A few female characters wear low-cut dresses.

Madame duBarry is the King's mistress. A minor character is a prostitute.

A married woman sleeps with another man, depicted only in a single un-explicit shot of the two lying together.

An unofficially married couple are implied to have slept with each other. One shot portrays the two standing up while kissing naked, though nothing is shown.

A man assaults a woman, forcefully kissing her then pushing her onto a bed while she screams. He rips her shirt open (nothing is shown) before he regains his senses and shamefully withdraws.

One girl is speculated to have a crush on a woman. Nevertheless, she later falls in love with and marries a man.

A woman, attempting to save her own skin, accusing a woman of having many female lovers, though this is not true. She later writes books on these false accounts.

A drunken man asks a girl if she will spend the night with him, to which she promptly refuses. Later though, she stops a carriage and begs the officer inside to buy her for the night. This fails, but the girl never attempts prostitution again.

In the opening. the main character is shown naked a couple times, though mostly concealed by rose thorns.

A man forcefully pulls a woman's sleeves down off her shoulders so that she can be branded there.

A man is slashed in the eye with a sword. He clutches his eye and blood runs through his fingers.

Some bloody violence, not very graphic, but gritty and realistic. Use of swords, guns, clubs, cannons, tools, fists, and other weapons.

Some mild language.

Some drinking and smoking as well as a number of bar scenes.

Implied deaths via guillotine, but none are graphically portrayed.

A man is brutally beaten by five others.

A mob numbering 200 overtakes a carriage and attacks a man and woman inside. The woman is rescued shortly, but the man is nearly hanged by the crowd.

A maid drinks poisoned wine and dies.

A woman comes down with tuberculosis and occasionally coughs up drops of blood.

A woman is branded on her shoulder in a public square. She screams and fights back viciously until she eventually passes out.

A girl waits in room for her sister when a man suddenly appears and drives her out with a whip.

On two different occasions, a child is shot from behind and killed.

An assassin poisons himself and dies.

A man dies of smallpox.

A large chandelier falls, nearly crushing two people.

A man almost executes his daughter and her servant.

A 7-year-old boy becomes gravely ill and dies.

A man is shot in the arm and an unusually large amount of blood is seen streaming down.

Along with the violence, there are several unsettling themes relating to slavery, famine, the killing of innocents, and overall tragedy.