Here we are introduced with a beautiful, charming, elegant but a strong young girl named Oscar who lives in France as she is the daughter of a general who was expecting a boy but instead got a girl baby, whom he later trains under his supervision in order to compete in a male dominant field of military

So to start with, Rose of Versailles is the type of anime that is more into the character driven side as the psyche of each characters are partially different and unique in its own different. The characters in this anime/manga is challenged by different norms and traditions of that era. Whether we are talking about Marie Antoinette, who is basically a spoiled brat, she was the archduchess of Austria whose life turns upside down after the whole proposal to be the new queen of France, She was an ambitious girl with different things in her mind, but this changes once she feels the burden of handling a throne, It is a burden far heavy for a child like Marie but the way she grows makes us intrigued even the rest of the cast whether it be Oscar are well developed, A girl with a different burden of preparing your mindset for men's battlefield, the pure brave soul, has her own ups and downs, incidents which challenge her ideology, her confidence, her own incapability as a comparatively weak sex as her fragile body cannot hold up to the likes of men, The way she struggles is what is so intriguing about the story. Even the side casts are fairly developed like Andre, His dynamic with Oscar the one and only he truly loves and also the one who acted as a comrade in the battlefield , or whether it be the queen's actual love Fersen. All of them has their own reasoning and justification for their own actions. Truly a character driven anime/manga, but enough about the characters

The story is well simply not as good as the characters, It's fairly simple but effective. A story related to how the things escalate when the throne is handed over to incompetent children with less EQ level, the tragedy starts through within the inner conflict with the power and responsibilities, the indecisiveness of the king, the incompetency and the whole naivety costed them the trust of the citizens, Simply he trust of the devil's and giving in to greed and lust was the flaw of King and queens reign(Marie was even warned by Maria her mother) they furthermore angered the citizens in their infamous "reign of terror" but all the characters were still so human, u cannot just hate everyone of them u can be frustrated but u cannot brings them down, even tho the story is not as complex or as dynamic as it's characters but the tragedies in this anime/manga is like a Sharp edged knife, which cuts through deep enough when the tragedy hits with it's outstanding sound score by Shinji Ueda and the opening with the ending song is so beautiful

Characters: 9/10
Story: 7/10 (they simply just couldn't change much as it is an already established history, but still could have been better)
Art: 9/10 (simply beautiful)
Music for anime: 8/10

Overall I would give this a 9/10, It was really good definitely worth a try

Edit: (Sorry for all the errors, I wrote this late at night)