Versailles — Season: 1 2 3. Year: S1, Ep1. Error: please try again. King Louis XIV of France begins preparations of transitioning his fathers hunting lodge into a grand palace he envisioned.
S1, Ep2. Philippe wants to join the fight against the Spaniards. Montcourt is humiliated by King Louis. S1, Ep3. King Louis wishes for the nobility to live at his side in Versailles, so long as they have proof of their nobility. An emissary from Africa appears at Versailles.
Cassel recruits Montcourt. S1, Ep4. Highwaymen, led by Montcourt, wind up killing friends of King Louis, including his goddaughter. Fabian is tasked with bringing the killers to justice. Philippe triumphs at Cambrai.
S1, Ep5. Philippe returns to Versailles a war hero. Louis holds a celebration, while losing confidence in Fabian due to the constant highway robberies that are impeding the funding of his palace. Cassel refuses to attend the celebration. S1, Ep6. The construction workers at Versailles are on strike. Cassel moves to Versailles after his home is burned. Louis falls ill. S1, Ep7. Louis experiences hallucinations. He is now alone in the seat of power. He devises an elaborate Machiavellian plan.
As well as protecting him, and providing a lavish setting for romance, it will keep the nobility away from Paris and close to him. They will realise too late it is a gilded prison. His detractors are many, beginning with his younger brother, Philippe who has been humiliated since childhood.
The first victim is the ever-conspiring Montcourt. The entire court now feels vulnerable. But Louis' political victories are undermined by more intimate dilemmas as his sibling rivalry with Philippe takes even nastier turns. Louis welcomes the African Prince Annaba to Versailles. To gain access to African territories, Louis plays his trump card, his wife Marie-Therese. Henriette, Philippe's wife and Louis' mistress, is constantly harassed by the Chevalier de Lorraine.
In the north, the indomitable Duke of Cassel harbours the scheming Moncourt. Cassel openly disdains the new rules Louis seeks to impose on the nobles of France. He is determined to sabotage the Versailles building project at all costs. Accounts of Philppe's prowess on the battlefield trouble Louis: what can he do with this brother who basks in military glory while risking his life?
On the country roads to Versailles, Moncourt's heinous attacks dissuade the nobles from coming to the Court, while within the gilded walls of the Palace, a mysterious conspiracy contaminates the King's inner circle. The war over, Philippe returns to the Court and the soldiers to the construction of Versailles. Philippe has won glory but returns from the battlefields a changed man. On the road to Versailles, a hold up leaves one of Cassel's henchmen dead: the trap is closing around the Duke.
Louis decides to organise a spectacular Royal Show in the gardens of Versailles to celebrate the French victory. It is also part of his strategy to impose absolute control over the nobles, particularly the Duke of Cassel.
For this, he engages the help of the duplicitous Montespan. On the Versailles construction site, Louis is confronted with a soldiers-workers strike. They claim the honours and privileges of a victorious Royal army. Philippe seems to be the only one able to persuade them to return to work, a notion unthinkable for Louis! A humiliated Cassel is now forced to live at Versailles. But the conspiracy spreads and influences more and more nobles.
Beatrice informs Sophie that they are not after all the blue-blooded aristocrats they claim to be. Henriette again stokes up the rivalry between Louis and Philippe: she is pregnant but knows not by which brother!
Louis is gravely ill. This offers opportunity for the conspiracy to act. Cassel, Montcourt, Beatrice and the Chevalier de Lorraine are now united with the aim: to put Philippe on the throne, with the help of William of Orange, the sworn enemy of the King and General of Holland.
But Louis makes a miraculous recovery and the Chevalier is arrested for treason. He is thrown in jail and awaits execution. Philippe is deeply upset and agitated at the arrest of the Chevalier. Though poisoned by Beatrice, Fabien manages to escape from the Palace and find refuge with Claudine. Charles' sister, Henriette, is secretly designated to be ambassador of France.
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