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Versailles

Name: Versailles
Genre: Drama
Released: 2015-11-16
Rating: 7.668

★ 7,7 /10 (229 Votes)

2015 EN 3 Seasons

Overview

The story of a young Louis XIV on his journey to become the most powerful monarch in Europe, from his battles with the fronde through his development into the Sun King. Historical and fictional characters guide us in a world of betrayal and political maneuvering, revealing Versailles in all its glory and brutality.

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First air date

16/11/2015

Votes

229

Popularity

10.5

Those who come after us will think that they are just fairy tales...

Genres

Drama

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Created by

David Wolstencroft, Simon Mirren

Networks

Canal+

Language

Last air date

2018-05-21

Episodes

Episode runtime

52 min

Website

versailles.canalplus.fr

Season 1

10 episodes • 2015 • ⭐ 6,0

Versailles, 1667. King Louis XIV is a 28-year-old monarch on the cusp of greatness. A ruthless leader, he will stop at n…

Season 2

10 episodes • 2017 • ⭐ 5,6

Versailles, 1671. Louis has completed the first phase of his project the building far from Paris, of the most beautiful …

Season 3

10 episodes • 2018 • ⭐ 4,3

Louis XIV is ascendant after winning the war with Holland and solving the Affair of the Poisons -- but his angry citizen…

George Blagden

Louis XIV

Alexander Vlahos

Philippe d'Orléans, aka 'Monsieur'

Tygh Runyan

Fabien Marchal

Stuart Bowman

Alexandre Bontemps

Elisa Lasowski

Queen Marie-Thérèse of Austria

Anna Brewster

Athénaïs de Montespan

Evan Williams

The Knight of Lorraine

Maddison Jaizani

Sophie de Clermont, Duchess of Cassel

Steve Cumyn

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Joe Sheridan

François de Louvois

Pip Torrens

Cassel

Noémie Schmidt

Henriette d'Angleterre

Amira Casar

Béatrice de Lorraine, Madame de Clermont

Sarah Winter

Louise de La Vallière

Gilly Gilchrist

Jaques

Anatole Taubman

Montcourt

Alexis Michalik

Louis de Rohan

Lizzie Brocheré

Claudine, King's doctor

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Using the spectacular estate of Versailles as a backdrop, these three seasons follow the lives of King Louis XIV (George Blagden) and his brother Philippe, Duc D'Orléans (Alexander Vlahos). The former has been king since he was about five years old, his brother a much more entertaining, flamboyant and sexually fluid individual for almost as long. The first season sees the King alight on their father's old hunting lodge and decide it is to be his new grand palace. Aided by his faithful valet "Bontemps" (Stuart Bowman) and ruthless police chief "Marchal" (Tygh Runyan) and facing the duplicity of…

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