
"The history of the palace of Versailles from it's founding to the present."
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.
Jacques Damiens

Cardinal de Rohan

Fénelon

Mrs. de Sévigné

Louis XVI

Museum guard

Neighbor

Cagliostro

Turenne

Rivarol

Mrs. de Montespan

Mrs. de Chalis

Louison Chabray

Peasant

Marivaux

Mrs. Campan

Jean Collinet

Molière

Louis XIV (older)

Museum guard

Louis XV

Louis XIV young

Marie-Antoinette / Nicole Legay

Mrs. de Maintenon

Countess de la Motte

Countess de Soissons

Louise de La Vallière

Axel De Fersen

D'Artagnan

Woman of the people

Mrs. de Pompadour

Du Croisy playing the role of Tartuffe

Gondolier

Lavoisier

Auctioneer

Mr. de Montespan

Museum guard

Mr. de Vergennes

Benjamin Franklin

Louis XIII

Robespierre

Boileau

Mrs. Langlois

Monsieur de la Motte

Buyer

Mazarin

Marie Lekzinska

Duke de Saint-Simon

Revolutionary

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mrs. de Kerlor

Miss de Fontanges

Böhmer

Louvois

La Reynie

Elmire

Colbert

English buyer

Mrs. de Nouchy

Revolutionary

Le Vau

Miss de Rosille

Mrs. de Balto

Armande Béjart

Fragonard
Marie-Thérèse d'Espagne
Duc de Noailles

Mrs. de Chamarat

Louis XIII as a child
Lord
Lady of the court

Lord
Beaumarchais

Napoléon Ier

Bontemps
Mrs. de Frépons
Mr. de Carlène

Voltaire

D'Alembert

Mrs. de Senlis

Count de Langeais

Mr. de Beydz

Mansart
Mr. de Puiset
Boileau

Bossuet
Montesquieu

Racine
Citizen poet

Henri IV

Louis Philippe 1st

Medium

Bassenge
Vauban
Visitor (uncredited)

Un homme du peuple (uncredited)

Marc Rétaux de Villette (uncredited)
