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La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV (1966)
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. Years later, in a coda, we see Louis exercizing the power of the sun.
Updated May 21 2020
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Raymond Jourdan
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Pierre Frag
Marinier
André Dumas
Le Père Joly
Maurice Barrier
D'Artagnan
Fernand Fabre
Michel Le Tellier
Paula Dehelly
Mme d'Elboeuf
Michelle Marquais
Mme de Motteville
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Roberto Rossellini
Director
Roberto Rossellini
Writer
Jean-Claude Brisson
Sound Mixer
Jean Gruault
Writer
Jean-Louis Picavet
Director of Photography
Georges Leclerc
Director of Photography
Renzo Rossellini
Second Unit
Philippe Erlanger
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