History Film / EverAfter

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: When Danielle demands a horse and her dress from the gypsies to leave, their leader tells her she may have anything she can carry. She then lifts up Prince Henry and carries him off, while the entire group of gypsies begin laughing uproariously.

* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler: Rodmilla and Marguerite get their pride completely shattered near the end of the film. There's also Henry, but unlike the first two, he turns out better for it.]]

* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler: Jacqueline finally standing up to her mother at the end.]]

%%* DramaticUnmask: Not a literal unmasking, but Rodmilla exposing Danielle as a servant in front of the entire French court at the masquerade could count.

* EasilyForgiven: Played with. It's not to say that Danielle '''condones''' ''any'' of Rodmilla's past deeds or abuse. But when all is said and done, Danielle makes it clear she's exercising the concept the forgiveness where she won't give a thought to Rodmilla ever again, but only after she's sure she can't ever hurt her or anyone else ever again.

* {{Gaslighting}}: Danielle and the other de Barbarac servants do this a few times to Prince Henry to hide Danielle's status as a servant. "Nicole de Lancret" lets Henry think he's crazy or imagining things by denying they've met before, so he won't realize she's the servant who hit him with an apple earlier. Later, when Henry stumbles across Danielle tending livestock at the market, she throws a chicken in his face and flees while Paulette and Louis make a big commotion, and they pretend they were the only servants he saw. These are usually PlayedForLaughs.

** This is PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Henry learns Danielle's true identity at the ball, and slowly realizes all the gaslighting she's put him through.]]
-->'''Henry:''' The apple... that was ''you''?

* HumiliationConga: Happens to Rodmilla and Marguerite in the end; they're sentenced to permanent service in the Palace Laundry, as well as Rodmilla being stripped of her Baroness title.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Danielle’s physical and verbal attacks on Marguerite have their disadvantages. First her book gets burned and Rodmilla locks Danielle in the cellar.

** Marguerite isoften shown smirking smugly, even though it's all due to her mother's machinations. [[spoiler:So it's ''very'' satisfying to see that smug grin wiped off her face at the end, when she realizes Danielle is a royal and now holds Marguerite's fate in her hands.]]

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The manner Danielle rescues Henry from the bandits is certainly amusing, but it was inspired by a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Weinsberg real-life moment from the 12th-Century]] where a German king besieged the castle of his political rival, but a peaceful surrender was agreed with the women being allowed to leave with whatever they could carry so they lifted their husbands onto their shoulders and headed out of town. The king found this [[ActuallyPrettyFunny pretty funny and accepted the women's clever trick]].

* AbusiveParents: Rodmilla de Ghent, who is massively emotionally and physically abusive to her stepdaughter Danielle, and not much kinder to her [[TheUnfavorite unfavorite]] daughter Jacqueline.

* AbusiveParents: Rodmilla de Ghent, who is massively emotionally abusive to her stepdaughter Danielle, and not much kinder to her [[TheUnfavorite unfavorite]] daughter Jacqueline.

* TalkToTheFist: While trying on Mrs. de Barbarac’s dress, Marguerite harshly reminds Danielle that she dead when she confronts them. Danielle gets really pissed and decks Marguerite.

** TruthInTelevision as most real-world Medieval and Renaissance Europeans only had a handful of outfits they wore (frequently washing their undergarments so their outer fabrics wouldn't fade in the wash), and they tended to choose colors that complemented their own features and/or social standing, rather than whatever color was in style as we do today.

** In the [[AMinorKidroduction introduction]], right after her father leaves, Rodmilla and her daughters go inside. Danielle exercises her father's will that she shows them the ropes and tells them they have to wave good-bye to her father as part of the de Barbarac tradition. But Rodmilla just ignores it and walks back inside without batting an eye. If the time skip is any indication, this won't be the last time Rodmilla looks down on Danielle, or neglects her duties as mistress of the manor.

* {{Gaslighting}}: Danielle and the other de Barbarac servants do this a few times to Prince Henry to hide Danielle's status as a servant. "Nicole de Lancret" lets Henry think he's crazy or imagining things by denying they've met before, so he won't realize she was the servant who beaned him with an apple earlier that morning. Later, when Henry stumbles across Danielle tending livestock at the market, she throws a chicken in his face and flees while Paulette and Louis make a big commotion, and they pretend they were the only servants he saw. These are usually PlayedForLaughs.

