The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV

1966·94'

Roberto Rossellini

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FR - French

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Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

Cast

Jean-Marie Patte Louis XIV Raymond Jourdan Jean Baptiste Colbert Silvagni Cardinal Mazarin Katharina Renn Anne d'Autriche Dominique Vincent Madame Du Plessis Pierre Barrat Nicolas Fouquet Fernand Fabre Michel Le Tellier

Françoise Ponty Louise de la Vallière

Joëlle Laugeois Marie-Thérèse Maurice Barrier D'Artagnan André Dumas Le Père Joly

François Mirante M. de Brienne

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