
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Release Date: 10/8/1966
Runtime: 95 minutes
Languages: French
Director: Roberto Rossellini
00Companies: ORTF
Countries: France
Cardinal Mazarin

Jean-Marie Patte
Louis XIV

Raymond Jourdan
Jean Baptiste Colbert

Silvagni
Cardinal Mazarin

Katharina Renn
Anne d'Autriche

Dominique Vincent
Madame Du Plessis

Pierre Barrat
Nicolas Fouquet

Fernand Fabre
Michel Le Tellier
Françoise Ponty
Louise de la Vallière
Joëlle Laugeois
Marie-Thérèse

Maurice Barrier
D'Artagnan

André Dumas
Le Père Joly
François Mirante
M. de Brienne
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