Jeanne Vaubernier, fille du peuple avide de s’élever socialement, met à profit ses charmes pour sortir de sa condition. Son amant le comte Du Barry, qui s’enrichit largement grâce aux galanteries lucratives de Jeanne, souhaite la présenter au Roi. Il organise la rencontre via l’entremise de l’influent duc de Richelieu. Celle-ci dépasse ses attentes : entre Louis XV et Jeanne, c’est le coup de foudre… Avec la courtisane, le Roi retrouve le goût de vivre – à tel point qu’il ne peut plus se passer d’elle et décide d’en faire sa favorite officielle. Scandale : personne ne veut d’une fille des rues à la Cour.
While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.
Évocation de la vie de la reine d'origine autrichienne, épouse mal-aimée de Louis XVI, guillotinée en 1793. Au sortir de l'adolescence, une jeune fille découvre un monde hostile et codifié, un univers frivole où chacun observe et juge l'autre sans aménité. Mariée à un homme maladroit qui la délaisse, elle est rapidement lassée par les devoirs de représentation qu'on lui impose. Elle s'évade dans l'ivresse de la fête et les plaisirs des sens pour réinventer un monde à elle. Y a-t-il un prix à payer à chercher le bonheur que certains vous refusent ?
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of the French Revolution.
Sous le règne de Louis XIV, Sabine de Barra, une femme paysagiste se voit assigner par André Le Nôtre l'honneur de superviser la création de la salle de bal extérieure - le bosquet des Rocailles - pour les somptueuses festivités voulues par le roi dans les jardins du château de Versailles, une tâche qui la met au centre des intrigues de la Cour.
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighborhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms.
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.
Sur un marché de Lyon, une belle danseuse attire l'attention de Gros-René, un comédien de la troupe de Molière qui lui propose le mariage. À Versailles, celle qu'on dénomme désormais Marquise du Parc rêve de devenir actrice, mais Molière la cantonne dans la danse. Remarquée par Louis XIV, elle devient bientôt la maîtresse de l'ambitieux Racine. À la mort de son époux, Marquise quitte Molière pour jouer la pièce "Andromaque" que Racine lui dédie. C'est le succès jusqu'au jour où la maladie l'écarte de la scène et qu'elle se sent trahie par son amant.
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
The Lecturer, leader of the Feminine League Against Frivolity, tells the history of eroticism and censorship from the beginning of time until the late 1960s.
How Louis XV, a young king loved by his people, sensitive to the artistic and intellectual turmoil of his century (that of the Enlightenment), will end his reign in decay and hatred? Only fifteen years after his death, it's the Revolution.
The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Docudrama about the life of Louis XIV nicknamed "the Sun King", the King of France who ran a glamorous court, expanded the borders of France, loved women and parties and built an incredible palace for himself - the Versailles.
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
A film that summarizes the whole anime Lady Oscar, the story of a female military commander who served during the time of the French Revolution. Only released in Italy.