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  • When Sabine gets recruited to build the garden:
    Sabine: Master? Why me?
    André Le Notre: These gardens should be large enough to embrace voices other than my own.
  • Monsieur Duras gets new men to help on the worksite, after the previous ones bailed. Considering how lowly women were treated in that age, it’s especially kind.
    Monsieur Duras: If you fail, we all fail.
  • After Sabine arrives at the Louvre and becomes completely overwhelmed, Monsieur Lauzun calms her down and introduces her to everyone.
  • Sabine and King Louis XIV's conversation in the garden.
  • Andre's declaration to Sabine:
    Andre: Your heart beats fiercely; mine just ticks. I have not gifts to offer such a wonder.
    Sabine: If you are hungry, I'll feed you. If I am mad, you will tell me.
    Andre: You are not mad.
    Sabine: You don't know all of me yet. (pause) Are you hungry?
    Andre: Starving.
  • At Fontainebleau, Sabine, possessing no bloodline in royalty, becomes the most sought-after person, just by being herself.
    Sabine: I am no one. What could the interest be?
    Monsieur Lauzun: Madame, you answer yourself. You see how they look at you? You are no one, where everybody is someone, and yet you are here. That makes you more the someone.
  • Madame De Montespan inviting Sabine to her secret space: a room full of women supporting each other.
  • Following the King insulting one of his past lovers, as a metaphor for a rose fading, Sabine gently corrects him.
    Sabine That fate awaits all roses, Sire... All roses are open to the elements, your majesty. They bud, bloom and fade. The rose grows entirely unaware, changing naturally from one state to another, and although the elements may treat her cruelly, she knows nothing of it and continues to her end without judgment on her beauty. Alas, 'tis not the same for us.
    King Louis XIV: If such a rose could speak, what would she say?
    Sabine: Yes, I am here and gave service under nature's eye, and after me, my children will be. Is there any greater contribution or more graceful end?
    King Louis XIV: A wise rose. And what protections can the gardener afford this rose from the harsh elements of change?
    Sabine Patience, care and a little warmth from the sun, are our best hope, your Majesty.
  • The reveal of the garden of Versailles.
  • Everyone dancing in the garden as water cascades down the stones.
  • Sabine and Andre walking together hand-in-hand.
    Andre: You look beautiful.
    Sabine: Are you flattering me?
    Andre: Is that wrong?
    Sabine: Call me madame again.
    They kiss.
  • When Sabine is confronted by any challenge- being surrounded in a male-dominated field, having to do manual labour, fixing the fountain- she never complains and gets it done.

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