** This is PlayedForDrama when [[spoiler:Henry learns Danielle's true identity at the ball, and slowly realizes all the gaslighting she's put him through, and is seriously angry to learn how thoroughly he was deceived.]]

* GreenEyedMonster: Rodmilla will never forgive Danielle for the fact that her husband loved his daughter more than her, nor for the fact that he turned away from Rodmilla to tell Danielle he loved her with his dying breath. She also becomes jealous of Danielle's success wooing the prince over her own daughter.

* ImpoverishedPatrician: Baroness Rodmilla of Ghent externally acts like she has money to burn when in actuality she secretly sells possessions and even a ''servant'' to pay off her debts.

* LaboriousLaziness: [[ImpoverishedPatrician Rodmilla de Ghent]] refuses to tend to the manor. [[RichBitch She considers it beneath her as a Baroness]]. So she spends all her time trying to set Marguerite up with Prince Henry. She does ''this'' by constantly hawking anything that'll fetch a price to buy eye-catching jewelry and dresses, bribing footmen to spy on the prince for her, stalking the prince's whereabouts, and playing games and intrigues to get the royal family's attention. Imagine how much she could get done if she put a ''fraction'' of that effort into actually running the manor and bringing in an honest income.

* SmugSnake: Le Pieu is especially smug [[spoiler: after Danielle is made his slave.]]
** Marguerite is also often shown smirking smugly, even though it's all due to her mother's machinations. [[spoiler:So it's ''very'' satisfying to see that smug grin wiped off her face at the end, when she realizes Danielle is a royal and now holds Marguerite's fate in her hands.]]

* WellDoneSonGuy: Part of the reason why Danielle puts up with Rodmilla as long as she does is the mere hope of receiving even a speck of maternal affection from her. Shown best when Danielle lights up a bit when Rodmilla has a near PetTheDog moment with her. As she points out later, "You are the only mother I have ever known."

* TalkToTheFist: While trying on Mrs. du Barbarac’s dress, Marguerite harshly reminds Danielle that she dead when she confronts them. Danielle gets really pissed and decks Marguerite.

* [[CrushTheKeepsake Burn the Keepsake]]: Marguerite burns Danielle’s copy of ''Utopia''.

* BerserkButton: "I would rather die a thousand deaths than see [[DeceasedParentsAreTheBest MY MOTHER'S DRESS]] on that [[AlphaBitch SPOILED SELFISH COW]]!"
** Also, before that:
---> '''Danielle''': (picking up the slippers) These are ''my mother's''.\\
'''Marguerite''': Yes. And she's dead.\\
'''Danielle''': (''marches over to Marguerite and socks her in the eye'') I'M GOING TO RIP YOUR HAIR OUT!
* BetaCouple[=/=]PairTheSpares: It's implied that [[spoiler:Jacqueline, the mellower stepsister and the only one of the de Ghents to show Danielle any genuine kindness at all, hooks up with Henry's right-hand man Laurent]].

* GenerationXerox:
** According to the de Barbarac servants, Danielle looks almost exactly like her mother. Meanwhile, Rodmilla -- in the single moment of remote kindness we see her show to her stepdaughter -- remarks that Danielle has a lot of her father in her.
** Marguerite behaves a lot like her mother, cruel and vain and placing social status above all else.
** Inverted by Jacqueline, who resembles her mother in coloring, but doesn't act like her; she proves to be very kind, simply lacking the courage to stand up to her mother and sister.

*** While Danielle's father was clearly a wealthy land-owner, it's unclear if he was a Baron and Rodmilla gained her Baroness title through marriage to him, or from her previous husband. Either way, in early 16th century France, women automatically gained their husband's titles. If Rodmilla was a Baroness before she met Auguste, then she would have lost it once she married him. If Auguste was a Baron, then Danielle would have been a Baroness by virtue of being his daughter. Either way, it's not strictly possible for Danielle to be a peasant ''and'' the stepdaughter of a noblewoman.
*** While Danielle being forced to live as a "servant" at the manor can be {{Hand Wave}}d as Rodmilla's abuse and isolating her, due to the aforementioned "women inherited their father/husband's title" rule, then it's not possible for Rodmilla to be a noblewoman and Danielle a servant at the same time in the eyes of the court... However, this might explain why the other nobles were able to accept Henry marrying Danielle, if they framed the story as a noble girl cruelly denied her noble birthright by her wicked stepmother.

** Rodmilla's first husband is identified as the Baron of Ghent, "a Belgian". Nobody used that word before the early 19th century; in the 16th he would have been called Flemish.
*** Also, Rodmilla is repeatedly called "Baroness Rodmilla of Ghent." As noted above, she would have given up that title upon marriage to her second husband. But this also begs another question: who's ''running'' the barony of Ghent, if she and both of her children are in France? Does she also have a son who never gets mentioned?

** An example that crosses the MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: To get her mother's glass slippers, Marguerite threatens Danielle that she'll burn her book if she doesn't hand them over. Even though she gives up the slippers, Marguerite ''still'' burns the book, and Rodmilla holds back Danielle from salvaging it. Luckily, as it turns out, that ''wasn't'' Danielle's book - that was a copy from Prince Henry's library. Either way, it finally helps Danielle recognize how little she can trust her stepfamily, sans Jaqueline.]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny:
** The gypsies' response to Danielle picking up Prince Henry and walking away with him.
** King Francis and Queen Marie's response to their Spanish counterparts' immature bickering once the wedding is called off.

* SpoiledBrat: Marguerite, big time. She's even called such by Danielle at one point.

The movie skips ahead ten years, to when Danielle is eighteen. Their estate has fallen onto hard times and things keep "disappearing," to the anger of the Baroness. Danielle has, of course, become a virtual house slave to the family, but takes comfort in the familial love she shares with the servants and the kindness she receives from Jacqueline. One morning, she is gathering apples in the estate's orchard when she spies someone stealing the horse of her late father. Enraged, she chucks apples at him, ultimately causing him to fall. It turns out to be the Crown Prince of France, running away from a father who wants to [[PoliticalMarriage marry him off]]. To buy her silence, he gives her a great amount of gold.

* NotSoDifferent: King Francis spends most of the movie berating his son and arguing with his wife over Henry's refusal to fall in line with his ArrangedMarriage to Princess Gabriella of Spain. When the marriage finally takes place and the young couple mutually call it off, they discover that the Spanish royal family is just as screwed up as their own.

** There was never a princess Gabriella of Spain, and her parents in the film don't match any Spanish monarchs of the 1510s (both Ferdinand II of Aragon and his daughter Joan the Mad were widowed in the previous decade, and Joan's son Charles V would have been addressed by his higher title of Holy Roman Emperor).

** There was never a princess Gabriella of Spain, and her parents in the film don't match any Spanish monarchs of the 1510s (both Ferdinand II of Aragon and his daughter Joan the Mad were widowed way before that, and Joan's son Charles V would have been addressed by his higher title of Holy Roman Emperor).

Danielle de Barbarac (Creator/DrewBarrymore) is the beloved only child of the widowed Auguste de Barbarac and his late wife, Nicole de Lancret. When she is eight years old, he remarries the Baroness [[WickedStepmother Rodmilla de Ghent]] (Creator/AnjelicaHuston), and brings her home along with her two daughters, [[RoyalBrat spoiled and cruel Marguerite]] and [[ShrinkingViolet gentle but weak-willed Jacqueline]]. Shortly thereafter, he dies, leaving Danielle to the care of her stepmother, who already resents the love that he displays to his daughter (especially as he calls for her over his wife in his final moments), and the estate's three devoted servants - the housemaids, Paulette and Louise, and the retainer, Louise's husband Maurice.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: If this movie is to be believed, Cinderella's fairy godmother was really Creator/LeonardoDaVinci.

* AbusiveParents: Rodmilla de Ghent, who is massively emotionally abusive to her step-daughter Danielle, and not much kinder to her [[TheUnfavorite unfavorite]] daughter Jacqueline.

** The King and Queen's response to their Spanish counterparts immature bickering once the wedding is called off.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's not fully clear if Rodmilla got her title of Baroness from a previous marriage or birth. She mentions that her mother was very hard on her, but she was very grateful to her since it resulted in her becoming a baroness (presumably by marriage), yet she also often boasts of her "noble blood," yet a baron/ness is the ''very lowest'' form of nobility (little more than glorified land owners).

