Perhaps the line about "impure blood" was particularly agreeable to them.
At the Mass, several French hymns are usually sung. I believe they are specifically "Royalist." If you wish, I will research further.
Just one of the sleazy tricks of that dishonest propaganda-flick-disguised-as-love-story is the shameless theft of the Marseillaise scene, from Jean Renoir's La Grande Illusion.