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 pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.
Movie tag line: "The history of the palace of Versailles from it's founding to the present."
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Character: Louis XIV (older)
Character: Museum guard
Character: Marie-Antoinette / Nicole Legay
Character: Countess de la Motte
Character: D'Artagnan
Character: Louis XV
Character: Marivaux
Character: Fénelon
Character: Mrs. de Sévigné
Character: Louis XVI
Character: Jacques Damiens
Character: Cardinal de Rohan
Character: Neighbor
Character: Cagliostro
Character: Turenne
Character: Louis XIV young
Character: Rivarol
Character: Mrs. de Montespan
Character: Mrs. de Chalis
Character: Louison Chabray
Character: Peasant
Character: Mrs. Campan
Character: Jean Collinet
Character: Molière
Character: Museum guard
Character: Mrs. de Maintenon
Character: Countess de Soissons
Character: Louise de La Vallière
Character: Axel De Fersen
Character: Woman of the people
Character: Mrs. de Pompadour
Character: Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe
Character: Gondolier
Character: Lavoisier
Character: Auctioneer
Character: Mr. de Montespan
Character: Museum guard
Character: Mr. de Vergennes
Character: Benjamin Franklin
Character: Louis XIII
Character: Robespierre
Character: Boileau
Character: Mrs. Langlois
Character: Monsieur de la Motte
Character: Buyer
Character: Mazarin
Character: Marie Lekzinska
Character: Duke de Saint-Simon
Character: Revolutionary
Character: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Character: Mrs. de Kerlor
Character: Miss de Fontanges
Character: Böhmer
Character: Louvois
Character: La Reynie
Character: Elmire
Character: Colbert
Character: English buyer
Character: Mrs. de Nouchy
Character: Revolutionary
Character: Le Vau
Character: Miss de Rosille
Character: Mrs. de Balto
Character: Armande Béjart
Character: Fragonard
Character: Marie-Thérèse d'Espagne
Character: Duc de Noailles
Character: Mrs. de Chamarat
Character: Louis XIII as a child
Character: Lord
Character: Lady of the court
Character: Lord
Character: Beaumarchais
Character: Napoléon Ier
Character: Bontemps
Character: Mrs. de Frépons
Character: Mr. de Carlène
Character: Voltaire
Character: D'Alembert
Character: Mrs. de Senlis
Character: Count de Langeais
Character: Mr. de Beydz
Character: Mansart
Character: Mr. de Puiset
Character: Boileau
Character: Bossuet
Character: Montesquieu
Character: Racine
Character: Citizen poet
Character: Henri IV
Character: Louis Philippe 1st
Character: Medium
Character: Bassenge
Character: Vauban
Character: Visitor (uncredited)
Character: Un homme du peuple (uncredited)
Character: Marc Rétaux de Villette (uncredited)