Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the palace of Versailles. As the two work on the palace, they find themselves drawn to each other and are thrown into rivalries within the court of King Louis XIV.
V tretjem filmu iz serije o Angeliki, je junakinja poslana na misijo, kamor jo pošlje kralj Ludvik XIV. Sama pa postane predmet govoric in obrekovanja.
August 1715. After going for a walk, Louis XIV feels a pain in his leg. The next days, the king keeps fulfilling his duties and obligations, but his sleep is troubled and he has a serious fever. He barely eats and weakens increasingly. This is the start of the slow agony of the greatest king of France, surrounded by his relatives and doctors.
V četrtem filmu iz serije o Angeliki, junakinja razvije jadra in se odpravi na pot razkrivanja resnice o človeku, ki ga je nekoč ljubila in nato izgubila.
Leta 1671 obubožani princ de Conde povabi francoskega kralja Ludvika XIV. na tridnevno praznovanje v svojem gradu Chantilly. Med Francijo in Holandijo je izbruhnila vojna in de Conde se poteguje za mesto generala v vojski. Da bi omehčal in prepričal kralja, ga najprej želi očarati in navdušiti z najrazličnejšim razkošjem in ekstravaganco tega tridnevnega gostovanja. Skrb za nemoten potek slavja prepusti Vatelu, neplemenitemu grajskemu oskrbniku in genialnemu ustvarjalcu tistega časa. Medtem ko se kraljeva družba zabava in sprošča na vse mogoče in bizarne načine, se Vatel trudi ohraniti svoje dostojanstvo in dostojanstvo drugih in obenem omogočiti čudovite stvaritve, ki vsem zaprejo sapo. Na graščino prispe tudi lepa Anne de Montausier, nova kraljeva ljubica, ki pa se zbliža tudi z Vatelom, saj v njem vidi avtentičnega, naravnega in načelnega človeka, ki skrivaj prezira brezsmiselno zabavo in razkošje kraljevih plemičev.
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.
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.
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.
The chateau of Versailles is believed to have been a dirty palace: a place where everyone tossed the contents of their chamber pots from the windows above… Yet during the chateau’s construction, Louis XIV had given thought to commodities, and several public latrines were built as well as a very modern water system. So where did this bad reputation come from?
