Versailles: Season 1
Versailles season 1 is set in 1667, during the reign of King Louis XIV. The young monarch is on the cusp of greatness, driven by a vision to create the most beautiful palace in Europe. He launches the construction of Versailles as a means to impose his absolute power and control over the nobility. The palace serves as a strategic move to keep the nobles away from Paris and under control. King Louis XIV's past is mark
Season overview
Versailles season 1 is set in 1667, during the reign of King Louis XIV. The young monarch is on the cusp of greatness, driven by a vision to create the most beautiful palace in Europe. He launches the construction of Versailles as a means to impose his absolute power and control over the nobility. The palace serves as a strategic move to keep the nobles away from Paris and under control. King Louis XIV's past is marked by childhood trauma and the Fronde, a rebellion of the nobility against his father Louis XIII.
Episodes
Welcome to Versailles
Nov 16, 2015 · 55 min
In 1667 in France, Louis XIV is a young king who wants to impose his power whereas he is traumatized by the Fronde (the revolt of nobility during Louis XIII's reign) and despite th
I Am the State
Nov 16, 2015 · 54 min
The Queen gave birth to the first royal baby and it triggers some rumors. Besides, Louis XIV's counselors advice him to go to war in order to impose his power. Furthermore, Louis X
Mirror for Princes
Nov 23, 2015 · 52 min
Louis XIV wants the nobility to live at his side in Versailles. But noblemen and noblewomen have to prove their noble origin to obtain this privilege. Montcourt is one of them, but
The Road
Nov 23, 2015 · 51 min
Cassel's brigands continue to slaughter visitors to Versailles including the king's god-daughter though Fabien has his suspicions as to their identity and arrests a likely suspect,
Bow to Your King
Nov 30, 2015 · 52 min
Philippe returns to Versailles, a super-confident war hero, ready to challenge his brother as the peace treaty with Spain is signed. Louis plans a celebratory party but the attacks
Invalides
Nov 30, 2015 · 53 min
Ex-soldiers working on construction at the palace feel aggrieved at their treatment and down tools. On advice from gardener and confidant Jacques, who suggests a war hero act as in
Revelations
Dec 7, 2015 · 56 min
Louis is struck down with fever and, whilst the official version is that he has had a hunting accident, the courtiers are suspicious and Philippe lets slip to Rohan that, if his br
Diplomacy
Dec 7, 2015 · 53 min
With his lover in prison and his wife Henriette surviving a miscarriage Philippe is not a happy man but Louis, buoyant at overcoming his enemies, is keen for an alliance with Engla
Etiquette
Dec 14, 2015 · 54 min
Louis believes to triumph diplomatically when his queen Henriette negotiates an alliance with England against the Dutch for cash and a guard for her brother, English king Charles I
Bring the Garden Here
Dec 14, 2015 · 51 min
Duchess Henriette becomes suddenly ill when she returns from a visit to her brother in England. They fear she might have been poisoned, so King Louis XIV shuts all access To Versai