IV.   Leaders of the Revolution   [1]

BERNARD	Full name:	Bernard Châtelet
	Role:	Reporter of a Paris newspaper, active speaker in the Revolution, husband of Rosalie
	Action(s):	Plays the Black Knight, helps Oscar free her men from jail
	セリフ:	「王宮の飾り人形！」
	Famous line:	"The Court's marionette!" (lit. court's ornamental puppet)

 

ROBESPIERRE	Full name:	Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre
	Role:	Lawyer from Arras, key leader of the Jacobians in the Revolution
	Action(s):	Appears periodically as a messenger of people's changing will -- e.g., during Oscar's Arras trip, at the National Assembly
	セリフ:	「新しい時代になって新しい国王にすこしは期待していたんだけど、われわれのくらしはちょっとも変りゃません。」
	Famous line:	"With the coming of a new age, we looked to the new King for some change, but our situation has not improved a bit at all."

 

SAINT-JUST	Full name:	Louis Antoine Leon Florelle de Saint-Just
	Role:	Bernard's cousin and Robespierre's sidekick (manga), sneaky radical who opposes Robespierre's moderate reforms and decides to speed things up with falling bodies (anime)
	Action(s):	Appears ominously besides Bernard and Robespierre (manga), plans various assasination attempts with few successes (anime)

 

V.   The Royal Family

LOUIS XVI	Full name:	Louis Auguste
	Role:	The last true King of France, married to Marie Antoinette of Austria
	Action(s):	Hunts and makes locks all day long, loves Antoinette but is ill-matched for her flamboyant personality, is sent to the guillotine during the Revolution

 

LOUIS XV	Full name:	Louis
	Role:	Father of Louis XVI
	Action(s):	Seals alliance with Austria through his son's marriage, intervenes in the Antoinette-Dubarry rivalry

 

MARIA THERESA	Full name:	Maria Theresa
	Role:	Queen of Austria, mother of Marie Antoinette
	Action(s):	Sends Count Mercy to Versailles to advise Antoinette, worries constantly about Antoinette's situation in France

 

THE THREE AUNTS	Full name:	Adélaïde, Victoire, and Sophie
	Role:	Daughters of Louis XV
	Action(s):	Urge Antoinette to ignore Dubarry, meddle in court politics

 

LOUIS JOSEPH	Full name:	Louis Joseph Xavier François
	Role:	First son of Louis XVI and Antoinette
	Action(s):	Lives for seven happy years and dies just before the Revolution

 

LOUIS CHARLES	Full name:	Louis Charles
	Role:	Second son of Louis XVI and Antoinette
	Action(s):	A pawn in the battle between the Royal Family and National Convention (manga)

 

MARIE THÉRÈSE	Full name:	Marie Thérèse Charlotte
	Role:	First born and only daughter of Louis XVI and Antoinette
	Action(s):	Her birth brings Antoinette the joy she's been seeking since Fersen's departure for the U.S.

 

Note

[1] All quotes are taken from the manga.   The descriptions apply to both the manga and anime unless otherwise indicated, and may be different from the historical (see Links if you're interested in the historic accounts).   Historic names are used in cases where the character is based on a historical figure.   Other names are based on the Berubara film, my conjectures, and various sources.