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Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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165 min
1954-02-10
Released
French
26
6.8
Jacques Damiens
Cardinal de Rohan
Fénelon
Mrs. de Sévigné
Louis XVI
Museum guard
Neighbor
Cagliostro
Turenne
Rivarol
Mrs. de Montespan
Mrs. de Chalis
Louison Chabray
Peasant
Marivaux
Mrs. Campan
Jean Collinet
Molière
Louis XIV (older)
Museum guard
Louis XV
Louis XIV young
Marie-Antoinette / Nicole Legay
Mrs. de Maintenon
Countess de la Motte
Countess de Soissons
Louise de La Vallière
Axel De Fersen
D'Artagnan
Woman of the people
Mrs. de Pompadour
Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
Gondolier
Lavoisier
Auctioneer
Mr. de Montespan
Museum guard
Mr. de Vergennes
Benjamin Franklin
Louis XIII
Robespierre
Boileau
Mrs. Langlois
Monsieur de la Motte
Buyer
Mazarin
Marie Lekzinska
Duke de Saint-Simon
Revolutionary
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Mrs. de Kerlor
Miss de Fontanges
Böhmer
Louvois
La Reynie
Elmire
Colbert
English buyer
Mrs. de Nouchy
Revolutionary
Le Vau
Miss de Rosille
Mrs. de Balto
Armande Béjart
Fragonard
Marie-Thérèse d'Espagne
Duc de Noailles
Mrs. de Chamarat
Louis XIII as a child
Lord
Lady of the court
Lord
Beaumarchais
Napoléon Ier
Bontemps
Mrs. de Frépons
Mr. de Carlène
Voltaire
D'Alembert
Mrs. de Senlis
Count de Langeais
Mr. de Beydz
Mansart
Mr. de Puiset
Boileau
Bossuet
Montesquieu
Racine
Citizen poet
Henri IV
Louis Philippe 1st
Medium
Bassenge
Vauban
Visitor (uncredited)
Un homme du peuple (uncredited)
Marc Rétaux de Villette (uncredited)
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