was understanding, and she called off the betrothal. She and Francois were able to marry when it was revealed that Georgette's great-grandfather, Georges de la Tour, was a Painter of the King for Louis XIII, and therefore there'd be no need to elope.
Oscar is fiercely protective of her mother, as shown when Oscar finds out by the king's orders that Madame du Barry wants her mother as her lady in waiting to get Oscar on her side when she and Marie Antoinette were in a feud. Eventually she becomes Marie Antoinette's lady in waiting by Oscar's consent to Marie Antoinette so Madame du Barry can't get to her, but when Madame du Barry tries to frame Madame de Jarjayes for the death of a maid from poisoned wine supplied by Madame du Barry, Oscar catches her and defends her mother from the woman.
When Oscar was born she was still resting from giving birth, but her older daughters and Nanny were horrified when their father and master declared he will raise Oscar as a boy and make her the heir to the Jarjayes military legacy as there were consequences for such a choice as Oscar's life would be in danger constantly from protecting the queen from her enemies, and the fact she can never truly live as a woman, despite the privilege of being free in a man's world while women were not allowed.
While Emilie loves her husband, it can be assumed that she was against her husband raising their youngest daughter as a boy and how he is sometimes physically abusive and harsh towards Oscar. In the manga, Oscar sees her mother and cries how she is not her father's doll and her mother comforts her and tells her to follow her heart and that Oscar is who she is regardless of her gender and that her father can never change that. She is also shown to be supportive of her daughter doing feminine things, like wearing a dress for a ball or embracing her feelings for Andre.
According to history, when the Revolution began and Marie Antoinette and her husband tried to escape from house arrest, her husband escaped France to Italy and he and Emilie got divorced for convenience to protect Emilie from being executed due to her husband being loyal to the royal family up until Marie Antoinette's death and got remarried in 1797.
Relationships[]
- General de Jarjayes: Emilie's husband. She is shown to care very much for her husband but was possibly highly against him raising Oscar like a boy and the abuse he sometimes put her through. Regardless, she stayed by his side through many difficult and uncertain times.
- Oscar Francois de Jarjayes: Emilie cared for Oscar very much and tried to help her embrace her more feminine feelings concerning men. Although proud of Oscar's many accomplishments as a military officer, Emilie was devastated when Oscar died.
- Marie Antoinette: While well aware that she was made a lady-in-waiting to the princess due to the feud between her and Du Barry and was being used to make Oscar choose a side, Emilie still carried out her duties to Marie Antoinette with great loyalty and diligence.
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Trivia[]
- She died in 1837. Her death year is changed in a side story about Fersen and Marie Therese. In the story, General de Jarjayes admits that she died in 1790 from sorrow as Oscar and Andre died the year before in the Battle of Bastile.
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