Overview
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Cast
- Charles Berling as Le Marquis Grégoire Ponceludon de Malavoy
- Jean Rochefort as Le Marquis de Bellegarde
- Fanny Ardant as Madame de Blayac
- Judith Godrèche as Mathilde de Bellegarde
- Bernard Giraudeau as L'Abbée de Vilecourt
- Bernard Dhéran as Montalieri
- Carlo Brandt as Milletail
- Jacques Mathou as Abbé de l'Épée
- Urbain Cancelier as Louis XVI
- Albert Delpy as Baron de Guéret