Antoinette is entranced by singer Yolande de Polignac and invites her entire family to move to Versailles—one of the many decisions that would lead to her eventual destruction. Against the rules of her confinement, Oscar takes a trip to Arras, a peasant village under her family's care. There, she learns of the terrible condition of the common French people. The peasants treat her coldly because of her noble lineage. At the inn owned by Noel, Robespierre, there on a trip to help them, tells her that the majority of French people blame the Queen's hedonism for their unending suffering...