** Later, Danielle coldly snarks to Rodmilla "What bothers you more [[SarcasmMode "step-mother"]]: that I am common or that I am ''competition''?" Rodmilla is too proud to directly answer that question, but it does indicate that Danielle is more aware of Rodmilla's disdain than her stepmother gives credit.

* ArtisticLicenseArt: Leonardo da Vinci is shown pulling Art/TheMonaLisa out of a tube and unrolling it so that onlookers can admire it. The Mona Lisa was painted on wood panel.

** This is ''almost'' right, but... the researchers misunderstood. At one point, Henry feeds one of the stepsisters chocolate saying "the Spanish monks keep sending bricks of it." Yes, the Spanish were responsible for bringing chocolate abroad during their missions, and yes, chocolate was popular in France, causing the rise of several "chocolate houses", but there wouldn't be any "bricks" of chocolate. Solid chocolate was developed about two centuries later by the ''British'', and mastered by the Swiss (who made milk chocolate). So, either she would be drinking it (she wasn't) or eating a cocoa bean (which is bigger), or the seed (conceivable, but she wouldn't be finding it "sinful" because the seeds of the bean were rather bitter without sugar). In any case, shipping to France would not have been done by the Spanish, since the Spanish kept it a secret for a century or so. [[http://www.eurococoa.com/en/x/144/cocoa-story More here]].

** The Queen comments that "Divorce is only something they do in England", which presumably is a reference to Henry VIII, who divorced Catherine of Aragon in 1533, which is after the events in the film.

*** While Danielle's father was clearly a wealthy land-owner, it's unclear if he was a Baron and Rodmilla gained her Baroness title through marriage to him, or from her previous husband. Either way, in early 16th century France women automatically gained their husband's titles. If Rodmilla was a Baroness before she met Auguste, then she would have lost it once she married him. If Auguste was a Baron, then Danielle would have been a Baroness by virtue of being his daughter. Either way, it's not strictly possible for Danielle to be a peasant and the stepdaughter of a noblewoman.
*** While Danielle being forced to live as a "servant" at the manor can be {{Hand Wave}}d as Rodmilla's abuse and isolating her, due to the aforementioned "women inherited their father/husband's title" rule then it's not possible for Rodmilla to be a noblewoman and Danielle a servant at the same time in the eyes of the court... Which might explain how the other nobles were able to accept Henry marrying Danielle, if they framed the story as a noble girl cruelly denied her noble birthright by her wicked stepmother.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: King Francis to his son Henry. They spend the whole movie sniping at each other and pushing back at what the other wants but just before the ball the King makes an effort to be patient and softly explain why he wanted those things for Henry, compliments the progress he's made being more selfless and offers to call off his ultimatum all together though Henry declines that last one as he's broken hearted anyways.

* BedsheetLadder: Henry uses one to make his getaway when he's rebelling against the arranged marriage and from his mother's comment this isn't the first time he's done this.

--> '''Danielle''': (picking up the slippers) These are my mother's.\\

* ClothesMakeTheLegend: Danielle's mother's shoes, which give rise to the legend of the fabled "glass slipper."

** The king and queen often wear golds and oranges.

** When Danielle decides to pretend to be a courtier, Dustav mentions the ([[TruthInTelevision real-life historical]]) penalty for servants dressing above their station.

* DarkIsEvil: Rodmilla de Ghent and Pierre le Pieu, who both dress primarily in black with hearts to match. Subverted with Jacqueline, who shares her mother's black hair and tendency to dress in dark colors, but is one of the shiest and sweetest characters in the movie.

* DramaticIrony: When Danielle first learned about her new extended family, she was delighted at the idea of having a new mother and two new sisters. Little does she know [[ForegoneConclusion what's in store for her for the next ten years]].

* EasilyForgiven: Played with. It's not to say Danielle '''condones''' ''any'' of Rodmilla's past deeds or abuse. But when all is said and done, Danielle makes it clear she's exercising the concept the forgiveness where she won't give a thought to Rodmilla ever again, but only after she's sure she can't ever hurt her or anyone else ever again.

