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.
Genres:
Jean-Marie Patte as Louis XIV
Raymond Jourdan as Jean Baptiste Colbert
Silvagni as Cardinal Mazarin
Katharina Renn as Anne d'Autriche
Dominique Vincent as Madame Du Plessis
Pierre Barrat as Nicolas Fouquet
Fernand Fabre as Michel Le Tellier
Françoise Ponty as Louise de la Vallière
Joëlle Laugeois as Marie-Thérèse
Maurice Barrier as D'Artagnan
André Dumas as Le Père Joly
François Mirante as M. de Brienne
Roger Guillo as L'apothicaire
Louis Raymond as Le premier médecin
Maurice Bourbon as Le deuxième médecin
Michel Ferre as M. de Gesvres
Guy Pintat as Le chef-cuisinier
Michelle Marquais as Mme de Motteville
Jean-Jacques Daubin as M. de Vardes
Georges Goubert as M. de Soyecourt
Pierre Pernet as Monsieur
Gilette Barbier as Pierrette Dufour
Jean Obé as Le Vau
Jacques Charby as L'assistant de Le Vau
Micheline Muc as Mlle de Pons
Michel Debrane as Le tailleur
François Bennard as L'Archevèque
Georges Spanelly as Seguier
Jean Soustre as M. de Guiche
Axel Ganz as L'Ambassadeur
Jean-Jacques Leconte as Le 1er Chambellan
Violette Marceau as Mlle de Chemerault
Paula Dehelly as Mme d'Elboeuf
Jacques Préboist as Mousquetaire
André Daguenet as Le patron marinier
Marc Fraiseau as Marinier
Pierre Frag as Marinier
Jean Coste as Marinier
Rita Maiden as Une paysanne
Jean-Claude Charnay as Messenger
Jacqueline Corot as Madame Henrietta
Hélène Manesse as The Naiad
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