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.
In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthro...
World War II, June 1940. France has fallen and suffers the relentless boot of Nazi Germany. But Alge...
From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi...
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of gi...
Vincent leads a life of sorrow until Venus walks into their universe.
A building lost in the midst of a 5 000 hectare park, that's the equivalent of the surface of Paris,...
Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on Januar...
As BBC Two premieres its lavish new drama set in the sumptuous surroundings of Versailles, Lucy Wors...
The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris....
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...
On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military store...
It's an afternoon in Versailles, during the reign of Louis XIV.
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of...
A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry ...