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