Versailles: The Dream of a King

As BBC Two premieres its lavish new drama set in the sumptuous surroundings of Versailles, Lucy Wors...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette. From her betrothal and marri...

Stéphane Bern tells the story of King Louis XVI, deposed by the revolution and guillotined on Januar...

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in...

How Louis XV, a young king loved by his people, sensitive to the artistic and intellectual turmoil o...

The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France,...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...

The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the mos...

We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official v...

His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-...

A look at the relationship between Marie Antoinette and one of her readers during the final days of...

The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with n...

Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and a very young girl, marries King Louis-Auguste, Dauphine...

Based on the latest technological and scientific advances, this documentary explores the palace's ar...

It's an afternoon in Versailles, during the reign of Louis XIV.

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicat...

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi...

A landscape gardener is hired by famous architect Le Nôtre to construct the grand gardens at the pal...