

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Keywords: tmdb.painter, tmdb.bedroom, tmdb.versailles, tmdb.court, tmdb.duel, tmdb.rabbit, tmdb.drainage-project + 273 more, tmdb.18th-century, tmdb.sign-languages, tmdb.aristocracy, imdb.dead-animal, imdb.reference-to-shakespeare-s-romeo-and-juliet, imdb.dead-boy, imdb.halfwit, imdb.malice, imdb.draining-a-swamp, imdb.urinating-on-another-person, imdb.kingdom-of-france, imdb.deaf-mute, imdb.french-aristocrat, imdb.seductive-woman, imdb.memory-training, imdb.dying-young, imdb.fatal-illness, imdb.searching-for-support, imdb.equestrian, imdb.misery, imdb.ignorance, imdb.wounded-man, imdb.breasts, imdb.test, imdb.artillery, imdb.presumption, imdb.ambitious-woman, imdb.intelligent, imdb.minion, imdb.favor, imdb.lyrics, imdb.palace-of-versailles, imdb.wordplay, mdblist.has-trailer, tmdb.powder, imdb.aristocrat, imdb.comedy-of-manners, imdb.card-game, imdb.game, imdb.lord, imdb.flower, imdb.18th-century, imdb.boy, imdb.poverty, imdb.plan, imdb.robber, imdb.invitation, imdb.old-man, imdb.wig, imdb.intelligence, imdb.france, imdb.drainage-project, imdb.widow, mdblist.fresh, imdb.versailles-france, imdb.battle-of-wits, awards.oscar-nominated, awards.golden-globe-nominated, imdb.cheating, imdb.period-drama, imdb.sexual-intercourse, imdb.buttocks, imdb.eye-patch, imdb.1700s, imdb.1780s, imdb.man-touches-a-woman-s-leg, imdb.man-caresses-a-woman-s-knees, imdb.camera-shot-of-a-girl-s-legs, imdb.man-touches-a-woman-s-thighs, imdb.caressing-a-woman-s-thigh, imdb.beaten-up, imdb.court, imdb.imaginary-man, imdb.horseback-riding, imdb.portrait, imdb.leg-touching, imdb.leg, imdb.instruction, imdb.park, imdb.notary, imdb.bon-mot, imdb.copulation, imdb.arrogance, imdb.mischievousness, imdb.wedding, imdb.wealth, imdb.water-engineer, imdb.watching-through-a-painting, imdb.urination, imdb.underwater-scene, imdb.tyranny, imdb.tournament-of-wit, imdb.thrown-from-a-horse, imdb.theft, imdb.swimming, imdb.swamp, imdb.starfish, imdb.sophistry, imdb.rhyme, imdb.shooting, imdb.sealskin, imdb.science, imdb.royalty, imdb.robbery, imdb.ridicule, imdb.revenge, imdb.retort, imdb.rendezvous, imdb.refuge, imdb.reference-to-voltaire, imdb.reference-to-socrates, imdb.reference-to-rousseau, imdb.reference-to-danton, imdb.reference-to-archimedes, imdb.rain, imdb.rabbit, imdb.quip, imdb.purgatory, imdb.protege, imdb.priest, imdb.pride, imdb.clergyman, imdb.prayer, imdb.powder, imdb.petitioner, imdb.porcelain-wagon, imdb.pocket-watch, imdb.piquet, imdb.piety, imdb.philosopher, imdb.idealist, imdb.passion, imdb.paradox, imdb.portrait-sitting, imdb.painter, imdb.older-woman-younger-man-relationship, imdb.nudity, imdb.native-american, imdb.mute, imdb.murder, imdb.gnat, imdb.memory, imdb.medallion, imdb.marriage, imdb.marriage-engagement, imdb.marriage-contract, imdb.marquis, imdb.male-nudity, imdb.male-frontal-nudity, imdb.love-triangle, imdb.lock, imdb.library, imdb.letter, imdb.lecher, imdb.lechery, imdb.landowner, imdb.kiss, imdb.king, imdb.inkwell, imdb.illness, imdb.hydrographic-project, imdb.husband-wife-relationship, imdb.humiliation, imdb.house-of-savoy, imdb.horse, imdb.helmet, imdb.head-on-chopping-block, imdb.hat, imdb.harpsichord, imdb.repartee, imdb.heart-palpitation, imdb.gun, imdb.waiting-room, imdb.guile, imdb.grief, imdb.governess, imdb.gossip, imdb.reference-to-god, imdb.geometry, imdb.genealogy, imdb.infamy, imdb.fleeing, imdb.fish, imdb.fishing, imdb.fish-trap, imdb.father-daughter-relationship, imdb.face-mask, imdb.existence-of-god, imdb.exile, imdb.executioner, imdb.evil-priest, imdb.epigram, imdb.epidemic, imdb.england, imdb.engineering, imdb.dying-in-someone-s-arms, imdb.duke, imdb.duel, imdb.drowning, imdb.dream, imdb.double-entendre, imdb.doctor, imdb.diving-helmet, imdb.disease, imdb.dinner, imdb.dike, imdb.desire, imdb.deception, imdb.death, imdb.death-of-wife, imdb.death-from-a-duel, imdb.deafness, imdb.dance, imdb.dancer, imdb.crab, imdb.cousin-cousin-relationship, imdb.courtier, imdb.countess, imdb.contract, imdb.chocolate, imdb.chess, imdb.charity, imdb.champagne, imdb.castle, imdb.carp, imdb.cannon, imdb.cane, imdb.canal, imdb.highwayman, imdb.burned-out-castle, imdb.broken-marriage-engagement, imdb.bridge, imdb.bread, imdb.boat, imdb.blood, imdb.bleeding, imdb.blasphemy, imdb.idealism, imdb.genealogist, imdb.bedroom, imdb.axe, imdb.aunt-nephew-relationship, imdb.apple, imdb.amethyst, imdb.ambush, imdb.aging, imdb.academician, imdb.abbot, imdb.lackey, imdb.female-stockinged-foot, imdb.female-to-male-footsie-playing, imdb.table-manners, imdb.suicide, imdb.suicide-by-hanging, imdb.marsh, imdb.footsie-under-the-table, imdb.female-to-male-foot-in-crotch, imdb.female-nudity, imdb.french-revolution, imdb.nobility, imdb.pollen, imdb.diving, imdb.intrigue, imdb.hydrology, imdb.landlord, imdb.legal-complication, imdb.royal-court, imdb.court-hearing, imdb.sign-language, imdb.female-rear-nudity, soundmix.dolby, soundmix.dolby-sr, aspectratio.2-35-1
Production companies: Epithete films