
Plot
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.
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Cast

Jean-Marie Patte
Louis XIV

Raymond Jourdan
Jean Baptiste Colbert

Silvagni
Cardinal Mazarin

Katharina Renn
Anne d'Autriche

Dominique Vincent
Madame Du Plessis

Pierre Barrat
Nicolas Fouquet

Fernand Fabre
Michel Le Tellier

Françoise Ponty
Louise de la Vallière

Joëlle Laugeois
Marie-Thérèse

Maurice Barrier
D'Artagnan

André Dumas
Le Père Joly

François Mirante
M. de Brienne

Roger Guillo
L'apothicaire

Louis Raymond
Le premier médecin

Maurice Bourbon
Le deuxième médecin

Michel Ferre
M. de Gesvres

Guy Pintat
Le chef-cuisinier

Michelle Marquais
Mme de Motteville

Jean-Jacques Daubin
M. de Vardes

Georges Goubert
M. de Soyecourt

Pierre Pernet
Monsieur

Gilette Barbier
Pierrette Dufour

Jean Obé
Le Vau

Jacques Charby
L'assistant de Le Vau

Micheline Muc
Mlle de Pons

Michel Debrane
Le tailleur

François Bennard
L'Archevèque

Georges Spanelly
Seguier

Jean Soustre
M. de Guiche

Axel Ganz
L'Ambassadeur

Jean-Jacques Leconte
Le 1er Chambellan

Violette Marceau
Mlle de Chemerault

Paula Dehelly
Mme d'Elboeuf

Jacques Préboist
Mousquetaire

André Daguenet
Le patron marinier

Marc Fraiseau
Marinier

Pierre Frag
Marinier

Jean Coste
Marinier

Rita Maiden
Une paysanne

Jean-Claude Charnay
Messenger

Jacqueline Corot
Madame Henrietta

Hélène Manesse
The Naiad