** Also, Jacqueline tells her mother and Marguerite that the prince told her he was a fool for wanting to marry a foreigner over "your sister." They assume she means Marguerite, she actually means Danielle.
* FamousAncestor: It's not clear exactly who the woman telling the story to the brothers Grimm is (they address her as "Your Majesty," while the credits identify her as "Grande Dame"), but at the end she refers to Henry and Danielle as being her great-great-grandparents, adding that by the time of "the Revolution," "the truth of their romance had been reduced to a simple FairyTale. It's been speculated that the woman is Marie Therese, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette. It would make sense, since she would be the direct descendant of Henry and Danielle, and would qualify to be "Your Majesty", since she was, by marriage to her cousin, Queen Consort of France.[[note]]If only for about twenty minutes on 2 August 1830. That was how long it was between her uncle/father-in-law's signing of the official instrument of abdication and the time her husband (reluctantly, and despite her impassioned pleading against it) signed the same document. Her headstone declares her ''"Queen Dowager of France"'' in recognition of their brief reign.[[/note]]
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Rodmilla first meets Danielle, she shows mild jealousy of the affection August shows her, distaste over her dirty appearance, and remarks that her father "speaks of [[ItIsDehumanizing nothing]] else" (rather than "no one else.") This foreshadows her lifelong jealousy and distaste for Danielle.

* FreudianExcuse: Rodmilla laments that her own mother was so hard on her and feels like the position of Baroness is a sign of her hard work [[EarnYourHappyEnding paying off]]. In addition, it's implied Rodmilla was saddened that she barely knew her second husband and wished that he ''did'' love her.

* {{Gaslighting}}: Danielle and the other de Barbarac servants do this a few times to Prince Henry to hide Danielle's status as a servant. "Nicole de Lancret" lets Henry think he's crazy or imagining things by denying they've met before, so he won't realize she was the servant who beamed him with an apple earlier that morning. Later, when Henry stumbles across Danielle tending livestock at the market, she throws a chicken in his face and flees while Paulette and Louis make a big commotion, and they pretend they were the only servants he saw. These are usually PlayedForLaughs.

* HappilyEverAfter: Duh. It's the title.

* HeelFaceTurn: Jacqueline wasn't a terrible person to begin with - just withdrawn and somewhat whiny - but she becomes much more sympathetic to her stepsister after the SadisticChoice incident Marguerite puts Danielle through.

* HumiliationConga: Happens to Rodmilla and Marguerite in the end; permanent service in the Palace Laundry, as well as Rodmilla being stripped of her Baroness title.

*** Early on in the film, Rodmilla advises Jacqueline (who is much softer-spoken than her sister) "not to speak unless (she) can improve the silence."

* LaboriousLaziness: [[ImpoverishedPatrician Rodmilla de Ghent]] refuses to tend to the manor. [[RichBitch She considers it beneath her as a Baroness]]. So she spends all her time trying to set Marguerite up with Prince Henry. She does ''this'' by constantly hawking anything that'll fetch a price to buy eye-catching jewelry and dresses, bribing footmen to spy on the prince for her, stalking the prince's whereabouts, and playing games and intrigues to get the royal family's attention. Imagine how much she could get done if she put a ''fraction'' of that effort into actually running the manor and bringing honest income.

'''Rodmilla:''' ...Whom you like to call 'Cinderella'.\\

* OhCrap: "Did you, or did you not, ''lie'' to Her Majesty the Queen of France?"
** Danielle is also clearly having these thoughts when she first pretends to be a courtier (trying to free Maurice) and hears Prince Henry behind her.
** The (recently former) Baroness has one of these written all over her as she turns around to face the newly-royal Danielle.

* PeerPressuredBully: Danielle is bullied by her mother and step sister. Step sister Jacqueline is not only reluctant but disgusted at her mother and sister's behavior, helping Danielle when she can. By the films denouement when Danielle and the prince are married, she [[spoiler: is in a PairTheSpares relationship with the Prince's valet, and the lone member of her family not to be exiled for the mistreatment of Danielle.]]

