riyoko ikeda's manga and its adaptation anime rose of versailles features rosalie as one of the central figures in the story which takes liberties to link her life with other characters both historical and fictional. she is depicted as the illegitimate daughter of valois de saint-rémy and yolande de polastron, future countess of polignac. secretly the 15-year-old yolande gave rosalie birth and got fostered by the mother of jeanne of valois-saint-rémy. after her foster mother died, rosalie is eventually taken in by oscar (a fictional character and the protagonist of the story), the head of the royal guards who first introduces her to the queen, marie antoinette. rosalie is blackmailed by polignac into coming to live with her after her younger sister commits suicide, to fill her place in a betrothal but runs away from polignac and back to paris. she marries bernard, a follower of robespierre, is present at the storming of the bastille where she witnesses her old friend's death and narrates the end results of the french revolution (including the execution of the queen) to conclude the story.