This is another show I thought would have been higher just due to it's influence.
Anime News Network – The Rose of Versailles (TV):
Plot Summary: Raised from birth as a man, the Lady Oscar commands the palace guards at Versailles in the years before the French Revolution. Her beauty and noble spirit make her a shining figure in the eyes of both men and women but she is torn between her chosen life of service and duty to class and country and her own heart and desires. She lives as a noble amidst the opulence of Versailles but her keen senses and compassion are not blinded to the poverty of the French people.
Perhaps that it only ran to 40 episodes and came out a good deal of time after the manga shows that it is the manga (and stage play) that is has been a major influence on shojo titles rather than the anime. Tadao Nagahama (Combattler V, Voltes V, Daimos) had directed the first 18 episode before his death, with the remainder under the eye of Osamu Dezaki (director of a crazy amount of important shows and master of the freeze frame into a painting of the frozen cel). Unsurprisingly it proved popular in France under the name Lady Oscar. And there's also an English language live action film by that name, filmed in France, for a Japanese audience.
And guess what – it's fansubbed! All of it.