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.

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who...

In early 19th-century France, the Marquis de Sade is confined to an asylum where his forbidden writi...

The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.

The life and death of an educated communist activist who brought Bolshevik ideas to his native Serbi...

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of seve...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering fro...

Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divor...

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...

During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a h...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs he...

Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi...

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi...