Overview
A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Cast
- Philippe Noiret as Philip of Orléans
- Jean Rochefort as Abbot Dubois
- Jean-Pierre Marielle as The Marquis de Pontcallec
- Marina Vlady as The Marchioness of Parabère
- Christine Pascal as Emilie
- Alfred Adam as François de Neufville, Duke of Villeroy
- Jean-Roger Caussimon as The Cardinal
- Gérard Desarthe as The Duke of Bourbon
- Michel Beaune as Captain La Griolais
- Monique Chaumette as Yvonne, governess of Pontcallec