** Rodmilla gets a single moment of this when she tells Danielle that she looks a lot like her father.
*** Subverted immediately afterward when she appears to catch herself and explains that what she ''really'' meant is that Danielle's appearance and mannerisms are mannish.
** Another brutal subversion in the final act of the film; [[spoiler: The morning after the masquerade, Pierre le Pieu arrives at Danielle's father's estate with all of the possessions Rodmilla had secretly been selling to him. While Danielle is aghast at her stepmother's actions, she thanks le Pieu for his kindness in returning them...only to be informed that he simply sold them back to Rodmilla in exchange for Danielle herself.]]
* PlatonicLifePartners: Danielle and Gustave. They've been inseparable since childhood but there's no sign of romantic feeling between them and he encourages her relationship with the Prince. Danielle even counters Gustave's horror at her masquerading as a noblewoman to rescue Maurice by saying Gustave would do the same for her.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Henry's mother, Queen Marie. She is sympathetic to Henry's reluctance to go through with the marriage to the Spanish princess, and she appears to be highly uncomfortable with [[spoiler:Danielle's public humiliation at the masque, despite Danielle's deception of Henry.]]

*** Later on, King Francis reveals that his agreement to the engagement with Spain wasn't entirely for political gain - as a father, he felt that Henry was aimless, ignorant of his duties as a prince and Francis hoped that the wedding would help Henry realize his obligation to his throne. With Henry's sudden declaration regarding the university, Francis sees progress in his son, enough that he offers to rescind the marriage contract with Spain, even if Henry didn't have someone to marry (as was decided by Francis from the initial deal).

* RequisiteRoyalRegalia: The King and Queen, as well as Prince Henry, are crowned and in full court dress for [[spoiler: the public humiliation of Rodmilla and Marguerite, and the revelation of Henry's wife, the newly-titled Princess Danielle.]]

* RoyalBrat: Prince Henry is a male version, which "Nicole" frequently calls him out on. After he gets taken down a peg with an AWESOME speech from Creator/LeonardoDaVinci (yes, that one), he gets better.

** Danielle, in a heartwarming scene where Prince Henry (in apologizing for being a {{Jerkass}}) spontaneously calls Danielle by her real name (instead of Nicole, her mother's name, which he has been using up this point). She begs him to repeat it -- not the apology, but the part where he says her name.
** There's the bit where he tells her to call him Henry instead of "Your Highness" (which is how he demanded she refer to him as when he discovered she was a commoner).
* SheCleansUpNicely: ''Everybody'' notices when Danielle arrives at the ball. The moment is soon ruined of course.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Rodmilla de Ghent is ''very'' proud of the fact that she is a Baroness, and often boasts of her status to everyone, yet barons are the lowest possible title of nobility, little more than land-owners. [[spoiler:Even more pronounced at the end, when she holds herself above Marguerite and the other castle servants just because she is "of noble blood." The head laundry servant isn't impressed.]]

** Marguerite is also often shown smirking smugly, even though it's all due to her mother's machinations. [[spoiler:So it's ''very'' satisfying to see that smug grin wiped off her face at the end, when she realizes Danielle is a royal and now holds her life in her hands.]]

-->'''Danielle:''' A servant is not a thief, your Highness, and those who are cannot help themselves.

* ThrowTheDogABone: Jacqueline catching Laurent's eye at the ball.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Part of the reason why Danielle puts up with Rodmilla as long as she could is the mere hope of receiving a speck of maternal affection from her. Shown best when Danielle lights up a bit when Rodmilla has a near PetTheDog moment with her.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Marguerite and Jacqueline's father is evidently deceased prior to the movie, but who's running the barony of Ghent? It may be that Rodmilla de Ghent is the Baroness in her OWN right considering that [[spoiler:the Queen stripped her of it and there would be no point in stripping a dowager of her title.]]

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Zigzagged. There are plenty of moments, but it's not with the hero, it's with Marguerite and Rodmilla. Every time, they prove again and again that, in the dark, they'll take every advantage to get ahead in life. For example, when they trick the Queen into thinking she lost a jewel she "didn't remember putting on that morning".
** An example that crosses the MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: To get her mother's glass slippers, Marguerite threatens Danielle that she'll burn her book if she doesn't hand them over. Even though she gives up the slippers, Marguerite ''still'' burns the book, and Rodmilla holds back Danielle from salvaging it. Turns out, that ''wasn't'' Danielle's book, that was a copy from Prince Henry's library. Either way, it finally helps Danielle recognize how little she can trust her step-family, sans Jaqueline.]]

* YouGotSpunk: Le Pieu, as he tells Danielle more than once, likes a girl with spirit.
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