‘Their buildings were temples for their Gods to live in. ‘The Greeks knew what glory was !’ he told his courtiers. One of Versailles’ many modern touches was the music which - while not going as far as, say, Peaky Blinders’ soundtrack - ranged from the menacing techno hum that undercut Philippe raping his wife to the sparkling ambient chill out tones that accompanied an evangelical speech by Louis about his vision for Versailles that suggested he had just come back from annexing Ibiza and inventing ecstasy. His vision for Versailles was audaciously grandiose including a lake ‘half a league’ in length and supplied with its own network of rivers, and so far ahead of its time his fountain flowed poetically in slow motion. ‘We will need to buy most of Venice for the glass,’ he suggested. He wanted mirrors all over the place/palace. If there was one thing Louis loved more than women it was mirrors. ‘I want to talk to my architect about mirrors !’ he announced. He was certainly not lacking in self-confidence and ambition. ‘We must build a new destiny right here, a new France will be born.’īefore the show, Sue Deeks, BBC head of programme acquisition, said: 'Versailles will be a delicious treat for BBC2 viewers' ‘I am about to drag this country out of the darkness into the light !’ he asserted to his brother. ‘There is not a path I do not know, not a tree I have not climbed.
This of course would be Versailles, where he had grown up and now wanted to re-locate from Paris, despite warnings that he would be vulnerable to attack from Spanish, Dutch, and even French assassins. ‘I had a vision,’ he announced when he woke. ‘But you must build it for yourself and let all the world know - Louis the Great has arrived !’ She told him to build a castle - ‘for a king without a castle is no king at all’ and his ‘dream of paradise.’ ‘You were anointed by God, blessed by the sun,’ intoned his mother again, trying to spoil The Sun King’s fun. You waited for Louis to stare meaningfully into the night in the manner of Midge Ure from Ultravox and announce: ‘this means nothing to me/oh-hhh Versailles.’ They had the same ratty moustache anyway. Her words were intercut with other, happier, images: a dreamy redhead dancer/model running along a riverbank who then appeared skipping and frolicking in a hall inside the palace festooned with mirrors and chandeliers. Louise De la Valliere, the Sun King's mistress is central to the saucy antics De la Valliere bore Louis XIV five children
‘If history teaches us one thing it is this,’ she forewarned him. And the world is on fire,’ said his mother’s voice. It opened in 1667 Versailles where a storm raged over a CGI of the king’s hunting lodge and Louis XIV was suffering a feverish sleep comprised of prophecies mixed with memories. The beginning didn’t bode well, prompting harrowing flashbacks of the nonsensical indulgent excesses of Jeremy Irons’ series, The Borgias. This was thanks to the director of photography, the magnificently named Pierre-Yves Bastard.
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Made by Canal Plus for twice the budget of Downton Abbey, visually it was so stylized and contemporary it made The Tudors look minimal - like Wolf Hall in fact. His brother Philippe and his lover Chevalier, as well as the other hirsute hunks from the king’s entourage observed his every move, standing around looking like a Slovakian heavy metal band. This meant every clinch the King enjoyed was not so much a sleazy sex scene than something resembling a Silvikrin advert to determine which had the most Lovely Hair. Louis XIV’s long, lustrous, locks and nasty porn-star moustache meant he was a dead ringer for John Galliano and his various lovers in the royal court were pampered, manicured, superfoxes like the gals from Made In Chelsea. Romping, 17th century style: By the end of the first hour of Versailles, viewers had already witnessed plenty of sex scenes