Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

91 mins | Documentary, History | June 1, 2019

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.

Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace

91 mins | Documentary, History | June 1, 2019

Versailles Rediscovered: The Sun King's Vanished Palace
Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's architectural past to resurrect Louis XIV's vanished Versailles. Versailles was an ongoing building site at the time of Louis XIV and continued to be transformed by its successive occupants later on. The Versailles we know today only vaguely resembles the Versailles of the Sun King. Most of its original features and apartments no longer exist. Thanks to the digitisation of thousands of plans, a team of scientists takes us back in time to explore this forgotten past in a new way, through a large-scale reconstruction project to bring back the Versailles of Louis XIV as he designed it, according to his requirements and dreams.
Producers ARTE France Cinéma, Gedeon Programmes, CNRS Images
Original title Versailles - Le palais retrouvé du Roi Soleil
Directors Marc Jampolsky
Writers Marie Thiry, Marc Jampolsky

Cast

Jean-Noël Martin

as Louis XIV vieux

Delphine Bechetoille

as Reine Marie-Thérèse

Bertrand Chamerois

as Nicodeme de Tessin

Clara Cirera

as Dame d'Honneur

Anouchka Csernakova

as Anne d'Autriche

Charles Durot

as Marquis de Sourde

Alice Gozlan

as La Dauphine

Donat Guibert

as Charles Perrault (as Guibert Donat)

Douglas Jouishomme

as Louis XIV

Emmanuel Ménard

as Courtisan parlant (as Emmanuel Menard)

Olivier Pierre Richard

as Secrétaire parlant