The king is attempting his greatest to make amends with the bitter aristocracy in Marie Antoinette Season 2, and the queen is rebelling towards it. TV Insider is debuting an unique first take a look at Season 2 Episode 3 of the PBS drama, airing this Sunday, April 6. In it, Louis (Louis Cunningham) welcomes his cousin, Chartres (Oscar Lesage), again to Versailles, a controversial transfer in Marie Antoinette’s (Emilia Schüle) eyes. She sees Chartres as a traitor.
Chartres is a person scorned in Season 2 following his rejected romantic emotions for Marie Antoinette and his subsequent banishment from Versailles in Season 1. Now that his father has died, leading to him inheriting “the biggest fortune in France,” as Louis warns within the scene above, he has the facility to raise the “seditious Palais-Royal right into a courtroom to rival Versailles,” as Man Henry‘s Vergennes says. Louis is retaining France’s dire monetary scenario secret this season. He actually can’t afford to permit his cousin to make use of his cash towards the crown.
Within the clip above, Louis has determined to welcome his cousin again to his courtroom as an olive department. He makes use of the demise of Chartres’ father, Louis’ uncle, because the reasoning, however it’s actually to allow them to maintain this enemy shut and hopefully stop the recognition of the Palais-Royal from rising. Salacious whispers fall upon the room because the French aristocracy reacts in shock at Louis’ supply. What’s most telling is the empty throne to Louis’ left.
“The person is an animal and a traitor. You’ll be able to’t simply welcome him again,” Marie Antoinette declares to her husband moments earlier than. The queen doesn’t perceive how welcoming him again makes them safer.
“He’s much less more likely to plot towards an ally,” Vergennes explains. “Moreover, the extra time he spends right here, the simpler it is going to be to spy on him.”
“Therefore why we raise his banishment,” Louis provides. When Marie Antoinette refuses to welcome him again, Louis shoots again, “I’ll are inclined to my enterprise, madame. You are inclined to yours.” Clearly, he doesn’t want neither is he all for his spouse’s approval of this determination.
Provence (Jack Archer) and Josephine (Roxane Duran) stand by Louis’ facet as he welcomes Chartres again. “Nothing would make me happier” than to return to Versailles’ courtroom, Chartres says above. “I’m your majesty’s loyal servant.” Josephine holds again amusing when Provence whispers to her, “And I’m Joan of Arc.”
This courtroom isn’t going to be simple for Louis and Marie Antoinette to regulate. Elsewhere within the episode, Marie Antoinette takes steps to guard herself and her unborn baby, which unwittingly fuels the notion of her as an extravagant tart whereas Paris starves. For the primary time, the individuals brazenly protest towards her.
Marie Antoinette, Sundays, 10/9c, PBS (Test your native listings at PBS.org)