Versailles (Scripted, English)
Genres: Drama, History
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2015-11-16
Ended: 2018-05-21
Network: Canal+
Country: FR
Airs on: Monday
Air time: 22:55
Runtime: 60 minutes
Average rating: 7.9
Versailles, 1667. Louis XIV was 28 years old. To rise to the heights of the nobility and wield its absolute power, he launched the construction of Versailles... it proved to be a snare. Louis XIV is a young King haunted by childhood trauma, the Fronde civil, a rebellion of the nobility against his father, Louis XIII... It will prove be a strategic policy out of the ordinary, manipulative, Machiavellian, and he will "invent" Versailles for the nobles of Paris, to keep them under control, and gradually transform the castle into a golden prison. But how will Louis live as the greatest King in the world?Historical fiction of the court figures and the more humble villagers, guiding us in a world of betrayals and secrets, politicking and declarations of love.