Royal Affairs In Versailles

An impressive historical document which stars not Welles, Colbert, Aumont, or writer-director Guitry, but the Palace of Versailles itself. The magnificent decor, which is both amazing and repulsive at the same time, appears as it did in the late 1700s before the peasants took it upon themselves to revolt. Guitry, France's most historically minded filmmaker, was the first to receive permission to film at Versailles (THE THREE MUSKETEERS was also shot there in 1973). The idea of the film is to trace the history of the great palace beginning with its construction by Louis le Vau and J.H. Mansart (played by Jean-Louis Allibert and Pierre Lord) through its occupation by...