Overview
This historic mini-series is set just after the execution of Louis XVI and follows the actions of a group of loyal royalists, led by the Chevalier de Maison-Rouge. His goal is to free Queen Marie-Antoinette and the young King Louis XVII, but he runs into the brutal jailer Simon who makes sure to thwart any attempt to escape. A secondary plot line deals with the feelings of Lindet, the lieutenant of the national guard, towards Geneviève, the young protege of the royalist Morand, which for the sans-culottes is a crime in itself.
Cast
- Annie Ducaux as Marie-Antoinette
- Jean Desailly as Morand, le chevalier de Maison-Rouge
- François Chaumette as Raoul Dixmer
- Julien Bertheau as Fouquier-Tinville
- Dominique Paturel as Lorin
- Anne Doat as Michel Le Royer
- Georges Géret as Simon
- Julien Guiomar as Gélineau