Read Next: Michalis Konstantatos Saddles Up ‘Pretty Little Horses’ in Competition in Sarajevo She uses all her talents and connections to get her man: Louis XIV.Madame de Montespan was very busy in series one, what with all the flirting and mistressing she did with His Maj. She's also a dab-hand at cards, however, recouping the King's 2,000,000 francs that he lost to Rohan. Fabs is now a big fan of little Sophie and warns her against believing everything her boyfriend, Thomas, says. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. She puts paid to Monty, who’s star is very much going out. An unlucky man with terrible hair and a generally weaselly demeanor, Gaston comes from a debted noble family, seeking the curry favour in the French court. But it didn’t. Madame de Maintenon. He’s rotten to her but on the bright side, Thomas (also below) murders him, so every cloud. Did Madame de Montespan really exist? He’s not too bothered though as he thinks the Queen might be an attractive notch on his bedpost.Fabien is the terrifying, violent and dangerous leader of Louis XIV’s Stasi-like police force.Highs, lows, frights, fights, Fabien has had them all. He also receives one sword to the gut in a fight with Montcourt in a tussle which sees the Sun-King himself dirty his hands with a bit of killing.Loyal bloke this. Especially on a show like ours where you are actually dressed as Louis XIV, in his shoes, in the Hall of Mirrors which he built for real. If we look at how we live our lives today, many of us are members of clubs or gyms. Update – Bontemps is an interesting character. Damned clever that man.Update - Louis has had a busy couple of series, having bid adieu to one of his mistresses and his sister-in-law (same person) through poisoning, and lost another to a nearby nunnery. )So if you remember from series one, Monsieur’s (Philippe's) first wife – the lovely and feisty Henriette – had an unfortunate run in with death, from which she never really recovered. Do write in.
Dead. He appeared to have turned over a new leaf when he warned the King about a plan to kill one of his mistresses, however we were misled and he was just as dastardly as before. (It was actually sickness, I don’t think she killed the baby. Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, aka Madame Scarron – played by Catherine Walker. She was certainly a bit miffed that Phil decided to spend their wedding night flat on his back with his mouth open, when she had been hoping to do that, but in time she’s got over it. Louis’ First Valet and the Governor of Versailles, Bontemps was envied for his exceptional access to the King.Exceptional access he may have, but storylines, not to much.

He created the world of fashion at Versailles. Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. The king just LOVED it. We see in Season 3 how she was really the catalyst for his true coming of age. Her full name was Françoise Athénaïs de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise of Montespan, and she was the king’s lover in the 1670s. Madame Scarron came to the French court as a friend of the King’s mistress, Madame de Montespan, and when Montespan gave birth to Louis’ child, Scarron became the child’s guardian. Modern audiences are so intelligent, they work at such a fast pace that if you don’t give enough stimulus at a breakneck speed they will become disinterested.Essentially Louis XIV created exclusivity. The wide-eyed ingénue gets caught in her traitorous mother's mess and has to endure a tough interrogation from Fabien. That’s the tragedy of Louis. He’s now shacked up with a new woman, the Marquise de Maintenon. However, there are certain aspects of playing the Sun King that have been very enjoyable. He also went to war, came back again, witnessed a builder surprise-hang himself (that's a hanging you weren't expecting), and kills Moncourt, who has been conspiring to overthrow the King. So playing a character like that has enabled me in my own life to explore things like self-confidence. 6.

Bontemps had a rough first series, which began as he sponged the monarch's emissions of the Sun-King's midriff, and continued with the death of his son.

Catherine Walker returns as Madame de Maintenon, Louis' new mistress. A cunning ploy, for he has not only built a lavish chateau but created a gilded cage, trapping and controlling the nobles. Zing.Update - I am a BIG fan of this woman. Basically, he dead.Claudine, the Royal Physician's daughter, is a clever clogs. She’s not that nice. Also, on the tragedy of absolute power, leaving Louis XIV behindIf anybody wants to explain the extensive, intricate and French governmental aid system for cinema and TV, they could do worse than watch “Played by George Blagden (“Les Miserables,” “Vikings”), Louis XIV, the Sun King and still Europe’s longest-reigning monarch, built Versailles, created fashion, forged the identity of France as a byword for culture. He and his lover - Philippe, Chevalier de Lorraine - have a fairly rough time of it over the series, with Chevalier getting imprisoned for treachery, and then subsequently freed. To complicate matters, Philippe’s neglected wife finds herself seduced by the king and falls into his arms. go back.I adore the character of Madame de Maintenon in Season 3. We get to see what it was like to be at the other end of the spectrum and not in the ridiculous luxury of Versailles. Versailles is back for a salacious and saucy third series (Credit: BBC)© Royal Television Society 2020. ... Château de Versailles Spectacles. He indulged in a bit of light torturing towards the end of the series, but wasn't much good at it. His mum quite loses her head at the whole thing.A new face in season two, Beaumont arrives in glittering Versailles at the behest of the Prince Philippe, writing piss-poor poetry that have the powdered gentry squawking in their slippers with pleasure.
I guess, ultimately, what made him the greatest monarch in the world and didn’t make him burn out was because this extraordinary woman came into his life at the right time and made sure that his extraordinary legacy would be maintained.

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