Original title:
That film is not only about Louis XIV. It starts with the rign of Louis XIII and shows us several senturies of life in Versailles. The film runns 170 minutes.
An epic look at 300 years of royal doings at the palace of Versailles, including the various amorous and political intrigues of three French kings. With Jean Marais, Claudette Colbert -- and Orson Welles as Benjamin Franklin!
Sacha Guitry's "Si Versailles M'Etait Conte" (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title "Royal Affairs in Versailles". In addtion to writing and directed the film, Guitry reserves for himself the plum role of Louis XIV. Concentrating on the palace of Versailles over a period of 300 years, the storyline concentrates on the various amorous and political intrigues of three French kings. The plot manages to wend its way through the French revolution, coming to a halt in "the present". The star-studded supporting cast includes Jean Marais as Louis XV, Claudette Colbert as Mme. Montespan, Micheline Presle as Mme. Pompadour, and, best of all, Orson Welles as a gouty Ben Franklin.
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Sacha Guitry | Louis XIV |
Jean Marais | Louis XV |
Michel Auclair | Jacques Damien |
Jean-Pierre Aumont | Cardinal de Rohan |
Georges Marchal | Louis XIV as a Young Man |
Jean-Louis Barrault | Francois Fenelon |
Claudette Colbert | Mme. de Montespan |
Micheline Presle | Mme. du Pompadour |
Axel de Fersen | |
Orson Welles | Benjamin Franklin |
Lana Marconi | Marie Antoinette |
Fernand Gravey | Jean Moliere |
Gaby Morlay | Countess de la Motte |
Jean Murat | Louvois |
Lucien Nat | Montesquieu |
Claude Nollier | Countess de Soissons |
D'Artagnan | |
Gilles Queant | Jean Racine |
Phillipe Richard | King Louis-Phillippe |
Louis Seigner | Antoine Lavoisier |
Charles Vanel | M. de Vergennes |
Jacques Varennes | Jean Baptiste Colbert |
Howard Vernon | The English Buyer |
Jacques Berthier | Maximillien de Robespierre |
Pierre Larquey | Museum Guard |
Marie Mansart | Mme. de Kerlor |
Martine Alexis | Mme. de Nouchy |
Jean-Louis Allibert | Le Vau |
Nicole Maurey | Mlle. de Fontanges |
Edith Piaf | Woman of the people |
Nicole Courcel | Mme. de Chalis |
France Delahalle | A Woman of the Court |
Jean-Jacques Delbo | M. de la Motte |
Louison Chabray | |
Jean Desailly | Marivaux |
Renee Devillers | Mme. Campan |
Bernard Dheran | Pierre Beaumarchais |
Samson Fainsilber | Cardinal Mazarin |
Robert Favart | M. de Carlene |
Tania Fedor | Marie Leczinska |
Jacques Francois | Saint-Simon |
Roger Gaillard | D'Alembert |
Jean Collinet | |
Gilbert Gil | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Bourvil | |
Pauline Carton | The Neighbor |
Gino Cervi | Alessandro de Cagliostro |
Georges Chamarat | La Fontaine |
Rivarol | |
A Revolutionary | |
Brigitte Bardot | Mlle. de Rosille |
Olivier Mathot | Boileau |
Jacques Morel | Boehmer |
Constant Remy | M. de La Reynie |
Gaston Rey | Henri IV |
Raymond Souplex | Auctioneer |
Jean Chevrier | Marshal Turenne |
Jean Richard | Du Croisy |
Jeanne Boitel | Mme. de Sevigne |
Tino Rossi | Gondolier |
Louis Arbessier | Louis XIII |
Yves Deniaud | A Peasant |
Emile Drain | Emperor Napoleon I, Napoleon Bonaparte |
Christian Duvaleix | A Buyer |
Jeanne Fusier-Gir | A Revolutionary |