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"[to her first-born, a daughter] Poor little girl. You are not what was desired, but you are no less dear to me. A boy would have be the Son of France. But you, Marie Thérèse, shall be mine."
"Kirsten Dunst as Marie Antoinette"
"Jason Schwartzman as Louis XVI"
"Judy Davis as Anne d'Arpajon, "Countess of Noailles""
"Steve Coogan as Florimond Claude, Count of Mercy-Argenteau"
"Rip Torn as Louis XV"
"Rose Byrne as Yolande de Polastron, "Duchess of Polignac""
"Asia Argento as Madame du Barry"
"Molly Shannon as Madame Victoire"
"Shirley Henderson as Madame Sophie"
"Danny Huston as Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor"
"Marianne Faithfull as Empress Maria Theresa"
"Mary Nighy as Louise Marie Thérèse of Savoy, "Princess of Lamballe""
"Jamie Dornan as Axel von Fersen"
"Al Weaver as Charles, Count of Artois"
"Sarah Adler as Maria Theresa, Countess of Artois"
"Sebastian Armesto as Louis-Stanislaus, Count of Provence"
"Clémentine Poidatz as Marie Joséphine, Countess of Provence"
"Céline Sallette as Lady in Waiting"
"Aurore Clément as the Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, "Duchess of Orléans Duchess of Chartres""
"Guillaume Gallienne as Charles Gravier, Count of Vergennes"
"Jean-Christophe Bouvet as Étienne François, Duke of Choiseul"
"Tom Hardy as Raumont"
"James Lance as Léonard Autié"
"Mathieu Amalric as Man at Masked Ball"
"Joseph Malerba as Queen's Guard"
"André Oumansky as Cardinal de La Roche Aymon"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.